Darcy Lewis

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[series]: MCU | Thor
[character]: Darcy Lewis
[character history / background]:

There was not much known on Darcy Lewis's background other than she attended some university for a political science degree. How did she decided to take up an internship in assisting an astrophysicist is equally unknown, but it was suggested it had to do something for three credits for her degree. Anyway, for someone working on a job that was the furthest opposite of her own degree, Darcy seemed to take the flustering of her scientific coworkers aside like a duck brush aside water.

That said, she's not going to die for three credits as she told Jane Foster, her boss, as they are doing research on wormholes or some such which chasing a crazy tornado from space. As luck would have it, the stars has shown a sign - a sign in the form of a crazy, possibly drunk homeless guy Jane totally ran over yelling out "Hammer!" and for his dad. Or at least, that what it looked like at the time.

It was very unsettling.

Homeless Guy started to be irritated at everyone started to call himself Thor the God of Thunder and called everyone else "puny mortals" or something. It started to freak Darcy out so much she tased him. And everyone looked at her like she was the crazy one! So they took him to the hospital and the guy woke up and totally freaked out and started tossing doctors and assistants around like they were just tricycles. Bet they wanted Darcy's taser at that moment right until a smart person got the idea to sedate him in the butt.

So they all went home, all pretty wiped out but exalted by the experience, with Jane even more dedication to work on her thesis. Darcy, being the clever and the most obvious one of the group, noticed in one of the thermal imagining photographs taken during the weird tornado thing that there was something obviously falling down from the tunnel . . . a man-shaped something.

Realizing that they just left behind possibly mankind's greatest discovery since cooked meat, they all went back to the hospital but to find Mr. Homeless Guy had escaped from the hospital. Selvig was all considerably freaked out, thinking he maybe a dangerous man, which he was right, considering what he just did to the poor hospital workers; but they also had Darcy and her taser, so it was an even match if Homeless Guy wanted to have Round Two.

It turned out Darcy's taser wasn't needed as so much as Jane's incredible driving skills find and incapacitate him again.

In possibly the most awkward moment ever, they took him to their base of operations. Jane gave Homeless Guy - who insisted whose name was Thor - her ex's clothes instead of walking around in a hospital gown. Because they "fit". Sure. But Thor was pretty cut though.

So they took him to a coffee shop - dude really likes coffee and throwing things to the ground - and it's there they found out that there was some kind of satellite that no one can picked it up. Thor had a Darkwing Duck moment and decided to go after this satellite, calling it Mew-Mew or something. It must be important enough for Jane to get all concerned over his well-being, but it could be that she didn't want her project to get tased again by the police.

Unfortunately, things turned for the worst when these government snobs show up and took all of Servig's and Jane's work! Including Darcy's iPod! Dr. Selvig and Jane were not very upset over Darcy's loss, considering their life's work was now in a black van driving back to Men-in-Black-Land. Even Thor was upset that he couldn't get his Mew-Mew, and was still at S.H.I.E.L.D's place. Dr. Selvig cheered Thor up with a drink and came back drunk as a skunk with a now cheerful Thor.

The next day, some guys who looked like they dressed up as a Viking opera showed up to pick up Thor. Turned out those guys and Thor were buddies in Asgard, or whatever the place was name. If that wasn't crazy enough, a giant metal monster thing came out of nowhere and start destroying the town. Darcy helped in evacuating folks but Dr. Selvig and Jane were better at heroics than Darcy was.

Thor's buddies tried to take the giant metal thing down, but the thing swatted them away like flies. So Thor instead tried to do some heart-to-heart, calling the thing Loki, trying to reason with him, pleading not to hurt the townspeople. And then it backhanded Thor and Thor died. Jane was understandably upset and Darcy was sort of in a state of shock herself.

That was when Mew-Mew start to fly toward Thor and recharged him like the goddamn Energizer Bunny and pretty much trashed the metal giant. Then he told the government guy who stole all of Jane's things to return her things to her. (Jane's things did not included Darcy's iPod, unfortunately.)

He and his buddies returned to Asgard to kick his little brother's balls for being such a shit head. Thor had promised to return to Earth for Jane, but judging on how much serious rainbow thunder going about, it didn't look like a possibility.

But there was still hope. Jane got her research back, Selvig got his equipment, and Darcy is back to be being a somewhat inept intern, and all three combined they will find the way back to Thor, one way or the other.

[character abilities]: She's deadly a taser but that's pretty much it. She's not the brightest or cleverest of sorts, but she does have a knack to see things that are very much possible when others would just dismiss it. She's not scientific, but she can see the obvious - obvious to her, anyway - when people are focused on the little details.

[character personality]: At a first glance, Darcy looks like your average bored college student. And most of time, that impression is the most you can get out of Darcy Lewis.

Meta-wise, her actress once described Darcy as "Jane's helper gnome" and it pretty much fits her. Darcy is not the hero, or even the sidekick. Heroes save people; Darcy does not save people. Sidekicks get in on the action; Darcy does not. Sidekicks had been waiting for a chance to prove herself; Darcy has nothing to prove to anyone. She is simply Darcy, a political science college student who was the only one who sent an application to an internship to an astrophysicist. Why Darcy had done so it was not said, but Darcy is pragmatic enough to do anything to get by, if the line "I am not dying for six college credits!" is any indication enough.

Even though she's more noted for her sense of deadpan sarcasm, Darcy is nothing if not pragmatic. Working for college credits is all well and good until it becomes life-threatening, and then it is not all well and good. When Thor is starting to act even more out of it and was starting to act threatening, Darcy doesn't waste any chances to let him finish his boast and let him act on it, so she tased him. When both Jane and Selvig were discussing how to subdue Thor when he might have the answers they need, Darcy can be seen in the back readying her taser. She is not the hero and she's not the sidekick, but she will take action if everyone is being too slow or too scatter-brain to think right. And when people take notice of she things she did, she's not above to being proud of it or reminding people of the awesome things she just did. Did anyone else took down a god of thunder with a taser? Think not.

