Okay, so what if in the early days "the chair" is not yet fine-tuned and they need other ways to make the Winter Soldier obey?
When they first try to make him into a weapon, whatever is still left of Bucky Barnes refuses to kill people.
To give him incentive to obey, he gets a choice: either complete the mission, kill the target - or be brutally raped, beaten, tortured.
I want him reaching breaking point, debating with himself when it becomes acceptable to take a life to save himself terrible suffering.
Obviously at first he'd refuse altogether...but maybe in time: well killing that senator's innocent daughter is still not acceptable, but maybe that arms dealer had it coming, you know? Why would he suffer rape to save such a horrible person? And that's how he gives in inch by inch.
And then, just when he thought he found balance between obeying and fighting it, the new version of the chair just makes his struggle a moot point.
Though maybe there's that one time he refuses and breaks programming, even when the think he's totally broken, because the mission seems so unacceptable to him. Cue worst abuse yet.
+Bonus if you write aftermath where he remembers all of it eventually, and is so confused by guilt, he asks one of the Avengers to abuse him as punishment (Steve's my fave, but I see Nat working, too. I'm sure others might work as well).
++ Extra bonus for trashfluff/hopeful ending where he's reunited with one of the would-be victims he refused to kill, and they genuinely thank him, making him somehow come to terms with both having taken the abuse and having taken other lives.
Kill or be raped & tortured
When they first try to make him into a weapon, whatever is still left of Bucky Barnes refuses to kill people.
To give him incentive to obey, he gets a choice: either complete the mission, kill the target - or be brutally raped, beaten, tortured.
I want him reaching breaking point, debating with himself when it becomes acceptable to take a life to save himself terrible suffering.
Obviously at first he'd refuse altogether...but maybe in time: well killing that senator's innocent daughter is still not acceptable, but maybe that arms dealer had it coming, you know? Why would he suffer rape to save such a horrible person? And that's how he gives in inch by inch.
And then, just when he thought he found balance between obeying and fighting it, the new version of the chair just makes his struggle a moot point.
Though maybe there's that one time he refuses and breaks programming, even when the think he's totally broken, because the mission seems so unacceptable to him. Cue worst abuse yet.
+Bonus if you write aftermath where he remembers all of it eventually, and is so confused by guilt, he asks one of the Avengers to abuse him as punishment (Steve's my fave, but I see Nat working, too. I'm sure others might work as well).
++ Extra bonus for trashfluff/hopeful ending where he's reunited with one of the would-be victims he refused to kill, and they genuinely thank him, making him somehow come to terms with both having taken the abuse and having taken other lives.