#he probably would've played a vital role in getting kid!steve a job too

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Thought about the disparity between Steve and Bucky's circumstances and how unlikely it is they ever managed to meet or become friends: 

What if Bucky's fam were rich before the Crash (he would've been 12) but became poor, while still retaining some of their rich-people stuff (eg. car, nice house or apartment)? 

This would (further) prove Bucky's good character to kid!Steve, because he would be able to see that Bucky accepts his reduced circumstances graciously and is still cheerful about life instead of bitter.

#dat's me #stucky #bucky meta #steve rogers #bucky barnes #MCU #meta #money #the depression #also: if kid!bucky was working #he probably would've played a vital role in getting kid!steve a job too #yet each man queues the thing he loves #I also like to hc bucky as jewish (because he's an arnie-roth expy) #or at least half-jewish on his mother's side #and like maybe his folks lived on the edge of rich-people-block and steve lived on edge-of-poor-people-block so they kinda overlapped