if the mcu wasn’t scared of body horror and addressing trauma then bucky would have WAY more scars (such as more scarring on his face from his mask and from his brain literally being fried for decades), selective mutism, and a bunch of medications on his table
obsessed with the headcanon that sam found bucky sometime during aou and deliberately didn’t tell steve until he knew what bucky wanted. which feels SO sam to me bcs steve was looking for his best friend but sam was thinking about the traumatized man being hunted