Spud

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@Spud But in the end, who would the Beef cakes be without the Spud?

@Sep

Well that actually melted my heart a little x'D thanks for that Sep, almost makes the pain in my arm worth it to hear you say that x'D

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@TimeMasterX@Byrd Man We're just waiting for Natty and Spud to check your sheets, please have patience because they've both got stuff going on.

I'll get my second post up today, but Nick Fury won't be up for a while as I have a lot of duties to perform for NTB.

@Sep

Dr Strange is good to go, sorry for delays, I broke my wrist!

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Any chance this is still open? It's been a while since I last posted but I hope some of you remember me!

@TimeMasterX

*looks around*

Yeah, gowan sure!

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Underground HYDRA Bunker in Remote Serbia
5a.m. Local Time

The Winter Soldier knew cold. He knew colder than cold. He knew what it was like to be frozen, not just chilly, but iced down to the core. He'd felt the blood freeze in his veins. Not once. Not twice. Several times. Every time HYDRA pushed him into cryo, he froze right down into the depths of his bones and he felt himself thaw out every time they yanked him out again.

Any regular person would snap and lash out, refuse to be HYDRA's leftover dinner, stuffed into a freezebox for goodness knows how long until they worked up an appetite for a healthy dish of enhanced-amensiac-assassin. The Winter Soldier wasn't a regular person though. He didn't fight, he didn't resist ... he certainly screamed though. As soon as they said those words, pulled him apart from inside his own head, a shattered, strangled howl left his lungs. Even the strongest soldier couldn't suppress their agony if they endured the mental reprogramming HYDRA introduced as a "precaution". One of many fail-safes to keep the Winter Soldier under their control.

Once the piercing pain ceased, The Winter Soldier gasped for lungfuls of air, his enhanced body fighting against the pain and quickly adjusting to being "reanimated" once again after the thaw. Barely a minute had passed and the Winter Soldier was already being briefed. There was no downtime or rest period with HYDRA. When they wanted a job done, The Winter Soldier was activated and deployed as soon as possible. As soon as his work was done, he was just as quickly stuffed away, HYDRA had learned the hard way what could happen when their Asset was left out in the sun a little too long. Fortunately for them, an amnesiac with no sense of time and in a state of extreme-disorientation could be tracked down. The mission had almost been compromised and HYDRA didn't like "almost compromised" missions. That was 1973, and even after decades of flawless missions, HYDRA never forgot what happened in New York. Ever since, all of The Winter Soldiers assignments had been confined to locations outside of the United States.

Until now.

HYDRA had bigger, bolder, schemes, and the Winter Soldier had to stand back on his own native soil once again to achieve his enemies goals. His handlers hoped this time would be without incident. The brainwashing was ramped up, extra tests, extra shocks, in the months leading up to this mission. They did all they could to ensure compliance and, if their tests so far were anything to go by, they wouldn't have to worry about the Asset going rogue in New York this time.

"Good morning Soldat" the handler said, arms folded stiffly behind his back. He was vulnerable, open to an attack. If the Winter Soldier willed it, he could grab him by the throat with his bionic left arm and crush his windpipe before the Handler had time to emit a strangled scream. The Winter Soldier didn't move.

"I have an assignment for you. Infiltrate. Sabotage. Escape undetected."

HYDRA were going to take credit for this attack. Roll out a big show for everyone in the audience, but they couldn't expose their Asset. The Winter Soldier was too valuable to give up so easily. For 50 years he'd been HYDRA's secret human weapon. So deadly, so elusive, he'd evaded SHIELD and the authorities for years and faded into myth. HYDRA liked inflicting terror upon their enemies, their opposition, and the longer they could convince SHIELD that they were being chased by ghosts, the better.

