Sometimes I remember how awful it must have been for Steve Rogers in 2012.
It wasn't even the fact that he woke up in the future, all his friends except Dum Dum and Peggy were dead, and he was still mourning Bucky, who, for everyone else, had died decades ago, but the very fact of society's expectations for him.
Steve was awakened from the ice, and people expected the great Captain America, whose myth had grown over the years, the experience and wisdom of a hundred-year-old man…
And Steve was a goddamn 26 years old.
He was the youngest member of the Avengers at the time and people looked up to him and expected a mentor. Even the fandom forgets this and says Steve and Thor are the oldest, when Tony could practically be his father.
