portraitoftheoddity:

Sometimes I just kinda wanna cry because in the MCU, Steven Grant Rogers:

• Was violently bullied throughout his childhood and into adulthood.
• Watched his mother waste away and die.
• Was an orphan by his mid-to-late teens.
• Grew up in poverty, during the Great Depression, as the child of immigrants .
• Grew up color-blind, partially-deaf, malnourished/stunted, and chronically-ill, in a culture that was so big on eugenics that Nazis took their cues from the US systems.
• Signed up for the army and then dove on what he believed to be a live grenade because he believed the best use of his life was to exchange it for the lives of others.
• Fought on the front lines of the bloodiest and most horrific war in human history, where he undoubtedly witnessed terrible violence and atrocities.
• Watched his best friend die and lived with the guilt of believing he was responsible.
• Crashed a plane into the ocean, fully believing he was going to die.
• Was frozen alive.
• Woke up to find that nearly everyone he’d ever known was dead and gone, and his home was changed nearly beyond recognition; he could never truly go home from the war. Ever.
• Lost his shot at happiness with the one woman who ever actually looked at him when he was small and frail, and had to watch her mind come apart, and later carry her coffin.
• Found out his sacrifice – the thing he gave up his life, his friends, his whole world for – was in vain, and that HYDRA had corrupted the legacy of the people he loved.
• Found out his best friend survived, and that he’d abandoned him to a fate worse than death, and got to then live with THAT fresh guilt.
• Is seen by most people as Captain America; almost no one sees Steve Rogers.
• Was only 26 years old, biologically, during the Battle of New York. 
• Has not had the time or resources to cope with any of this.