New York City,
Roughly 4p.m. Local Time

The jet to New York was filled with a pensive energy. HYDRA agents armed to the teeth and bolstered up in thick armours surrounded the Winter Soldier. Without a helmet, without a gaudy suit of armour, he almost appeared non-threatening. Tactical light armour seemed so flimsy compared to the hulking suits the agents wore, but it was more effective than it looked. Mask pulled up, The Winter Soldier was muzzled by HYDRA, literally, and psychologically. The agents were apprehensive, right in New York, they were dropping the Winter Soldier on his own turf, even before they hit the dirt, they feared he'd remember something, he'd break his programming. He'd retaliate again the years of brutal abuse he'd suffered. But that moment never came and he left the jet, armed and dangerous he disappeared and they waited.

There was no codeword, no signal, the Winter Soldier rarely spoke, and when he did, it was only to affirm to his handlers that he had done his job and was at the rendez-vous point. HYDRA were waiting for a signal this time ... they'd know it when they saw it. The whole world would know. Minutes passed ... More minutes passed. The handler grew impatient and barked an order into the Winter Soldier's ear-piece.
"Soldat. Report."
"In position." Came the Winter Soldiers response.
The handler relaxed slightly, the Winter Soldier wasn't missing, he was waiting. Waiting for the perfect moment to blow the place to hell.

The Winter Soldier had planted and primed the bomb, snuck away to a good, discrete vantage point ... All he had to do was light the fuse. He watched the group below assemble into position, lined up like little toy soldiers far below as he followed them through the sniper scope. He saw their faces, read their lips as they spoke before lining up the crosshairs with the neat little package subtly tucked away right under their noses.
"Will I take the shot?" he asked his handler.
The handler observed his computer screen, hacked CCTV cameras from the street fed live video of the scene down below and he scanned the movements of the mutants and civilians that were roughly within the blast radius.
"Do it."

He squeezed the trigger. One tiny little pull of the finger and suddenly the street dissolved before his eyes. Shrapnel and fire scattered in a huge destructive torrent tearing apart the people and structures around it. The front of a bakery caved in and several floors above it were gutted, leaning forward and collapsing in and down on itself, crushing the already charred and ruined bodies beneath. Those further away from the initial blast weren't particularly fortunate either, glass, concrete and chunks of steel and flaming bits of building materials were propelled at devastating speed, puncturing whatever crossed their path like haphazard bullets. Cars, walls, people, they were all studded with shards of glass and concrete.

Sirens wailed, people screamed, fire crackled and bricks fell down from overhead. The Winter Soldier turned from the scene and snuck away unseen. HYDRA collected the Asset several blocks from the bomb site and began their grand announcement.

The Winter Soldier was back in his handlers control before the evening news could even cover the blast. The jet, which was circling the New York skyline to survey the damage and devastation it had unleashed on the city, didn't intend to drop the Winter Soldier back into Serbia so soon. There was still work to be done here but he needed a full assessment. The brainwashing safeguards appeared to have held up this time, but they couldn't risk losing him again now at so crucial a stage in their wave of terrorist attacks. A psych specialist was on board the plane, a small table and chairs set up, oddly out of place in the tactical jet. The Winter Soldier sat down for evaluation.

"Your mission was successful?" the psych asked.
"Package was planted and primary targets neutralised."
The psych made an affirmative noise and noted it down in Winter SOldier's growing record.
"And while you were planting the package and going to the extraction zone. Did you go anywhere else?"
"No"

The handler called the jet not too long after for a full report on the Asset.
"Asset is stable, didn't go walk-about this time either, I recommend we leave him out of cryo to continue our work, the safeguards should hold up. We will stay at a safe house, keep him under-wraps and in the dark until after the announcement goes live. I'll do another evaluation before we ready our next target. There will be no mistakes this time."

