[Choice made, Bucky falls into step easily. The cane only confirms his conclusions, and he's careful to stay a little behind and a little to the left of Matt, well out of the way. But the name draws him up short.
Barnes is out of the question. There were plenty of news reports detailing every aspect of the leaked HYDRA files - his name among them. James, too, for mostly the same reason. And Bucky... well. He's not really Bucky anymore, is he? He's as much the Soldier as he is anything else, but that's no name he can give.
Brow furrowed, he paces along. It'll have to do.]
It's Bucky.
[It still feels... wrong. Unsettling. He was wearing a dead man's face, and now his name, too.]
no subject
Barnes is out of the question. There were plenty of news reports detailing every aspect of the leaked HYDRA files - his name among them. James, too, for mostly the same reason. And Bucky... well. He's not really Bucky anymore, is he? He's as much the Soldier as he is anything else, but that's no name he can give.
Brow furrowed, he paces along. It'll have to do.]
It's Bucky.
[It still feels... wrong. Unsettling. He was wearing a dead man's face, and now his name, too.]