Darcy Vega

by bethgilbert\_art

**Gwendalina "Darcy" Vega** is the daughter of Hail and Merissa Vega, the King and Queen of Solaria. She is the twin sister of Tory Vega and half-sister of Gabriel Nox. As an infant, Darcy and her sister were placed in a mortal family as changelings. They lived in the mortal realm until they were taken to the Zodiac Academy.

## History

### Early Life

Darcy, born Gwendalina, and her twin sister Tory, born Roxanya, were born in Solaria to Hail and Merissa Vega, the King and Queen of Solaria eighteen years prior to the start of *The Awakening.* Darcy is the younger twin, born at eleven minutes and three seconds past midnight.

Before her death, Merissa foresaw that her children were in trouble, so she took the twins to the mortal world so that they could grow up as changelings. Melissa took the twins, and traded them for a pair of mortal twins, Darcy and Tory Gomez. Right before she and Hail died, Lionel Acrux used Dark Coercion to find out where she placed them in the mortal realm.

Using the information he forced from Merissa, Lionel found the twins’ changeling family home, and set it on fire in an attempt to kill the twins so that they could not claim the Throne of Solaria. The twins’ changeling family was killed, but the girls, invulnerable to fire because of their Order, survived and were found in the ashes just moments after he left.

After the fire, the twins were placed in the foster care system. They did not stay at any foster home for very long. Some foster parents said they were troublemakers and thought them difficult to parent, others were only fostering them for the money. Their last foster placement was Pete and Darla. Two months before their eighteenth birthday, Darla left Pete. He was neglectful and cruel. He threw them out the day before they turned eighteen, because he would no longer receive payment for fostering them.

They started renting a tiny, run-down apartment, with just a pull-out couch and no bed. With no money to their name, Darcy started buying and selling unwanted items from students at her school for a small profit, and Tory started stealing motorbikes to earn money. They made barely enough to scrape by.

### The Awakening

Three months after her eighteenth birthday, she sneaks back into Pete’s house to take the money that she and Tory had saved up while living there. She is nearly caught by the cops leaving Pete’s property, and loses the money. She escapes when a man tells the cops to let go of her, and she runs back to the apartment.

Later that night, Tory comes home with a stranger who introduces himself as Professor Orion. He has been tracking the twins since their eighteenth birthday, when they started giving off a magical signature that the Fae in Solaria could sense. She recognizes him as the man who told the cops to let her go. Professor Orion tells them that she and her sister are princesses of Solaria, and their real names are Roxanya and Gwendalina Vega. He is there to bring them to Solaria so that they can receive a fae education at Zodiac Academy, Tory and Darcy are at first uncooperative, however, Professor Orion persuades them to journey back with him to Solaria by revealing their large inheritance that they will obtain access to upon graduating Zodiac Academy.

Upon her arrival at Zodiac Academy Darcy and her sister take part in The Awakening, where first year students’ Elements are Awakened. They are singled out by Professor Zenith, the professor performing the Awakening, and introduced as Roxanya and Gwendalina Vega, however she and her sister insist on keeping their names from the mortal realm, Darcy and Tory. During the Awakening, she learns that she and her sister have the gift of all four elements, the first Fae to ever do so.

The new students are then brought to The Orb, where they will be assigned to their houses. At The Orb, they are introduced to the Heirs, the Solarian Councillor’s heirs. Students with multiple Elements are told to choose their house. Initially, Darcy and Tory want to join House Aer together because Seth looked like the kindest of the Heirs. However, Principal Nova tells them they have to join separate houses as to not disrupt the healthy rivary going on and give one house such an unfair advantage over the others. Tory lets Darcy join House Aer, while she joins House Ignis. The new students are then taken to initiation. Darcy is singled out during initiation, and is given the choice to cut off her hair or jump from the roof of House Aer. She chooses to jump, and is able to land safely using her Air magic. During initiation, she meets Diego Polaris who later becomes her friend.