Curious still, the psych returned to the Soldier and quizzed him further, off the books this time.
"Do you know where you are?"
"New York City"
It wasn't particularly surprising, The Asset had been briefed before the drop, but the psych wanted to ease in slowly.
"And have you been to New York before? Or anywhere else in America?"
"No."
This was reassuring, the HYDRA handlers seemed to relax a little.
"One more question Soldier." The Soldier didn't nod or say "go ahead, ask away", he was like stone, unresponsive and unmoving, socialising with him was impossible, he conversed like a robot it seemed unnatural for him to talk sometimes, HYDRA kept him quiet almost all the time.
"Have you heard of Captain America?"

Since the Galactus incident, everyone knew about Captain America, though it was a surprise to the world when she revealed she was a female. HYDRA knew the Stephanie, like The Winter Soldier, had been plucked out of time, they'd been allies back in the 40's but now ... The Winter Soldier was theirs and HYDRA had every intention of putting down Captain America for good and what better way to do it than send one of her oldest buddies after her.

The Asset was quiet. The psych repeated the question.
"Do you know Captain America?"
"No."
The psych smiled to himself. When the time came, the Asset would take out his oldest friend, but for now, he was waiting for the plane to touch down in one of the safe houses just outside the city so that he could be briefed on the next stage of HYDRA's wave of terror attacks.

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

And just to illustrate my point that it wasn't all mad craic and parties, heres a couple of choice samples of what the Irish faced in the 'States and in the UK,

[spoilered for images, just google "No Irish Need Apply" or "No Blacks No Dogs No Irish"

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The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

<Snipped quote by Spud>

Not Ireland. The Irish. As in, immigrants from Ireland, TO the Anglo world.

@Jotunn Draugr

The Irish emigrated when they were struck by a deadly potato famine, British brutality and systematic persecution in their own country.

Those who emigrated were starving, slaves and homeless when they reached England or America. Sure, it's a success story now because Americans think it's trendy to be "Irish" but the ships the famine victims left on were called COFFIN SHIPS and very often those who survived the trips suffered when they landed in the UK and US. Of course you won't hear about that because no one wants to talk about the Irish before they were cool because that means admitting they were utterly fucked over in the past.

The English INVADED ireland and stole outlawed it's language and when the Irish emigrated they were discriminated (there are signs saying "No Black's, No Irish" and for a long time irish people have been called the "Black's of Europe" Don't get me started on how wrong that is for both black and Irish people).

The only reason it's all rosy now is because the Irish are lovable rogues and no one wants to talk about the harder stuff when instead they can pretend the Irish were welcomed with open arms on Tory island.

The Irish then are like the Syrians in Europe now (though it's not war they fled, it was hunger and oppression). Some were lucky but hundreds of thousands live on the streets or in makeshift camps or worse still, die at sea.

I'm half British but even I can see that Ireland was fucked by outsiders and when they left they were equally fucked.

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

On that note: unpopular opinion: Time for some nationalistic profiling!!!:

Cultures who, from what I know of them, successfully integrated into the English-speaking world, and have benefitted the civilization as a result:
-Italians
-Irish
-Jews
-Scots
-Germans
-Dutch
-Danes
-Finns
-Norwegians
-Swedes
-Russians/Slavs
-Egyptians
-European Spanish
-French
-Japanese
-South Africans
-Cubans
-Koreans
-Greeks
-Some Pols
-Turks

Cultures who generally haven't:
-Mandarin Chinese
-Some Cantonese Chinese
-Mexicans
-Indians
-Arabs
-Sub-Saharan Africans, excluding South Africa
-North Africans, excluding Egypt
-Some Pols
-Native Americans
-Jamaicans
-Hutterites

@Jotunn Draugr

Ireland ... benefitted ... no. Just no.

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@Sep I'm deeply offended you haven't added Bucky to the villain list in the CS tab. Tsk tsk ;P

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So, some arrogant asshat just posted an obnoxious and hideous looking sheet on the previous page. @Sep, @Natty, @Spud, @Dedonus, ya'll should probably go have a look and yell at this idiot. The nerve on that guy, ugh. Here's the link to the idiocy.

