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Advice request for writing Bucky
Hello lovely people!
I'm still relatively new to fandom and to Bucky-love. I am currently planning out a fic that features him front and centre, but keep stumbling into a road block when trying to get Bucky's voice right.
Is anyone of you familiar enough with him to give me some pointers there? Or possibly a road-map to his personal preferences and dislikes I could perhaps build on?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!! <3
Cheers, Rnc




(This will probably not be very helpful...) I feel like it really depends, because MCU Bucky and 616 Bucky are kind of different for me... Where 616 Bucky went to fighting and killing the bad guys again very fast, MCU Bucky has been hiding and trying to not fight or kill anyone for a few years, until he was dragged back in. 616 Bucky immediately remembered everything, where MCU Bucky was slowly regaining his memory. (ophiliad already mentioned the similarities :))
That said, I don't really know how to write him either. Borrowing from comics is probably a good way though, because, well, MCU is based on them.
My biggest suggestion on how to his get his voice just right would be to go and read through some of the comics where his voice is prominently featured. Generally, everyone accepts Ed Brubaker as the best Bucky writer of all time, so start there! Sebastian Stan read all of Brubaker's Bucky comics even before The Winter Soldier came out and based his Bucky heavily off of them. (Brubaker's the one who brought Bucky back as the Winter Soldier and eventually made him Captain America!)
As far as off-the-cuff pointers for Bucky's voice, he has a very dry sense of humor, but he definitely has a sense of humor. Don't make his narrative too dry. Even after everything he's been through, he's still snarky and sarcastic. But not /too/ much. He isn't Deadpool or anything. He is deeply broken, though. At least depending on when in his timeline you're writing him. Eventually he learns to accept what happened to him, but when it's still pretty fresh, it haunts him quite a bit to the point where he makes brash decisions based on redeeming himself. He's fiercely loyal to the people he grows attached to, like Steve and Natasha and Sam.
Anyway I hope this helps, even a little!
This helps enormously! Thank you so, so much. <3 <3 <3
Really, it bears repeating: Thank you!