Like I said, I'm wanting to watch the Thor movie so I can figure out whether she's actually been given any of the superhero-wrangling abilities she's inherited in so many fanfics in the actual canon.
I can understand the temptation to create a sidekick character who's able to see everything from the author's POV and all the rest - heck, that's what Nesa Conway would be if I let her[1]. And yeah, Darcy Lewis does seem to be ideal for the purpose, appearing to be a canon blueprint for the sort of character one wants. But given she only showed up in the Thor movie, and that she wasn't even hinted at in the Avengers movie (which is the only one of the set I've seen so far) I would argue that her ubiquity in Avengers-verse fics is a bit of wishful thinking on the parts of various fanfiction authors.
[1] That's why the OG canon is most definitely NOT appearing in the Nesa-verse - her stuff stops shortly after the Nibelheim incident, and doesn't pick up again until after Advent Children, where her main contacts with the OG crew are via the Turks.
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I can understand the temptation to create a sidekick character who's able to see everything from the author's POV and all the rest - heck, that's what Nesa Conway would be if I let her[1]. And yeah, Darcy Lewis does seem to be ideal for the purpose, appearing to be a canon blueprint for the sort of character one wants. But given she only showed up in the Thor movie, and that she wasn't even hinted at in the Avengers movie (which is the only one of the set I've seen so far) I would argue that her ubiquity in Avengers-verse fics is a bit of wishful thinking on the parts of various fanfiction authors.
[1] That's why the OG canon is most definitely NOT appearing in the Nesa-verse - her stuff stops shortly after the Nibelheim incident, and doesn't pick up again until after Advent Children, where her main contacts with the OG crew are via the Turks.