SPITZ THIS IS MUKANI I JUST CAN’T LOG IN RN SORRY — but do u think Bucky killed more ppl during WWII or when he was the WS?? Like obvs more high profile ppl post-WWII but I think his high numbers from the war’d still fuck him up p good. PS I NAMED MY FEAROW IN POKEMON GO AFTER U

spitandvinegar:

mukani:

spitandvinegar:

I will attempt to answer this question only after you provide me with a picture of the Fearow in question, for very important reasons.

@spitandvinegar YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND

1. LOOK AT THAT FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, NO ONE SPEAK TO ME OR MY HANDSOME BIRD SON EVER AGAIN

2. Re: Bucky. I’m honestly not sure when Buck would’ve actually killed more people, tbh. Most soldiers in WWII would have been individually responsible for a fairly low number of deaths, if any, but I think that Cap 1 implies that Bucky’s numbers would’ve been much higher that the norm. While he was the Winter  Soldier iirc canon says he was used for something like a few dozen assassinations, but idk whether that would include any collateral damage (if he shot THROUGH Natasha to get to a target then surely he took out plenty of other innocent bystanders as well).

I have to say that I think he was really, really messed up by the war and his time as a POW/torture victim long before he fell off the train, and his time as the Soldier probably just made a deeply fucked-up mental health situation much worse. HOWEVER, I don’t necessarily think that he has a worse shot at a happy ending as a post-Winter-Soldier Bucky than he would have if he had made it home after the war. Men of that generation didn’t talk about or seek treatment for mental health issues, and even in the extremely unlikely event that he did try to get help for his PTSD the available resources would have been … not great. Like, Freudian analysis or electroshock, maybe? All of my headcanons for a survives-the-war Bucky are pretty grim, tbh. But post WS Bucky in 2018 is going to A. have his trauma and guilt taken fairly seriously and not be expected to pick up exactly where he left off in 1939 as carefree charming Bucky Barnes, and B. realistically be expected to seek some kind of therapy or counselling or SOMETHING before he attempts to return to any kind of active duty (Not that Marvel would ever actually show one of their characters seeking therapy, God forbid, WOULDN’T WANT TO SET SOME KIND OF WUSSY CRYBABY GIRLY-MAN EXAMPLE FOR THE 13 YEAR OLD BOYS WHO ARE OUR TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC). So like, best case scenario 2018 Bucko has enough trauma to float a barge, a Steve Rogers with some VA meetings under his belt and access to Google, a therapist, a support group and maybe a giant floofy service dog named FUBAR (@yawpkatsi), while best case scenario 1947 Bucko has enough trauma to float a slightly smaller barge, a totally at-sea Steve Rogers, a parish priest, and a bottle of whiskey.

… that was a pretty long and overly elaborate answer to your straightforward question, whoops