i'm walking forth, bare and blinking as the day that i was born

[musesfool]

Itty-Bitty Orphan Black, an Orphan Black webcomic in the style of Tiny Titans. HEART.

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I forgot Almost Human was even on, and didn't realize until I'd switched from football to channel 5 for Sleepy Hollow, so I'm guessing it's not really a must-watch for me, especially since last week I fell asleep during it and didn't really feel a need to

Comments

[katie_m]

As Bucky says to him, 'right, and you've got nothing to prove' when Steve tells him why he continues to try to enlist. Steve wants to fight because he knows it's the right thing to do, but he also does totally want to prove that he can, especially since he's been repeatedly rejected.

Yes. This is the interesting element of Steve's personality that I see least often in fanfic; dude is not only angry, he turns to violence as a problem-solving method really quickly. Which is probably not a terrible thing for a soldier - I mean, a pacifist supersoldier was not their goal - but... I don't know, he's always portrayed as the polite upstanding nice guy, which he is, but he's also got a real... mean streak is not the right word. I'm going to go back to "instinctively violent

[katie_m]

And punching! Well, attempted punching. But yes, you're right, "temper" is probably the best way to put it.

[musesfool]

dude is not only angry, he turns to violence as a problem-solving method really quickly. Which is probably not a terrible thing for a soldier - I mean, a pacifist supersoldier was not their goal - but... I don't know, he's always portrayed as the polite upstanding nice guy, which he is, but he's also got a real... mean streak is not the right word. I'm going to go back to "instinctively violent."

Yes. He definitely has a temper, as LaT says. I also think it's a function of growing up when/where/how he did - poor and orphaned on the streets of Brooklyn. I'm pretty sure it was fists up at all times to survive, and he spent a lot of time getting the shit kicked out of him even with Bucky's intervention.

I also wish they'd given us more of his flagpole kind of smarts after he got big, in both movies, though I guess him orchestrating the hydra raids in CA:TFA and going off and investigating the weapons locker in Avengers shows his ability to figure things out, but he's always going to do it in an actiony kind of way.

And I love that

[katie_m]

I mean, Bruce Banner is also a good man! But it turns out maybe not a good serum recipient.

I'm pretty sure it was fists up at all times to survive

Yeah, good point - I hadn't thought about it like that.

[musesfool]

Yeah, Bruce and the serum were unmixy things. or whatever attempt at the serum he made anyway, with added gamma rays! Given what it did to the other guys - Blonsky and that doctor dude and even General Ross in the cartoons and comics, Bruce should be somewhat less down on himself for the results, but yeah. Even though it's due to a number of factors, and not just Bruce's horrible childhood, I'm sure it's hard for him to see Steve and know that it didn't work that way for him.

I'm also really tired of people claiming that whatever Zola gave Bucky in Captain America primed him for becoming the Winter Soldier. Like, sure it made him stronger/faster/longer-lived (I am speculating), but that shot of him watching Steve through his scope is FORESHADOWING, not some new urge to blow Steve's head off. Ugh, I hate how parts of fandom totally mischaracterize Bucky. Which is completely off point!