i know we all said bucky has clearly been holding back and pulling his punches during battles after winter soldier. and we were right. but holy shit were we right because ep 3 just reminded me how ruthless and brutal and unstoppable bucky could be, but chooses not to be.
hahaha hey guys remember in the first captain america movie when steve went against direct orders and risked his life on the slim chance that bucky (his best friend, the only family he had left, the one person who knew steve the longest and knew what steve was truly like) was alive? and then remember when he thought bucky had died and how much that destroyed him?
oh or how about the time when he realized that bucky had been alive the whole time and was brainwashed into being a weapon for HYDRA and when bucky tried to literally kill him, steve didn’t move. he didn’t fight. he just took it. because that was his friend and he knew he was still in there and he was right and would’ve drowned if it hadn’t been for bucky. remember that?
or how about the years that steve spent afterward looking for him? and then the way that steve broke the law several times to protect bucky once he found him again because he trusted him and wanted him back and wanted to help him?
oh! wait! remember when steve became a literal wanted man and was a vigilante for years because he was protecting bucky? and how happy steve was to see bucky in wakanda again? how they were finally reunited and then that same day, steve watched bucky turn into dust right before him? and had to live five more years without him? and then after five years he was finally back and they could finally be there for each other?
oh but wait. remember how steve threw all of that in a back alley del taco dumpster and said peace out y’all i’m going back to a woman i kissed once byeeeeee. and he left bucky behind. his best friend. the only person who could relate so deeply to his experiences. steve just abandoned him. leaving him alone. leaving him with no one.
because i do. i remember that and it is my villain origin story.
