[ SECRET POST #4197 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4197 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. https://i.imgur.com/y2hyROQ.png

[(Anonymous)]

Hm. How does it feel to be so wrong on so many levels?

[(Anonymous)]

I swear to god, the Bucky fangirls on this comm get more butthurt defensive than any others.

[(Anonymous)]

How does it feel to be so arrogant about an opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

It just feels old-fashioned to me, which is probably the point.

[(Anonymous)]

It reminds me of the Yankees, which isn't great, but what can you do

[el_regrs]

I'm not sure if it's that it seems out of place in the 21st century, or that after becoming the Winter Soldier, he doesn't really look like a Bucky anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

It's one of the few ties he has to his old self, though. Especially since Steve always called him that and Steve is the only person left who knew him before the whole brainwashing thing happened. I'd imagine it would be important to him as a way of reclaiming his identity at least.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the character was created in the 40s, where I assume it was more common.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not that weird of a nickname, whether or not you like it

[(Anonymous)]

It has a wikipedia entry so it isn't that weird.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. People finding things weird is subjective and totally up to them. It's like arguing that someone CAN'T dislike chocolate because chocolate is delicious.

[(Anonymous)]

Bucky may or may not be a normal nickname, but it sure as fuck sounds dumb.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because it's societally associated with poor people

[(Anonymous)]

I don't love it either, OP. I like to think that he had these cute little buckteeth as a boy, and that was partly why his family/friends called him Bucky as opposed to Jim, Jimmy, Jamie, Buck, Barney, JB, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

HAHAHA! I don't care too much about the Avengers (too much AMERICAH, FFUCK YEAH!"), but I keep reading Stucky just because there's so much of it laying around and it's angsty longfic which I love, so I have never gotten why he was called Bucky until now. I though it was some weird short form for James.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, you've been reading fanfiction - like, large amounts of fanfiction - about James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, and you never realised where the nickname came from?
...you're slower than a snail in a tar pit, huh.

[soldatsasha]

It is a pretty dumb nickname. Like he's a buck-toothed cartoon character with a silly voice straight out of 1940. But I like the contrast of the big bad scary Winter Soldier, who's name is fucking Bucky.

[philstar22]

That's okay, OP. You do you. Personally, I like it a lot. I don't want everyone calling him that. but it is adorable when Steve calls him that.

[ginainthekingsroad]

It does seem rather juvenile to me. But it's canon that's old AF, pre-dating the Winter Soldier, so what ya gonna do? Calling him anything else (in the context of his friends/colleagues) in a fic would be glaringly incorrect.

I also don't think Sebastian Stan looks like a guy called "Bucky."

[(Anonymous)]

It does seem rather juvenile to me.

I do wonder how much of that is just social change. Nicknames have really declined drastically in popularity since the 30s, 40s, 50s, and it's the kind of change that's mostly invisible to us, that we never think about.

TBH, I kind of like the fact that the character is called "Bucky" for that very reason - because it's from another time.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's totally fine. I don't know how common it is or was, but it follows the nickname convention of "shortened name + -y sound," e.g. Timmy, Jimmy, Katie, Susie, Ricky, Johnny, Missy, etc. So, "Buchanan" becomes "Buc," perform a vowel shift, then add a "-y" and you get "Bucky." I've never kniwn any Buckys, but when I first heard it, I didn't think it was weird. The character was originally a lot younger in the comics back in the day,* so maybe applying the name to an adult feels weird to a lot of people.

*Question: which is a worse idea, dressing a kid in costume and taking him to fight crime, or dressing a kid in costume and taking him to fight WWII?

Why?

[(Anonymous)]

Why is Bucky any worse than Bobby (seriously, so many adult men, fictional or real) or Jimmy (Superman, Supergirl) or Nucky (Boardwalk Empire or actual man that the character was based on) or Lucky?

[fishnchips]

I keep calling him Bucky O'Hair because every time I hear his name i get the opening song of a cartoon called "Bucky O'Hare" stuck in my head. I think i never actually watched that cartoon but for some reason i know the opening song. I think it was about a green alien rabbit who was some kind of space ranger (or something).

[(Anonymous)]

My pop's nickname was Buck, and literally everyone he knew called him that instead of his real name, right up until the day he died. He would have been born around the same time Captain America 1 was set; it's a perfectly normal nickname for that era.