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Apologies in advance to those who fall asleep reading the sheet. I recognize how absurdly long, and absolutely shitty it is. And I accept that I butchered everything.

The Jessica Jones references in the sheet are for if and when @GreenGrenade applies as her, and in the situation we're both accepted, however unlikely that may be. They can be removed, however, if necessary.

Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go die.

@Nexus Prime

Its 5am Nex ... and this thing is longer than my 3rd year dissertation!!!! ...

Well done. I'll get readin' tomorrow!!! Go get some rest, after making that thing, I think you need the sleep more than I do!

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Player Name: Spiffy Sebby McSpuddington
Alias: The Winter Soldier, Buck, Bucky, Sergeant Barnes, зимний солдат (pronounced: zimniy soldat trans: Winter Soldier)
Real Name: James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
Moral Alignment: Lawful evil
Affiliation: HYDRA

Character Origin & Backstory:

.:Pre-War Bucky:.

Bucky was born in Brooklyn, New York where he met and grew up with his best-friend-forever, Stephanie Rogers. The pair were thick as thieves. Meanwhile in Europe, Germany crept towards its Second World War where things were getting pretty messy.

Bucky was drafted into the military,and over the course of his training in the military, Bucky achieved the rank of Sergeant and was assigned to the 107th Regimen. Things were going pretty well for him, however his luck would run out when America became more heavily involved in the Second World War after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

Barnes was deployed to fight the Nazi forces in mainland Europe.

.:World War Two and First HYDRA Kidnapping:.

During the war the 107th became overwhelmed by enemy forces, trapped and facing certain defeat, HYDRA agents proceeded to capture Barnes and the few remaining survivors left in his company. The 107th were declared MIA and largely presumed dead. Col. Phillips was filling out letters of condolences, but not all believed that the 107th were dead and an elaborate rescue mission was hatched.

Barnes and Co were taken prisoner in a HYDRA Weapons Development facility in Austria where they were forced to build weapons for the enemy (or face brutal beatings and tortures). During his imprisonment, Barnes developed pneumonia and grew too ill to work. He was taken to an isolated infirmary ward where he was then subjected to various torturous HYDRA experiments at the hands of the psychotic Armin Zola. His fellow prisoners of war suspected he succumbed to his illness or died at the hands of HYDRA scientists, either way, they assumed he wouldn't leave the facility alive.

At some point during the experiments he was injected with various serums, trying to replicate the effects of the Super Soldier Serum used on Johann Schmidt and Stephanie Rogers (though Barnes was not injected with Erskines original formula as it was lost when Erskine was murdered). Barnes was badly wounded and gravely ill as a result of the experiments. The weakened soldier clung on for dear life until he and his fellow prisoners were liberated and taken back to the safety of one of the allies camps in Central Europe where Barnes made a steady (though unusually fast) recovery from his injuries.

Barnes joined Rogers for a final WW2 mission to stop HYDRA for good!

.:Final Mission:.

On what would be their final mission together, Barnes and Rogers prepared to hijack a HYDRA train, capture Dr Armin Zola, and stop Red Skull before he could launch his attack. The two life-long friends set off to face their biggest enemy so far. Unfortunately this would be the last time the two would be together for over 70 years.

During the firefight which broke out on the train, Barnes was blasted by HYDRA agents and clung for his life to a piece of railing on the side of the train as the perilous cliff face of the Alps whizzed by for several hundred feet below. Despite her best efforts, Rodgers was unable to grab Barnes before the railing snapped free and he fell from the vehicle. Barnes was declared KIA and his body was never discovered.

Srgt James Barnes was the only Howling Commando operative to die in service of his country.

.:The Fall:.

Barnes' dead body was recovered from an icy river flowing through the mountains when he was discovered by Soviets. The icy water and Zola's experiments managed to maintain Barnes in a suspended status, his heart had stopped and his body was heavily damaged, but somehow he wasn't braindead. He was revived by the Soviets who administered electrical shocks and adrenalin to try and restart his heart while they stemmed the heavy bleeding from his severed left arm and attempted to preserve what they could of his broken body.

