Someone wrote in [community profile] hydratrashmeme 2018-06-05 05:45 pm (UTC)

"not that bad" gaslighting

One of Bucky's attackers (Rumlow? Pierce? I'm open to anyone) makes a point of letting him know just how gentle, merciful, restrained etc they're being - while actually being quite violent. For example - "I'm going easy on you," "You're lucky it's me and not someone else," "Why are you crying when I'm being so sweet to you?" etc.

+ Doing "nice" things during the otherwise violent rape(s), like stroking Bucky's hair, wiping away tears, using pet names, cleaning him up afterwards

+ It's an ongoing thing, and Bucky really does start to feel like it's not that bad, that he should be grateful to this person

+ If there's a little bit of truth to the lies - In some ways, Bucky really does prefer this kind of treatment over gang rapes/outright brutality

+ Other forms of gaslighting/manipulation - "I'm only doing this because you asked for it" and/or "I'm giving you what you need/like because I'm just so nice" etc

I'm open to either WS era or post WS retraumatizing here!

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