I Am Extremely Analytical And Everything Needs To Be Explained… Hate Living In The Unknown Bitch I

…a terrible hunger for knowing things, for knowing everything.

Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless (via luthienne)

SCOOBY-DOO (2002) dir. Raja Gosnell

introducing: the brains

Welcome to Coolsville - a cool place to live! …except for right now, but that’s not really DARCY WARREN’S (KENNEDY MCMANN) fault, is it? Known as the BRAINS around town, SHE is just your friendly neighborhood RESEARCH SCIENTIST. Sure they can be JUDGMENTAL and ALOOF, but they can also be BRILLIANT and AMBITIOUS just like any other TWENTY-FOUR year old. That doesn’t mean they have anything to do with our string of recent chilling events, though… right?

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STATISTICS

full name: darcy anne warren

nickname: d.w.

age: twenty-four

date of birth: september 15

zodiac: virgo

place of birth: coolsville, ohio

gender identity: cis woman

pronouns: she/her

sexual orientation: demisexual

family.

father: william warren

mother: elizabeth warren nee sinclair

siblings: n/a

additional details.

relationship status: single

education: bachelor of science in environmental science & chemistry, doctorate in environmental engineering.

languages: english, asl, latin. she’s working on additional languages, but wouldn’t say she’s proficient yet. she considers proficient to be the level required to be a professional translator.

reference characters: velma dinkley, spencer reid, spencer hastings, lydia martin, hermione granger, temperance brennan, dana scully, amazon's alexa

tropes: omnidisciplinary scientist, the smart girl, go-getter girl, badass bookworm, child prodigy, intelligence equals isolation

physical appearance.

height: 5’8”

hair color: red (natural)

eye color: blue

HEADCANONS

darcy had a very loving childhood. the daughter of a literature professor and a law professor who taught in a nearby town, they were THRILLED when it was clear at a very early age that she was highly intellectual. they instilled in her a love of reading, which quickly translated into the ability for her to speed read.

they are both pretty successful in their respective fields and are also both mildly disappointed that she chose to pursue neither.

as a child they essentially taught her that failure is not an option and that she should strive for perfection always - exactly what a child should be hearing, yes?

her ability to socialize wasn’t exactly helped by skipping 2 grades in elementary school. add in the fact that she’s an introvert and she has pretty high social anxiety. sometimes it makes her seem like… well, a bitch. but most of the time that isn’t on purpose.

her (not total!) lack of friends started as a young age, when she got a reputation for being both a know-it-all and a snitch.

she has an eidetic memory and is a Huge Nerd who will spout facts at you if given the chance. Not Good with rhetorical questions. she will answer them.

she recently acquired her first doctorate - in environmental engineering. she got a ton of credits via AP and dual-credit courses in high school, so if she hadn’t wanted to test out a little bit of everything when it came to her coursework, she may have been able to finish even sooner. she is already planning ahead for her next academic pursuit - perhaps molecular biology?

she is judgmental. she forgets that not everyone knows what she knows and that sometimes what she considers common knowledge is really incredibly niche stuff. her tolerance for foolishness is low and she is occasionally blunt.

the default assumption with darcy is probably that she doesn’t like you, even when that isn’t necessarily the case. she is simply guarded and anxious and needs a little time to warm up to people.

tldr; she is a super smart girl whose intellect can be isolating. she has some walls up, but once you get to know her she’s nice enough.

AESTHETIC

warm orange, observant eyes, professional attire, classical music, decade+ old hits, soft sweaters, pristine white coats, mountain of books, bright starry nights, subtitles, chalk dust, sunrises, scribbled in the margins, fun facts, there’s a logical explanation for everything, stillness, silence.

CONNECTIONS

the beauty. childhood best friends. two peas in a pod, once upon a time darcy and bea were close as can be. but then darcy skipped two grades while bea was held back. nothing was quite the same after that. they managed to stay friends for a while, confiding in each other up until the bitter end, but when darcy left for college, they had a major fight that seemingly ended things for good.

the enigma. eventual unlikely friends. as a result of childhood bullying, darcy has always struggled with sticking up for herself. always happy to speak her mind in the presence of one or two of her trusted friends, add too many cooks to the kitchen and it's a recipe for disaster. call it stage fright, call it trauma, either way, dusk was able to pinpoint it pretty early on. it's nice to have someone who sees the value in your contributions sticking up for you.

the loner. roommate/on good terms. darcy loves her parents, but there was never any doubt when she moved back that she'd live on her own. she's moderately wealthy thanks to some patents for previous inventions, so she's renting a three bedroom house in coolsville. one bedroom is hers, one bedroom is her thinking room (a quiet space to work when not physically at work), and one bedroom is rosie's. it's maybe a little surprising that they get along as well as they do, but both girls understand the importance of alone time. and it's best for darcy that she doesn't live alone - she needs to socialize with others so she's not entirely hopeless.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

crush. now is NOT the time! maybe she's liked them for a long time or it was something she developed back in high school that she thought had gone away, maybe it's something brand new. either way, it's terribly inconvenient.

You know what I need? I need someone to translate five pages of archaic Latin. Obviously, that’s not gonna happen anytime soon.

They didn’t know how preoccupied I could get when surrounded by books; it was something I preferred to do alone.

a closed starter for @dusktildcwn

darcy was keeping to herself, having already said the wrong thing multiple times that morning.

in times of crisis, she always reverted to the facts. and the facts were that the chance of finding a missing girl two weeks later were minimal. the first 72 hours were crucial. less than 2% of missing children were found after a week.

the person she'd shared such statistics with had not been appreciative of her reality check, having wandered away from her long ago. and she'd been on her own since, left to regret her actions for over ten minutes as she sipped her now lukewarm cup of coffee.

luckily, it wasn't long before someone else moved to the sidelines.

given the choice between keeping quiet while continuing to ruminate and socializing, nine times out of ten, darcy would pick the former. however, there was a task to be accomplished. a missing girl to help (however unrealistic that may or may not be). it didn't come without a moment of deliberation, but approximately one minute and twenty-seven seconds after the blonde appeared nearby, darcy made her way over.

"hi," she half-waved as she paused in front of the girl. the only stranger in the room. at the very least, darcy knew how to begin the conversation.

"i don't believe we've met. i'm darcy warren." she made sure to purposely drop the doctor before her name, the prefix unnecessary in non-scholarly rooms. she still extended her hand for a shake, though. "are you new to town?"

me trying to justify my over worrying to friends

a closed starter for @beabracknell

darcy had been back in coolsville for months, and yet she'd done an excellent job of avoiding those she did not wish to see.

a certain amount of that was because she was an introvert, much preferring to stay in on a friday night, reading, than to be out and about. but her complete and total avoidance of a one bea bracknell had been purposeful, a result of ducking out of sight when she spotted a once familiar face in passing. not going anywhere that held memories that darcy was not yet ready to confront.

it had been years, and she still was not over the fight that had changed the course of their lives forever. the day that she'd said something unforgivable, her insecurity causing her to lash out at the one person she thought she'd have in her life forever.

so it was a surprise, clearly, to see the girl in the room at the community center that morning. to (from a distance) study her face, changed by the years, but still that of the girl who'd known all of her secrets in elementary school, who had stood by her side even through relentless bullying. for a moment, darcy had been happy to see her. and then she remembered. retreated. back into the girl she'd become over the last eight years away.

"what are you doing here?" she asked once the inevitable finally happened and they came face to face, mentally cringing at how her words had come out so wrong. force of habit, it seemed. but though they'd been blunt, there had still been genuine curiosity in her tone.