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beccaelizabethHaving read a ton of fanfic (all the fanfic) I have read a really really lot of fanfic featuring Darcy and Coulson. And the thing is, neither Darcy nor Coulson are what you could call a fully rounded out character in the source canon. In the movies, Darcy has an iPod, Coulson has a fanboy crush, that's... pretty much it. And yet, all the fanfic. These two all over it.
I noticed I was almost embarrassed to read Darcy fic because college student who gets to be best friends with the superhero is, you know, my awesome insomnia daydream me. Hi, MarySue of snark and attainable weaponry.
Coulson though, he's SHIELD, so he seems more superhero world already. But I seen comments saying they can't see the point of him because he's just another dude in a suit. And, yes, that's the point of him. Do you know how many dudes in a suit there are? Fanboy dudes in a suit even. With huge fanboy crushes on Captain America. This is a man who has epic superpower of paperwork management, being really trustworthy, and again attainable weaponry. Also persistence and being unflappable. Office workers of the world unite, you know?
And, yes, there's the short thing where he kicks all the arse as well, but that makes it the fun kind of dream.
So there they are, these people that at least look ordinary next to all the flashy superhero types, and here we are writing all the fic about them.
And while the audience can identify with them enough they're arguably a self insert Mary Sue, they're not distorting the whole story around themselves so they're not the arrgh arrgh make it stop kind. In canon.
I think the writers made some characters that fully attained their function, there.
So, the writers are winning.
I noticed I was almost embarrassed to read Darcy fic because college student who gets to be best friends with the superhero is, you know, my awesome insomnia daydream me. Hi, MarySue of snark and attainable weaponry.
Coulson though, he's SHIELD, so he seems more superhero world already. But I seen comments saying they can't see the point of him because he's just another dude in a suit. And, yes, that's the point of him. Do you know how many dudes in a suit there are? Fanboy dudes in a suit even. With huge fanboy crushes on Captain America. This is a man who has epic superpower of paperwork management, being really trustworthy, and again attainable weaponry. Also persistence and being unflappable. Office workers of the world unite, you know?
And, yes, there's the short thing where he kicks all the arse as well, but that makes it the fun kind of dream.
So there they are, these people that at least look ordinary next to all the flashy superhero types, and here we are writing all the fic about them.
And while the audience can identify with them enough they're arguably a self insert Mary Sue, they're not distorting the whole story around themselves so they're not the arrgh arrgh make it stop kind. In canon.
I think the writers made some characters that fully attained their function, there.
So, the writers are winning.