that moment in the first avenger when bucky shoots that guy and steve turns around and salutes him makes me laugh bc, like, i will be the first to admit i know nothing about military strategy, but i feel like you probably shouldn’t so blatantly give away your sniper’s location like that
like, was that moment immediately followed by bucky scrambling to his feet like ‘goddamnit steve HOW MANY TIMES’ and takin off into the woods while hydra goons fired at him,, like thank you, captain america, for that, i was hoping to make this more complicated than necessary
You can see he looks apprehensive, stressed right here. And it’s because he hears a siren, presumably police. He’s on high alert because he’s just waiting for the day that those sirens come for him.
And here he is after the (police) car with the siren passes by him. He’s relieved, a little shaken. He swallows, breathes, and gathers himself a little.
ANNNDDD then he spots the guy across the street who’s staring at him, and you can see his stomach drop and he visibly tenses again. It’s a nightmare come to life. And I’m saying “a nightmare” because sadly, this probably isn’t his worst nightmare.
And his breathing picks up, and he looks so afraid, his tiny bit of peace, whatever peace he can get, is shattered. He always knew this day would come, but he had hoped he’d have more time. And it breaks my fucking heart.
And I have to say biiiiiggg KUDOS to Sebastian Stan for acting out all the minutiae of Bucky’s facial expressions and body language. Because HOLY SHIT there was a lot of stuff going on in Bucky’s internal monologue.
Zemo: Pop
Bucky: ???
Zemo: Six
Bucky: …no.
Zemo: Squish
Bucky: No.
Zemo: Uh-uh
Bucky: NO.
Zemo: Cicero
Bucky: NO!!!
Zemo: Lipschitz
Bucky [voiceover]: Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out. I can’t remember a thing. It wasn’t until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead.
Have you ever been compelled? Under a spell? From a protagonist who knows you far too well? Have you ever been undone by a slip of the tongue? And betrayed a side of you that felt hard-won? So we watch the water swell, from a Scottish hotel. Have you ever fell? Have you ever fell?
The Winter Soldier faces his greatest battle yet! After a stressful day spent shopping for some respectable civvies with Steve and Natasha, they took Bucky to the local pound and released the [tiny] hounds. Will the Winter Soldier be able to defeat this army of squiggling furballs?
Based on this post. I’ve been drawing depressing stuff all day so I jumped at the change to overload everyone with adorableness.
