And there's nothing he can do to "earn" being Steve or make people treat him the way they did Steve, because he just is not Steve And despite his little speech explicitly denying it, this bothers him *immensely*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
(This is *why* he isn't Steve, of course, because Steve would never give a moment's thought to this stupid ego bullshit while there are lives to be saved)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I do think Walker is one of the stronger parts of the story. I've actually become conviced that making him less of a jingoistic jagoff was the correct way to go.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @perdricof and
Someone who starts off seriously thinking of himself as a good decent liberal guy who is trying SO HARD is how you give this character an actual arc, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
He starts off playing the role of the New Captain America as well as you could reasonably expect someone to But he is playing a role, and if you knew the real Steve you can tell
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
(He pushes it too far when he says that he feels like he knew Steve and that he and Steve are brothers in spirit just from reading about him and shit That was when he permanently moved onto Bucky's shitlist)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
I've only seen to the second episode so far, but it feels also significant that Steve was an emergent hero, and Walker is a *manufactured* one. like, he's not a latently a bad man. But he's been permanently condemned to try to play-act Steve by a government that wants a symbol.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
If he wasn't just being forced to pantomime the legacy of a dude he never knew and whose virtues were different than his own actual virtues, he'd probably be less torn up about it. But he's play-acting, being awarded the acclaim of somebody else's heroic deeds and not his own.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
He hadn't even actually DONE anything as Captain America and the American government was rolling him out like a new reality TV show just dropped.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
He was a marine with some successful tours, but he never coordinated super-people against an alien invasion.
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Army, not Marines, he's from West Point If they changed what service the new Captain America was in that would cause a bit of a stir among the military community
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Replying to @jmarquiso @arthur_affect and
Look at me, conceding, so unlike Steve.
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