In reference to this post, I do legitimately wonder what exactly Nick Furyās expectations of Steve were.
Assuming his two primary sources for Steve Rogers Anecdotes were Howard and Peggy (and I think they were), thereās no way he would have gotten anything approaching an accurate account for who Steve was as a person.
I honestly donāt think Howard knew Steve well.Ā All his reminiscences are going to be fundamentally colored by the fact that, despite the epiphany he comes to in the S1 finale of Agent Carter (he says something like,Ā āhe was good before I got my hands on him, wasnāt he?ā), Steveās successes as Captain America are in part his successes because he helped make Captain America.Ā So all the stories Howard could tell Fury (and, sorry about your horrible childhood, Tony) are going to portray Steve in a very specific way, turning him into the ultimate war hero, the ultimate super solider, the ultimate weapon that Howard helped create.
I doubt Peggyās telling a lot of truths either but for different reasons.Ā Or, well.Ā Peggy doesnāt lie about Steve, but there are certain things she doesnāt say about Steve.Ā Because everyone knows and mourns Captain America, but sheās one of a small handful of people who actually mourn Steve Rogers.Ā There are things about him she keeps private and safe for herself.
Like the fondue story?Ā I am positive that never made it into the global Captain America narrative.Ā I also donāt think itās a story Tony or Sharon ever heard.Ā Howard doesnāt tell it because itās not a Cap Story, itās a Steve Story, and Howardās far more interested in the former than the latter.Ā Peggy also doesnāt tell it because itās a Steve Story, and the world isnāt owed any more of Steve Rogers than they already have.Ā They can keep Captain America, but Steve is hers.
But I honestly believe that if Nick got half a shot of whiskey in Colonel Phillips, he would spend literal hours dragging Steve Rogers through the mud.
āRogers?Ā Biggest pain in my ass that ever lived, and thatās before Stark and Erskine got their god damn hands on him.Ā Iāve had a hemorrhoid or two tried to compete, but nope.Ā It was Rogers.
āThat son of a bitch probably spent six weeks AWOL altogether thinking he knew better than me, the SSR, and all the Allied powers put together.Ā At the end of it, heād come into my office, stand at attention, salute.Ā Then Iād maybe get one āyes sir, no sirā out of him before he started arguing with me about whatever damn fool thing heād just done.Ā Which, I shouldnāt have to tell anyone, is not how the god damned United States Army works.Ā Rogers never did manage to grasp that concept.
āDonāt ask me about vehicle requisitions.Ā I donāt even know how many cars those idiots wrapped around how many trees.Ā I finally had to order the motor pool to stop giving him motorcycles at all.Ā He kept throwing them at the enemy.Ā That worked for maybe a month.Ā He started stealing them, and I gave up.
āOnce I ran into Barnes just staring at a wall looking whey-faced, terrified, and madder than a hornet.Ā So I said,Ā āWhat did that captain of yours do this time?ā and he says,Ā āHe charged a fucking tank,ā and I say,Ā āOf course he did,ā and he says,Ā āDumb bastard wasnāt even wearing his helmet,ā and I say,Ā āI donāt understand how you kept that boy alive long enough to con his way into the army in the first place,ā and Barnes says,Ā āYouāve got no god-damned idea, sir, you really donāt.ā
āYou know Carter shot at him once?Ā Iāve never envied another human being so much in my whole life.
āSteve Rogers gave me most every grey hair on my head, donāt you let her tell you any different.Ā I had a full head of thick black hair in 1943; by ā44 I looked like someone dropped a pound of drywall on top of me.Ā I aged a year for every hour I spent in Rogersās company.Ā When I die, if the coroner doesnāt list my cause of death as Steven Grant Rogers, itāll be god damned perjurous.
āI could have court-martialed that jackass on at least 16 separate occasions, and we wouldnāt have won the war without him.Ā God rest the son of a bitch.ā
ā¦.so we have to assume that Fury never talked to Phillips I guess.
BUT OH GOD DO I WISH HE HAD
