This does make sense; I appreciate you explaining, because it does help me a little with figuring out where this kind of fic is coming from! And you know, I did read the fic you linked me to, and while it doesn't quite hit my happy fic sweet spots, I definitely agree that it's well written and it doesn't ping me as "off" in the way that a lot of "round the world murder rampage" fics do ... and it's interesting to analyze why: I think a lot of it has to do with Bucky taking a little time beforehand and interacting with people in a non-killing capacity before he goes Hydra-hunting, as well as Natasha being a big part of the driving force behind it. Which is all very interesting in terms of how it intersects with my general Bucky post-WS headcanon(s).
Re: your first and last paragraphs, I definitely think a big part of it has to do with who "your" Bucky is -- what he's capable of, where his moral baseline is located, etc. Especially considering that I don't actually have an across-the-board problem with the "murder rampage" plotline or with sympathetic-yet-homicidal characters (The Professional is one of my favorite movies, after all...) I think a lot of it for me is specific to my particular take on Bucky, what I see as his fundamental underlying nature, and where I see him going. The post-WS killing-spree fic pings me very strongly, in general, as "this is not my Bucky!" but that doesn't make it wrong (all the above rationalizing aside :P).
(And yeah, that's a good point about not being awake for the whole 70 years. In the comics I think he ages about 5 years -- which still makes him almost painfully young for someone having to deal with all the awful shit he goes through -- and it's possible in the movies that it's no more than a couple of years.)
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Re: your first and last paragraphs, I definitely think a big part of it has to do with who "your" Bucky is -- what he's capable of, where his moral baseline is located, etc. Especially considering that I don't actually have an across-the-board problem with the "murder rampage" plotline or with sympathetic-yet-homicidal characters (The Professional is one of my favorite movies, after all...) I think a lot of it for me is specific to my particular take on Bucky, what I see as his fundamental underlying nature, and where I see him going. The post-WS killing-spree fic pings me very strongly, in general, as "this is not my Bucky!" but that doesn't make it wrong (all the above rationalizing aside :P).
(And yeah, that's a good point about not being awake for the whole 70 years. In the comics I think he ages about 5 years -- which still makes him almost painfully young for someone having to deal with all the awful shit he goes through -- and it's possible in the movies that it's no more than a couple of years.)