He was a symbol when the country needed a symbol. It may be a little-- [one corner of her mouth quirks down,] 'cartoonish', but it endured, and it's meant something different to every generation since. Something important.

[The smile comes back, a bit shy.]

I dressed up as him once for Halloween. That was... the year the Soviet Union fell.

[She was busy hating him, actually, for everything he stood for. But in hindsight, if the little girl she never got to be knew Steve Rogers the way Natasha does now, it could have been a reality.]