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Steve Rogers never got a chance to talk about his trauma and heal, man. He woke up from that freezer nap and immediately got sent to war and jumped at the chance so he didn’t have to Deal because who would want to think about losing their entire world, everything they’ve ever known in the blink of an eye? He looked out at the new world, thought ‘man this sucks’, and didn’t look back, just kept jumping from war to war to war until he was facing down his own friends. Steve Rogers went off to war in his early twenties and didn’t come back and I think about that a lot.

Adding on to this—it’s really sad. He woke up and the world needed Captain America but they didn’t think about Steve Rogers. They needed the uniform and they overlooked the man who wore it. They needed the war hero and his strength but they forgot about the kid from Brooklyn and his heart. They forgot that he’s a person and he needed to grieve and now it’s too late.