Bucky is definitely not going to complain about not being called kid, it was always a little awkward, but when you 'die' at age 20 and go down in the history books as 'plucky Bucky Barnes, Captain America's sidekick', some people never stop thinking of you as that kid from the war. But it's his turn to be confused by Sam's next comment, and he frowns.

"Yeah, let's use 'them'. Steve and I didn't grow up together. I was raised in Virginia - we met at Camp Lehigh." Different timelines, definitely, that much is even more blatantly obvious now. "This multiverse stuff is weird, ain't it? This is always more a Tony Stark or Reed Richards kinda thing."