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Your Mrs. Rogers and Captain Barnes fic was adorable. And AWWWWW for Steve making Bucky Bear a Corporal. Poor Colonel Phillips, though, having to deal with all the insanity surrounding him. xD

darthstitch:

Basically, Colonel Phillips kept asking himself exactly what in the name of Sweet Baby Jesus did he do to deserve the Howling Commandos.

I mean, a man’s not perfect, especially if one happens to be career army, already resigned to the knowledge that he’s not going to die in bed like an old man.

(Fun Fact:  in the Blanket Fort Headcanon ‘verse, Colonel Phillips did die of old age, surrounded by children and grandchildren.  It was a peaceful passing, as these things go and yeah, he was already a general at that point in time and a very well-respected one.)

Between trying to navigate the fall-out of all the Howling Commandos shenanigans and trying very, very hard not to think of what SNRFB actually means – they all know SNAFU, SNRFB wasn’t a hard leap to make – it’s a miracle that Phillips actually reached a ripe old age with most of his sanity intact. 

Then again, he should’ve expected this, considering that the letter addressed to next of kin, that would’ve said Sgt. James Buchanan Barnes was MIA, presumed dead, was going to be sent to Steven Grant Rogers.  That’s why Phillips knew, when he was trying to deliver the news to “Captain America” that it was going to be a useless mission to try and “rescue” him.  That’s why he also knew that Captain Rogers was going to be a stubborn cuss and attempt the rescue anyway.

He’s still not recognizing the bear as part of his goddamn army anyway, “above and beyond the call of duty” or no. 

It must be said that his youngest daughter adored Bucky Bear – she had a Bucky Bear of her own – and Colonel Phillips got her one for Christmas.  Said daughter would have a crush on Sgt. Barnes himself.  The bear and the Barnes Crush would be passed on to the later generations of Phillips’ family.  XD 

So in the comics Bucky was an advance scout and did all the dirty stuff Captain America couldn’t or wouldn’t be seen doing, including sometimes wetwork operations, partly because everyone always underestimated Captain America’s sidekick. How do you think it translated to the MCU?

boopboopbi:

ink-phoenix:

I think it’s most evident in CA: TFA when we get the 2 minutes of Howling Commandos montage (and can I reiterate what a travesty it is that we’re not getting 3 hours of the HC on various missions, seriously, I couldn’t give a fuck, just, give it to me, marvel, make my HC mini series, good GOD).

Now bear with me here: I work in film, and I used to be an editor. There is nothing that makes it into a final cut of anything that is left to chance. Everything you show/not show is a constant uphill battle —with the director, with the producers, with the studio execs, with the stupid MPAA— in Avengers, they had to take out Loki’s spear going through Phil’s chest (it cuts away to his face) to keep the PG13 rating. So. Everything in that montage is there for a reason and the ~violence we see is very stylized. Yeah, they go in guns-a-blazing but you don’t actually see who they’re shooting at. Steve knocks people over with his shield, but you don’t see their skulls crack, you don’t see the whites of their eyes as they fall; they blow people up, but you don’t actually see body parts flying, blood and carnage strewn across the snow.

The only thing you actually do see? It’s when Bucky takes out the Hydra agent. You see it through Bucky’s POV — which is the only time we have a personal POV in the montage, as he looks through his rifle’s crosshair. He shoots the Hydra agent aiming for Steve, and we see the shot connect and the guy die. There’s no cutting away, there’s no ~~shoot to injure which is so typical in PG 13 movies. No. Bucky shoots that fucker in the head and he kills him specifically because he was aiming for Steve. 

That isn’t random. That is the only time we see any of the commandos actually hit a target and kill them dead. And it’s Bucky who does it. 

It’s not much, but it’s a clear choice and it’s there to tell us this is not the first time he does it, it won’t be the last time he does it, and we’re showing this to you because it’s Bucky, and that’s what he does. 

Bucky’s in the Howling Commandos because he’s following Steve. Bucky chooses to do the things he does —all of it, the bad and the worse— because he’s following Steve, not Captain America. There’s an unstable edge, there, I believe, the edge of ‘I’m doing this so you don’t have to’ because Bucky never wanted Steve in this war in the first place; he always wanted to spare Steve the horrors of war, and now that Steve’s here, the least Bucky can do is to take on the darkest side of it. He doesn’t see himself worth preserving. He’s lost his innocence a long time ago, but he’s going to fight for Steve to hold on to his as long as he lives.

This is exactly why it upsets me when Bucky and the Winter Soldier are presented as two completely separate entities when the only thing that actually separates the two (aside from a few decades of torture I mean) is the empathy Bucky shows and the motivations behind his actions.

Bucky killing for Steve and TWS killing for HYDRA are essentially the same thing but for the fact that Bucky’s motivations are powered by love and anger and a million and one other emotions, while TWS is powered by entirely the opposite.

