memes | rp mains
it's me, I never stop playing characters
although lbr, this is more the brand: 
anyway my first main was definitely bucky barnes from marvel comics.
to give you an idea of how long I played him, when I picked him up the MCU wasn't a thing
there was no Captain America movie. I think in comics Steve was dead but the era of BuckyCap had just begun, meaning that he was still existing in the mostly self-contained world of Brubaker's Captain America
but friends, I apped him from the canon point of 1944, so he was just a cheesy kid sidekick & I was definitely very nervous and embarrassed about it
I thought (and I was somewhat correct) that people would be confused as to why anyone would seriously play Captain America's still mostly dead goofy sidekick from the 40s
this was my first panfandom rp experience and I didn't really know anyone so I was nervous as heck
but I really wanted to use the expressing "gee willikers" unironically, and I would not be deterred.
anyway the last time I played Bucky in a game it was… the end of El Nysa, so not very long ago at all.
I did however at some point switch from mostly WW2-era Bucky to mostly post-WS Bucky but my interpretation of past Bucky was always super influenced by the current canon, i.e. I was always working from the Brubaker retcons.
I’ve never seen a Bucky from that canon point before, it sounds great!
because again I don't drop characters
the other character that's probably been my main is Nash from Suikoden and again I started playing him in like… 2009? and I am still playing him, so. IDK that I will app him to a game again anytime soon but that's mostly because I don't want to seem like a creepy soulbonder who can't get over a dead fandom and not because I don't still enjoy it.
I am a creature of habit, friends, and I am too lazy to write new apps or come up with new usernames, so I never pick up new muses and never drop old ones.
Anyway Nash is interesting because he's basically the only character relevant to my previous fandom life— I got into comics independently (mostly via Brubaker's Captain America) c. Civil War, and that fandom became my entry to the ljrp community and most of my current brand
But before that I was active on LJ, forums, made icons, &c in jrpg fandoms— I had a pretty big flist back when we still used LJ for journaling but I didn't know anyone into Marvel, so it became this semi-secret thing for me
as I was tired of icon drama and character shrine politics and wanted a respite from that!! but I played Nash anyway and someone commented about my old fanlisting in an hmd meme once.
anyway, I don't know if Natasha has ever been a real RP main for me even though I've played her for many years and she's definitely a part of my brand. but I feel my intense Natasha favoritism has mostly played out on tumblr rather than dw & environs.
currently though I am trying to play more and different characters and challenge myself that way. even though I still hate… coming up with usernames… and apps…
what a great canon point for bucky!
the best version of bucky tbqh
in Nysa I apped him from that canon point again at the start of the game, played him that way for a while, dropped for a month or two, then brought him back from a v. recent canon point
and that was a lot of fun for me to play out and super satisfying even though that game died pretty abruptly
i keep forgetting elnysa was even a thing even though it was The Hot New Game for a while there
but yes what a good bucky canon point
it was and I was in it from the beginning to the end 
the one thing that was hard about WW2 Bucky is the lack of icons, as he is a character who more or less entirely exists in flashbacks, which means a lot mediocre fill-in artists
there's a fun 90s arc with kevin maguire faces but a lot of the older art really makes him look 12-15 instead of 16-20
but luckily the made a chris samnee arc about ww2 bucky exclusively for me
one of the rare times as a marvel consumer that I, specifically, have felt pandered to
(see also: natasha gets a cat)