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Nancy is fascinating to me because here’s this teenage girl who’s very much a teenage girl. She’s not even old enough to drive in season one, and she worried about boys. But then, whenever people are in danger, it’s as if a switch is flipped. A very different switch to when she alone is in danger, mind you.
When there’s someone else to worry about, she starts operating in a Fight mindset that’s different from anyone else. She’s impulsive to an extreme. She loses all sense of self-preservation. Any sense of hesitation and trauma just gets completely repressed till the dangers over.
Just, I don’t know how to express how Insane I am over her and the fact that her desire to protect was so strong that she Immediately pointed a gun at the person she was trying to protect; at 15. She lost any care for how this might look or anything else because her mind had become too deadset on getting Steve as far away from the danger as soon as humanly possible. It was impulsive and dumb… and an incredibly genius move that could have worked really well, except she forgot to factor in the way other people freeze in the face of danger.
That’s just not even an option in her mind. She sees an unknown glowy portal while trying to save her best friend? She dives in. A little boy is possessed and hurting the people he loves most? She stabs him with a hot fire poker. She sees a car charging her brother and friends down? She stands in between them and shoots. A friend gets pulled underwater? She jumps in right after. Max and her family are being threatened? She decides to Murder a monster as fast as possible with her on the very front line.
It doesn’t always work. She’s a teenage girl; she’s not exactly a tactical warfare expert. Yet, this apparent fearlessness is noticed by everyone around her and they all follow her lead and turn to her for direction.
Meanwhile, she knows that she tends to act like that when she’s drowning the most.
Then, when the danger is over, she cries and she shuts down and she remembers she’s just a little girl again and she doesn’t know how to be that anymore. She’s stuck in a fight and protect and just survive mode that she has no idea how to escape.
Are we gonna get a chapter dedicated to the origin story for the Spidey fic?
So I’m trying to decide that now I kinda want to do the opening paragraph the way they do the intros in Spiderverse bc I think timeline-wise the story is set when Jonathan’s been Spiderman for like 2-3 years but he hasn’t had any BIG crimes. Like we’re going from “friendly neighborhood” to big hero
I’d love to like watch Nancy progressively fall in love with Spiderman bc she could be like the only reporter person he would talk to and he’s just like super sweet and charming. And if they have the upside down kiss scene I will feel complete.
If Steve is the Harry then Jason would also suit Flash (tho prob without the redemption bc Jason sucks lol) which would I guess make Chrissy the Liz Allan of this scenario (I have no idea how many characters you are planning to adapt lmao).
I have no idea either those are like some of the finer stuff I’m working out still 😂
