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

[lady-with-cats.livejournal.com]

you know, i think that's why i never really got into darcy/steve before you started rec'ing them. fandom's tendecy to self insert is usually fine, but it just made darcy's characterization rather blandly nice & overwhelmingly friendly with every avenger (personally i think she'd clash with the entire shield set up more than a little).

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

but it just made darcy's characterization rather blandly nice & overwhelmingly friendly with every avenger (personally i think she'd clash with the entire shield set up more than a little).

I have ranted before about the tendency to write fics where Darcy dies/is hurt and EVERYONE cares and I'm like, no. First, everyone would not care. Second, even if everyone DID, they wouldn't all react the same.

But yeah, blandly nice Darcy drives me crazy (and frankly, I think she'd bore Steve, eventually. He has a tendency to surround himself with people who have a lot of vibrancy and fire; Bucky, Peggy, Dr. Erskine, etc, etc. Steve likes interesting people, imho.).