My favourite kind of fic is Bucky is traumatised and guilty and miserable, Steve is stoic and guilty and miserable, and everyone suffers until there is a scene where there are tears and possibly shouting, therapy montages, lots of talking about feelings, a visit to Brooklyn, the mandatory scene where there is movie watching on a couch, possibly Disney, and somewhere throughout all of this Bucky discovers skinny jeans and how to put his hair up in ponytails and a cute widdle bun. Either an unholy amount of take out, either Chinese Japanese or pizza, or one of the two of them cook. Steve draws Bucky at least once, or wants to very badly. The end involves possibly an outing where they are cute, maybe on a date. There is generally a lower level of suffering by the end, but sometimes not all the suffering is gone, because poignant feelings, but sometimes they are just not miserable and lounging around in sweatpants after a run eating cookies and cream ice cream This is a very specific genre but it is a surprisingly well filled niche.
