MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on Leftennant
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on Leftennant |
| Interviewer: | MCU Wintershock |
| Interviewee: | Leftennant |
| Date(s): | January 30, 2017 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Marvel Cinematic Universe |
| External Links: | MCU Wintershock Author Spotlight on Leftennant, Archived version |
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What about Wintershock as a pairing appeals to you?
Everything. I could not love it more. Basically, I feel like they’re very similar at their core. Darcy’s personality is a lot like pre-war Bucky to me. She’s flirtatious, bold, confident, has a strong sense of humor, and is extremely loyal to the people she cares about. She also doesn’t beat around the bush, and says what she means. I think these traits would help to draw him out, and he’d be able to let his guard down around her. Plus I’m a sucker for any pairing where you’ve got the smol person ready to go to bat for the big tough person who doesn’t exactly need the help, but is grateful for it anyway.
Do you have any specific Wintershock headcanons? Are there any particular fic tropes you like concerning the pairing?
Oh god, I’m a trope whore. For real. It doesn’t really matter what trope, as long as they end up together at the end. Although I seriously love forced cohabitation, and huddling for warmth. Those are always, always favorite.
As far as headcanons go…hmmm. I think Bucky is touch-starved, and he probably loves that Darcy is so tactile. Also, I have a feeling that she recognizes how he likes to be near her or touching her, and appreciates it. I like to think she respects him, and respects his boundaries, and that he can relax around her because of this.
Another headcanon I have is that Darcy wouldn’t turn his arm into a personal kink/fetish. Bucky’s prosthetic was literally attached to his body without his permission by an agency that brainwashed him into murdering with it for seventy years. I have a really hard time believing that he’d be into someone looking at his arm as a sexual kink. Plus I’ve got a friend with a prosthetic limb, and I know how weirded out they’d be if someone treated it like that.
What Wintershock fic by someone else would you recommend to others to read? What about this fic appeals to you?
This is the hardest damn question, because there are so many. My current favorite is A Mask of My Disguise by amidtheflowers. I just love the way she writes Darcy and Bucky as a couple, and the slow burn is so damn perfect. Plus she had them stuck on a boat together, and sharing a bed. It doesn’t get any better than that.