#and it's because steve just eg. made a dick joke but nobody else except bucky noticed

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Steve went from idiots who see him before serum patronisingly thinking 'oh that poor sweet angelic disabled man, so well behaved, but if he doesn't take female attention well it obviously must be because he's inexperienced, so pitiful.'

To idiots seeing him after serum thinking 'oh look at that manly adonis, embodiment of good clean christian american values, not a hair out of place* must be in want of a wife!'

But so far from being repressed and well-behaved, like everyone expects Captain America to be, Steve is constantly misbehaving, being sarcastic, and cracking dry witty jokes with a straight face.

Because he knows people will either not notice or simply cannot compute that Captain America really just said/did that.

(They either tell themselves they imagined it, or that that poor sweet innocent musclehead doesn't understand what he just said could be read another way. 😔)

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*as if dressing respectably is his personal choice when he's in the Army, where neatness is literally enforced, and is expected to be able to take publicity shots at the drop of a hat.

#steve rogers #like: captain carrot ironfoundersson but with a wicked twinkle in his eye? #when bucky comes back nobody can figure out why he keeps sighing and pinching his nose and saying '...steve' #and it's because steve just eg. made a dick joke but nobody else except bucky noticed #he is IRISH?? do you understand?? #ppl convincing themselves that the reason captain america seems strangely blind to the overt passes they keep making at him... #...MUST be because he's so pure and innocent and meatheaded; not that he's deliberately treating them like they simply don't matter #steve casually snubbing rude people in such a polite captain america way they're not even sure if they've actually been snubbed #rude idiot: captain america's so dim-witted I just insulted him like 20 times and he didn't even react?! #steve: 🙂 *has already insulted them a hundred times to their face but they're just too stupid to notice*