On their first morning at the academy, the twins are waved down by Geraldine Grus, a zealous supporter of the princesses, and the leader of the club the Almighty Sovereign Society or A.S.S. for short. The twins try to explain to Geraldine that they want nothing to do with the Throne and just want their inheritance, but she will not hear it. She also introduces Diego, and meets Sofia, a friend of Tory’s from Ignis.

In their first few weeks of class, before the Reckoning was to take place, Tory and Darcy were enrolled in Cardinal Magic with Professor Orion, Tarot with Professor Astrum, and lessons for all their elements.

In their first Cardinal Magic class, the twins receive a message from Falling Star, an anonymous user who is interested in helping them. Since she and her sister have no knowledge of their heritage, social constructs, Solarian culture, or any basic Fae information, Principal Nova comes into class to assign them liaisons. Darcy is assigned Professor Orion as her Liaison.

At her first liaison meeting with Professor Orion, he reads her palm to learn more about her and asks if she has any idea what her Order could be. Since she doesn’t know, he signs her and her sister up for every Order Enhancement lesson in hopes it will emerge under the influence of their kind.

The twins continues to get help and advice from Falling Star. Sophia and Diego are not sure if he can be trusted, but the twins choose to continue talking because not many people are willing answer their questions.

One day in Cardinal Magic during their first week, Professor Orion is reading Tory’s palm and is surprised to see how different her reading was from Darcy’s. He impulsively decides to drink Tory’s blood to see if it tastes like Darcy’s. Kylie Major posts the incident to FaeBook, and Caleb Altair rushes in and gets into a fight with Orion for drinking from his Source. To resolve the disagreement, Orion claims Darcy as his Source.

On their first Friday, the twins go out to the bar with Diego and Sophia, on their way there they tell Geraldine that they will be staying in so that they don’t have to hang out with her. They go to a bar, and see Orion there. On her way to get drinks, Darcy stops to listen in on Orion’s conversation, and thinks that he wants to kill her and her sister. After that incident, Falling Star messages that he wants to meet in a nearby alley to share new information.The twins leave the bar and wait in the alley, but Falling Star messages to say it was too dangerous. The twins then see a shadow, hear rattling, and feel their powers draining from them. They flee from the scene and run into the Heirs at a different bar. The girls tell them about their encounter, and reluctantly agree to stay for one drink. Tory chug her drink and the girls leave for the dance floor. Where they try to get guys to buy them drinks, but the Heirs shut that down and try to get them back into the VIP section. The Heirs and the twins call a truce and Darcy dances with Seth. All of a sudden, everything comes to a halt and the Academy students are instructed to return to their Houses. On their way to the bus, they see that Geraldine has been attacked by a Nymph and was supposedly saved by Orion. Darcy is skeptical and thinks that Orion was the one who hurt Geraldine because of his conversation earlier.

At Siren Order Enhancement, Max Rigel uses his Order abilities to coax the twins to tell him their greatest fears. Darcy tells him that she is scared of being cast aside after falling in love with someone, and that she dyed her hair the color of a bruise to remind herself of that.

Before the first dance, the girls meet Falling Star in Venus Library, who turnes out to be Professor Astrum. He tells them about their parents, that he suspects their parents were murdered, and the Acrux family was involved, and warns them about dark magic. Their conversation is cut short because of an eavesdropper.

At the dance, Darcy goes with Seth. She spends some time dancing with him, then leaves to get some fresh air. Orion approaches her when she is outside and warns her about Seth, but she ignores him. They share a moment that is interrupted by Seth. When Orion leaves Seth tells her she is worth the trouble and kisses her. While kissing her, Seth cuts off her hair and has Kylie film it all to humiliate her. Orion comes to her while she is crying and helps her up. He takes her to try to stop the Heirs from hurting Tory. When they get there, it is too late. Tory is in the pool, and Max has frozen the surface of the water, trapping her underneath. She tries to escape, but Darius starts helping Max. By the time Orion intervenes and drags her out of the water, Tory is unconscious. He helps get all the water out of her lungs, and gives the Heirs detention, unable to do more because of their status.

