Thanks For This!! Though I Do Want To Add That I Specified American Citizens And The American Government

Thanks for this!! Though I do want to add that I specified American citizens and the American government itself was among the ones Bucky was a part of attempting to topple, I don't know how much that would change things?

Many of Bucky's crimes as the Winter Soldier specifically targeted the US, so I was wondering if that would make a difference as I know that it's very lenient when it comes to other countries governments and citizens. Bucky is someone who has both unwillingly and willingly worked against the US on an extremely public level, which was mainly where my point lay.

I do think Bucky isn't in Congress willingly, there's got to be something else at play there, because there's nothing in canon to indicate he'd have any love for the US government (or any government anymore really, except maybe Wakanda), especially considering all Bucky knows about what the US has done to Isaiah, so similar to himself with HYDRA as it is, and want to become anymore of a cog in it. He looks like he's MISERABLE in the trailer and I'm thinking it must be because he doesn't want to be doing what he's doing.

as someone who knows very little about the American governmental system... is it even realistic that Bucky is a senator/candidate, outside of the simple fact that it goes against everything we know about his character for the last 13 years and is deeply ooc and weird?

Can someone with his history actually become a senator? Dude has killed like...a lot of people, specifically American citizens to keep it relevant to this context, and he's openly broken the law and gone against multiple governments in some of the most wild displays of anarchy alongside Steve and the Avengers. Also I don't think he's been a consistent enough resident of any state even if you take out the Blip?? At least 9 years right? Bro has maybe been on American soil for 3 years, pre AND post Blip, and that's being generous assuming Thunderbolts takes place in 2024-2025.

I don't know how realistic it is that he's even able to run for senate? I'm not an expert, not American, but it just seems absurd.

The main take really is that Bucky Barnes as a senator is one of the stupidest things, what the hell

I don't go here but I'm calling it now that Joe Locke's character can't say his name is because names have power especially if you're the demiurge, and the moment he does Wanda across the universes will hear it and use it like a homing beacon

Soulmate + His Dark Materials fusion AU where your dæmon isn't a reflection of your soul but that of your soulmate

Bucky Barnes' dæmon never settles, nice people call him a late bloomer while other people aren't so nice and call him far worse, but Steve never minded and the Howling Commandos soon learned to shut their traps so he got by just fine. Hydra value their Asset whose dæmon can shift around well into adulthood until one day they thaw him out and his dæmon appears to be gone. No matter, they move on. It's not until Bucky's granted asylum in Wakanda that he feels comfortable letting anyone know that his dæmon finally settled: she's an adorable, tiny Jumping Spider, so small that she'd been able to hide from Hydra in his clothes, his hair or even in the inner mechanisms of his arm where she spends his missions so she's safe and can't be crushed.

Peter Parker's dæmon settles unusually early on the other hand, before he's even hit double digits, as an adorable wolf cub that by the time he becomes Spider-Man has grown into an enormous and intimidating Grey Wolf, almost completely white in her pelt and fiercely protective. She's quiet compared to his chattiness, and as a side effect of either the spider bite or possibly Mary Parker having secrets of her own, Peter and his dæmon can be miles apart comfortably.

No one makes the connection for years. Years! Not until Shuri finds out one of the spiders Peter is mixed with was a Jumping Spider, known as the smartest spider in the world, and happens to look up and see a text from the White Wolf. What does she do with this information? Who knows but she's very pleased to have figured out yet another thing no one else has yet.

I need to know if any research at all was done into Bucky using the term "punk" in 40s America because I don't think it meant, in the most common sense in the 40s, what they thought it meant/what it generally means now lmao

I'm gonna hyperventilate that's fucking hilarious, diolch yn fawr iawn my friend

Okay but what if Bucky gets found out by HYDRA and Zola after capture because Dugan and Gabe are always ushering him to the back away from possible notice, to the point it backfires and draws suspicion. When they pick him out HYDRA orders him to recite the Lord's Prayer and Bucky recites what he always remembers Steve saying. The Prayer he made sure to remember before he was shipped out just in case something like this happened.

Only... Steve is Catholic. The Prayer that Bucky's heard Steve and some of his fellow soldiers recite is different from the one a Protestant would recite and his dog tags say he's a Protestant. He didn't even know they said the Prayer differently.

Is it just me or does no one seem to remember that Bucky is an orphan? It's not even on the fandom wikis. I don't just mean the comics but in the MCU too, Bucky's always been an orphan, it's even mentioned in an interview. It paints him being the eldest of four and his protectiveness of Steve in a new light and generally how good Bucky is with kids too. The guy has serious "big brother who had to become a parent to his younger siblings" energy