lukeskyswalker:

“No adventure is complete without a love story, and this tale has one. Platonic though it may be, from the meet cute, to the tragic separation, Steve and Bucky’s relationship has all the elements of a classic romance. Their bond stretches across half of the twentieth century. The loss of it gnaws at Steve throughout modern day, and it slices his heart in half when the Winter Soldier rears his tormented head. Steve and Bucky are each other’s soulmate, if you will, because no one on Earth understands what either of them has been through as well as the other does.” – Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, Captain America: White