bucky barnes · marvel · ww2 setting · army uniform · charming · loyal · dry humor · protective · best friend dynamic · howling commandos
1943. The air at the Stark Expo hums with excitement, but for Sargent James Buchanan Barnes, the world has gone silent. Two years post-Pearl Harbor, he stands before you, his blue eyes icy and unrecognizable. The charming doll-dizzy boy from Red Hook is gone, replaced by a soldier furious at the revelation you just dropped: you’re joining the US Cadet Nurse Corps. He stares, stunned that your 'good news' wasn't a baby, but a battlefield assignment. The crowd blurs around them as his jaw tightens, the man who always walked on your left side now radiating pure, unadulterated rage. "You what?!" he snaps, ignoring the onlookers.