Also Ty For Another Reason To Love Evil Marcy AUs I Guess LMAO

I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT THIS WAY now I’m even more upset about what they did with s3 Marcy g r r r r

I mean I sorta saw it that it way but I didn’t quite connect that she was brought down to the role of a lazy plot device…. Thanks for this insight tho!! Now I can be salty with more efficiency :D

Also ty for another reason to love evil Marcy AUs I guess LMAO

Cuz she’d be far too busy slaying to be a damsel in distress XD (unless you count pretending once tho 👀)

[ Warning: I start rambling my AU a bit here oops… Don’t have the heart to delete or shorten it tho lmaooo ]

But I must say: I LOVED Darcy!! The possession was a really good concept imo, just not executed well… Like give her some control and let The Core act as a kinda sidekick (even tho it’d just be using her, could take over at any time, and would probably betray her in a heartbeat…. just don’t let Marcy know that djdhsnfdjhsnd) as it convinced her to go APESHIT-

I just came to a horrible realization. Marcy in season three was a Damsel in Distress.

Seriously think about it: aside from the finale, her only purpose was to sit around and wait to be rescued. Yes it would have been necessary to a certain extent no matter what, with the whole "being stabbed" business, but then they had to go ahead with that idiotic possession subplot and make Darcy an endgame villain. Marcy's brief mental world subplot in All In didn't even give us one of those "fighting the illusion from inside your mind" plots: she just resigned herself to her fate and hoped her girls would save her.

There's a very good reason the Damsel in Distress has fallen out of favor in recent years. Aside from the underlying chauvinism, a Damsel in Distress usually isn't a character so much as a lazy plot device, a prize for the hero to win after they've slain the dragon or killed the evil wizard or whatever.

The only thing worse than creating a character whose sole purpose is to be a Damsel in Distress is making an established character into a Damsel in Distress. And they did it to Marcy: a deep, complex character who was used amazingly in season two. They introduced Marcy as a deliberate foil to Sasha, gave us several episodes to get to know and love her, then dropped that massive bombshell in True Colors.

And how did they follow up that absolutely brilliant storytelling? They made Marcy into a fucking Damsel in Distress, whose only purpose for 90% of season three was to sit around and wait to be rescued. And for some goddamn reason they had to wait until the penultimate episode to do so, leaving no time for Marcy to interact with her best friends or truly be involved in the story.