### Ruthless Fae

After the pool incident Darcy and Tory head straight back to Darcys and lock themselves in the room. Diego and Sofia go to check on them but they turn them away.

The next morning, the twins decide to leave Solaria and return to earth because of everything that happened since they got there. They hatch a plan to steal gold and stardust while everyone is busy with the assembly. Darcy breaks into Orion's office but he catches her and in her effort to escape she tries to travel via stardust but he manages to get to her in time and the both land on the roof of aer tower where the struggle and Darcy accidentally throws Orion off the edge in her effort to escape. Orion lets her get away but only after he takes the stardust.  After they meet in Darcy’s room again they decide to stay in the Academy. Afterwards she receives a text from Orion with the name of the book that will help grow her hair back.

When she goes to the Venus Library to find the book, she finds out that she has to make a potion in order to grow her hair back. She also discovers how to call Werewolf lice under her control to take payback from Seth.

Darius then tell the Vega twins that his father, Lionel Acrux would be having a dinner soon and that he wanted to meet the Vegas. They then go to the party, along with Orion, and Darcy and Orion share their fist kiss.

During a Nymph Attack after a Pitball game, when Orion was about to be killed she released a very powerful blue flame which incinerated the Nymph instantly.

### The Reckoning

After the Nymph attack, the school is shocked by what happens. Darcy heads to her liaison lesson with Orion and Orion ends up on top of her. He kisses her cheek and Darcy tells him to stop being confusing, stating that he is firmly team heirs.

### Shadow Princess

After the events of The Reckoning both Vegas emerge in their Order form as Phoenixes. Following their order awakening, both Darcy and Tory start feeling the impulses of The Shadows, which enhance their emotions and irrational behaviour. Because of their struggles they decide to come to Lance Orion and Darius Acrux in search of control over their newfound darkness. Darcy seems to fare mostly well with the shadows, not having many encounters with them, although she suffers from lack of sleep and persistent whispers from a woman of the shadows.

After the arrival of Gabriel Nox both sisters start their Order Enhancement classes with him in private, learning to fly and control only their wing portion of their Order. As the girls get more comfortable with Gabriel, he invites them to a party in a secluded club called Celest, unknown to them that this party was actually Lance's birthday and both him and Darius would be in attendance. Darcy flirts and dances with Orion for most of the night, chatting with the group and having a pleasant night. Both girls are taken back to the school by Stardust with Lance, where Tory decides to leave Darcy and Orion alone. They decide to have sex in Jupiter Hall, on Orion's desk where Darcy gives him a striptease as a birthday gift. Both of them are called to Principal Nova's office and are discovered to have been flirting at Celest, Darcy is reprimanded for having a "crush" on her professor but doesn't get detention.

Darcy is made to assist the Pitball tryouts for her necessary club assignment and ends up being part of the team as a Pit Keeper.

At the Halloween party Darcy attends as Count Dracula and goes with both Tory and the A.S.S society. Both girls have fun until Caleb Altair want to dance with Tory and Darcy decides to leave them alone. A masked Orion surprises Darcy at the dance and the two of them decide to hide in the cavern system in which the party is being thrown. They have sex on one of the smaller passages of the caverns, thinking that no one saw them but not much after they finish Seth Capella discovers them. Seth starts to blackmail them, making Orion leave Darcy behind and making the situation seem like Darcy and Seth had sex together.

### Fated Throne

Darcy and the heirs have to race against Lionel Acrux to find the Imperial Star before he does. At the end of the book during the first battle against Lionel, Lavinia places an unknown curse on Darcy that makes it difficult to access her Phoenix.

