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Badflower for Bucky

I just need to share this somewhere. I went to a Badflower concert last week and it was Amazing. They are spectacular. Look them up and know that everything about their songs is actual talent. No autotune there guys.

Anyway, I digress. I've been listening to more of their music the last few days. Trying out new songs from their other albums. "Machine Gun" took me by surprise. Good job youtube random shuffle. It is... fantastic. I highly recommend it if you love rock music, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, and whatever in between.

Just wow. Bucky, big bro and mama's boy hanging around the dance halls and reading science fiction, terrified and forced to fight a war that he wanted nothing to do with because of the draft.

Steve, sickly and told he was better off dead his whole life, aching to join the war so he could prove he was worth a damn to someone and being denied until the government decided he could pass for a lab rat.

Bucky, traumatized from being experimented on by the enemy, doesn't know how to cope with the things he's seen and done and the things done to him but when told he can go home he stays because his best friend found an in somehow to this hell. He'll be damned if he leaves him there alone. Falls an unfathomable height trying to protect that friend. Probably wishes for death but is found by the enemy instead.

Steve, devastated at the loss of his world, loses a piece of himself and never recovers. He goes from being peaceful to wanting all of Hydra dead, to pay for what they've done. No one questions it. No asks. All the better. Better a patriot than a waste of space with a gun. He pulls a suicide mission to end the pain.

Both come back to the modern world. No one asks questions. No one cares. Fury puts Steve to work, keeps him in the dark, preys on that restless energy. Never a free meal. Wakanda fixed Bucky's head so now that war is coming it's time to pay up. You can have a limb if you fight. Who said you got to retire? Both of you owe your country.

We're not paying for your therapy or your meds. Be grateful. You're fine. You're useful. We gave you a roof because we can still make use of you. Your body we mean. Who cares about you?

Steve is a hero. Bucky is blamed for his actions under torture and told relentlessly to make amends. Steve is untouchable. Bucky is fresh meat.