🍑: As mentioned in another answer, Darcy does consider her fashion and styles her hair, but she doesn't fuck with makeup or grooming past that. Avery back home was a big influence on her and was the catalyst for her to start adopting actual grooming habits beyond the teenage 'I showered and put on clean clothes'. Kind of hard not to run around with a dude in animal print suits and not see the impact that fashion has on how people perceive you.
🍇: Darcy would describe it as firmly 'okay'. When she was younger, she struggled with the expectations of conformity that her extended family put on her and her parents- especially after she started taking up sports. She was a tomboy way past the point where it was considered 'cute', and while she's always been fussy about mud and nature, she was also pretty rambunctious and energetic. When Darcy was about 7 or 8 she developed a fascination with knights and dragons that has definitely stuck around (even if she hates to admit it), and her dad (who'd been a champion speed-chess player in university) attempted to put her into a chess club with disastrous results. Darcy doesn't really consider herself a child anymore, and sees her mother's injury as the pivotal point where she had to step up and mature. Of course, aboard the ship she's discovering how that isn't necessarily the case. But, point is, she at least considers herself Done with her childhood, and the only path she sees forward is becoming more of an adult, not looking back. She's definitely the type to hate her younger self for being dumb and cringe.
🍓: SHE DON'T GIVE A DAMN BOUT HER BAD REPUTATION *guitar riff*
Back home Darcy was a social pariah for her history of mental health issues and also the getting into fights with people and the lesbianism. As far as she was concerned, people were already going to dislike her, so she may as well keep doing what she's doing and give them reasons to leave her alone. Aboard the ship, even now she's still getting used to the idea that people might hear of her in positive ways. She's always been the kind of person whose self-image was contained more in how she thinks of herself than the opinions of others, and she holds tight to some core parts of herself. She knows she's a bitch, she's strong as hell, and she's brave. Any other opinions of her are other people's problems.
9. Darcy is terrified of horses after being bitten by one at a birthday party when she was younger. She considers this an entirely rational reaction and does not comprehend why anyone would willingly go near a horse ever. She's also terrified of deep bodies of water, for far more understandable reasons. Additionally, she will salute her opponent with her sword before any sparring match even if I forget to write it because the fear of getting a yellow card for not doing it lives on in her.
26. it used to be that she just let other people decide the shape her life was taking. But since she's been on the ship, it's that she never made peace with her mother. She doesn't talk about it, but it still weighs on her.
38. Loud, energetic music, lowkey exercise like jogging, alone time, and long showers.
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As mentioned in another answer, Darcy does consider her fashion and styles her hair, but she doesn't fuck with makeup or grooming past that. Avery back home was a big influence on her and was the catalyst for her to start adopting actual grooming habits beyond the teenage 'I showered and put on clean clothes'. Kind of hard not to run around with a dude in animal print suits and not see the impact that fashion has on how people perceive you.
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Darcy would describe it as firmly 'okay'. When she was younger, she struggled with the expectations of conformity that her extended family put on her and her parents- especially after she started taking up sports. She was a tomboy way past the point where it was considered 'cute', and while she's always been fussy about mud and nature, she was also pretty rambunctious and energetic. When Darcy was about 7 or 8 she developed a fascination with knights and dragons that has definitely stuck around (even if she hates to admit it), and her dad (who'd been a champion speed-chess player in university) attempted to put her into a chess club with disastrous results. Darcy doesn't really consider herself a child anymore, and sees her mother's injury as the pivotal point where she had to step up and mature. Of course, aboard the ship she's discovering how that isn't necessarily the case. But, point is, she at least considers herself Done with her childhood, and the only path she sees forward is becoming more of an adult, not looking back. She's definitely the type to hate her younger self for being dumb and cringe.
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SHE DON'T GIVE A DAMN BOUT HER BAD REPUTATION *guitar riff*
Back home Darcy was a social pariah for her history of mental health issues and also the getting into fights with people and the lesbianism. As far as she was concerned, people were already going to dislike her, so she may as well keep doing what she's doing and give them reasons to leave her alone. Aboard the ship, even now she's still getting used to the idea that people might hear of her in positive ways. She's always been the kind of person whose self-image was contained more in how she thinks of herself than the opinions of others, and she holds tight to some core parts of herself. She knows she's a bitch, she's strong as hell, and she's brave. Any other opinions of her are other people's problems.
9. Darcy is terrified of horses after being bitten by one at a birthday party when she was younger. She considers this an entirely rational reaction and does not comprehend why anyone would willingly go near a horse ever. She's also terrified of deep bodies of water, for far more understandable reasons. Additionally, she will salute her opponent with her sword before any sparring match
even if I forget to write itbecause the fear of getting a yellow card for not doing it lives on in her.26. it used to be that she just let other people decide the shape her life was taking. But since she's been on the ship, it's that she never made peace with her mother. She doesn't talk about it, but it still weighs on her.
38. Loud, energetic music, lowkey exercise like jogging, alone time, and long showers.