so this is likeā¦ one of the first times, if not the first time the mansion is destroyed in comics. and not like, a wall is knocked down, but having major structural damage with parts of the actual floor missing. and this is all from a fight with some villains baron zemo gathered, all with the purpose of hurting the avengers, but steve most of all because he killed zemoās father.
and this is justā¦ heart-wrenching. i mean, steve didnāt grow up with a lot. his mom pretty much supported the both of them by herself. and then he joined the army and pretty much didnāt keep a lot then either, because he was constantly on the move, going to the front lines. then he dies, and who knows what happens to his belongings, because thereās no one to ship them toāso more than a few of them, i imagine, end up in a museum, or bought and sold in auctions for collectors. so when steve comes back, he pretty much has only the things he was wearingāhis ripped to shreds army fatigues, his cap uniform, and his shield.
so anything of his he had from beforeā¦ if it was in a museum, he probably couldāve requested it back, and he mightāve pulled a few things, but not everything, especially with the classification of his missions and identity, a lot of the things in the museums were probably general captain america things. the army probably held onto his things bc hoarding is the biggest government guilty pleasure, a portion of them classified, again, for being about steve rogers and capās missions, and he probably got all or most of that back upon waking. and then thereās all the things that went to auction, to varying degrees of sentimental, but like. once itās at auction, thereās not a ton you can do to get it back aside from buying it. whichā¦ he has no money. which probably means that like. tony had to buy it back for him.
so all the things he has hereātheyāre mementos, but theyāre important to steve. heās had to work, in one way or another, to get them back. all his earthly belongings, all the ties he had to his memories, boiled down to the contents of one room. that was it. pictures of his friends, old journals filled with his thoughts, clippings of his and buckyās adventuresāall of it, all the good things he loved about his life, gone. gone.
and itās irreplaceable, right? he canāt replace a picture of his mother. sheās dead. and sure, he could tape it back together, but now every time he looks at it, heās going to see zemo ripping it in half all over again. and what about next time? is thisāare his belongingsāgoing to keep being used against him every time a fight comes to the mansion? likeā¦ itās no wonder that after this, steve doesnāt reallyā¦ nest, anywhere else. his bedrooms are all rather plain and functionalāi think the most iāve seen are some pictures of friends, or a few posters, but never to the extent that he had here. i think this makes him so afraid to personalize things again that he justā¦ doesnāt. he canāt handle the loss.
