#clairci

Clairci is such a good ship! What a fun idea :3

There was seldom anything to ruin Darci's excitement- settling with her beloved wife into their new home, a fulfilling start to her career, and nothing in the way. Until she watches Claire vanish in a cloud of smoke, surrounded by sigils and chanting. Now, Darci must uncover what happened to her partner, the terrible fate that may await her, and how many skeletons Claire was hiding in her closet.

22. two miserable people meeting at a wedding au from SEND ME A SHIP AND A NUMBER AND I’LL WRITE A SHORT FIC

IDK if this is entirely miserable on both of their parts, but neither of them is 100% happy right now.

AO3 (Archive-locked)

FFN

Mary had done well for herself, Darci supposed. Way better than all her high school boyfriends, and better than most of her college girlfriends. She was marrying a queen, and that wasn't an exaggeration of just how great Aja was. Aja was the queen of Akiridion-V who had turned down proposals from galactic royalty to marry the woman who did PR for the embassy. Mary was worth turning down all those proposals, and Darci was willing to fight anyone and everyone who disagreed.

She would have preferred fighting than the Tarron wedding, though. Everything here was so bright and loud. Even worse, while Mary herself had ordered only silk flowers as to not upset the allergies of her maid of honor, the guests who had brought flowers as gifts hadn't gotten the memo. That meant that Darci was overstimulated with allergies to boot. She wanted to scream, but she didn't want to ruin her best friend's wedding reception.

@toa-rarepair-week

Prompt: Alternate Universe

Ship: Claire/Darci

AU/Context: Claire is the trollhunter, and Darci is a changeling working with her father. They briefly dated each other but then Claire went into the darklands to save Toby—who was targeted because he was a friend of Jim, and Claire and Jim are friends. When saving Claire after Toby is rescued, the gang finds out Darci is a changeling. Though because of this slight hiccup, they all get stuck for a little while longer—and eventually get out because Darci is remorseful. Claire and Darci then rebuild their relationship. I wanted to try something new :3

I feel like Claire would have discovered and come to terms with her sexuality comparatively early. But she wasn’t able to truly express it till later. She’s intelligent, well read, and pretty self-aware. The issue is with her parents. Her parents both seem fairly traditional and her mother is on the City Council. The eyes of the town are on them all the time. Or at least that’s how it feels to her mother. The daughter of Ophelia Nunez just can’t have a girlfriend. They barely trust the boy she starts to date. I feel like her parents wouldn’t be outright opposed to her bisexuality, but they would highly discourage her from exploring it.

It wouldn’t be till well after the Eternal Night and the fall of the Gunmar that she actually gets a girlfriend. At that point she is away from her parents long enough to be open about how she feels about other girls. Also she’s dating a half troll. If her parents are going to allow that than they have no right to be upset about any girl’s she decides to be with. And she is a bit of a hero, both with the fight to save Arcadia and from personally banishing Morgana to the Shadow Realm. Any citizens that might have had a problem are willing (or forced) to ignore anything they might not like.

Her first kiss was with either Mary or Darci. The  girls had sleepovers all the time growing up. Maybe it was dare, or just in the heat of the moment. Either way it confirms how she has felt inside for a long time. But it doesn’t go further than that with either them. She knows what her mom will say, what her dad will say. Sometimes when she goes to the movies with Darci, or helps fix her lipstick the other girl will want to say something, to bring up the kiss they shared, to share another moment, but she never does.

After the Eternal Night, Claire returns to Arcadia. By now she’s long accepted that Team Trollhunters is only big poly love circle. Jim is so happy to see Toby again that they immediately share a kiss. Claire is next, the skype conversations have been nice, but she misses Toby almost as much as Jim does. Darci is a little surprised to see her boyfriend be kissed by first a giant half troll then her best friend (Toby and Darci talked about opening their relationship and she’s fine with it. Still surprised to see it happen in front of her). Claire is embarrassed for a second, then thinks fuck it. And kisses Darci as well. They all laugh and hug. Then go to one of their houses for some private time. Time to kiss, to hug and to finally have some long put off conversations.