Oh, this is a great exercise! I actually like them all, but I feel like each of them is from a very different story.
If I imagine that each of the Steve sentences is the first line of a story, I expect:
1 is a mission fic. Fury or Coulson is about to send Steve off somewhere and he doesn't feel ready but he's going to do it anyway. There'll be lots of action and probably some explosions.
2 is explicitly going to be about Steve finding his way in the modern world. There's going to be a lot of introspection, he'll probably wander off on his own for a while, and then Tony or someone will find him and they'll talk and have a Moment and then Steve will order a matcha and like it.
3 this one is also about finding his way in the present, but darker, it's going to be about dealing with trauma and there may be a therapist OC at some point. Bucky figures heavily.
4 is probably a team fic, more lighthearted with some funny bits, and it may not even be steve's story even though it's his POV. Maybe this is the one where Thor's buddies trash SHIELD HQ, or the one where Clint gets trapped in an Iron Man suit.
All of them somehow address Steve's relationship with his past, but to different degrees and with different focus.
So I think each type of prose has its uses and can be very important in setting the tone for the entire plot and progression of a story, but none of them is objectively better or worse. I'd read and enjoy all of those stories I just imagined.
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Date: 2019-02-01 05:16 am (UTC)If I imagine that each of the Steve sentences is the first line of a story, I expect:
1 is a mission fic. Fury or Coulson is about to send Steve off somewhere and he doesn't feel ready but he's going to do it anyway. There'll be lots of action and probably some explosions.
2 is explicitly going to be about Steve finding his way in the modern world. There's going to be a lot of introspection, he'll probably wander off on his own for a while, and then Tony or someone will find him and they'll talk and have a Moment and then Steve will order a matcha and like it.
3 this one is also about finding his way in the present, but darker, it's going to be about dealing with trauma and there may be a therapist OC at some point. Bucky figures heavily.
4 is probably a team fic, more lighthearted with some funny bits, and it may not even be steve's story even though it's his POV. Maybe this is the one where Thor's buddies trash SHIELD HQ, or the one where Clint gets trapped in an Iron Man suit.
All of them somehow address Steve's relationship with his past, but to different degrees and with different focus.
So I think each type of prose has its uses and can be very important in setting the tone for the entire plot and progression of a story, but none of them is objectively better or worse. I'd read and enjoy all of those stories I just imagined.