(OP) holy crap this is getting a fill!! and it's so amazing!
Your Rumlow is such an asshole (I am delighted). He's having such a good time trolling them! And then once Bucky walks in... you gave me everything I wanted when I prompted this. Like, it's so striking to me that Rumlow instantly assumes that Bucky is now Steve's property, even though: a) Steve would never use someone like the Winter Soldier the way Hydra did; b) Bucky's behavior is visibly different; and c) people are interacting with Bucky like he's a person! The idea that the asset could be a person is so far outside of Rumlow's grasp it doesn't even occur to him. And that persists even once Rumlow's picked up on who the asset really is. You did a fabulous job depicting that persistent, internalized, unconscious dehumanization in a way that delivers an emotional wallop. Maybe part of it is the way it feels so natural for Rumlow, like he's not intentionally dehumanizing Bucky, he's just stating facts, this is just the way the world is... I almost feel offended on Bucky's behalf, actually, my sad baby.
You seriously hit my love of intimacy founded on violation/abuse; it's this great, awful mix of fascinating/disturbing/sad/enraging that Rumlow thinks he knows Bucky better than any of these people, and in a way, he does. Bucky has changed radically since the 1940s, and he changed because of this terrible situation he was in, and Rumlow was right in that situation too. Rumlow knew him when he was still in captivity, and so of course he's familiar with the behavioral patterns Bucky picked up as a result of his abuse. You really got that across -- it really worked, and impacted me, to have Rumlow be the only one who noticed Bucky's body language & what it meant, like the flinch or the positioning of his hands. The read he has on Bucky is almost tantamount to another violation; Bucky wouldn't want him to have this level of insight, the insight was won through abusive circumstances, and the person receiving the insight is unmerciful and ungenerous. You have destroyed me...
And the way you had Rumlow referring to Bucky as "it"! k i l l m e
Also, murder zombie.
P.S. I love that you included the earring because the fill that's from is for another one of my prompts, and I loved it in that, and I just love everyone in this trash heap. Group hug?
Re: Fill: Reunion Tour (1/~3?)
Your Rumlow is such an asshole (I am delighted). He's having such a good time trolling them! And then once Bucky walks in... you gave me everything I wanted when I prompted this. Like, it's so striking to me that Rumlow instantly assumes that Bucky is now Steve's property, even though: a) Steve would never use someone like the Winter Soldier the way Hydra did; b) Bucky's behavior is visibly different; and c) people are interacting with Bucky like he's a person! The idea that the asset could be a person is so far outside of Rumlow's grasp it doesn't even occur to him. And that persists even once Rumlow's picked up on who the asset really is. You did a fabulous job depicting that persistent, internalized, unconscious dehumanization in a way that delivers an emotional wallop. Maybe part of it is the way it feels so natural for Rumlow, like he's not intentionally dehumanizing Bucky, he's just stating facts, this is just the way the world is... I almost feel offended on Bucky's behalf, actually, my sad baby.
You seriously hit my love of intimacy founded on violation/abuse; it's this great, awful mix of fascinating/disturbing/sad/enraging that Rumlow thinks he knows Bucky better than any of these people, and in a way, he does. Bucky has changed radically since the 1940s, and he changed because of this terrible situation he was in, and Rumlow was right in that situation too. Rumlow knew him when he was still in captivity, and so of course he's familiar with the behavioral patterns Bucky picked up as a result of his abuse. You really got that across -- it really worked, and impacted me, to have Rumlow be the only one who noticed Bucky's body language & what it meant, like the flinch or the positioning of his hands. The read he has on Bucky is almost tantamount to another violation; Bucky wouldn't want him to have this level of insight, the insight was won through abusive circumstances, and the person receiving the insight is unmerciful and ungenerous. You have destroyed me...
And the way you had Rumlow referring to Bucky as "it"! k i l l m e
Also, murder zombie.
P.S. I love that you included the earring because the fill that's from is for another one of my prompts, and I loved it in that, and I just love everyone in this trash heap. Group hug?