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redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2013-07-31 07:17 pm
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Every Sin I Don't Admit & Every Crime I'd Dearly Like To Commit & Get Away With Makes Me Realize

No one is writing the Darcy/Steve fic(s) that I want to be reading.

No one is really writing that pairing and the last couple of fics I tried all had Generic Romance Heroine Darcy a.k.a Darcy's most prevalent characteristic is that she's Nice.

Gag me. Darcy is:

  • snarky

  • smart

  • a fan of music and her iPod

  • a fan of Facebook

  • a hacker (debatable, but just go with it, okay?)

  • appreciative of hot, cut, blond dudes

  • deeply self-interested

The reason that Darcy and Steve, when written properly, have a subtle opposites-attract vibe is that Steve is deeply selfless and optimistic and Darcy is not. I would actually argue that as a political scientist, she is probably deeply cynical.

A couple people on tumblr were lamenting Darcy's tendency to be used as a self-insert, where as I lament her characterization as a nice country girl (seriously, about six different fics have had Nice Country Girl Darcy, I don't even know) and write her as someone with more snark.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2013-08-01 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Writers thinking that Darcy is a good country girl?

[identity profile] bellonablack.livejournal.com 2013-08-01 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
In the good old nutshell. (not your summation which was A+)

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2013-08-01 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the clarification!