he still introduced himself around as bucky , but those whod known him for any reasonable stretch of time seemed to defypossibly intentionally , but more likely out of the sheer laziness of habitany entreaties insinuated upon them to acknowledge this newer , redefined persona , by continuing instead to refer to him by his original given name as though nothing at all had changed with respect to him ( which , as far as they were willing to see , was the case ) .