Bucky Barnes ☆ adorable trainwreck manpain

The ground falls out beneath you. You're in midair, you're surrounded by swirling clouds, and there's nowhere stable to put your feet. The space between your body and the turbulence around you feels poorly defined as well; where do you end and your surroundings begin? Is there a stable you in the first place?

This was a hint to a few things.

But eventually--

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The ground falls out beneath you. You're in midair, you're surrounded by swirling clouds, and there's nowhere stable to put your feet. The space between your body and the turbulence around you feels poorly defined as well; where do you end and your surroundings begin? Is there a stable you in the first place?

But eventually--

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About those comics. They are hard to get into and frequently stupid. So what do you do?

I'm going to provide some recommendations and links for comics featuring Bucky Barnes as he was revived and reinvented almost ten years ago, just in case anyone is curious.

( winter puns )

Name Bucky // James "Bucky" Buchanan Barnes
Age Looks to be thirty or so. Chronologically he's pushing ninety, but he's spent most of that time in stasis.
Team Onyx

Height/Build 5'9" and buff as hell.
Hair Color/Eye Color Brown hair, brown eyes.
Notable Traits His left arm from the shoulder down is metal, with a large white star in a red and blue circle just below the shoulder. Other than that, he basically looks like a grown-up Boy Scout! Casually handsome, in a boy-next-door sort of way, and wholesome. He wears the outfit you can see in that image: a kind of commando-looking black get-up with utility belts and one sleeve. At this point, there are generally some pouches and a couple of holstered and sheathed combat knives on the belts, but that's about it. Also, despite some of his icons, he does not generally wear a domino mask in Aather. He does have a tattoo of a black rose on his neck below his right ear, as Maleficent's favor.

Other General. Aside from his left arm, Bucky appears to be a normal human to most senses. Close physical investigation might reveal that his aging has been temporarily drastically slowed; close psychic investigation might reveal that at some point in the past he was subjected to intensive brainwashing which is no longer in effect. As for the mechanical arm. His metal arm is actually made to detach fairly easily from a socket built into his left shoulder. The neural connections and related machinery are all built into that socket, and the arm itself can actually be operated remotely (although he doesn't yet have that skill back) if it's detached. Comic book science.