Tag: pre-serum steve

karaii:

Hydra Steve!Clone and the Winter Soldier in the battle field.

Headofporridge suggested the clone cannot speak because Hydra surgically removed his vocal cords after the Winter Soldier “malfunctioned” and fatally wounded a lot of their staff due to the sound of the clone’s voice. Either way, he probably uses a combination of ASL and military signing on the field because it is imperative they both remain unseen and unheard.

I like the idea of Clone!Steve being the sniper and the Winter Soldier the brutal force, because eeee role reversals. Also, the Winter Soldier seems less built for stealth and more for absolute carnage, with the guns and machinery he’s packing. It stands to reason the weaker and smaller (for now) Clone!Steve would be his backup from afar, fatally silencing anyone who sees the Winter Soldier.

ALL THE SIGN LANGUAGE/ASL/NONVERBAL HEAD CANONS. ALL OF THEM.

motherofsleipnir:

in the 40s they thought asthma was psychosomatic. that must have pissed bucky off to no end. i bet when he finds out that we now know it’s physical, he tracks down the doctor to the retirement home he lives at and says, “i fucking told you it wasn’t psychosomatic, you shitstain.” and the nurse comes over like “sir, i’m going to have to ask you to stop harassing my patient”

Yep, was talking about this with my partner the other day, and I thought that maybe the confusion came about when psychotherapy took off and they conflated panic attacks (trouble breathing, heart racing, dying feelings) with asthma (same, but with occasional actual dying).

So, yeah, when Steve is told ‘you’d be turned down on your asthma alone’, it’s not because they thought he literally had a chest condition that could kill him in the field, it’s because they thought he had a mental illness, akin to hysteria, and they didn’t want hysterics in their theatre of war.