Tarcy

Tarcy is the femslash ship between Tara Jones and Darcy Olsson from the Osemanverse fandom.

Canon
Tara and Darcy are first introduced in the story as Charlie sees Nick and Tara talk from a distance at a party. Since Nick used to have a crush on Tara when he was very, very young, Charlie starts getting sad when he sees them talking, since he still had a crush on him at the time. But in reality, Tara was telling Nick that she is gay and showing him her girlfriend, Darcy. Later on, they meet each other again once their schools meet up and Nick decides to come out to her, the first person he comes out to, and tell her he's dating Nick. Then Tara tells him about when she and Darcy first told their friends. She says some of them were surprised while a couple of them were like "we've known for ages", which makes her laugh thinking about the fact they probably "weren't that good at being lowkey" with their love. At that moment, Darcy appears behind Tara, surprising him with a loud noise, and quickly apologizing lovely. Darcy sees Nick immediately and Tara introduces her as her girlfriend. Darcy gets extremely excited to realize Nick is dating Charlie and tells him that it's ok he's still figuring his sexuality out, since Tara didn't know she was a lesbian until they've "kissed like 6 times". After their talk, the both of them say goodbye, offering Nick to maybe go on a double date together soon with Charlie.

Some time later, Tara and Darcy meet Charlie and Nick once again during a reunion that both of their schools had for information on their upcoming joint trip to Paris. In it, the teachers inform them that there would be no rooms shared between boys and girls. While most people in the room groan, Tara and Darcy share a knowing look, smirking. During the trip, they share a room together. And during a city tour, while Darcy goes to get some food with Nick and some friends, Tara stays with Charlie, chatting while they wait for them to come back. Charlie asks her at one point how she and Darcy got over the fear of people knowing they're together. And Tara tells him that it took them some time.

"Darcy was already out. We'd been daring for a while and most of our friends knew. Buth other people were starting to guess too. At our school, "lesbian" was used as an insult all the time. I probably even used it once or twice when I was younger. We were terrified. It took me a long time to even feel comfortable calling myself a lesbian. And for a while, we thought it'd be easier to pretend we were just friends. I guess for a while it was easier. But, in time, we got more comfortable being us. We reached the point where we knew that whatever people said or thought about us, we knew who we were. And we loved ourselves anyway."

- Tara talking with Charlie about her love story with Darcy

So Tara tells Charlie that they didn't tell anyone about their relationship, they just stopped hiding it. At that moment, Darcy appears with ice cream, and gets surprised when she receives a sweet kiss on the cheek from Tara.

Tara's birthday ends up taking place during their Paris trip, so she decides to celebrate in the hotel room, inviting people from both schools that they like. Since Darcy gets really drunk during the night, after Nicka and Charlie make their relationship announcement, Darcy starts to suddenly feel very ill and Tara quickly gets protective of her, as she calls the teachers to help her and makes up the lie that she got food poisoning to not expose the fact she was drinking alcohol. Although the teachers get suspicious, they help Darcy, and right after they leave the both of them alone, Darcy breaks down crying and Tara immediately gets worried thinking she's feeling ill again. Darcy instead apologizes to her for "ruining her birthday" and starts claiming she's "the worst girlfriend. Tara is quick to "shh" her and reminds her that she still loves her, kissing her, even if she "smells of sick".

After their Paris trip, Tara, Darcy and their close friends go on a beach trip and spend an entire afternoon having fun. After Elle talks about her own struggles with transphobic relatives, Darcy jumps up to hug her and tell her that she can count on her. Walking behind her with Tao, Charlie and Nick, Tara tells them that although Darcy seems confident and happy, which she assumed at first too, she has a very homophobic and toxic family that she doesn't get along with. Tara remorsefully says that she wishes she could've told Darcy that she was there for her and that she saw her struggles sooner. Darcy, who was listening to all of that, turns around and makes a joke saying that all of that was actually a "sob story" she told Tara to persuade her parents to adopt her. Tara follows Darcy's joke and they start hugging and sweetly kissing each other on the cheeks.

Darcy and Tara keep showing how strong their love is, supporting each other, when during the summer vacations, Tara was feeling really ill, and her mom called Darcy to let her know. Darcy immediately comes to Tara's house and gets in bed with her, asking her how she is feeling and suggesting they watch a movie. Tara tells her she is too tired for that so Darcy tells her she doesn't mind her "getting her sick", like Tara warns her, and they can just nap. So they stay in bed, cuddling. Also, on their first day of school, Tara passes by Darcy's house to pick her up and go to school, but she hears Tara loudly arguing with her family from outside. So as soon as she goes out to meet Tara, Darcy asks her to take her as far away from there as possible. So Tara starts talking about other things to distract her and they share a kiss as they later tease each other.

Fanon
Tarcy is one of the most popular Osemanverse ships. Tarcy is shipped by fans because of the moments and chemistry between Tara and Darcy. Tarcy is normally shipped alongside other canon ships such as Narlie and Telle. Tarcy currently has 200+ works on AO3 as well as some fan art. Fan content is usually fluff and not angst.

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Trivia

 * Tara and Darcy are part of the Higgs orchestra.