Line #91 Fanfic/Ipseity


1	Even the strongest personalities, when subjected to great physical, emotional, and sexual abuses, can splinter, or dissociate. Bucky Barnes lives a nightmare after falling from a train and being recovered by Hydra. His mind deals with the trauma by splintering into the soldier, the prisoner, the patriot, and the assassin. Rated Explicit for physical, emotional, and sexual abuses. Detailed description of mental illnesses and [[TraumaButton trigger warning]] for the standard implications of the existence of the Winter Soldier.
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3	''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/118750 Ipseity]] series'', by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/SkyisGray/pseuds/SkyisGray SkyisGray]], hosted by Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.
4	* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1815529/chapters/3897427 Chyetirye]]''
5	* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2062218/chapters/4482393 Chasm]]''
6	* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2732888 Changes and Constants]]''
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8	SlashFic pairing: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
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10	'''There'll be HEAVY spoilers below!'''
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13	!!The ''Ipseity'' series contains examples of:
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15	* AdaptationalSexuality: Apart from the standard as this is ultimately a SlashFic, the four personalities fractured from James Barnes' psyche ended up having drastically different sexual orientations. Bucky is bisexual, [[StraightGay Axel is strongly hinted to be gay]], [[{{Het}} Yasha is heterosexual]], and the asset is asexual. Whether it would lead to IncompatibleOrientation remain to be seen.
16	* ArtificialLimbs[=/=]RedRightHand: In their subconscious dream apartment, the asset ''still'' has a metal left arm, while the three other brothers all see themselves as having two functional flesh arms and whole.
17	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The asset. Even the three other personalities fail to understand where he's coming from half the time, and that is after decades of sharing brain-space with him.
18	* BrokenBird: BUUUCKKKYYY!!!
19	* FourPhilosophyEnsemble
20	** TheCynic: Bucky.
21	** The Realist: Axel.
22	** The Optimist: Yasha.
23	** The Apathetic: The asset.
24	* FourTemperamentEnsemble
25	** Choleric/Melancholic: Bucky. Corresponds with young to middle-aged adulthood, extroverted or introverted and task-oriented.
26	** Melancholic/Phlegmatic: Axel. Corresponds to middle-aged to older adulthood, introverted and task-oriented or people-oriented.
27	** Sanguine: Yasha. It corresponds to childhood, extroverted and people-oriented.
28	** The asset doesn't have a defined temperament.
29	* GollumMadeMeDoIt: The split personalities are aware of each other's existences fairly early on, though it takes some time for them to come with a way to communicate with each other. The dominant personality rotates depending who best suited to "cope" with their current situation.
30	* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: SHIELD and Department X.
31	-->SHIELD is the American version of Department X. It makes sense if they're controlled by [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Hydra]].
32	* HappyPlace: For James Barnes, this is the apartment he once shared with Steve Rogers in Brooklyn. Bucky, Axel, Yasha, and the asset are here when they aren't in the [[GhostInTheMachine driver's seat]]. Or not.
33	* InternalizedCategorism: Bucky and Axel, for [[DefiledForever what happened to them in Karpov's hands]]. Especially Bucky, [[spoiler: Axel is starting to finally get over it]].
34	* MultinationalTeam: From a certain pov. Bucky is American, Axel is German, Yasha is Soviet/Russian, and... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg the asset has no nationality]].
35	* NoNeedForNames: The asset.
36	* PatientChildhoodLoveinterest: Steve, of course, for Bucky. He is first extremely understanding of Bucky's stalker-with-a-machine-gun tendency, then very patient for Bucky's mental and physical recovery, not to mention how tolerant he is of Bucky's unexplainable mood-swings and often times volatile behavior patterns.
37	* PatrioticFervor: Yasha, the patriot personality. He is Soviet/Russian.
38	* ThePollyanna: Yasha is a rare male example, who never completely looses his cheerfulness despite going through the same tortures and decades long trauma as his "brothers". Until [[BreakTheCutie that one time]], but he gets better.
39	* ProfessionalKiller: The asset, the assassin personality.
40	* SelfHarm: Bucky and Axel would do so deliberately, often to communicate via blood or cuts on their skin. The asset, from a lack of care or awareness (like stepping on shattered pieces of glass and ignoring/neglecting the wound). Yasha usually don't.
41	* ShellShockedVeteran: Bucky, the soldier personality.
42	* TheSociopath: The asset, is the LackOfEmpathy and Imperviousness to Shame variety.
43	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The asset is ''always'' referred to as '''the asset'''.
44	* SplitPersonality: The entire premise of this series.
45	* TeamMom: Axel is a rare male example, he is mentally the eldest of the four "brothers" and is generally the one that holds them together. (Doubly so, when Bucky is having another of his psychotic breakdowns and not available.)
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49	!!Part I. Chyetirye contains examples of:
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51	* ColdBloodedTorture: Where to even ''start''? All are played completely and horrifyingly straight. The following are not even ''all'' the examples. [[DrowningPit Drowning in water while caged]]; [[ElectricTorture the Chair]]; pulling off [[{{Fingore}} fingernails]] and [[AgonyOfTheFeet toenails]]; [[FlayingAlive skinning]]; something about [[TheToothHurts the teeth]] that you ''don't'' want to know; and [[ForceFeeding forcing gallons of water down the throat]], with tube.
52	* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: Bucky plays chess with Axel by switching back and forth, when it is still only the two of them and with no easy way to communicate with each other.
53	* CrazySane: Bucky once admits to his [[SplitPersonality "brothers"]] that he would probably go insane without them. Yeah, of course [=DID=] is a kind of mental disorder, why do you ask?
