This is like my third prompt this week. Forgive me for flooding the trash board. I'm just inspired.
In order to form Bucky into the Winter Soldier, Hydra doesn't only teach him the loss of bodily autonomy - they also make him associate choice and voicing anything that even remotely resembles an opinion with pain. Every time Bucky gets tortured, they give him a choice between two bad alternatives: Getting beat with fists or getting kicked in the stomach, getting whipped with a cane or a bullwhip, getting raped by one or two men, and so on. Whatever choice Bucky makes, Hydra makes sure that it's always the wrong one. They twist their words around, treat him more horribly than he could have imagined, and then insist that he's the one who asked for it in the first place. After a while Bucky starts to doubt himself so much that he asks others to chose for him and then stops giving his opinion entirely. When he's finally free from Hydra, he still struggles with basic decision making and relies on others to guide him. I hope this last bit is not wandering too close to bad guy territory: Bucky finally gets so angry about everything he went through and how much it still effects him that he goes on a revenge spree, offering his Hydra tormentors a choice between different ways to die before he kills them (or maybe he just makes them believe they're about to die and releases them after the choice is made - that's fine, too)
burden of choice
In order to form Bucky into the Winter Soldier, Hydra doesn't only teach him the loss of bodily autonomy - they also make him associate choice and voicing anything that even remotely resembles an opinion with pain. Every time Bucky gets tortured, they give him a choice between two bad alternatives: Getting beat with fists or getting kicked in the stomach, getting whipped with a cane or a bullwhip, getting raped by one or two men, and so on. Whatever choice Bucky makes, Hydra makes sure that it's always the wrong one. They twist their words around, treat him more horribly than he could have imagined, and then insist that he's the one who asked for it in the first place.
After a while Bucky starts to doubt himself so much that he asks others to chose for him and then stops giving his opinion entirely. When he's finally free from Hydra, he still struggles with basic decision making and relies on others to guide him.
I hope this last bit is not wandering too close to bad guy territory:
Bucky finally gets so angry about everything he went through and how much it still effects him that he goes on a revenge spree, offering his Hydra tormentors a choice between different ways to die before he kills them (or maybe he just makes them believe they're about to die and releases them after the choice is made - that's fine, too)