I have seen people try to sort Steve somewhere else and like. What? Steve is the most clear cut Gryffindor I have ever seen, like come on.

actualmenacebuckybarnes:

I think it’s a backlash to the “Hufflepuffs are boring” mindset that was going around for that past couple of years. Now it’s almost like EVERYONE IS A HUFFLEPUFF BC HUFFLEPUFFS CAN BE ANYTHING AND AWESOME!!! which, okay, i understand the compulsion

but what I see as the core of a Hufflepuff is a person DEDICATED TO PEACE but resigned to war. This is a person that never starts the fight, but joins it in order to support their friends. They are committed to people rather than ideals.

Sam, for example, is Huffle through and through. He’s TEXTBOOK Huffle. This is a guy who’s dedicated his life to saving people (he was a paramedic and rescue) in the war and after. He takes up the wings again because Steve asks him to and needs him to.

Let’s contrast this with Steve. This is a guy with a chip on his shoulder, determined to enlist out of sheer fucking stubborn WILL. Bucky saw right through him when he said, “And I’m sure this has nothing to do with you.” Because Steve says that he’s enlisting to fight bullies (an IDEAL, by the way), but it’s equal parts his need to prove himself. Steve has a hero-complex and a martyr-complex and it only gets worse after the serum.

A Hufflepuff would have been fine pulling the wagon and collecting scrap metal. A Hufflepuff would have been fine helping out the effort in any way that they could!! Especially bc Steve’s slow running speed, body weakness etc. might have actually hindered his fellow soldiers in the field!! But Steve’s pride thinks that anything less than literally laying down his life for his not country is good enough.

And that is why he is a god damned Gryffindor.