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1) Has a favorite person whom he spends almost all of his time interacting with

2. He loves back pats (Natasha gives him back pats, Bucky gives him back pats, Steve gives ppl back pats)

3. Spends a lot of his time alone, in the quiet, in sun spots, curled up somewhere

3.5. On this note! Steve spends a lot of his time alone and in social situations where there are multiple people, he sticks to the fringes and is still pretty quiet, though he does interact alot with his FAVORITE. PEOPLE! Cat!! Thats what cats do!!

4. WHEN hes SAD he GOES AWAY and SULKS BY HIMSELF

5. Stubborn! Cats are not controllable animals, they are very independent and strong-willed...yknow who else is!?!?

6. Throws himself from tall places

7. ......look at him. He is literally a cat.

IN CONCLUSION.....STEVE ROGERS IS A CATBOY

A CATBOY I SAY!!!!

"Bucky had an enormous family," Steve explained with a cheerful blitheness that Natasha immediately saw for what it was: a front, a distraction to let Barnes collect himself. "He had his Ma and his Dad and three sisters, and then you had two uncles there living with you—your mother's brothers, right? Younger brothers?" and Barnes jerked a nod. "Right, and then your Grandma in the basement apartment—so there were nine of you in that house," and Natasha immediately understood what Steve was telling her: that James Buchanan Barnes had been brought up as a social animal, and was still a social animal, in a way that Steve, for all his nearly luminescent goodness, was not. There was something distant about Steve, some essential apartness—and that was maybe one of the ways in which she and Steve were alike, Natasha realized. They were family-deprived scrappers, lone survivors. Steve's aloofness was somehow key to his strength, which was more like the beaten-down toughness of an alley cat than—

She had to bite her lip, hard, to keep from smiling. Steve Rogers was an alley cat...and James Barnes was the sort of person who'd open a window for a stray, give it a saucer of milk and a home in the shop. And Steve—introverted, aloof, go-it-alone Steve—was a guy who loved his goddamned dogs: animals that were social, obedient, useful—loyal and so terrifyingly trainable. And that thought chased away any desire to smile.

This blew me the fuck away. Bucky is a dog! The "terrifyingly trainable" part is a reference to his past as the Winter Soldier! (Also, Bucky does have a cat in this series, a cat he calls Shop Cat and insists is just there for catching mice, but when he needs comfort he seeks her out and holds her.)

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such a thing as "Pirkantha" doesn't exist. Pirkanmaa does, though

google translator still not managing well with Finnish-to-English translations

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