Tag: sebastian stan

agent-hils-coulson:

lilkisara:

“I watched a lot of documentaries on post-traumatic stress and a lot of army documentaries about the training programs and some of the extreme sort of circumstances that some of those guys that are training to be Navy SEALs and some who are a part of it go through. I was trying to understand what it is, what it means for someone to be desensitized, to no longer question hurting something. I did as much research on all that stuff as I could in order to kind of know what that was like. And then my stepdad actually has Alzheimer’s, so there were parts about watching and studying that kind of disease, also, observing people like that that kind of helped me a little bit.”—SEBASTIAN STAN

I got to the bit about his stepdad and legit started crying

weinersoldier:

get a load of this non-standard sidearm configuration – two small-capacity derringer pistols, both strapped at the winter soldier’s (most likely) dominant side:

  • top is a COP .357 Derringer pistol, chambered for four .357 Magnum cartridges – it’s a heavy, huge size for a Derringer, but it’s a solid choice for a defensive weapon, often chosen as a back-up piece for law enforcement because of its powerful cartridge
  • bottom looks to be an Intratec TEC-38 two-shot polymer-framed pistol, housing .38 Special cartridges – guns this size, this small of a capacity, don’t serve much purpose in distance or combat.  they’re meant for close-range (contact-range/point-blank) defensive use, or as a last resort.

given this set-up, these two weapons are the winter soldier’s penultimate and final outs.  the COP .357 can get off four shots, enough to take out four attackers if he’s not already disabled or trapped, but he doesn’t appear to be packing anything to reload and both these weapons are a different caliber than his other sidearms.

that 2-shot pistol, that’s the Winter Soldier’s cyanide capsule.  that’s his way out – one .38 to the hollow of his jaw is his nuclear option, the one that he probably doesn’t even know is there, the one that’s simmering just below the surface of the mission that’s forced into his mind.

the winter soldier doesn’t lose; but if he did, if he could, if he was – 

all assets are disposable.

fallingloki:

guardedlogic:

So, I finally managed to read Bucky’s biography as presented at the Captain America Smithsonian exhibit.

And yes, the “Captured by Hydra, Barnes endured long periods of isolation, depravation and torture“ part certainly got to me, but what really caught my interest was: ”An excellent athlete who also excelled in the classroom”.

Bucky wasn’t all looks and brawn, he was also a good student. He basically had it all, was probably the most popular guy at school, and still chose small sickly Steve Rogers as his best friend. 

#because steve rogers also chose him

gdijefferson:

Just when you thought it was all over. Boys just don’t know how to share their toys, do they?

If you want to make an edit of this photo, let me know and I’ll get you a hi-res, clean copy! Or just link back to my tumblr. That’d be nice. ❤

#no one can tell me that he doesn’t enjoy or relish the mission – not so much the killing part which is the end goal – but the overall proces  #the stalking; the finding; the honing; the strategy; calculating his trajectories and picking his weapons and following and executing  #the orders to an t; and GIVING orders himself to the men who’d put a bullet in his brain if he so much as twitched  #out of protocol; being able to give orders in the first place and being able to decide what gets done next  #there’s a level of autonomy he gets running a mission than he gets anywhere else; and it’s only on a mission  #that it looks like he really knows what’s going on – every other time he’s a child waiting for a hiding  #the winter soldier is not a spy and the winter soldier is not an undercover agent; the winter soldier isn’t an AGENT as in  #he has no agency; he probably doesn’t know how to keep himself alive for an extended amount of time without an extraction team  #he’s a gun that you just point and shoot; but he’s still a person under that and even if he doesn’t understand it –  #he’d relish the agency. he’d relish the momentary freedom he gets no matter how meaningless and small it is