I recently rewatched part of Endgame because the person in the airplane seat next to me had it on, and with the sound off I was struck by two things: (1) Holy shit, Steve's haircut + shirt combos make him look INCREDIBLY DOUCHEY without Evan's earnestness to soften it, and ... [sending in a second post b/c Tumblr still doesn't have functional ask character limits, *shocker*]
…(2) this movie would make so much more sense if, at the beginning of the 5 years, after they fail to fix the snap initially, Steve, in Bruce’s words, gets low. Low enough that he wishes he had another plane as an excuse. But he doesn’t, and the world needs him, so he goes and finds a magician/demigod/evil scientist/Inhuman/whatever, and asks them to take away his feelings for Bucky. All of them – romantic, sure, but also brotherly, also protective, all that Bucky has ever meant to him (2/3)
(3/3) He didn’t ask for his MEMORIES to be removed: he knows those claw their way back. But all bargains have a price, and Bucky’s central to Steve’s existence. Steve didn’t need Bucky to be a good person initially, but now SO many aspects of himself (fighting for autonomy, feeling at home in the 21st century) have deep ties to Bucky that excising all feelings for Bucky blunts those too. The anesthetized shell left is Endgame!Steve. That’s why Bucky’s so resigned: he knows Steve is already gone.
1) Steve looks incredibly douchey. Whatever they did to his hair, both color and product, makes it look like rubber, his makeup makes his skin look plastic, he looks like a wax sculpture of himself,
2) I am sexually attracted to this idea,
3) No, seriously, I love it. Somewhere along the line Steve decided he didn’t need his soul, if he were to be of any use, so he dropped it, believing it’s the right thing.
