Every Sin I Don't Admit & Every Crime I'd Dearly Like To Commit & Get Away With Makes Me Realize

[redbrunja]

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.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think one of my favorite underrated little parts of boombangbing's Direction fic is how, when Selvig shows up at Darcy's apartment drunk, Darcy is NOT happy to have him there and wants him to leave straight away so she can make out more with Steve, while Steve is the one who is all like, "Is this guy okay?"

Exactly! I loved that moment as well. Like, I think Darcy has great potential to be heroic, but she's not going to react to people as a 'nice' person. She's going to react as a snarky millennial and that can lead to brilliant fics! Not every character has to be nice!