"Well, it's definitely his shield." He looks up. "You mean what do I know about Cap? The real one? Plenty. We were partners all through the war. And I know who he was even before then. I probably knew him better than anyone else. Except for the history books, maybe."

Or at least, he assumes there were history books written. There's probably plenty of biographies that have pored over every detail of Steve Rogers's life by now. Or, by Bucky's world's equivalent of 'now,' which from what he can remember so far is the 2000s.

(Time is weird and fake.)