Think the cumulative effects of Bucky surviving the Great Depression, European rationing during WW2 and Soviet bloc food shortages giving him the appreciation to not take the availability of good food for granted.
Buuuut decades of trash partying with food used as punishment, reward and incentive/bait makes eating a minefield of scent and texture triggers. For example: tasting chocolate cake gives Bucky an erection because it was used to reward him for becoming aroused during a trash party. But he can't swallow it because the texture/mouth-feel triggers a memory of being force-fed it to suffocation point or being raped and beaten until he vomited his reward.
Result is that Bucky is constantly hungry and really wants to eat but everything triggers him, and the remnants of his conditioning means he can't articulate something as simple as "No, thank you. I can't eat that."
I want HYDRA torturing Bucky through food even when HYDRA isn't a presence in his life anymore.
Bucky has food issues/phobias
Buuuut decades of trash partying with food used as punishment, reward and incentive/bait makes eating a minefield of scent and texture triggers. For example: tasting chocolate cake gives Bucky an erection because it was used to reward him for becoming aroused during a trash party. But he can't swallow it because the texture/mouth-feel triggers a memory of being force-fed it to suffocation point or being raped and beaten until he vomited his reward.
Result is that Bucky is constantly hungry and really wants to eat but everything triggers him, and the remnants of his conditioning means he can't articulate something as simple as "No, thank you. I can't eat that."
I want HYDRA torturing Bucky through food even when HYDRA isn't a presence in his life anymore.