I Parked My Time Machine

axellikestoast:

I don’t see how anyone couldn’t like Captain America. 

Maybe some think he’s too weak, or didn’t have a good enough story… but I’ll tell you something; Steve Rogers is the bravest and most heroic member of the Avengers. 

I mean, do the majority of people even realize how much this kid has been through? He spent his entire childhood being bullied and rejected. That alone is enough power to drive someone to insanity. But he was always the bigger person. He never gave up or stopped believing in himself. 

He goes through a dangerous expirement that he knows could go horribly wrong. But he still goes through with it? Why? Because he trusts others. And he wants to help others, no matter what the cost may be. He doesn’t even technically have a weapon for crying out loud, he uses a shield. Because he wants to prevent others from enduring the pain he’s gone through by protecting them.

But it doesn’t end there, oh no. He fights in the notorious war to ever plague this planet. Now, to put in perspective how big of a deal this is, keep in mind that many soliders are forever haunted by memories of battle, and can suffer from disorders such as PTSD. 

What’s that? Childhood trauma and war nightmares weren’t enough? Let’s add in the fact that his best friend, the only person who ever stood up for him (even when he was a skinny and scrawny thing) falls to his death just beyond his reach. He can’t do anything but watch, and you know what? I bet he blames himself for it. I bet he wishes he could have held on to him and saved him. 

And then there’s Peggy. The first woman to ever show him any sort of romantic feelings. Yet he can’t be with her. He knows he can’t be with her. And he has to deal with seeing her every day without the comfort of knowing that they’re together. 

And finally, we get to the plane scene. Here, Steven spends (what he thinks to be) his last moments on earth looking straight into a hard layer of ice he’s about to crash into, planning the first serious date he’s ever had hopelessly into a radio. He can feel the plane’s descent in his stomach while granting promises he know will be empty. He is willing to kill himself for the greater good: a bunch of people he’s either never known, or used to hurt him in the past. And maybe it’s not a sacrifice. Maybe he wants to kill himself. It would get rid of all the harrowing memories collected in his mind. But guess what? He can’t even partake in that pleasure. Because, instead of dying, he freezes in a coma, and wakes up to face the most dangerous and terrifying task he’s come in contact with. 

No, not Red Skull. No, not Nazis. Not even Adolf Hitler himself. 

He’s forced to live and survive in the scariest most unfamiliar place a person could ever find themselves: the future. 

nerdyninjanicole:

Captain America Concept Art by Henrik Tamm

(via fyeahsuperheroes)