What happened to Barnes next was a fate even worse than death.

.:Barnes' Return to HYDRA:.

The Soviets handed Barnes over to HYDRA and once again he was subjected to Zola's gruelling experiments. Through careful procedures, HYDRA was able to wake Bucky from his comatose state and fully access the extent of the damage to his brain. He was stricken with amnesia but aside from the total loss of memory his motor-functions were entirely normal, and to the doctors surprise, some functioned better than average, he had incredible muscle memory and displayed astonishing martial skill, he could also speak several languages but didn't know how he knew them.

Although his brain was alive, and his heart restarted, his body required extensive careful procedures to repair and further enhance, the most complex was his missing arm. His healing factor, enhanced by Zola, greatly aided his physical recovery, although his arm showed no signs of regrowth or significant repair. His severed arm was replaced with a bionic prosthetic that was grafted onto his body during several agonising live-procedures. Barnes was not anaesthetised for his operations.

His amnesia appeared to wane over time and some of his memories began to resurface, to counter this, HYDRA began a series of brainwashing and electroshock conditioning sessions to ensure his compliance and remove any and all memories of his old life. When he began to have episodes of non-compliance and recurring flashbacks, HYDRA opted to freeze him between missions and enforce strict brainwashing procedures as soon as he was wakened from cryo to ensure he remained entirely obedient.

Over the course of the decades that followed, HYDRA used The Winter Soldier to discretely neutralise assigned high-profile targets before storing him in cryogenic sleep until they needed him to perform a hit again. The Winter Soldier was so efficient and prolific at killing that he faded into myth, even the best intelligence agencies couldn't catch him and eventually he became known as a ghost, a myth, a fabled super-assassin with a growing list of successful hits spanning several decades.

He became the Winter Soldier. The worlds greatest assassin. The worlds longest serving prisoner of war.

.:Serbia and the Wolf Spiders:.

When Howard Stark formulated a replica of the original Super Soldier Serum, HYDRA wanted it and the Winter Soldier was sent on a mission to procure the recently replicated Super Soldier Serum. Barnes successfully collected the Serum samples and returned to Serbia where he was wiped clean once again.

The Serum was used to create a group of Super Soldiers for HYDRA, these were the Wolf-Spiders. The Wolf-Spider Program was heavily inspired by Barnes' own modifications and training. Barnes was involved in training the Super Soldiers in combat. When the Spiders turned on their masters during a training exercise the program was quickly shut down and declared a failure. The Wolf Spiders were frozen in cryo-sleep.

Barnes was wiped clean and kept on ice till he was needed by HYDRA again.

.:Thaw:.

The Winter Soldier continued his cycle of waking, killing and freezing once again, with unwavering obedience due to the long-lasting effects of HYDRA's intense brainwashing regime. He remains under HYDRA control, however with a little persuasion (more specifically, a series of code words), the Winter Soldier can be brainwashed and coerced into serving any master. His proficiency in killing make him a valuable HYDRA asset and a formidable enemy to anyone who stands in his way.

The Soldier has recently been unfrozen and unleashed on the hunt for his next target.

Powers and Abilities:

Enhanced Senses: Bucky has extremely keen hearing and eye-sight. Though not impossible, it is very difficult to catch TWS off guard or unawares. If he doesn't see you coming first, he probably hear you.

Enhanced Speed: Augmented Bucky can run up to (and perhaps upwards of) 50mph. His reaction time, like his movement speed, has also increased, meaning he can perceive and respond to movements or scenarios far faster than ordinary humans.

Enhanced Strength: The augmentations performed by Dr Armin Zola have vastly increased TWS's physical capabilities. His body has been pushed to peak physical condition, far surpassing that of even the fittest human athlete.

