Isn't that kind of how males get along? It is amongst the guys that I have known. Verbal jabbing, mostly light-hearted. As Bucky was walking away to continue the double date, Steve said "you are taking all of the stupid with you". Bucky didn't get upset. He walked back and hugged Steve. Bucky was even trying to talk Steve out of trying for recruitment again, knowing that Steve's size and illnesses would make him ineligible one more time. He was trying to convince Steve that he shouldn't feel guilty, that there many important stateside jobs to be done during the war. And he got Steve a date for a double date on his last night in the states before deployment (albeit the girl ended up really bitchy). How is any of that conceited?
And Bucky's soviet makeover? You mean the medical experimentation, mental and physical torture, Pavlov style behavioral conditioning, memory wiping, periods in deep freeze, etc.? Hydra formed him into a mind controlled killing machine. Crossing paths with Steve again in Winter Soldier helped to start cracking through all of the damage that Hydra had done. And Civil War showed that Bucky was well on his way back. He said that he hadn't killed anymore since the events at the Triskelion. And he voluntarily went back into deep freeze for the protection of others. Steve knows that even though Bucky's physical body was used as a tool to commit all of those killings, the true Bucky wouldn't have agreed to it. That is why he stands with his friend.
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