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bucky barns & winter soldier
Sobbing!
The Body of Bucky Barnes: A Massage Therapist’s Analysis
(CAVEAT: I have not been a massage therapist for very long. This is literally just me spitballin’—at the same time, this was a really good exercise for me! I like using the assessment part of my brain.)
It’s been tossed around in fandom that Bucky’s muscles have to be pretty f-ed up from having a cybernetic, metal arm grafted onto one side of his body. From the perspective of a massage therapist, that’s 100% accurate—but the issues don’t stop there. At the very least he’s got functional scoliosis and massive compensatory muscle strain, enough adhesions to make Jesus weep, and tons of somato-emotional holding points.
How They Make You A Weapon – Loyalty
Et voila! The continuation of this comic right HERE. And for the love of Bucky, please read the full fanfiction these comic scenes are based on (it’s the best decision you’ll ever make in your life). GO! Give monicawoe ALL YOUR LOVE for writing this ridiculously beautiful story.
And I’m sorry this took me so long to finish. Making a comic about two people doing nothing besides chatting in a tiny room was more challenging than I expected. *whines* COMICS ARE HARD.
Society is at a tipping point between order and chaos.
Yuuuuuuup. Still workin’ on this comic. I’m on the last panel for page #2…again. I thought I finished this page last week, but yeah…the original last panel was meh.
What if right before Bucky walked away in this part of The Winter Soldier
(x)
he whispered to Steve
what if you just shut the fuck up
*crashes into your dashboards* Page #2 is done!!! o/ *collapses*
Here’s a little teaser of the finished art with the red and blue colour wash layers turned off.
Page #3 (the final page) is all planned out. Gonna get started on the actual drawing tonight. 😀 Send me your good vibes! I wanna finish this thing sometime before I die of old age.
For my new followers: the first 5 page mini-comic is HERE.
Someone else already talked about the iv drip in Bucky’s arm in this scene, but can we talk about the medical readouts? Sadly, I couldn’t find a single really clear screenshot – if anyone with the BluRay has better quality pics, I’d love to see them.
Overall, the displays are fairly cryptic, missing a bunch of what I’d consider important medical information, like clear displays for blood pressure and oxygen saturation. I think the big number in the lower left of the screen might be pulse rate – it ticks up fairly rapidly to 130 when the electrodes come down and Bucky panics. God knows why you’d want to display pulse rate to one decimal place, though, so it might be something else entirely. I don’t know what the other big number next to it is supposed to be, either – that one holds mostly steady somewhere around 60.
The screen to the right scrolls through a CAT scan of Bucky’s brain. Unfortunately I can’t get good enough resolution to tell you whether there’s visible brain damage there.
I’m most interested in the labeled markers on the diagram of Bucky’s body in the third pic, though, the ones I circled in red – because WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT, and what do you want to bet it’s implants? We see Bucky with his shirt off, so we already know there’s no injury there (well, there might be broken ribs, I suppose), and he doesn’t have visible electrodes attached, either. So. Implants. Trackers. Chemical reservoirs. Remotely triggered self-destruct mechanisms.
Because the goddamn metal arm just wasn’t enough of a violation of Bucky’s bodily integrity.
Holy fuck I’ve been waiting for someone to comment on this for an eternity