Bionic Arm: Barnes' left arm is a cybernetic prosthetic. The arm is largely immune to bullets and brute force and packs a mean punch. It can move faster than a regular human arm and employ far greater force than an organic arm.

Expert Marksman: The Winter Soldier is prolific in a large number of ranged weapons. He's lethal with a variety of guns and grenades.

Master Assassin: His long hit-list has no misses, he is an expert sniper. Although he is prolific in ranged weaponry, he is absolutely unbeatable when sniping from a distance. He is also able to employ a terrifying range of methods to dispatch targets, if it can be killed, he'll find a way to kill it.

Hand-to-Hand Combat: His enhanced physiology paired with his bionic arm and training result in an extremely adept fighter. He has ample experience. He also fights with a combat knife.

Healing Factor: As a result of Zola's experiments, Barnes has a generous healing factor, hence his ability to recover from Zola's tortures as well as being able to be revived after his fall from the train in the Alps. He cannot regenerate limbs, however he does heal quickly from injuries and is able to survive what would prove fatal for regular humans.

High Pain Tolerance: The Winter Soldier is in a constant state of low-level pain as the cyber-arm has some trade offs, it exerts some serious stress on his body but he has developed a pain tolerance to counter this side effect. As such, TWS will fight to the point that he cannot stand, ignoring great amounts of pain (e.g in CATWS, Cap breaks TWS's right arm but TWS continues to fight until the Triskellion's go down).

Pilot: TWS is able to hijack and pilot various types of aircraft and vehicles (cars, tanks, motorcycles etc). His HYDRA handlers haven't been able to totally wipe out a Kleptomaniac streak they programmed into his brain, sometimes he steals cars and crashes them for fun.

Espionage: He is a master of disappearing, master spy, he can vanish in a crowd and hide in plain sight. He didn't earn a reputation as a "ghost story" by not being good at vanishing and gathering intelligence on enemies for HYDRA.

Multilingual: Barnes is fluent in English, Russian and Romanian, he is also adept in a handful of other languages.

Weaknesses

Bionic Arm flaws: The bionic arm is NOT indestructible, although it is very very resistant to most damage it contains no vibranium. Tough, but not invulnerable. Electrical pulses can temporarily disable the arm. The Arm is also not as flexible as an organic arm, its inflexibility can be a handicap in some fights!! The bionic arm (in this particular incarnation of TWS) CANNOT be removed/pulled off, this would kill him, the arm is attached to too many other vital systems that it cannot be pulled off without yanking out too many other bones and tissues. Portions of the arm can be ripped out/blasted off, but the arm itself cannot be detached/removed in its entirety from his body.

Electricity: Electrical shocks can mess around with the HYDRA brainwashing as well as his shiny-arm, causing memory flashbacks and confusion. As electroshock therapy was used to regulate his brainwashing, unregulated shocks can alter his brainwashing with unpredictable effects, sometimes the shocks have relatively little effect, other times they can be very debilitating and disorienting or induce flashbacks.

Amnesia: Barnes is an amnesiac and using his codewords can wipe him clean leaving him vulnerable to serve whoever says the words, thus, his code words and triggers are kept a deep dark secret. The process of wiping him clean is incredibly painful but ALWAYS results in total obedience.

Supporting Cast:

Friends

Madeline Joyce - Allies during WW2, occasionally worked together on missions (where she endured his roguish flirting -perhaps even grew to appreciate it, who knows!-). Will she still consider Barnes an ally if she discovers he is still alive and in active duty (albeit with the enemy)?
Stephanie Rogers - Childhood friend and All-American hero. They grew up together in Brooklyn before Barnes went to serve in the US military during WW2. The two share a long, happy history ... if only The Winter Soldier could remember any of it, and if he did, would Stephanie still consider him her friend? Is any of the old Bucky she once knew left?

