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Bucky teases Steve before the kiss so that he will take Bucky by force

I thought, what if...what if Bucky got to another universe where Steve didn't leave?

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Ive been thinking about the peer pressure line lately. People often take it at face value, seeing it as Stu saying he really was peer pressured by Billy.

Personally I've always taken this line as sarcasm/ a joke, but I think we can get a little more understanding about Stu's meaning from it's context in the original script, where another line has been cut:

Here when Billy talks about a motive he's not necessarily talking about his real personal reasons for doing it, he's specifically talking about the story he's going to tell in court as a defence if he's caught.

Later, after Sidney escapes she asks Stu for his motive- not in the context of his personal reasons for doing it, but in the context of what he's going to tell the cops:

So when Stu answers here he's not telling her what his personal motivations are, he's telling her the story he's going to give the police.

In the movie Billy's lines about how he's going to use his story in court is cut, but Sid's line here is barely changed; she asks Stu what he's going to tell the police and he tells her. Peer pressure.

okay!:3

This is really hard to answer honestly. I think it would be easy to say that it's Billy, he's the gaslighter with the long term overblown revenge plot. The way I write him he also repeatedly pushes Stu away and hurts his feelings because he won't deal with his own issues. He sees people as pawns for the most part.

Stu is bad in his own way, though. Billy had this very personal, emotional motivation but Stu doesn't need that to be every bit as cruel and violent. I think he passes as normal better than Billy does, he has the social skills for it. That convinces a lot of people that he's just a fun, silly dude, but at the end of the day if Billy wanted him to he'd slaughter almost all of them. There's something about his lack of personal motivation that makes some of what he does a little worse.

I also think he's possessive and vindictive in his own way. The way I wrote him he was pissed enough to kill Casey and Steve not because he still wanted Casey, but because he doesn't like it when people take things that he thinks he owns. Even if he doesn't really care much about those things.