steve and bucky at a press conference and steve is using his Captain America A.K.A. Physical Embodiment Of All Things Patriotic voice, talking to press about some serious issue that bucky is way too bored to pay attention to. he sits there with his Scary Super-Soldier Assassin face on (which is basically the most intimidating bitch face you can possibly imagine) and doesn’t strangle anyone or hop out of a window and climb to the roof. but only because steve would most likely give him his Captain America A.K.A. Physical Embodiment Of All Things Patriotic disappointed face, and it’s not like it actually works or anything, but bucky doesn’t want to cause steve any more problems than he already has. he figures he’s already burdened the guy enough to owe him for at least a lifetime.
so bucky sits there and only thinks about escaping to the roof. or acting on other… less pleasant thoughts. and steve pretends to be calm and collected – and bucky knows he’s only pretending because he might have a scrambled mind, but one thing he is absolutely positive of is that steve rogers does not have a calm bone in his body – but then steve reaches down to bucky’s lap where his hand lays still and laces their fingers together. neither of their faces change but warmth blossoms in bucky’s chest. no one else can see. no one knows but him and steve. but it makes the press conference that much more bearable.
now instead of having to focus on not threatening and/or inflicting bodily harm onto anyone, all he has to do is focus on not kissing the Captain America right off of steve’s face in the middle of a so-called serious press conference. he doesn’t know if that’s easier or harder, but it is much more fun to think about, that’s for sure.
he squeezes steve’s hand once and sees steve’s mouth lift for a split second out of the corner of his eyes. steve squeezes back. bucky doesn’t smile back but it’s definitely a close thing.
“Kissing the Captain America right off Steve’s face” is my new favorite description.
i kept seeing this idea in several fanfics and it just stuck with me: that Bucky has always been a big nerd for anything sci-fi. there are stacks of books on his nightstand and more crammed in the shelves of their apartment, asimov, frank herbert, douglas adams and so on and he always carries a beaten up paperback with him to read in between briefings
So @beradan and I were messaging this morning about how perhaps our love for Eric Bittle is connected to our deep and abiding love for pre-serum Steve Rogers, seeing as they are both tiny blond boys we want to wrap in 6 blankets and feed hot cocoa to (or I do anyway, although I think beradan would be down).
Anyway we couldn’t help but imagine them both in the same place-both smol and tiny but the similarities ending there-one is a ball of concentrated righteous anger and one a ball of sunshine, with distinctly different priorities, like
versus
And oh, both leave slightly dazed blue-eyed brunettes in their wake.
I have to admit it frequently takes me a second to figure out whether the fanart I’m looking at is from CP or if it’s a modern AU of pre- serum Steve and Bucky. XD
Jesus, take a moment to appreciate the similarities and differences in the acting, please
While you’re at it, take a moment to appreciate the fact Seb holds the props like they’re real weapons and not props.
I read in some othetr post he’s the only one who does that.
Those posts were probably mine, lol. I love Cevans from the top of his dark brown roots to his unusually good looking feet, but I’ve criticized him several times for the way he handles prop guns like they’re, well, props. He flags others with his muzzle, doesn’t sight, chicken wings, ect. Seb never does that. He maintains control of a prop weapon as if it might actually be deadly (which is smart bc these days, a lot of prop weapons are actually real ones that fire blanks, which can still injure people even with a blank firing adaptor at the front, and I think other cast members have mentioned before that they’re using real weapons with blanks to capture realist recoil and set the mood for the actors on set.)
I’ve decided to myself that if I ever meet Chris, the first thing I’ll do after climbing off him, disposing of the condom and throwing him a damp wash cloth is take him to a gun range to put a few thousand rounds down range. (As opposed to the first thing I’ll do if I meet Seb, which is feed him authentic TexMex breakfast tacos.)
Bucky’s a sniper. And Sebastian plays the part perfectly. Snipers have fucking RESPECT for their guns and know how to handle them intimately. Seb does a FANTASTIC job handling a gun. There’s a lot of confidence there.
I haven’t really studied how Cevans has used guns in past performances (although there’s a lot of videos of him doing training for Street Kings with guns, so if he’s shit, I guess we can blame them?), but the way he uses a gun in the MCU is perfectly 100% Steve. Watching Steve with a gun is WEIRD, and I feel like Steve handling a gun is WEIRD, and it plays like that on film. We’ve seen Steve with guns before, but usually small hand guns. And it’s clear that he neither likes nor prefers to use them (mostly you see him use them out of desperation or for dramatic shots like the howling commandos busting into that building etc). He handles them like an amateur, which, frankly, he is.
But take a look at how Cevans handles that fucking shield. Fuck, half the time he’s MIMING using it, and even that is fucking UNREAL. I have to sit and remind myself that he’s busy grabbing air. But when he isn’t, the amount of control he has over what is really unwieldy object? DAMN. That shield is Steve’s weapon. That’s what he has respect for, which is why when he drops it on the helicarrier in TWS, it’s powerful.
So yeah, he may not be great at guns, but watch Sebastian or Tom Hiddleston try to wield Steve’s shield. Like a window shutter in a hurricane. Cevans just has his own prop forte.
“You were seventeen the first time you realized you were in love. You and Steve had scraped together enough pennies to see a picture. It was Romeo and Juliet. You were mad because you couldn’t understand a word of it, even madder because what you did understand was just plain stupid. But by the end of it, you realized that there was someone in your life you’d die for, and he was sitting right next to you.” – excerpt from Hard to Sayby bettydays
Kimchi and Justice 