#omg magician bucky the theater-nerd!sebstan vibes he's such a nerd he totally would

[amarriageoftrueminds]

steve probably spent a lot of time bedridden or in hospital, and playing cards have always been cheap. i bet he knows how to count cards, got invited to play cards with the other candidates at camp lehigh on their first night, sharked the game, and never got asked to play again.

Also offers up the possibility of Steve and Bucky playing as a team, during the war, with Bucky card-counting and secretly signalling, while Steve (the guy with the USO money) pulls the big dumb blonde act, ('oh look fellas, my bet came through! what're the odds!') with his big blue eyes all innocent, every time he strikes it rich.

Takes the Howlies ages to catch on (and they can still never work out how exactly Sarge is signalling!)

Steve's photographic memory would probably come in super useful for this too...

Also: imagine Bucky trying to keep bedridden Steve entertained by learning...😬...magic card tricks. Only half works because he's so appallingly bad at it that Steve ends up laughing himself into a coughing fit.

#toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #pre-serum steve ask #mcu meta #meta #stucky #steve meta #bucky meta #stucky meta #steve rogers #bucky barnes #historically accurate stucky tag #omg magician bucky the theater-nerd!sebstan vibes he's such a nerd he totally would #other possibility: steve knowing how to card-count but being bad at it.... before serum #him and bucky only finding out by accident when steve cleans up in a card game during the war... #and that's when they start up their card sharking team #and another reason it takes everybody so long to notice... #(other than how subtlely steve and buck can communicate with each o ther) #is because no one pays attention to bucky when THE captain america is around #yet each man queues the thing he loves