### Heartless Sky

After fleeing the fighting arena after the battle against Lionel the Vega twins and the heirs take refuge amongst the rebels fighting against Lionels tyrannical rule.

Darcy realises that not even the rebels, her most loyal supporters, can support her relationship with Lance Orion. Because he is a power shamed nobody and she is one of the most important Fae in Solaria. This does not prevent Darcy from standing by Lance, despite the dissent. Eventually their love prevails and they get their Divine moment, and become Elysian Mates, which causes silver rings to appear around their pupils. This leads to Lance being accepted back into Fae society, as it shows he is not a sick pervert and the love him and Darcy share is real.

Darcy and Tory travel to the legendary Palace of Flames to be trained by the ghosts of their Phoenix ancestors. To unlock their full potential they must first understand the history of their Order form. The ancient ones say only one twin can rule.

The true power of the curse from Fated Throne is revealed, and after months of battling against it Darcy is transformed into a monstrous shadow beast. In her transformed state nothing of the Fae Darcy remains, and the beast callously tears into Geraldine, nearly killing her. Lance Orion makes a deal with Lavinia to become her slave for three months if she will release Darcy from the curse. If Darcy is unable to escape the curse she is doomed to a lifetime as the beast and will lose her powers and Fae form, becoming a true mortal. If this happens she will be unable to live in Solaria and claim her place as Queen.

### Sorrow and Starlight

Darcy arrives at a mountain after following a falling star when she left the battlefield. She gets to a lake where the star landed and it emits a bright light that gives Darcy a vision of her parents that was sent to her from the past. After that she witnesses the star dying and exploding in a blinding light.

Later Darcy is called to the Palace by Lavinia and when she sees Orion’s state she loses control of the Beast and attacks Lavinia but isn’t strong enough and is locked in the cage with Lance.

Darcy and Lance discover a secret door that leads to Amantium Caelum, a room built as gift for an old Vega queen. Through there they find a door leading to the Royal Treasury where they find a memory crystal that shows them how the Pheonix Order died out as well as the Libra stone for the Zodiac Guild. They rescue Eugene Dipper from Lionel who informs them about the experiments Vard is running on captured Fae.

When Tory tries to rescue Darcy by force, she is attacked by the Shadow Beast and she only manages to escape thanks to Caleb.

After the failed attempt she manages to regain control and is called along with Orion to meet Lionel and his guards. There she is introduced Tharix.

Stella takes the Death Bond from Lance saving him and freeing Darcy in the process by killing herself. The Shadow Beast separates itself from Darcy and attacks them, being joined by Tharix. While Lance fights Tharix, Darcy manages to severely wound the Beast, retrieving her powers and Order from it and then breaks its collar, freeing it from Lavinia's control.

During the fight, she discovers Queen Vega’s silver sword. They get to Gabriel, release him and attempt to escape but are intercepted by Lavinia and her Nymphs. Darcy confronts Lavinia and manages to lock her control of the Shadows, trapping them inside her. Lavinia then loses her hold on the Nymphs who she had forced to follow her and they turn their attacks to their own kind. As she is about to kill Lavinia, Tharix appears and takes her away. They manage to get to the Palace and steal Stardust to escape before Lionel catches them.

They appear in a cabin that Orion’s father owned where they stay until Gabriel sees a vision where the Academy is under attack and so they head there to help.

Once they all reunite they manage to kill all the monsters with the help of a spell Tory had learned in the Book of Fire. After the battle ends everyone circles around the twins and Darius pushes his way to the front, kneeling before them and pledging his allegiance to them. After the others recover from their shock, the Heirs, Lance and everyone gathered follow his lead. That’s when the twins notice the Councilors with the rest of the rebel army has arrived as well and they also kneel before them.

The Imperial Star starts pulsing, alerting them that they can now wield it. Before they can do that the sky fills with bright lights and they come in contact with the Stars who finally reveal the Broken Promise. The twins fulfill the Broken Promise, but Clydinius betrays them, creates two clones of them and traps them in a cavern without their powers.

