trickster-laufeyson: “He’s been out of cryo-freeze too long.”….just putting

trickster-laufeyson:“He’s been out of cryo-freeze too long.”….just putting these here to point out the fact that, when the technician says this, Bucky has only been out of cryo - at absolute most, a matter of maybe three or so days….certainly not anything more than that.  So what this means is that when the tech says that even that limited amount of time is apparently “too long”, that clearly it’s really not any amount of time at all, when Bucky is thawed out from cryo for one reason, one Misison or another, before he starts to go haywire and his behaviour becomes increasingly unstable and erratic - when, presumably, he’s clearly starting to have flashes, moments of reawakened awareness or humanity….when he’s proving that much more difficult for HYDRA to handle, I should think, simply because once he’s thawed out it’s evidently very little time at all to when he’s starting to display actual, genuine behaviour - not just programming anymore - and, hence, when he’s maybe showing only ever more the signs of being fundamentally Bucky in there….struggling, fighting to get out, to be heard, to be free, and above even all else, just to remember.Not much time at all then, seems like, given for example what the tech says here and what it seems very much to indicate, for HYDRA’s programming and severe, excruciating, intensive brainwashing to start to break down, and for their control over him to begin to fray.  If this kind of thing happens even in the course of just days - obviously only heightened that much and really the whole process was only sped up to substantial degree, of course, what with his encounter with Steve on the bridge, and that stubborn, dogged, heartbreaking persistence, that pure and childlike simplicity when he keeps saying, “I *knew* him,” even aware of the inevitable and torturous consequences - then what this in turn, at least to me, seems to signify is that…if you think about it….over the past seventy-plus years….Bucky spent more time IN cryo than OUT OF IT.In other words, over seventy years, he spent more time cold, frozen, unknowing and immobile, trapped behind steel and glass, helplessly looking out at the world and vainly reaching out to it before that, too, was taken from him and his entire existence turned to frost and ice and bleak, black nothing….so much more time in that prison, that awful and horrendous tomb….than ever he was granted out of it.Maybe he was thawed out for, what, half a day’s time, a day or two or so, depending on how long any given Mission might take - but much more time than that and things would obviously start to break down, HYDRA’s control over him would start to fray or show signs of cracking or instability….there would, it seems apparent, be flaws….and so they would take him, and prison him right back in cryo again, barely giving him really any time at all out in the world, able to look out at it and breathe actual air in at least *some* form or fashion (not, of course, actual “freedom” by ANY definition of the word, but - *still*-!) - before they put him on ice all over again.For almost the entirety of seventy years, seventy full years, he was entombed in ice, again and again and again….and I know it could be said that Steve himself suffered similar fate, but for Bucky, of course, it was naught but continuous and repeated torture….because each and every time he was awake, fully conscious and aware of what was coming and how he couldn’t stop it - staring out, vainly and helplessly reaching out a hand, as the prickling, burning frost crawled over and under his skin….as they froze him whole, and alive.Every time, they shoved him in the tomb for goodness only knows how long - months, years, maybe even decades at a time….stolen from him…and so much of it because apparently even just a period of a few days’ time was enough for him to start to regain at least something, or for his behaviour - by their reckoning - to be “unstable”, erratic”, which of course could mean only one thing….that he was fighting them, that Bucky was fighting their control, that the programming was slipping….and they couldn’t, of course, have that….so endless amounts of time locked away and imprisoned in searing, burning, killing cold, and all because he would start to regain….to remember.Years and years and years taken, simply because, after even just a matter of days, that which was human, was Bucky in him, would struggle and fight and claw its way free.  It may seem a straightforward or apparent-enough concept, given his fate and the ongoing hell they put him through, but the sheer utter HORROR of it cannot, I think, possibly be overstated….! -- source link

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