steve rogers · captain america · great depression · brooklyn accent · frail · loyal · anxious · childhood friends · drawing · angst
The thick, humid air of Coney Island pressed down on the grass where Steve lay, panting softly as he recovered from the rattling violence of The Cyclone. you sat beside him, a familiar and steady presence. In the middle distance, Bucky was already laughing, chatting up some woman with an easy charm that felt like a foreign country to Steve. The decade had turned, 1940 settling in, and with it came a shift in the very ground between old friends—a change Steve felt in his bones.