semistableman: (❅ you're not here)
Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] semistableman) wrote 2018-05-25 03:14 am (UTC)

[He nods.

There's a lot of things he could say, but none of them are all that helpful in the long-run, just empty promises that ultimately aren't the least bit true.]



It does. Helps get some of the anger out.

[He doesn't respond right away, but eventually he nods.]

Survivor's guilt. Yeah. Back in the war, it was considered a weakness of character. A man losing his nerve, not something psychologically wrong with 'im. "Survivor's guilt" and "post-traumatic stress" makes it sound a lot less like blaming the person for not being strong enough.

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