im not trying my hardest but im very tired which i think should be taken into consideration
Have we talked about this scene yet? Because I want to talk about this scene and why it’s important that this is the memory Steve is thinking about right before he has to face the Winter Soldier again.
We all know how out of place and unhappy Steve feels in modern society. The movie doesn’t make any bones about it. Even though good ol’ Cap exudes positivity, we see how he uses his time. When he’s not at work for SHIELD, he’s grasping at straws, trying to catch up, trying to make sense of how he fits in a world that’s moved on without him. When Steve starts to feel out of place even when he’s playing soldier for SHIELD, Sam tells him that he could do something different, anything at all; but Steve looks blank. Sam asks him what makes him happy, and Steve doesn’t know.
The only thing that keeps him going is knowing that his sacrifice helped save the world. As he says to Peggy, he always wanted to do “what was right,” and at least he can take some comfort from the fact that he helped save countless lives from Hydra by losing everything that meant a damn to him.
That is, until he and Natasha find Zola in the underground bunker and they find out that Hydra is still alive and well – thriving, even – within the ranks of SHIELD.
This is the moment Steve learns he gave up his life for nothing.
So. The flashback scene.
I’ve heard some people say that they think the scene is extraneous. That it’s enough to know that Bucky and Steve were friends way back when, only Bucky doesn’t remember (and if you want more skinny!Steve and scenes of Bucky and Steve being chummy, go back and watch The First Avenger). On the surface, it may seem like this scene is rehashing old territory, but it’s actually telling us quite a bit more than that.
Bucky is walking Steve home after his mother’s funeral, and Steve is obviously vulnerable and shaken. His parents were the foundational figures of his life, and they’re both gone now. Before Bucky can even get the question out, Steve rejects the idea of moving in with Bucky. He insists he can get by on his own. Then he fumbles clumsily in his jacket looking for his key, but he can’t find it. Bucky casually picks up the spare and hands it to him.
This moment.
It’s such a simple gesture, but the camera focuses in on that key like it’s the freaking Tesseract. Why? Why is this moment with Bucky so prominent in Steve’s thoughts? Why not something out of their days together with the Howling Commandos? Or why not something from when they were kids running around on the playground?
This moment is an echo of exactly what Steve’s feeling in the future: lost and alone. Everything that means home is shut behind the locked door of time (or a coffin lid).
But against all possibility, Bucky is alive. And, to Steve, Bucky doesn’t just have the key back home, he is the key back home.
“I can get by on my own.”
“But the thing is, you don’t have to.”
Suddenly that promise is everything. If Bucky is still alive, then Steve isn’t alone. He didn’t make a mistake putting the plane in the water. There’s a meaning for him to be in this time and place, and Bucky is that meaning. That’s why Steve has to believe Bucky will remember, why he desperately doesn’t want to fight him. Steve wants them both to be able to go home again.
I have never seen ANYTHING this needlessly extra ever in my life. Why is he like this.
I feel like this is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would have wanted.
That’s freaking amazing.. 😁🦋
Donatello? Is that you?
where him going
It gets worse
Defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.
he’s also 16 years older than her...
whole man disposal please. yes the entire man.
Sexism? In my racism? Who could have thought?
So leopards ate your face
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Whoah 😳
He thinks he remembers something...something about Icarus, a story about what it is to be punished for being greedy. Bucky knows nothing but Steve, and yet he also still knows this: if he is meant to crash and burn for being selfish, Bucky will make sure he dies having first tasted the sun.
—OhCaptainMyCaptain, After Hours. x
2020 has been a crap year, but the greatest thing to come out of it was definitely adopting my 2-year-old corgi, Ginny. ♥️
why do i need to come out ? if you still think im straight then that's on you
STEVE ROGERS in Captain America: Civil War (2016)
That straight up is exactly what I expected corvid art to look like tbh.
This is the most goth shit I’ve ever seen
But there’s a sign ahead, Though I think it’s the same one again, And I’m thinking ‘bout my only friend, And so I find my way home.
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