Bucky’s Apartment: a completely unnecessary psycho(over)analysis.
This has probably already been done by someone, but whatever!
Buckle in, buckaroos, we’re going on a wild fucking ride. ✌️
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Kitchen Area
His sofa:
- It’s small. Just imagine Bucky trying to stretch his big body out on there.
- Look at the little red throw pillow! Does he put it under his head? Hug it to his chest? Does he like the colour?
- And the mismatched sofa cushions. Bucky grew up during the Great Depression, so he would have learned to make do, reuse, and repurpose things. People weren’t so wasteful during the Depression. Repairing a sofa cushion costs next to nothing and it’s an otherwise functional loveseat. Judging by the state of his apartment, he clearly values function and (lack of) cost over aesthetic.
- Likely found it on the side of the road, or someone gave it to him. Maybe it was already there when he moved in, and he repaired it. A sofa isn’t something he really needs, he wouldn’t have put much thought or effort into having one.
- That said, it does provide some cover in case he has to duck behind the kitchen island. Most intruders would come from the front door, which is on the opposite side of the room.
On the front counter:
- An electric stove, not a gas one. No chance of a gas leak or an explosion resulting from one.
- Orange tea towel on the stove. Bucky, please.
- Dirty dishes, a bowl and a glass. Cereal for breakfast? Orange juice or a glass of milk? Pierce did offer him a glass of milk in TWS.
- One of Bucky’s journals. This is the one that Steve found.
On the rear counter:
- A bag of something (it’s pink – cookies? bread?)
- Toaster, knife block, salt shaker.
- Some more dirty dishes that he hasn’t gotten around to washing yet, including a skillet and a couple of mugs.
- Pink/beige tea towel on the right.
- Floral tea towel hanging on the oven handle. Bucky has three tea towels in use, here – two plain ones that he’s just kind of thrown around (probably uses ‘em whilst cooking), and a third more decorative one which has been draped perfectly straight. He probably uses this one to dry his dishes once he washes them. Back in the day, it was common to spruce up your kitchen with a decorative towel (and, I mean, we do that today even). His mom would have done that, and now he’s doing it, too. Maybe it reminds him of way back when.
- In the below photo you can also see a saute pan, a whisk, and two spice pots. Sugar would likely be in one of them, because that was how sugar was stored in the 1940s, but I’m not sure what would be in the other. Pepper? Rock salt?
- Oh, and that looks like a votive holder behind the yellow bowl. Does he light a scented candle every now and then?
And then we have… The Thing™️.
- I originally couldn’t figure out what that little black/white shelf unit thing was, but you can see that there’s something glass on the right side (thought it might be a coffee pot? it’s too small to be a microwave). On the bottom left of it, there’s a small analog clock, and the top left looks like a measuring cup of some sort. I couldn’t zoom in much more than this.
- On top of the Thing™️, he’s got some soda/beer cans and more of those caramel snack bars that he’s got above the fridge (under the cut): small comforts. There might also be either a pack of matches or a pack of cigs – probably matches, but I feel like he might indulge in a cigarette every now and then to calm down.
- BUT YES, THE THING™️ IS INDEED A COFFEE POT. @brooklyn-boy figured out that it’s a Black and Decker SpaceMaker Coffee Machine from the late 70s or early-to-mid 80′s. See photo.
- So, Bucky drinks coffee! That doesn’t really come as a surprise, but it’s nice to have some confirmation of it. I imagine he’d need a lot of it because he doesn’t sleep so well (more on this later). Coffee would be another small comfort, not only because it’s something he likes, but it’s something he can prepare easily.
On the wall shelves:
Assorted mugs. Seriously, he has a ton of them, and it makes me wonder if this is because of his army days. He would have had one single metal mug as a soldier in WWII, which he would have had to constantly clean. Notice that none of his mugs are metal.
- Small metal mixing bowl, or is it a pot?
- Bag of flour (or sugar). This coupled with the whisk and the saute pan makes me wonder if he likes to make pancakes. They’re easy to make, for one, but it looks like he has a sweet tooth because he’s got cookies and caramel bars!
- Or he could just as easily make eggs, but why else would he have flour? Because he likes variety, and again, maybe he likes to cook.
- Stack of bowls, a glass, two cooking spoons and a ladle.
On top of the fridge, and on the bottom shelf/floor:
- A bag of chips (German) and a bag of pretzels. Bucky likes salty snacks, too. The big bad Winter Soldier likes to snack, how terrifying.
- More caramel bars. Cutie pie.
- More cooking utensils, including a BRIGHT GREEN spatula, more spoons (so many spoons!), and another ladle.
- There’s the same journal that Steve found.
- A rug, which he strategically placed under the window.
And now… the thermos.
On top of the fridge is a red thermos, which looks like it’s made of plastic, not metal (just like his mugs aren’t).
- I’ll bet he uses this for soup, because he’s got a big ol’ stock pot in the below photo and two (2) ladles! Who needs that many ladles? But yes, soup, because soup is cheap and easy to make, and it’s an American comfort food. Important points, because…
- He’s got all sorts of stuff to cook with: two different types of frying pans, mixing bowls, utensils, spice pots. But he wouldn’t really know how to cook, or at least not well. In the 1940s, his mother and sisters would have done all the housework. Because Bucky wasn’t married, he might have still lived at home back then, so now he’s learning how to take care of himself by experimenting with different things. If he lived by himself before then he didn’t really have the chance to do it for long and in that time he might have a girlfriend to help him out, anyway.
- Judging by the number of spoons, though, I think he might even like to cook. Maybe his snacks are a form of self-care.
- Now let’s bring back the tea towel on the stove. Most people know not to leave the towel on the stove, but because he never really knew how to cook before, but maybe he doesn’t.
- Or, maybe he does – I mean, you’d think he’d have some common sense, right? So that means he might be absentminded; forgetful, even, and possibly because Hydra’s brain-frying left some residual effects.
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