captainsavage42:

tygermama:

amarriageoftrueminds:

I was thinking about that question Seb got asked at Wizard World about how Bucky was making money in the two years before Civil War no Mackie he was not a dancer and consider this: 

Bucky as a cook.

• scary-good with knives
• never needs an order repeated / never fucks one up
• working through his ‘automatic-obedience’ trauma in a low-stakes environment
• hidden away from the public / less chance of being spotted
• using the supersoldier!stamina to stay on his feet for hours without flagging and the grace to move around the kitchen like a dancer
• telling the other staff he has a badly burned arm/hand (which is why he’s shy and has to wear a glove all the time)
• picking up red-hot pans/handling hot food without getting burned because he’s using his metal hand
• getting the habit of wearing his hair up in a bun (or in a hairnet!!)
• learning to enjoy food again

  (aka, how he got thicc)

  because the Winter Soldier only ever ate to replenish energy or was force-fed through a tube 

• going to the market for good produce for the restaurant (plums!!)
• being an uppity restaurant-patron’s worst nightmare when they make the mistake of asking to see the Chef.

sorry but
– Bucky starts watching this guy’s videos on youtube, his face is never shown and Bucky’s sure there’s a little bit of post-production work screwing with his voice but he has great videos
– and he’s sure the guy is former army or something, he’s definitely been around, there’s some very distinctive knifework going on
– it’s years later when he’s in Portland eating what is the best fucking burger of his life that he realizes who made it and dashes into the kitchen
– the chef instantly positions himself between Bucky and his staff, knife at the ready
– ‘I am your biggest fan, can I cook with you?’
– Bucky gets tazered by a blonde dropping on him from the ceiling
– best burger ever

@wormdelivre