_{★— Oh wow that’s a difficult question to answer. The thing is, over the course of time that I’ve been writing Steve I’ve come up with so many headcanons that I try to justify using canon – small things he’s said, tiny quirks, even those passing stares in comics that make me think he’s staring at something longer than he should be therefore he feels such and such a way about it.}

_{It’s hard to pick just one singular headcanon, of course I’m baised toward my own writing so I tend to think that certain things I come up with are the best things since sliced bread.}

_{I think there’s one thing that I try and incorporate into my writing a lot more than anything else, and it’s his accent – it’s hard to write such a strong accent into any writing and still keep it entirely readable, for me, anyway. I’ve always thought that Steve has a very strong Brooklyn accent, and over the years he’s conditioned it out, just a little. With all of the press tours that he’s done in the past, interviews and appearances, he has to maintain professional understandable not only by natives but by those abroad. Being a Captain means he has to speak with a clear, concise tone of voice, and touring all over the world had meant that his accent has indeed dulled down.}

_{But one of my favourite things is thinking that his accent flares up whenever he feels angry, is shouting, or is heated. You get Brooklyn-isms shine through, words get cut off and his tone carries that bite to it. Over the years I’ve been trying to delve more into how his accent would sound exactly, but yes, most definitely it gets stronger the stronger emotions he is facing. (Of course when he’s loved up his accent slips too, those flirty moments of slang slip in, only behind closed doors of course).}

_{I’m also very keen into ensuring that Steve stays close to his roots, and has a lot of Irish in him. Traditional songs his mother used to sing to him really stick with him, and perhaps, when he sings them – because he’s so used to hearing them sung a certain way, he has a bit of a softer mixed Irish-American accent. Because he’s so used to his mother saying certain words, there are particular words that carry more of his mother’s accent to them when he says them – it’s all to do with conditioning from a young age, positive association with those words too. I know this is really rambly, but I feel accents are a great indication of character and actually say a lot about the person and their upbringing. So yes, I feel it would definitely be important for Steve to maintain a few Irish quips here and there regarding the way he says certain words. And naturally, he’s great at singing lullabies (seen in the issue where he accompanied a few troops to South America if I’m not mistaken) where he’d sung a little girl a lullaby in Spanish. I’m going to go ahead and assume he did the same with Ian in Dimension Z too – but instead of Spanish, he used to sing the old lullabies his mother used to sing him, particularly when he was sick. Those soft tones and melodies carrying through each note, with his accent melting into more of his mothers voice. Sarah Rogers is SO important to Steve, and so I feel he’d want to carry on her strength through any means he could, to help others as he was when he was younger.}

_{Whoa, I really did go off on one here.}

_{So, short summary; Steve’s accent shifts regarding the situation. In the public eye he seems more rigid, in the heat of the moment his accent may slip into something more common around his area in Brooklyn, and when he’s being softer and more comforting his accent reflects a lot more of his mothers.}

_{I think that’s one of many headcanons that I love to write, and have been developing. Maybe I think too much about it. There are huge other aspects of his character that I write headcanons on but I gotta say this one sticks with me a lot when I’m writing.}