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I made a Guide to Bucky as an Amputee (link will be in a reblog because Tumblr is not working with me today...)

I do not have a limb difference so it's all based on research I've done myself and there is no personal experience on my hand. But since so many writers seem to not know where to start when it comes to Bucky as an amputee I thought I might as well share what I've found over the years...

As I also state in the document itself, this is merely a beginner's guide, I implore you to do your own additional research too!

Sure, he's having a mid-year student join his class, and aside from the medical complications he'd need to be abreast of— kids move districts every year. Every now and then, you'll get a kid halfway through, who comes in with no warning, so he's not surprised.

So aside from that small and insignificant detail, he's having a normal, everyday Thursday. Then he gets the student's name, and his whole world tilts a little to the left.

Claire Gentry.

This is... okay. This is fine. He can deal with this. He's an adult. Ryland Grace, who used to be Riley Gentry, does, in fact, know that people can have the same last names. He'd once had five Johnsons in the same class with him. That had been an interesting year. So, okay. The new kid's got part of his old deadname. No big deal. He can separate his childhood baggage from his duty as a teacher.

So Grace is having a normal day. Aside from that small shock of seeing his new student's name, he can comport himself and get a wriggle on, as it were.

Besides, he needs to get in contact with Claire's parent to talk about this medical issue anyway. That should take his mind off everything.

Okay. Okay. Let's look and see where her parent's contact info is, right; he looks, and he sees, and—

It sits there like a stain, like the piece of his father's brain embedding itself into the wall, into his line of sight. Looking at it is like drowning all over again, like breathing all over again, like being eight years old and almost dying all over again.

Courtland Gentry

With that same stupid swirl he’d do at the end of his y’s.

Ryland Grace is no longer having a normal day. He may have been having a normal day five seconds ago, currently he’s having a panic attack and possibly definitely needs to call Colt. Just a normal Thursday— and excuses language— his fucking ass.

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Six is currently having a normal thursday, which is weird because usually his thursdays involve, you know, killing people and not dying. Which is currently extremely disconcerting. Who knew getting shot at 24/7 for eighteen years of your life would have dramatic effects on your brain chemistry and ideas of normality?

Crippling PTSD aside, the reason he's having a normal Thursday is one of the reasons he's trying to no longer have to run and fight for his life. Despite what Claire may think about the glamorous life of being a spy, the best way to disappear into a crowd is to appear normal. It worked mostly the same with laying low.

Get yourself an all-American dream life: a picket fence— or, in their case, a single father in a one-bedroom apartment, with Six taking the couch— an out-of-the-way menial job that pays the bills— thats currently working on film sets as a grunt— change your look and make sure your kid goes to school on time.

Courtland Gentry had, once upon a time, been dead, but it's surprisingly easier to resurrect someone than it is to kill them.

It's a little dicey, putting Claire in public school, but if Six is good at anything, he's good at his job. Good enough that he's currently doing background checks on every single one of the teachers. Good enough that he's already scoped the place out. He already knows the inside gossip. He knows that the principal is cheating on his wife with the cafeteria lady.

But not good enough evidently, to figure out one Dr. Ryland Grace.

Oh, he had everything up until the doctor part, but his childhood and teenage years? A big fat blank, like someone had gone through and scrubbed everything aside from the essentials.

It's a little mystery. Definitely stinks of government meddling of some kind. So where the hell had this guy come from? Witness protection isn't much of his business. What is his business is making sure Claire is okay. And this little mystery is currently making him rethink settling in this district. But Claire has a San Francisco accent, knows the area, and can better absorb into the culture here. And there are only so many places for two white Americans to hide, one without training to boot. So Six will keep an eye on this Ryland Grace, and if anything goes pear-shaped, well, at least he'll have an idea of the first weak point.

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What Six has failed to remember; or is currently not even considering, because he would never consider his own siblings in a situation like this— is that, once upon a time, Courtland Gentry made a deal with a man. Not just for himself, but for his siblings: his sister and his brother. That nothing could be connected back to him in any way. That there would be no failsafes and no weak lines leading into his past. That Courtland Gentry, even if someone found out who he was, would never, ever lead them to his siblings.

So Fitzroy made some deals with people who are now dead or retired, and Colton Gentry and then Riley (but soon to change) Gentry were adopted by a sweet couple and subsequently disappeared from Courtland's past. It didn't matter much because Courtland died soon after. And Six considered it his penance. For his siblings' safety, he would never find out who they became or where they were. Just a nod from Fitz every once in a while to let him know they were okay. He didn't know that Colton went by Colt exclusively and had changed his last name to his stage name Seavers. That Riley had transitioned to Ryland and gone by their adoptive parents' last name, Grace.

