"Yeah, and so am I." Literally, because both of the super soldier serum and being shot up with another serum that turned him into a damn animal. "That and other people having opinions doesn't mean I get to stop worrying about who I actually am and what I believe. Neither do you."

Which meant if he had to turn himself fucking inside out and upside down, he was going to choke back the urge to define Bucky for him. Keep him on a leash if he had to, sure, try to help him remember, yeah, but he wasn't going to draw lines around it or encourage Bucky to stay blank. He'd rather have a totally different guy back, than enable Bucky to continue to be that empty and blank.

It was just wrong.