History Fanfic / AintNoGrave

* DisproportionateRetribution: What happened to Mikey's bio-dad, in Bucky's opinion. He got sent to prison for twenty years for selling weed (presumably not a first offense, but still) when Mikey was a toddler.

* CommonalityConnection: When Tony and Bucky discover each other's shared sarcastic tendencies and interest in machinery, they start to bond. And eventually, unlike in canon, they become pretty good friends.

* HasTwoMommies: After Bucky decides to stay with Steve for good, Steve turns into the TeamMom, essentially becoming all but Mikey and Lily's second dad.

* AsianStoreOwner: Huang Fumei (also called Huang Ayi or Auntie Huang), the old Chinese lady who owns the dollar store. She's a POV character for part of the story and gets a bit of fleshing out.

* TheSeventies: The setting of ''The Needle and the Killing Done,'' complete with flared jeans, shag carpeting, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick heroin-addicted Vietnam veterans]], and a cameo by Creator/DavidBowie.

* TheSeventies: The setting of ''The Needle and the Killing Done,'' complete with flared jeans, shag carpeting, heroin-addicted Vietnam veterans, and a cameo by David Bowie.

* ComicsRuleEverythingAroundMe: Inverted. Bucky is a superhero who likes hip-hop rather than a rapper who likes superheroes.

* TheSeventies: The setting of ''The Needle And The Killing Done,'' complete with flared jeans, shag carpeting, heroin-addicted Vietnam veterans, and a cameo by David Bowie.

* AnimalMotifs: Bucky and cats.

* [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys Cast Full Of Hunks]]: Lampshaded by Mikey:
-->“Lily, what the fuck, what are our lives, we're in like the Pinkberry of delicious men right now. There's, like, all of the flavors.”
* TheCharmer: Bucky out of combat, at least when his brain cooperates.

* CuddleBug: Bucky, at least with Steve. Fluctuates with HatesBeingTouched when his mental health issues are acting up or he's going off heroin.
** Steve as well, at least if you're really close.

** LighterAndSofter: However, ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' never happened, which means that the superhero community has a better reputation with the general public, the Avengers don't have [[Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar a falling out over the Sokovia Accords]], and Tony Stark and Bucky Barnes get along fine.

-->He isn't sure whether or not the sight of him pulling all of his concealed weapons out of their hiding places and lining them up on the coffee table is sexy. Steve doesn't seem to have a problem with it, at least.

* GoodParents: Bucky [[ParentsAsPeople has a lot of issues that keep him from being the perfect dad by most standards]] - drug addiction, severe mental illness, substandard housing situation due to being a homeless wanted terrorist, RoaringRampageOfRevenge taking him out of the house - but despite this, he is a surprisingly conscientious guardian. He feeds them healthy dinners, makes them go to school, and helps them with their homework.

* IAmAMonster: Bucky thinks this a few times when he's feeling down on himself.
** Played for laughs when [[DramaQueen Mikey]] accidentally interrupts Steve and Bucky's AlmostKiss.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Bucky's MO when going after Hydra.

* RealMenWearPink: Steve helps Mikey with his fashion illustrations and is a big fan of ''Series/CallTheMidwife''.
** Literally, with Bucky's pink sweater.

-->Matt is standing on top of his building, listening to the city, when a strung-out homeless cyborg crashes onto the roof next to him and says, "Jesus fuck." Cyborg, because there's an unnerving mechanical whirring emanating from where the guy's left arm should be. Strung-out and homeless because he smells like it: clothes that have been slept in, the breath of someone whose body is digesting itself, and the distinct vinegary smell of heroin.

* TechnicalVirgin: Steve, as of the beginning of the story.

* RaisedCatholic: Steve.

* ConversationalTroping: According to Bucky, he is the EliteMook, Tony Stark is the SmartGuy, and Steve is MsFanservice.

* RealityEnsues: Bucky loses his dollar store job because he dropped off the face of the earth to finish his RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Hydra and then recover from the effects of quitting a heavy heroin habit.

* AbusiveParents: Bucky's dad, and Mikey and Lily's foster father before they met Bucky.

* LooksLikeJesus: Bucky before he shaves off his hobo-beard.

* ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior: Huang Ayi is very blunt.

* ShipperOnDeck: Mikey for Steve/Bucky.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Claire and Sam.
* SirSwearsALot: Bucky.

* TeamDad: Bucky was this for the Howling Commandos during the war.

* CelebrityParadox: Played with. Tony Stark did not become Iron Man until the 2000s in the MCU, and yet [[Music/WutangClan Ghostface Killa]] still released ''Ironman'' in-universe, presumably in 1996, which would mean that the comic influences for the characters actually exist alongside them.

* {{Adorkable}}: Foggy Nelson, as in canon.

* BiTheWay: Steve and Bucky have romantic histories with both men and women. (Only one of each, in Steve's case.)

* HeCleansUpNicely: For his and Steve's first Christmas together, he shows up ready to go to Christmas Eve mass with Steve clean shaven, his hair cut short into a fashionable modern cut, dressed in a bespoke three-piece suit, with a photostatic veil over his metal arm to make it look human, all courtesy of Tony.

* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Huang Fumei is a tough-as-nails self-made Chinese immigrant whose English still isn't very good after all these years, and is street-smart as hell after thirty years of running a dollar store in a poor area. Many people think she's stupid because of her poor English, and she's willing to make use of that assumption so she can get the jump on them.