Oh, this is interesting; you're implying Bucky gets to choose when to record, which I hadn't gotten from the prompt but sort of like. There's a level of hidden horror to it: any of his recorded rapes must, to be in the footage at all, have been when he was too out of it, overwhelmed, injured, drugged, or unconscious to turn off visuals, so how disturbing must those rapes have been to him? Plus: who knows what happened to him when the cameras were off?
I do also like the idea that Hydra chooses when to turn the camera on and off, for the implication that someone is watching this happen and choosing to record it.
But also yes, totally, Bucky is so horrified that Steve knows. It's one thing if someone knows you were raped, worse if they saw video, and another level of worse entirely if that video was from INSIDE YOUR OWN EYEBALL. Think about the total lack of privacy! If Bucky stared at a cockroach the whole time to distract himself, if he teared up, if he was instructed to watch the action between his legs and not blink and he followed those orders, if he ran his hands over his body afterward trying to figure out what gentle touch feels like, Steve knows all that.
Re: HYDRA puts a camera in Bucky's eye
I do also like the idea that Hydra chooses when to turn the camera on and off, for the implication that someone is watching this happen and choosing to record it.
But also yes, totally, Bucky is so horrified that Steve knows. It's one thing if someone knows you were raped, worse if they saw video, and another level of worse entirely if that video was from INSIDE YOUR OWN EYEBALL. Think about the total lack of privacy! If Bucky stared at a cockroach the whole time to distract himself, if he teared up, if he was instructed to watch the action between his legs and not blink and he followed those orders, if he ran his hands over his body afterward trying to figure out what gentle touch feels like, Steve knows all that.