so. cap’s medals are on backwards. (they should be on the right side, but they are on the left.)
now, you would assume this is just an error, but it’s been confirmed that this was on purpose.
and like. i’m just thinking of the reasons that might be?
there’s two main theories I really like:
the first is that he put it on in the mirror while dying. This would explain why he appears in a mirror in the intro, and why it would be backwards (dying, mind scrambled and failing, just trying to put the medals on, he puts them on the wrong side)
or, the more likely and kind of sadder one: they arent his.
oh my god guys. They arent his.
I just realized. Everything would make sense then. The backwards medals, the way that he had no idea how tents work, the weird looking out the window as if the germans would already be there in the flashback? his general and clear lack of skill and his obession with all of it? I mean, it’s probable that. He didn’t do much war at all. That all he really did was stay at button house. I mean, we see that button house does’t really do much in the war at least during the time of the flashback ( which is why Havers left.)
So like. maybe he didn’t really do much war at all. Maybe he never went out into the field. Maybe it’s all just this sort of. Front that he puts up.