I think a poor kid on the Lower East Side might already be alienated from the ways that Catholic Charities behaved there during the Depression.
How would I handle it? Huh. I think I would make him less innocent and more repressed--but that's based on my sense of the period, not on knowing any more of the canon than this one movie. In my reading of the film, he cares a lot about self-control and doing things for the team. His attitude toward Tony has to have done a complete 180 in the wake of his valor in battle.
I'd probably write the story from Tony or whomever's POV and let them observe him from the outside and fail to understand, because that way you can get maximal slash misunderstanding jollies out of the fic. (Even if I put Steve with Natasha, I would still write it as comradely bromance slash--except that she clearly has that with Hawkeye in this picture.) I would have Steve eventually reveal his feelings in some way. Perhaps he could expect that his male partner would eventually find a woman to love, and that he has to be cool with that? Except then he's really not and is awkward and stuff?
Couldn't Captain America have had a thing with his sidekick Bucky back in the day anyway?
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Date: 2012-05-14 02:51 am (UTC)How would I handle it? Huh. I think I would make him less innocent and more repressed--but that's based on my sense of the period, not on knowing any more of the canon than this one movie. In my reading of the film, he cares a lot about self-control and doing things for the team. His attitude toward Tony has to have done a complete 180 in the wake of his valor in battle.
I'd probably write the story from Tony or whomever's POV and let them observe him from the outside and fail to understand, because that way you can get maximal slash misunderstanding jollies out of the fic. (Even if I put Steve with Natasha, I would still write it as comradely bromance slash--except that she clearly has that with Hawkeye in this picture.) I would have Steve eventually reveal his feelings in some way. Perhaps he could expect that his male partner would eventually find a woman to love, and that he has to be cool with that? Except then he's really not and is awkward and stuff?
Couldn't Captain America have had a thing with his sidekick Bucky back in the day anyway?