Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Bucky's Bucharest Apartment, Part 3 -- Bathroom, Living Area and Balcony/Outside

This exhaustive analysis is by cake-writes and will be reproduced in 4 parts because it is so long and so definitive. What an outstanding work of Stucky scholarship, if I may use that term, LOL!

Bucky’s Apartment: a completely unnecessary psycho(over)analysis.


Bathroom


Not much to say, other than: 
  • God, that wallpaper is hideous.

  • He has a BABY BLUE towel.

Living Area


  • Sleeping bag and a pillow. The bare essentials. 

  • Right next to the radiator, in case he gets cold. 

  • The mattress isn’t for comfort so much as a potential shield to block the window (i.e. gunfire, which he winds up using it against.)

  • It is a thin mattress, though, which would be a lot firmer to sleep on – not quite as firm as the floor, but better than sleeping on a marshmallow like Sam talks about.

Notice he’s got a bunch of lights, here, but the wall lights on the right would be much brighter than the lamp beside his bed. I’ll bet he likes a warm yellow glow instead of such a jarring white before he goes to sleep.



Sorry for the quality, that’s the best I could do. 
  • This makes THREE chairs, but this one is metal and the others are wood. He keeps his clean clothes on this one.

  • His lamp has a little side table attached to it. Maybe he reads before he goes to bed, and keeps the books he’s reading there. Or his journals, which he scribbles memories into in the middle of the night. (Seb has stated that Bucky does this, and that his backpack contains 10 of them.)

  • Those are either pajamas on the floor, or a blanket. I can’t tell.

One of Bucky’s journals. You can see how much he’s written in it. The pen is almost bleeding through the page behind Steve’s photo.
He uses little post-it tabs, and I think that’s to keep track of certain memories. They’re a few different colours, so he probably has a colour-coded system going. With 13+ journals floating around, he would need to organize his memories somehow.

Balcony / Outside


He’s purposely selected a top floor apartment. 
  • It would be harder for people to sneak up on him that way, considering he’s on the 20th floor (screencap further down). 

  • Unfortunately, that also makes it harder for him to get out, which is why he’s maximized his chances with three separate exit points: two balcony doors (with two different rooftops he can jump onto), and the usual entryway door (which leads to the stairwell). 

  • He was also kept deep underground in Siberia, so being that high above ground might comfort him.

Sorry for this screencap, too. Poor Steve!
He’s got furniture out here he isn’t using: a plastic chair and a wooden shelf. Bucky would have seen these sitting on the sidewalk somewhere, abandoned, perfectly functional but thrown away, so he tried to find a use for them. Maybe he’s still deciding, or thought that the next tenants of his apartment could use them.


And look, we’ve found another dining chair! A wooden one, so that makes three of them. An imperfect set.
He’s also got a beige blanket and a sun lounger. I wonder if he likes to have his coffee out here in the morning, or maybe he just likes to watch the sun rise (or set, I don’t know what direction the building is facing).

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