get-in-loser-we-are-boldly-going:
you know that trope where two people want to keep the same dog so they stand far apart and put the dog between them, and they call out to it to see who it approaches?
now imagine tony and clint doing that except it’s with bucky and instead of saying “here doggy” they talk shit about steve to see who he’ll go up to and punch first. they call it Russian roulette bc they think they’re funny
I’m not gonna lie I’m just kind of thrilled to be tagged next to Shitlord Bucky, and I kinda hope he comes and punches me in the face. It would be awesome.
But I can’t talk shit about Steve Rogers. I’m constitutionally incapable of it. So I will just have to continue to dream.
This is Mod Hell here, of BuckyKingOfMemes, because I do have a response for you but also I don’t really reblog things on kingofmemes.
My friends, you have made a crucial mistake.
If you think that Bucky would do anything other than join in the shit-talking, you are very wrong. I mean, if we were talking about people who actually hated Steve, sure, he’d punch the daylights out of them (The Reporter Incident. Incidents. Whatever. I can promise you, Bucky has had to be physically restrained from beating some sense into multiple professional journalists) but with people he knows are Steve’s friends? Oh yeah. James Buchannan Barnes is the master of shit talking at Steve, and finally Steve has other friends he can commiserate with! Bucky’s been doing it for nearly a century. He’d turn up and be like, “No, no, you guys are doing this wrong. He’s actually proud of that. Try this instead.”
Bucky is protective of Steve, yeah, but not like he’s his mom. This is a man who watched Steve getting his ass handed to him in a back alley fistfight and yes, did rescue him, but then made fun of him for having his ass handed to him. This is the guy who patented the “Physically Throw Captain America At My Enemies” method of dealing with Hydra. And if you think he did not revel in telling the Howlies “Back When Steve Was Tiny, He Did This Dumb Thing” stories, you are missing out on some laughs, because he definitely did, and at first the Howlies were like “haha, nobody’s stubborn enough to do that,” and then later they were like, “Dear god, this is the man we’ve entrusted our lives to.”
What I am saying here is that if Clint and Tony stood an equal distance apart with Bucky in the middle, and started shit talking Steve, it would take Bucky .02 seconds to join in. And probably within about 30 seconds, Steve would show up to go, ‘Buck! That’s not how it happened! I never did that!! :(”
and Bucky would go. “Stevie. I have forgotten a lot of things. But I promise I remember with crystal clarity every single time you have been an idiot. Those memories are what keep me warm on long dark nights.”
Because that is how friendship works.