hydratrashmeme | Dumpster #3: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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So I was rewatching Agents of Shield (don't need to have seen it to get this prompt, assuming I explain it well enough) and there's an early episode where they encounter this woman who has a camera embedded in her eye. Someone is controlling her by watching her through it so they see everything she sees and can send her messages by having text appear at the bottom of her vision (also there's a kill-switch in it and she can see through walls and stuff when she closes her eyes for some reason I don't remember). I immediately thought about HYDRA using a similar device to keep track of the Winter Soldier. It would be a convenient way to give him commands while he's in the field and keep an eye on him to the extant that he has absolutely zero privacy and autonomy.

The trash: I have two scenarios in mind. I am open to others, really the creep factor of watching his every move and being able to give him commands wherever he is is what's most appealing about this to me (in the episode, the team finds out what is going on with the camera after they've hacked into her video feed and watch her write the phrase "can I sleep?" on a piece of paper and I was immediately like "that is some depressing shit right there. Now make it into porn!"). One is pre-TWS, he is assigned on a honeypot mission for whatever reason and someone has to use it to actually coach him through not just interacting with people, but seducing someone and having sex with them. Like, some agent is literally instructing him on the mechanics of sex (and also probably jacking off at the same time and saving these videos for later).

Second scenario is post-TWS somebody *cough*Rumlow*cough* is still using this device to control Winter/Bucky (mentally he's still the obedient Soldier but Rumlow is coaching him to act more like human-like). Rumlow gets him to go back to Steve, ostensibly to get info but really so that Rumlow can force Bucky to initiate sex with Steve and watch while telling Bucky what to do to him (and also save those videos for later. Maybe someday share them with Steve).

What if Hydra kept all the recorded footage, and when Steve and co find video of Bucky's rapes, this time it's from Bucky's own perspective?

oh my god, anon, oh my god. what wonderful trash.

Right? Picture it -- they're examining the footage to piece together a timeline, which is difficult, because it's fragmented and non-chronological. It's all fairly difficult to watch, but Steve knows he has to do it. But then this one clip starts up, and it's just -- a wall? Bucky's staring at a concrete wall? Steve leans forward. No, it's a floor, so close to the camera Bucky must have had his face mashed into it. The grains of the concrete jump as the frame rocks, back and forth, back and forth, in a rolling rhythm. Bucky's body is jolting, like under a series of blows. Are they beating him?

Steve turns the volume up just as the frame goes still. Most of what he can hear is Bucky's breathing, fast and harsh. Under that, the chatter of male voices. Someone's laughing.

Then Bucky groans, the image swings -- Steve has a fraction of a second to take in the horde of black boots, the flash of bare legs, the grinning faces that streak past as Bucky's flipped over, and the revelation is sparking in Steve's brain even as Bucky's gaze rolls down over his own naked come-streaked body, where Rumlow is hefting Bucky's knees into his elbows --

And I think Steve would shut off the video then, but he's got such a great visual memory. Do you think he'd know exactly how many boots were in that room?

This is amazing.

I think he'd shut it off, only to turn it back on when he realizes he ~doesn't~ know how many boots are in the room, and then watch it over and over again until he can not only count, but also identify, the boots in the room.

Not that Captain America would ever put together something so base as a kill list.

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And what if it gets worse. What if a later recording just sort of starts off with grunting, and then a sweaty guy comes into view on top of Bucky, raping him, and Steve a) realizes the rape started while Bucky was unconscious and is waking up to this and b) that he just turned off visuals too damn late.

Oh, and Bucky's horrified that he knows.

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.

OP
Yeah, I wasn't thinking that he could turn it off or on, but I like that idea and what you're exploring here.
FWIW, in the AoS episode (it doesn't have to be exactly the same, it's just a jumping off point, but I just feel the need to mention), any time Akela (the woman with the camera) closed her eyes, she could still see, just everything looked like when you look at images from one of those full-body scanners at the airport: white human-shaped blobs and also somehow she could see through walls and boxes and stuff (idk but they kept saying the word "backscatter" in the episode, so whatever that is). I was thinking for Bucky this would mean he couldn't even escape what was happening by closing his eyes, he'd still see everything just without any detail.
Buuuut I do also like your idea that he has the ability to turn it off so if he didn't then he must be drugged/incapacitated in some way. I am pretty much fully on board for everything everyone's been talking about here. (Also the image of Steve watching footage of Bucky staring at a cockroach and being like "??? Is he just sitting waiting for them" and then something happens to make Steve realize what's actually going on and it's HEARTBREAKING is so perfect).

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