TWS is powered by other people’s emotions.  There are definitely emotions involved, he’s just the wind-up toy weapon.

tygermama:

last-snowfall:

tygermama:

nonasuch:

star-anise:

tygermama:

I just want all the descendants of the Howling Commandos to be this big, extended, up-in-each-others-business family

and they aren’t all in SHIELD but they all have a rough idea of what’s going on and if one of them shows up in the middle of the night, they’re guaranteed a safe place to sleep, a meal and a scolding

‘You better live through this. If you die, your mom’ll call my mom and there’ll be hell to pay’

I want them to have big “family reunions” every five years where everybody—fuckin’ EVERYBODY—makes it out to some campground or something where they all hang out and have a softball tournament and cut up a sheet cake so big it feeds two hundred people.  That’s when you meet peoples’ new SOs and pass around babies and congratulate kids on their new jobs.

oh god, and if they had the first one five years after the war ended, they’re due for one in 2015, and it’s the first one Steve gets to attend, and he gets there and it’s basically the best/worst experience of his entire life to date, because there are all these people who walk like Jim and grin like Dugan and say their vowels like Falsworth, and they all want to tell him stories about Dad, about Granddad, about Great-Granddad, they want to hear his stories from the war, they want to invite him to college graduations and weddings and christenings, and when he starts to get a little overwhelmed by all of it one of Gabe’s daughters pulls him aside on some pretense and gives him ten minutes to pull himself back together before she gets his email for the howlingfamilies listserv, which she runs.

(oh god, and two hours into it he catches a pack of Dernier kids arguing in rapid French over whether they should tell their parents about the man up a tree at the far edge of the campground that they saw while they were playing hide-and-seek, and Steve walks into the woods with his heart in his throat, and the tree’s empty now but he hears a twig crack behind him, deliberate, because Bucky knows how to walk quieter than that, and when he turns around Bucky looks— well, a hell of a lot better than he did a year ago, a hell of a lot more like himself, even with the shadows still around his eyes and the smile almost wavering at the edges of his mouth.)

 HOWLING COMMANDOS, omg the idea of them being like a network or a reseau like that, is just perfect,they’re not all in shield but they have lots of ressources,they might not be agents, but they’re not exactly civilians either, some of them are perfectly ordinary office workers who know exactly what kind of spy business shit is going on behind the latest alien attack, perfectly ordinary desk workers who know how to shoot like peggy, and they’re a group of determined and kickass people, all super protective of one another, and they know what a legacy means, and they’re basically a big family, jim’s granddaughter is arguing with dum dum’s daughter’s cousin’s son like they’re siblings, people are speaking and yelling at each other in at least three different languages at any given time, mcu, i want this so bad, i want cap to discover them and then they all take care of him and make him feel like he’s family and they all look out for him in their own little ways, and ahhh.

and the people who get bussed out to cities they’ve never been to before because they can’t afford medical or dental care but the network has doctors and will get you there

and how it’s slightly cheaper for them to go to college pretty much anywhere because there’s family in the area they can live with

and how if you go off the rails and start getting in to deep there are people who will come find you and drag you home

Every once in a while some kid is like OMG I LOVE YOU ALL BUT I AM RUNNING AWAY TO AFRICA BECAUSE GAH. (Or possibly even I HATE YOU ALL AND I’M RUNNING AWAY TO ICELAND.) (Once in a while I AM RUNNING AWAY TO KOREA AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU AT ALL.) And this is okay. I mean, it’s very sad. But it’s okay. … but they still get care-packages, and someone who works in international diplomacy is tasked to just keep a GENERAL eye on them and make sure they’ve got, you know, money and food. (A roof over their head is variable. I mean, maybe they like bush-living. That’s fine. But money and food, that’s necessary.)

and Natasha’s first mission as a SHIELD agent is to fish this kid out of a serious situation in South America and she has no idea why cause this kid is a no-body and the trouble he’s in is in no way something SHIELD should give a shit about but Fury muttered something about ‘family is family’ and ‘never gonna get any dumplings again’

so Natasha does the job and now there’s a restaurant in the Bronx that always gives her free food and she’s not entirely sure why

but it is great food

who of the howling commandos do you think was the closest to bucky (as in friendship)? do you think any of the howling commandos were protective of bucky especially after what he did for them when they were captured and knowing the torture bucky went through at the hands of HYDRA? or is it more of just respect for him? maybe a little of both?

ink-phoenix:

[clutches heart] HOWLING COMMANDOS! You don’t know what you’ve unleashed asking me this, my god.

Okay first of all — if you have never read the comics prequel tie-in for CA: TFA, “The First Vengeance”, you’re missing out. They are a delight. In those comics, you see that Bucky had contracted pneumonia at the HYDRA factory and was beaten within half an inch of his life by one of his captors, Lohmer, because he was too weak to work. Before then, Falsworth, Dernier, Jones and Dugan didn’t get along at all. Different nationalities, rivalries, nobody likes the French, etc etc. When Bucky gets beaten with a fucking missile shell, it’s pretty apparent that he’s not going to be able to make another shift — Dugan says so, and even if another one of their guards might let Bucky off the hook for the first shift, Lohmer certainly won’t. SO WHAT DO THE COMMANDOS DO? (Note: they had been punching each other like, 5 panels before that) — They come up with a plan to kill Lohmer. So that it won’t give Bucky — or anyone else— anymore trouble. 

THERE IS THIS GLORIOUS PANEL WHICH MAKES MY HEART SING: 

“DUGAN, YOU DUM DUM.” I JUST. BUCKY. YOU ARE PRACTICALLY DEAD you were going to die three pages ago. Just. Please. 

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