"Mostly I was just trying to hide it." Hence him wondering now if it could be made to look more human. And yet... "Not sure I want to, if I don't have to, though. It's part of me, now. I may be Bucky Barnes again, but the Winter Soldier is still in there, too. I'll never really be free of him... and trying to pretend like it never happened seems, I dunno. Disrespectful."

As if he was brushing aside all the lives he'd taken, all the innocent people who had died because of the Soldier's actions.