Sia grew up surrounded by chaos — an American mother and German father whose marriage was built on shouting matches and sharp edges. With two older brothers and one younger, she learned early to survive in the noise. When her father won the lottery, the family moved to the Outer Banks, chasing a fresh start that never really came.
Bucky Barnes has always carried the weight of his past like a second skin. Decades as the Winter Soldier left him haunted, trained to obey and destroy, yet tethered to fragments of who he used to be. Even after the world started to shift around him, even after Steve and the Avengers gave him a chance at something resembling a normal life, the memories never fully left. They waited in the dark corners of his mind, in the twitch of his metal arm, in the sudden spike of fear at the wrong sound in the night. He’s learned to live with it, mostly. To manage it. But some ghosts, he’s discovered, aren’t just echoes—they are living, breathing, and burning.
Sia remembered fire. Not the one that nearly consumed her, not the one that licked the edges of her childhood, but the one she hadn’t meant to touch, the one everyone else claimed she had. Thunder Bay had a way of twisting the truth until it was unrecognizable, and she was learning to move through its smoke without getting caught. She came and went through the city like a shadow, a ghost no one could pin down. She had survived too many things for people to understand what she carried, and she had no intention of explaining herself to anyone.
They blamed her for the fire. Thunder Bay twisted truths beyond recognition. She learned to move through its smoke unseen. Slipped through the city like a ghost. She had no intention of explaining herself.
Sia grew up in chaos. The youngest daughter of a German father and an American mother, she and her three brothers spent their childhood surrounded by shouting matches and broken promises. When her father, George, hit the lottery, the family packed up their fractured life in Germany and moved to the Outer Banks — hoping for a new start that never really came.
Sometime in the 1960s, with 19, Sia stopped being Sianara and became Veyra. HYDRA took her young, reshaped her with the same serum that built Captain America. They made her stronger, faster—but twisted. Her blood ran hot, her body learned to hold and bend heat until it burned. Fire obeyed her.
She didn’t remember where she was born, or to whom—only that sometime in the 1960s, she became HYDRA‘s. She was the first female Winter Soldier, though they never called her that „Winter Soldier“, but „Veyra“—a prototype, an experiment in control and obedience. While Bucky Barnes would later become their perfected assassin, Y/N had been the unstable weapon, the one who broke too often, remembered too much, questioned too much. HYDRA spent decades making her forget. They succeeded. What was left of her humanity survived in flickers—instincts, reactions, a sense of wrongness she couldn’t explain.