Allies

Captain America - Although the Winter Soldier is working for Cap's enemy, she's also Bucky's closest friend and if he's able to break his mental programming, he'll need her more than ever!
HYDRA - HYDRA created The Winter Soldier and as such, he is totally in their debt and under their control, or rather ... he doesn't have any free will, he is ... compliant.
CODEHOLDER - Whoever holds his brainwashing codes holds the Soldier.

Enemies:

Any HYDRA Assigned Targets;
Possible targets,
Nick Fury - Director of SHIELD, Super Spy. Possible threat to HYDRA schemes
(Poss) Iron Man - Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist (heh). SHIELD ally and possible threat to HYDRA schemes
Captain America - Former Friend, American war hero and threat to HYDRA.
(later) Wolf-Spiders - HYDRA experimental SuperSoldiers, trained to be equal/superior to The Winter Soldier. Some (if not all) Spider's hold a bit of a grudge against their predecessor and wouldn't hesitate to rip out his arm.

Bucky's Enemies;
HYDRA. - His creators.
The Wolf Spiders. - Soviet Super Soldiers gone rogue.
Possibly SHIELD/SHIELD's allies - if they attempt to capture him.

Sample Story Arcs:

-spoilered because lots of cool Bucky gifs-

Hider

.:Remembering Bucky:. After being out of the freezer longer than usual, the Winter Soldier's memories begin to return and he goes rogue during his mission and begins a personal quest of self-discovery (and possibly revenge).

.:Trial:. Bucky breaks his programming and remembers things. Living on the run from the authorities and from HYDRA, Bucky tries to evade SHIELD capture and also tries to evade HYDRA recapture, for fear he'll be indoctrinated once again. Bucky, if captured, will have to face punishment for his actions OR a return to his life of assassinating indiscriminately under HYDRAs control but just how much does he actually remember and how much does SHIELD know about him? and who will catch him first?

.:Ready to Comply:. Bucky is totally under control ... however, someone steals Bucky's "code words" and steals the master assassin for his/her/their own ulterior motives.
Note:(Depending on who steals the Soldier, he could be good or evil. He will begin the RP in renegade/HYDRA mode until another character steals him. PC's can steal the Soldier, but please PM/discuss and get the "okay" from GM's FIRST!!!!)

.:End of Winter:. Bucky wasn't the only Winter Soldier created by HYDRA ... the supposedly "decommissioned" Wolf Spider operation which followed the Winter Soldier Programme was not as unsuccessful as HYDRA led others to believe. Unlike Barnes, the Wolf Spiders were not obedient and were frozen to prevent them destroying their creators and the world alike, however some of the Wolf Spiders have somehow escaped/been released. HYDRA has sent Bucky on a mission to assassinate his would-be spy-brothers before SHIELD or anyone else can take advantage of HYDRA's grave mistake.

.:Reunion:. The Winter soldier is sent on a mission to eliminate a dangerous threat to HYDRA. Captain America who just so happened to be his best childhood friend.
If Stephanie can manage to knock the HYDRA brainwashing out of Bucky's head ... just what will happen next? Can Rogers forgive Bucky for his past transgressions? Can Bucky forgive himself? And just where do they go from here?

.:Homecoming:. Bucky somehow escapes from HYDRA and seeks a cure for his mental conditioning, some way to pull HYDRA out of his brain and rehabilitate himself. But who will trust the worlds deadliest assassin to not kill them in a moments notice? And who would offer to help said assassin?
Can Bucky even be cured? What will he do if he is cured? Will he try take down HYDRA, or go into hiding? Will he be captured during his rehabilitation and if so, by whom?