Darcy has a thoughtfulness that is often not taken for granted, mainly of her general obliviousness to everything around her. The first to notice the strange storm and subsequent tornado that was really the Bifrost transporting Thor to Earth, Darcy has been quick to alert her bosses. When noticing Thor's silhouette in the photographs and made the connection he was involved in the Bifrost-made tornado somehow, she discovers that the drunk homeless guy is not what he appears to be. When Jane and Selvig were trying to piece Thor's identity together,she talks the possibility on how he might not be the actual Viking god, but must have been worshipped as such a long time ago when people didn't know any better. She might not be as clever as, say, Loki, but she does have a knack of putting things together when people are too busy working on their own agendas to see the big picture. She can see patterns, and she knows it and it's a shame no one else will see it. Darcy's used to it.

Despite her occasionally inappropriate sarcastic remarks and/or general obliviousness, Darcy is a good person. She didn't have to do anything for Jane or Thor outside her internship, but she did. She stood by her bosses even if she had nothing to gain from it, and actually had to deal with government-sanctioned iPod theft as a result. People won't think too highly on Darcy's lack of professionalism and will dismiss her casual yet important observations, they can still rely on her on good faith on being a good unpaid intern and a better friend.

[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Just as she was witnessing just how hot that crazy homeless guy is when they picked him up after Jane ran him over again.

[journal post]:

[ A WILD DARCY APPEARS. One that still has her awesome glasses on, with that look that she totally perfected in the mirror; y'know, the cool and thoughtful that makes you wish she can give that look just by glancing at you.

Or so she wishes, anyway. Chances are it's the kind of look that gives you the desire to say Young lady, why don't you give me a cappuccino, double stirred and extra creme?

This, she knows. But whatever, it's not like she's their intern, is she? And there's something else different here as well. Different as in Twilight-Zone-slash-Burmuda Triangle weird. Doo doo doo dum doo doo, as the theme song goes.

So there's a network she can make posts to, like a live video version of Facebook. She can totally do Facebook. She can do Facebook like Anonymous can do the government's stash of Macs. ]

What's with the ticking noise?

[ That's the most important thing. ]

I thought I was in New Mexico.

[ That's the second most important thing. ]

This is definitely not New Mexico.

[ Thinking she got her bases covered, she's gonna wait for her answers. ]

[third person / log sample]:

Let's be clear. Darcy is not the best on science. Republicans can do better on the biology of the female body than she can overall on science. You ask her what she thinks on the use of vaporized iodized salt and she'll reply that she'd like it on her fries. If she were someone close to Tony Stark and instead of Jane Foster, she would simply describe his inventions as shiny and pretty, unable to comprehend the gravity of inventing a new element in his garage with a box of scraps and his retarded robots. But as she doesn't know Tony Stark all that well, so she simply knows him as the rich guy who flies around in a suit, like nearly all of the world populace who had heard Tony Stark's name.

But back to topic: she's not good at science. At all. It's actually pretty frightening and desperate to see that Jane Foster needed Darcy Lewis' unpaid help. Of course, Darcy has mentioned that she's a damn good coffee maker, and interns are known throughout the world to be the best damn coffee makers in the whole world, so Jane must needed someone to make her coffee while doing her science gig.

And in all honesty, Darcy has come to look forward to making the coffee more than anything else. Yes, the long hours after dark suck, especially when she's bored out of her mind and she can't even listen to radio repeating the latest Katty Perry song; and nearly all the time Dr. Selvig and Jane have a discussion it's usually about stars and wormholes, and you know by know how Darcy is about science.

But when the nights are gone and there are no more stars to dissect, Darcy can make a mean cup of espresso for Jane, her dark hair hanging limply at her shoulders, face drawn pale and taunt. She murmurs little nothings that were meant to be a thanks, but Darcy can understand Caveman!Jane better than most people, even Dr. Selvig.

Darcy takes her own cup of coffee and fiddles with her phone, checking out the latest updates from her Facebook status. As usual, there's like a bazillion likes on the photo she taken of Thor when she, Jane, and Dr. Selvig took him to a coffee shop for some breakfast. Dracy looks up and sees an expression on Jane's face she never thought she'd see: despair. Jane almost looks like she aged twenty years, staring blankly at a possible future inside the melted remains of the whipped creme.

"Hey, Jane, look," Darcy shows Jane her phone and her photo, with that same goofy smile he gave to Darcy when she asked him to smile. The man smiling was the man who summoned lightning and punched the hell out of a giant metal man who just previously killed him. "Thor got about ten thousand likes now!"

Jane stares at Darcy blankly, and for a moment Darcy thought she screwed up. Maybe she should stick with just being the cute coffee chef and not the part-time therapist.

But then Jane smiles, and it's obvious that it feels painful to do so, but Jane's eyes are sincere. The smile becomes less painful when she looks directly at Darcy's phone, into the pixels that make up Thor's goofy face.

"Maybe you can take fifty and get some rest," Darcy remarks idly. "I can deal with the rest of the stuff."

"You sure?" Jane frowns, her real self coming back. "Think you can handle the workload?"

"If I can't, I can always drag Dr. Selvig in and bribe him with coffee laced with rum to help me," Darcy replies.

Jane chuckles and gets up, taking the coffee with her to her room. It's not surprising Jane would drink coffee before she goes to sleep. Darcy is just that good.