I'm kind of realizing that Bucky has this weird tier system of loyalty that is absolutely foreign to any idea of morality I can figure out

oooo?

Peter was the first person he met that helped him, so Peter is High Loyalty, and so people close to him are also High Loyalty

And yet Beck, who Bucky saw hurting Peter, despite them being friends now, is such low loyalty that Bucky 100% tried to kill his ass

to the point where he let his friendship with Steven, who was also High Loyalty, come apart

bucky's brain is held together by bubble gum and duct tape. he's going by instinct!!

and now, even though Bucky and Norman weren't all that terribly close, seeing Sherlock, who he was close to, coming in to trash talk him over what might be a fairly justified reason, welp, Bucky immediately starts snarling and barking

like I can NOT figure out this man's morality system lol

https://tvtropes.org/... full on this trope at this moment

like he holds himself to a horrid standard where i don't think he'd ever consider himself anything but an absolute monster

Like he doesn't really have anything against murder, in particular, if the person on the other end deserves it

For a second I read "High Loyalty" as "High Royalty"

but also anyone who ever willingly hurts a child is Instantly And Permanently On The Shitlist

Why yes, he is a king

pfff

like in general Bucky seems like he's actually pretty immoral. He's not about to pay attention to people stealing or cheating "as long as they're punching up"

TL;DR If I've pinned this right, he seems to mostly settle on "if you do anything harmful to someone in a weaker position than you, then you're evil, but if you're hitting at someone stronger than you, then it's fine"

which is

not normal

i love u bucky, you bark bark woof woofman