MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on Chrissihr
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on Chrissihr |
| Interviewer: | MCU Wintershock |
| Interviewee: | ChrissiHR |
| Date(s): | April 17, 2017 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| External Links: | MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on Chrissihr, Archived version |
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What about Wintershock as a pairing appeals to you?
I’m a sucker for the angst in Bucky’s background story and I love the foil a seemingly lighthearted Darcy provides. From an outside perspective, she’s fun, funny, a civilian who can take care of herself, the down-to-earth, common sense in the Team Science equation who uses social media and lives a very public life, typically free of violence (until a certain big blond alien falls out of the sky), and her background is otherwise open to interpretation. She represents everything the Winter Soldier is not. Bucky has a very specific background story that spans a century. Morally, Bucky falls somewhere in the grey area between Darcy and the Soldier and his century of living gives me a lot of points in his timeline to pull story ideas from. I dig the contrast and possibilities.
At the same time, Darcy is very much the Bucky to Jane’s Steve. She keeps tabs on Jane when science is a’happenin’ and does her best in her role as the backup plan. Darcy doesn’t get enough credit for the planet not being torn apart on her watch. Same goes for Bucky. Where would the world be if Steve didn’t have Bucky on his 6 all that time?
How did you first encounter the pairing?
I had what I’ve since learned is a natural progression from a recommendation by a friend in a former fandom who turned me on to Tasertricks (A Morbid Taste for Ice, Manic Taser Dream Girl, anyone, anyone?) to ShieldShock to WinterShieldShock (Ice and Fire by steeleholtingon) where I think I found Bucky interacting with Darcy for the first time since I stumbled into a new fandom with its own LBD character in Darcy. I never watched any of the Cap Movies or Thor all the way through before I started reading the fic. I really only knew who Loki was from the first Avengers movie, but that was enough to suck me into Darcyland and Wintershock.
I started watching the movies to get some background for the fics I was reading at the time because, unlike some fic writers who pick up fandoms left and right, I’m not fandom-easy. I rarely watch TV and there’s a tiny genre of movies I’ll watch without prompting or nagging. Under normal circumstances, I avoid popular fiction like the plague, too, but when one of your favorite fandom artists recommends a new fandom/ship/fic, it’s only polite to check it out, right? Almost two years later, I’m still here, so—confirmed—my fandom friends know me and my interests well.