#elastics

Once the former Winter Soldier started to wear his long hair in a ponytail more regularly, it became a regular habit for him to wear hair elastics around his wrists most of the time. Bucky saw someone else flick a person with a hair elastic, and he decided it would be a great way to tease people. And then he figured out that hair elastics and rubber bands have great potential as deadly weapons. To Steve Rogers, it was hard to not be reminded of Bucky’s days as a sniper for the Howling Commandos. To Sam Wilson, it was a headache. Wanda, Natasha, and Bucky regularly share hair elastics with each other (and they are all well-groomed enough that lice are not an issue, Nat wishes he would wash his hair more but she doesn’t say anything.) Bucky teaches the girls how to shoot hair elastics in combat, but neither of them are nearly as good as he is.