Re: ooc plotting here
lol these kids these days and their self-care
for what it's worth, yelena's belief is that natasha overcoming her red room brainwashing and conditioning to choose to defect and make more heroic choices is harder than what she herself went through. with chemical subjugation, there was nothing to fight against, no way she could have freed herself without the red dust. and with bucky, it was kind of a mix of the two experiences, because of what hydra and the north institute turned up in their research into basically hijacking the basal ganglia.