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OOC
Player Name: Cerie
Age: 37
Timezone: EST
What Other Characters Do You Play In This Game? N/A

IC
Character Name: Bucky Barnes
Apparent Age: 35
Actual Age: 106
Canon: MCU
Canon Point: post-FATWS
Which Deity Brought Them Here? Ceannasach - Bucky has insane control issues because of being held by HYDRA for so long that he would never, ever be able to let go of them to submit to anyone else. He would rather be in charge and control the scene to ensure that everyone enjoyed themself.
History: Depression.
Personality:

The Ghost. The Asset. Bucky is a man on a journey to rediscover who he is. Unlike Steve, who stayed frozen in ice for 70 years, Bucky was found by HYDRA and turned into the ultimate weapon. The super-soldier serum was used on him along with extensive brainwashing so that Bucky could be controlled by a set of Russian codewords and sent to complete any mission, at any cost. Between these times, he was put back on ice and Bucky has memories that he cannot place, times that he's been merely a passenger in his body while he's done horrific things. He's been the hand to turn the tide of history when things aren't going HYDRA's way - JFK assassination, murder of Howard and Maria Stark, taking out a nuclear scientist in Odessa. Horrific acts for a man who doesn't want to be horrific and it only complicates matters that each time that Bucky started waking up and questioning his programming, he'd gotten frozen again and reprogrammed. There's gaps in his mind that he doesn't think he'll ever recover and, truly, Bucky is a little afraid of what he might see.

It's getting better now. He's been recovered by the Avengers and after a stint by himself in Romania and later, in Wakanda, Bucky is starting to put together his own identity. Before HYDRA and before the war, he'd been kind of a ladies man and the consummate flirt, the smooth-talking charmer to Steve Rogers' earnest man. Some of that is still buried deep within Bucky and can come out occasionally but there's other things, dark things, that make him wary to be close to anyone. He doesn't know when someone is going to inadvertently trigger one of the land mines in his memory and he doesn't want to be responsible for hurting anyone else; he's hurt too many people and the guilt is almost too much to bear.

Bucky wants to be a force for good. When he'd first gotten orders for the Army, he'd been optimistic about his role in the war and had hoped to help America win it. Being a prisoner of HYDRA and the Nazis the first time around cured a little of that wide-eyed optimism but being a part of the Howling Commandos brought it back full force. Bucky wants to do his share in a fight and he wants to make sure the people around him are safe - even if it means pushing them away because he is the unsafe thing.

It’s about making amends now. He’s helped to save the world, sure, but that doesn’t make up for 80 years of blood on his conscience and he has to make up for every bad thing he’s ever done. When he tries to say he’s not the Winter Soldier any longer, people remind him that he is: the Smithsonian, his therapist, the people he’s trying to apologize to. He's not as fragile as he once was and he has a firmer grip on his sense of self but he still stumbles from time to time. He struggles with intimacy because he doesn't know himself, so how can he know someone else? How can he give himself over to another person when he doesn't know what there is to give? How is that fair? It’s not.

Bucky is all about control now. After so long without having control over his own mind and body, he tightly controls everything about himself from hand gestures to speech and he doesn’t give over anything lightly. Anyone who can get past the control issues will find someone with a tender heart but it’s been wrapped in barbed wire to keep everyone away.

Appearance: Dark hair, blue eyes, vibranium arm. Can’t miss him.

How Do You Think They'll React to Being In Parthas?

He will absolutely despise it. This man is about control issues, all day, and the idea that he can’t control where he’s living or his own body’s arousal is going to make him angry as hell. If someone is willing to dig in and do the work, they can get him to unwind a little and honestly, it would be good for him. Very good for him. Bucky hasn’t had a significant relationship with anyone since the 1940s so it’s about time he can be with someone and not have to worry about hurting them or getting hurt. It will take some work for him to acclimate but he’ll adapt because he adapts to everything.

Sample(s)?

TDM here

Anything Else?

Bucky is a super soldier with delayed aging, enhanced strength, enhanced agility, and a healing factor. His left arm is made of vibranium, which is the toughest metal in the MCU and is undetectable by a metal detector. It's not removable except by Wakandans, so it wouldn't be removable in game. He also more than likely has at least ONE knife on him because he doesn't trust anyone.