Everyone who has headcanons about Steve and/or Bucky being awkward with babies and/or small children,
I understand the impulse I truly do I get it, however have you instead considered them growing up poor in the Great Depression and thus in a crappy apartment complex where every adult is working their fingers to the bones when they can find work
and thus a young Steve caring for many an infant when he was well enough to be responsible for anything other than lying in bed and breathing?
and thus a young Bucky watching over dozens of under five year olds at all ages over ten?
And later, Steve taking care of neighbors’ kids when the parents were sick because that’s what had happened for him when Sarah was sick and dying and dead?
And Bucky being a huge hit not just with the ladies he took out but also their little siblings who he’d play with when he arrived to pick her up early and she wasn’t finished getting ready?
Steve and Bucky accepting child-wrangling as a totally normal life skill, just like shining shoes and darning socks, makes 1000% sense to me.
Steve tries to be slightly too Cheery at them a lot of the time, so he’s better with younger kids; meanwhile Bucky is mildly unsettled by this becoming a rarified skill.
Tag: pre-war steve and bucky
sarah rogers had the patience of a saint, and loved her troublemakers very much.
She taught Steve how to play poker and how to cheat so that he’d know if someone was putting one up on him. She taught him how to play chess and one memorable afternoon, when Steve was too sick to go to school, she spent it detailing one of Napoleon’s military campaigns.
(Sarah loved history, especially military history. Her Da used to call her The Morrigan, Boudicaa the Queen and she’d laugh and toss her head and say, maybe so. It was what made Joseph Rogers fall in love with her.)
Bucky would make it just in time, with Steve’s homework, as Sarah Rogers would get to the part about Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to conquer Russia.
This was when the boys would first learn that ancient proverb: Never attack Russia in winter.
She bandaged up hurts and kissed bruises better and even Bucky didn’t escape the coddling because, “Oh no you don’t, Bucko, I am not sending you back to your mother like that.”
Sarah Rogers knew a lot of things and would stare you down coldly if you mouthed off about “knowledge not suitable for the “weaker sex.” Her general response to that was, “Sir, you come back to me after pushing out an eight pound child out of your nether regions and then speak about us being the ‘weaker’ sex.”
Sarah was not often given to vulgarity but she had little patience for fools. She hated bullies as much as her son did.
Sarah Rogers had the difficult task of being father and mother to her boy Steve. She managed to be both. Exceptionally well.
She called Bucky “Bucko” and he got just as many hugs as Steve did, mainly because she could see how much he loved her boy, looked out for him and was, indeed, the best and dearest friend he could ever have.
The boys still miss her to this very day.
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A Steve is a Steve no matter how small.
A Steve is a Steve no matter how tall.
Really highlights how much of a difference Bucky would have had to get used to.
OMFG I JUST REALIZED IMAGNINE HOW MANY TIMES BUCKY TURNED AROUND TO SAY SOMETHING TO STEVE AND WAS SUDDENLY TALKING TO HIS BOOBS AND YOU JUST KNOW STEVE CRACKED A JOKE ABOUT “MY EYES ARE UP HERE, BUDDY” AND “IS THIS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE ONE OF THE GIRLS YOU DATE? *COVERS CHEST IN PRETEND SHYNESS*”
aslkdfjasdfkljsfjk ITS SO AMUSING!
OMG YES
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