ryland comes home to their father waterboarding colt and he doesn't know how long this has been going on but colt is drenched and choking and if he doesn't get colt out of their father's hands now, he's not sure if—

he's moving before he's aware of it. but he's not moving to where their father is about to murder his brother. no, he's going upstairs and into their father's room—a bedside drawer that really only has one thing in it

their father yells something at colt (still somehow oblivious to ryland's presence) and pulls colt's head back under the running water and ryland's right arm is so heavy but he tries to keep it steady—

vaguely, he's aware that the front door opened and their father finally turning around—

ryland recoils from the force of it, his ears are ringing

the hand around colt loosens and then two bodies hit the floor

then there's a hand on his and he instinctively grips the gun tighter—a face appears in front of him, similar to his own but a little older

court. it's court who's trying to take the gun from him and so ryland lets him. court's mouth is moving but ryland can't make anything of it, he's just aware that court is wiping down the gun with his shirt before he fits it into his own hand

he pushes ryland towards colt who's still gasping and wheezing but alive

you are eight years old and your father is drowning your twin brother in the bathtub. theres only one way you can think to get him to stop, to save your brother. by the end, you still lose a brother, just not the one you thought you would, its your fault, because you were too much of a coward (you were so small, just a third grader younger than the kids you teach now, you were a kid) to take responsibility for your actions

Anyways, all this to say a lot of you guys are mischaracterizing Court. Yes he is a strong stoic guy with blood on his hands, but he’s also got a sense of humor. This guy is funny and sassy, he loves cracking a good witty jokes in the middle of a fight. His humor is a little more subtle and on the nose compared to Colt or Ryland, but it’s there. Please please please add some humor into your Court scenes!

uhh obligatory minor spoiler warning for

Starting this off… the names is funny courtland and ryland both have ‘land’ in it and court and colt are similar.., they’re brother your honor

court is the oldest (by 3-5 years), while colt and ryland are twins (whose older, up to you)

their father. Highest grade dick. One of the most bastardized bastards to ever fucking exist on the plain of earth

(According to the movie) court was 15 when he shot his father, and 8 years later (when he was 23) he got recruited into the sierra program

think it would be funny if court was slighter smaller than colt and ryland (bc in the book he is 5’11” while gosling is 6’)

(This is if the brothers ever united…) courtland has grown detached from his name that he can forget to respond to it when the twins use it, he’s not used to being addressed like that, its always been just a number

Court witnessed a lot of things (ryland graduating college, colts stunt works and even watching movies he stunted for, etc etc) from afar bc he was afraid of them being used as leverage

after Ryland got fired, Colt was right there to support him, lots of movie marathons and myb ice cream as well

Colt has prescriptions contacts instead of glasses, he says he doesnt wanna look nerdy

colt name is colton 🤷

Ryland found out abt Colt’s accident while he was teaching in class, Court found out while he was out of the country on a job

Colt also has chronic pain from the accident

Ryland annoyed (cared for) colt and checked in on him a lot, took at least 3 month off to help him and was couch surfing (which means he was doing sub plans for 3 weeks)

Colt, fucking hated that, he hated the vulnerability and he hated feeling like a burden and taking his brother away from his (shit) paying job

Ryland throws most of his money into his classroom, his students

If colt visits ryland, they always stop at the diner that ryland is a regular at

all of them, chronic coffee drinkers, Ryland is sweet asf, Colt does black (when its brewed, he drinks, heat be damned), Court just drinks whatever’s available, sweet, black, doesnt matter

Ryland at least knows Latin, Colt knows French and probably spanish… Court probably lost count of the languages he knows, picked up a lot working

they are all on the spectrum, one way or another (fucking courland ‘im talked out, lets go gentry’ gentry and those mf with their thumbs up)

colt would prob be bi or smth, aroace ryland (tried at least one relationship) and court forgot that those were a thing (as stated, he got incarcerated when he was 15)… so probably aroace as well

This is all i got for now… :)))))

searching for a memory

Grace will never know that Court takes care of a little girl. Court will never be able to check up on him secretly ever again.

He doesn’t even realize what happened at first, because he’s too busy to watch the news. All he knows is that Ryland’s apartment has been empty for months. When he does, it’s hell on Earth. He very nearly murders Stratt, until she reminds him that if the beetles come back to her, they will be under her jurisdiction. If he ever wants to see whether his brother was okay up there, he had to leave her alive. He does so, but he makes it clear that if he is not informed the millisecond the beetles are back, she’s dead.

Colt still shows up on set every day, but everyone can tell that something’s off. He’s lost that devil-may-care attitude. He tells everyone who will listen (mostly Jody and Dan) about how much of a hero that his little brother was. Most people didn’t even know he had siblings.

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

SHE NEVER QUITS!!!!

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Advances in weaponry meant that, for the first time, men were coming home from war with literally half their faces blown off, on a regular basis. This was not only traumatic— there were cases of men cancelling engagements or being afraid to see their families, because of their disfigurements— but also caused problems with every day tasks like speaking and eating, in which your face plays a pretty key role.

Gillies arranged for a whole ward, and later a hospital, to be dedicated to the treatment of these men, and took steps to ensure that all soldiers who received these kinds of injuries on the battlefield would be sent to him directly. He developed methods for applying skin grafts so that larger portions of the face could be repaired.

He continued his work treating wounded soldiers throughout WW1 and WW2, and when both wars were ended— just in case he hadn't done enough to establish himself as a full on hero— he was then approached by a medical student named Michael Dillon, a trans man, and was able to use the same techniques he'd developed to reconstruct the penises of wounded soldiers to give him a phalloplasty. The first one ever performed on a trans man. He even diagnosed the guy with a condition to explain the frequent operations, so as to avoid outing him.

Dillon later wrote a book about trans-ness, which inspired Roberta Cowell, who became the first British transwoman to get a vaginoplasty, also performed by Gillies.