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The Winter Soldier was not a happy man and there were a lot of reasons why. One reason was that he had not thought of himself as a human being in a very, very long time. He was, in fact, a machine, a tool, and he never forgot it. He was used, not cherished, and weaponized instead of loved. He wasn’t spoken to or treated as though he had feelings or opinions or dreams, so eventually, those things drained out of him. He was a sort of empty vessel for others to pour their wishes into and he’d wield a gun and make them happen. It was not very fulfilling. It was, alternatively, rather damaging. His life was inconsequential, even to himself, and because he turned out to actually be a person, (much to his surprise when he discovered the fact) he realized that shoving his own feelings out of the way to make room for others had rather hurt him quite a lot and he didn’t really like it.