bucky barnes // the winter soldier
"but i knew him."

the assassin who never stopped being a hero.
born in brooklyn, 1917, james buchanan barnes 
was steve rogers' oldest friend - the one who fought 
his battles before the serum, and stood by him after it.

he served with the 107th in world war ii and became a key 
figure in the howling commandos. but during a mission, 
he fell - presumed dead. he didn't die.

hydra took him. experimented on him. erased him.
and turned him into the winter soldier - a lethal ghost, 
sent to kill without question.

for decades, he was frozen and awakened on command, 
completing missions with deadly precision and no memory.
but when he saw steve again, something broke through the fog.
a spark. a name. a promise: "i'm with you till the end of the line."

he ran, he healed, he tried to find himself in wakanda - becoming
 the white wolf. but even free, the weight of his past never left him.

bucky barnes isn't just a relic of the past. he's a survivor. 
a fighter. a man learning how to live again in a world that 
once used him as a weapon.

he doesn't want forgiveness. he wants redemption.
and he's still standing - not because he has to,
but because steve believed he could.


@empathyswifey