oddly specific and incoherent howling commandos headcanons:
ages: hugely important for vibes here. mcu wiki does technically have ages for them but not all of them are real to me. to me, steve and bucky and peggy and gabe are like in their mid-20s and the rest of them are 30s and 40s.
gabe and morita are dummy smart like went back home after the war and got phds smart. they also worked on all of the civil rights movements.
^ just because morita is dummy smart does not mean that he carries brain cells.
morita-dugan-dernier get into jackass level hooliganry. its the combo of 'morita machine smart' and 'dernier explosives smart' and 'dugan down to clown'.
like technically steve is in charge but i think theyve got more of a community thing going on esp when it comes to day to day life. steve makes the battle plans and reports to the brass but everything else is a group effort because they're family.
bucky has that annoying big brother energy he's like messing with people and repeating the same phrases and singing all the time.
bucky and steve together are super annoying because they can communicate without speaking and everything they say is an inside joke and they have no idea how to interact socially with anybody but each other.
^^ when peggy is around this is worse. the three of them are insane and should never be put in charge of anything ever.
morita is full of rage (as he should be). dugan regularly exploits this.
dugan and bucky are bffls - if they were grade school students in the 2010s they'd exchange silly bandz and pass notes via paper airplane. i have no textual evidence to back this up other than that i believe it's true.
dernier can understand and speak english fine but he thinks its a stupid language so he makes them all learn french in order to communicate with him.
monty and steve have a similar vibe as dugan and bucky but like not as grimy and rowdy bc their personalities are different. but like monty is steve's no 2 after bucky and they do "high brow shit" like talk about art and books and political theory and nerd things.
^ in this similar vein, steve and gabe have a similar vibe as steve and natasha. idk how else to elaborate on this i just feel its true. gabe holds a large percentage of the group's overall brain cell, and he's clever and has a dry humor and when steve comes to him saying "i want to try this" he shrugs and says okay.
gabe is jacked asf cuz he carries the machine gun around like he's super strong, he and steve regularly exploits this.
dugan is like so indiana jones about his hat and they're all so annoyed about it. howard bulks it up though, makes it sturdier in case it gets shot. it's dugan's pride and joy.
james howlett (wolverine) joined up with them for one (1) mission and.....never again. don't ask what happened, just, never again.
^^ this becomes hilarious in like 2015
peggy went on a few missions with them but that got shut down real quick. it's not that they weren't successful, but the peggy-steve-bucky Circle of Stupidity (TM) makes the howlies drop productivity by at least 25% so they unionized and said no more sorry we love her but when she's here you three act like dumb idiots.
when steve goes on the azzano mission with peggy and howard, colonel phillips is like "i did not make it through the great war just to be put in charge of the stupidest idiots in the allied powers" and then when steve comes back and puts the howlies together, phillips gives up. he tries to resign, eisenhower wont let him.
the thing about peggy-steve-bucky is that all three of them think they're the level headed rational one of the group and all three of them are wrong.