Sample:

No one could say Bucky Barnes wasn't a gentleman ... at least half of the time anyway. The roguish young New Yorker held back his best friends hair and sympathetically patted her back while she chucked up her lunch after he'd convinced her to brave the Cyclone roller-coaster on Coney Island.
"You alright pal?" he asked, as Stephanie straightened up and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, looking a little less green now, thankfully.
"Oh I'll get you for that, punk" she declared, as spirited as ever.
Bucky beamed and threw an arm over her shoulder. "Sure ya will, but first, lemme get ya a hotdog. You pick the next ride."
"Do we even have enough money for hotdogs?" Stephanie scoffed, "How much money did you blow on those stall games anyway?" she rolled her eyes, "You need to work on your aim if you want to try pick up girls at the fair."
"Steph, you might just be the worst wingman in history" Bucky joked.
"And you might just be the worst shot in history."-






Gone.

That memory was gone. It had been gone for over 50 years already. If it ever bubbled back to the surface, as unlikely as that was, it would be wiped away in a single swift stroke. All it took was ten rather harmless words, at least, they appeared harmless until they were spoken in a specific order in quick succession.

He was waking up- No ... Not that, he was thawing, and he was in a chair, manacles holding his arms in place and a HYDRA handler was talking to him, ensuring he was compliant when he came around from being thawed out of cryogenic stasis.

The HYDRA scientists had files heavily detailing his augmentations, his history, every single mission report. The psych portion of his file was particularly messy, particularly around the 1940's and through the 1950's. That was before they started putting him on ice and engineering a failsafe switch to try and prevent the Soldier escaping, or realising who he had once been. After 3 years of non-stop service for HYDRA, shadows of Bucky crept in. He began to ask questions when he gave his mission reports and that scared the scientists. The Winter Soldier's brain was trying to heal itself, to remember who he was, piecing things together that he shouldn't know, having thoughts he wasn't allowed to think about. The only solution was to force those questions and memories away, bury them deeper. The Winter Soldiers HYDRA leash was shorter and tighter, he was muzzled, questions silenced and his brain wiped over and over before he was stuffed in the freezer again. Then defrosted again several months or even years later.

"Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Freight Car"

Halfway through the brainwashing mantra, pain lanced through Barnes' skull, he screamed at the searing heat in his head and then it was over.

"Soldat?"
"Ready to comply."
"You have 36 hours. Find and neutralise target."

The Winter Soldier didn't nod. Didn't reply. There was no need for him to portray emotion or voice confirmation, his track record spoke volumes whereas he was steeped in silence. When HYDRA gave the command, someone wound up dead and the cycle continued.

Within 36 hours a famous Norwegian physicist was dead. Single gun-shot wound, unmarked Soviet slug lodged in the brain. There were no witnesses. No viable suspects and Barnes was back in Serbia before anyone had even noticed his presence in Norway. Like many missions, it went off without any hitches.

"Mission Report."
"Target neutralised. No witnesses."
"We are one step closer, Soldat."
Another line was added to his in-exhaustive list of hits and mission reports. The Soldier was put on ice again as the Norwegian public, and later, the UN as the physicists death drew a great deal of backlash, were outraged and dismayed.

---

"It is time again, Soldat" the scientist started before slamming his fist down on the table.

The icicles in his hair hadn't even melted and already his thoughts were searing with blind-heat.

"Longing-"

"No-" The Winter Soldier's thoughts screamed, but he remained silent as ever. Weapons didn't speak. He was a weapon. HYDRA's greatest weapon.

"Rusted"

"Seventeen-"

A scream ripped through The Winter Soldiers throat as an electrical shock pulsed through him. He felt memories he hadn't even remembered being ripped asunder. Mentally scrambling through the darkness, the glittering fragments of what Bucky had been winked out of existence before they even dared to peek out of the deepest darkest recesses of his brain. There was nothing left to erase.

"... -coming. One. Freight car."
He gasped for breath, the searing lance of pain through his brain had vanished but residual shocks rattled inside his skull. His muscles, which had coiled tight as a highly compressed spring, reluctantly eased to a more relaxed state, the reaction to the shocks subsiding slightly.

"Soldat."

Silence.

"Soldat. Answer me."

More silence.

A sharp blow struck him across the face, slowly, he drew his head back up from the backhand slap he'd sustained.

"Ready to comply."