Bucky’s Apartment: a completely unnecessary psycho(over)analysis.
Dining Area
All of his windows are blocked out with newspaper. You know why.
On the wall shelf:
- More of his journals.
- An old pink radio. You can see the speaker in the table flip photo below. He’d use this to listen to the news, probably, but I like to think he’d tune in to some music sometimes, too.
On the table:
- He started reading that newspaper at some point. He’s got a lot of those around; likes to keep up with current events, and keep an eye out for anything suspicious / any reason to jump ship. Maybe keeps an eye on potential work opportunities, too.
- I’ll talk more about all this later on.
- Those red papers there might be some coupons to a store.
Below:
- You can see the stock pot more clearly.
- There’s another frying pan, and what looks like a couple of splatter guards. He doesn’t like getting splattered with hot oil whilst cooking, imagine that.
- Bucky’s shelves are made of cinder blocks, which he can use as weapons if needs be. It’s also cheap and easy to make these shelves.
- Lots of newspapers and more of his journals scattered about.
- The black duffel bag is his. I wonder what he uses it for?
Ah, the notorious backpack. No, this is not the duffel bag.
- Notice where the floorboards end. They’re just in the entryway for that particular door. It leads to the balcony. The other doors have carpet, including the entryway which leads to the stairwell. He chose this location to hide his backpack because it’s a last-ditch escape route.
- In order to hide his backpack there, he either a) would have had to install the flooring himself and remove some of the carpeting to do so, or b) pry up multiple floorboards, but it’s pretty difficult to replace them properly if you don’t know what you’re doing. So either way Bucky knows how to lay floorboards.
- How does he know? He likely would have learned before the War, I think. Can’t imagine him going up to some random tradesperson in Bucharest and ask for a lesson.
- Not to mention he’d have to remember exactly which ones he hid his backpack under, so that he could smash and grab in a hurry. He probably had a point of reference in mind.
On the palette by the door, he’s got his socks hanging out to dry.
- Trench foot was extremely common during WWII, which is caused by excess moisture – essentially, your feet rot away in your shoes because they can’t dry out for days/weeks at a time. Soldiers would have to change their socks a couple of times a day to prevent this from happening. Likely another habit left over from the War, which indicates he might have PTSD. (And so do his journals.)
- Those socks might also be his reference point for where the bag is, in case he forgets how many floorboards away from the door it was (which would have been a number easy for him to remember.)
His table is the perfect size to block off one of the primary entry/exit point. Strategically placed, just like everything else. Note the black leather jacket hanging on the back of his chair.
He also has two chairs. Why does he have two chairs? Does he sit in one and use the other as a footrest? More on this later.
Little shelving unit in the hallway:
- More mugs.
- Two large mixing bowls, one glass and one metal – so he either a) scrounged these from somewhere and/or b) he knows that acidic ingredients can’t be put into a metal bowl, otherwise it will erode the metal and taint the food.
- A cooler. Bucky would want to keep off the grid as much as possible, so he’d only take cash-in-hand jobs like construction work. I’d like to think he takes his lunch to work in this. (Or maybe sometimes he takes the thermos! Or both, because he’s got a serum-enhanced metabolism.)
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