Every. single. day. I find new things that Steve and Bucky wouldn't've known about until coming to the 21st century that is so normal and foundational to the modern understanding of our world. For instance, oh, yeah, fuck, I entirely forgot that plate tectonics theory didn't come into popularity until after the 1960s.
Can you imagine what learning about that would be like for either of them? It probably wouldn't even be thoughtfully done because their peers would take that knowledge for granted, unthinking of their ignorance. It would be slipped into conversation only for Steve or Bucky (or both if they're together) to pore over on their own.
Personally, I have the feeling that Steve would think to himself, huh, yeah, that makes sense, I guess, and all but shrug. He's felt the world move beneath him, without him, even if he wasn't conscious and it wasn't tectonics but freezing water and ocean currents that brought him to his first grave... there's something there. I baselessly feel like he would he attuned to that movement. Plus, he moves so fast himself, having had to adjust immediately, jolted into modernity to fight, no explanation given, and simply expected to catch up. If technology can leap so unfathomably far in 70 years, why can't the earth rewrite itself over millions of years?
Bucky, however, I feel would be fucking enraptured by it in the sublime sense. Awed and terrified. He is a fucking science nerd, yeah, but also, there is something parallel to him in tectonics. Something so familiar to those of us who live with it daily for the fleeting length of a human life being twisted into unrecognizability with enough time. He knows something of that. He knows what it is to be brought from a more equatorial position, tropical and lush, to the poles, frozen and barren, awaiting another shift to thaw and reveal what's really beneath.
Just—I've been cooked by stucky. Everything makes me think of them.