54	* DrivenToMadness: James Barnes is driven into [[SplitPersonality dissociating]], first by the abuse and neglect while under Karpov's care, then by the physical and psychological tortures from Lukin and [[{{Room101}} the Red Room]].
55	* DrivenToSuicide: Bucky, many many times. Axel and Yasha to a lesser degree. It didn't take.
56	* GallowsHumor: The only kind of humor in the first part of this series.
57	* {{Heaven}}
58	-->Heaven is... [[spoiler: an apartment, or, no Steve has Army money now. Heaven is a house in Brooklyn with Steve and Agent Carter and there's no way they don't have at least one baby by now. And Bucky knows that Steve won't mind if he stays there for a while to shake off the year of hell. Steve might even have a guest room with Bucky's name on it.]]
59	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Alexander Lukin]], who gets away with arguably ''the'' most horrifying deed(s) in this entire series.
60	* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Bucky thinks of Brooklyn when he is being molested by Karpov, before he finds his HappyPlace.
61	* RapeAsDrama: This is the start, and then... [[RapeLeadsToInsanity goes downhill]] [[SplitPersonality from here]].
62	* {{Room 101}}: The Red Room.
63	* SexForServices: While under Karpov's care, it is strongly implied to be one of Axel's ways to get some relatively decent food, warm showers, and possibly the chair that (for Bucky) suddenly appeared in their small cell. The "service" here is not much objectively speaking, but A LOT compared to the neglect and/or casual abuse.
64	* SexualExtortion: Karpov gives Bucky the choice to "let him pace in a cell" for a blow job or "strapped to a bench forever".
65	* ShamefulStrip[=/=]ShirtlessCaptives: Bucky is not allowed any clothing for over six months during the first part of his imprisonment.
66	* StalkerWithACrush: Bucky is basically this for Steve during the final section of part I. A more benevolent version, though he does stalk Steve while carrying a semi-automatic while murdering any possible threat nearby. Steve is okay with this, Sam though is visibly disturbed.
67	* TortureTechnician: Alexander Lukin, at his finest. The asset [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope is surprisingly not]], due to being the result of torture in the first place, he would refuse to do so to another even under threat]].
68	* TraumaCongaLine: How James Barnes was first broken before the Winter Soldier got made is this.
69	* WildHair: One of the ways to differentiate Bucky and Axel back in their first prison is by how they keep their hair. Bucky's hair is a lot messier because he just doesn't bother with, while Axel generally makes an effort to look slightly better by combing his hair with his fingers.
70	* WorthLivingFor: Bucky finds that person in Axel, by the end of his first year in his metaphorical hell of a prison.
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73	!!Part II. Chasm contains examples of:
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75	* CuteAndPsycho: How Bucky comes across as from Steve's perspective. The "cute" is usually Yasha, while the "psycho" is always the asset. (Most other people just see him as a psychopath though, due to the Winter Soldier's fame and apparent lack of care for his previous victims during interrogation.)
76	* EasyAmnesia: Steve's first theory for Bucky's unexplainable behavior change, due to the latter seemingly unable to recall conversations they have barely minutes before on more than one occasion. Obviously, Steve is no psychologist.
77	* EmotionalRegression[=/=]TimeDissonance: Steve's second theory for Bucky's unexplainable behavior change, because Bucky's behavior patterns seemed to correspond with how he was at different points of his life.
78	* HairContrastDuo: Steve (the blond) who is younger, brighter, hopeful, enthusiastic, helpful, and relatively more innocent; James (as a whole, the brunette) who is older, moody and testy a lot of the times, cynical, so angst, with an extremely detailed DarkAndTroubledPast, and can be [[HairTriggerTemper very snappy]] depending on the day.
79	* HopeIsScary: Bucky is initially averse to and later constantly wary of Steve's kindness, is precisely because of this.
80	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Bucky wants Steve to be happy, and is convinced that there is no happiness with him. Axel wants ''Bucky'' to be happy, and would never contemplate pursuing Steve romantically himself. Everything is a mess of course, because for Steve there isn't anyone else, and would gladly spend the rest of their extended life in a celibate relationship limbo.
81	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Steve is this for Bucky, to a slightly unhealthy degree.
82	* MaskOfSanity: The four brothers hiding their [[SplitPersonality [=DID=]]] condition from others, with varying degrees of success. Basically Bucky and Axel are better at it, Yasha and the asset are... [[{{Understatement}} not]].
83	* TheMentallyDisturbed: Insanity is Steve's third theory for Bucky's unexplainable behavior change. He discards this theory rather quickly because Steve still equates insanity as the stereotypical crazies, while Bucky might be unpredictable but still functional.
84	* MoodSwinger: Steve spends enough time with James to see his "mood-swings", since Steve has no context (until he does) to explain why his friend flips with seemingly no warning from Bucky's depression to Yasha's cheerfulness to the asset's HairTriggerTemper.
85	* MoralityChain: Steve is this for the asset, though he doesn't know it. The other "brothers" however are technically not, since they always compromise when dealing with the asset's innate bloodlust.
86	* StrangelyArousing: Steve first finds it distracting when the asset makes an obvious threat at him [[spoiler:after ''kicking him in the groin'']]. Later again, when Steve spars with the asset in a highly violent match, and especially so when the asset disregards his own wounds and punches Steve with a broken hand.
87	* TokenEvilTeammate: The asset is the remorseless "evil" teammate of the Avengers once he is offered an auxiliary spot, and a couple (bad) people end up needlessly dead because of it.

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