MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on IAmKateBishop
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| Title: | MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on IAmKateBishop |
| Interviewer: | MCU Wintershock |
| Interviewee: | IAmKateBishop |
| Date(s): | April 3, 2017 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| External Links: | MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on IAmKateBishop, Archived version |
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What about Wintershock as a pairing appeals to you?
The biggest thing is that both Bucky and Darcy are caretakers. Even though we aren’t given much in canon about Darcy, her biggest trait that shines through for me is that she is totally committed to taking care of Jane. She was just a college intern getting credits to graduate when we first saw her, but then Darcy puts her own life on hold and sticks with Jane after that like glue. You can see that it’s not just because the two bonded in a life or death situation, but that Darcy genuinely cares and worries about Jane. I love that about Darcy.
It parallels nicely with Bucky taking care of Steve. Steve and Jane are a lot alike in terms of fearless determination and zero survival skills. They both just happen to have best friends who are there to make sure they don’t, you know, die. The idea that both Bucky and Darcy’s biggest canon trait is taking care of their best friends makes Wintershock work like gangbusters for me. It also adds a dynamic of how she or he deals with being taken care of when they are both so used to being the caregiver. That’s a tension that can be fleshed out into something interesting and worth reading.
How did you first encounter the pairing?
I had to double check this in my bookmarks because it’s been years (isn’t that a bizarre thought?), but it was through a nessismore fic called Don’t Look Back in Anger. That fic was Shieldshock which was my first Darcyland ship, but it had past Wintershock and was from Bucky’s POV. I remember reading it and going, “Huh, Bucky and Darcy could really work.” It was before Winter Soldier had come out, but a lot of fandom knew how the movie would likely play out because of the comics. I started looking into the Wintershock tag (except it was called Ducky back then), and quickly made my way through most of what was there.
Winter Soldier came out not long after that, and the tag boomed. With so many stories going up, I got an itch to add my own twist to the pairing but didn’t want to write anything until I was sure I could add something new. I came across a book of mythological creatures in a bookstore, flipped to a page about Banshees, and the rest was history.