## Appearance

### Fae Form

Darcy has olive green eyes, bronzed skin and full lips. Through out the books she is described as hot and beautiful with a slim hourglass figure.

Darcy and Tory are identical apart from Darcy’s blue hair, and they are often mistaken for one another. Later, Darcy receives silver rings around her iris after she accepts Lance as her Elysian Mate during their Divine Moment.

Before being cut off, her hair is brown with blue tips. After it is cut she uses a potion to regrow it, leaving it natural brown for a short period. She considered not dying her hair blue, because the color had lost its original meaning. Eventually, she did decide to dye her hair back to blue because Lance told her that if she did it meant she liked him, and to him blue reminded him of her.

### Order Form

In her Phoenix form flames engulf her body, and she has wings with flaming red feathers. Her hair becomes a living mass of deep orange and red flames. And the fire casts skin in flames, but her eyes in darkness. She is described as looking like an angel fallen to flames.

Darcy is taught how to partially shift into her Order form and only bring out her wings by Gabriel. When she only has her wings, she occasionally extinguishes the flames, leaving just bronze wings.

## Personality

Darcy is fiercely loyal to her sister and those she loves. She is very determined, and does not back down from a challenge. Despite her kind soul, she is more than capable of defending herself. When pushed too far she will let her rage rise up and destroy her enemies. While she is not as vicious as Tory, she will bite back when provoked and will not tolerate insults towards herself or people she cares about.

When reading her palm, Lance notes that she has the Girdle of Venus, showing she is a compassionate person, and the rare Ring of Solomon, representing her good heart and self-sacrificing nature. Throughout her time at the Academy this proves true, she is always friendly and empathetic to most people she meets, and willing to listen and help their cause.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Tory Vega

Tory is the other half of Darcy’s soul and the person she cares for most deeply in the world. Growing up all they had was each other, and together they survived many horrors. They are best friends and are in the same friend group. Darcy and Tory are extremely close and unafraid to call each other out when one does something stupid. Darcy trusts Tory more than anyone else.

#### Hail Vega

She never met her father and he didn't even know he existed for most of her life. After she arrived in Solaria and learned the truth about her parentage she was also told that Hail Vega was a very cruel and bad man (The Savage King). She struggled to understand how she could be related to such a monster and was confused why her mother loved him. After visiting the Palace of Souls the truth was revealed. Her father wasn’t the evil man he was believed to be and Lionel Acrux had used dark coersion on him for years to commit many atrocities.

#### Merissa Vega

She never met her mother as she was killed before she returns to Solaria and learns about her true family. After she learns what happened to her throughout her life she is really sad for her. It was thanks to her vision that she also finds out that Gabriel Nox is actually her half brother.

### Gabriel Nox

She meets Gabriel when he arrives in Zodiac Academy to take over Ling Astrum as the tarot teacher after he was killed. She feels a connection to him almost instantaneously and they realise they are Nebula Allies. He helps her and Tory improve their flying skills, as he is a Harpy. The twins discover that Gabriel is their half brother are extremely happy. She grows to love him very fast. Eventually Darcy visits Gabriel’s home with Tory and meets his family.

### Romantic

#### Lance Orion

Lance was the Cardinal Magic Teacher at Zodiac Academy. She is attracted to him from the moment she met him when he came to their apartment to collect them. At first she doesn't like him at all and thinks he is very mean. When he becomes her liaison she's both scared and very excited at the thought of spending more time with him. They have a very heated relationship from the beginning and both of their feelings get progressively more intense.During a Nymph attack after a Pitball game she saves him from being killed by a Nymph and then borrows his magic so she can kill the Nymphs with her blue flame.

When she attends an Acrux gala she and Orion find themselves in the pool where they have their first kiss underwater but when they get out of the water they both know that they have to act like it never happened because out in the world they are on different sides.

In Heartless Sky they finally have their Divine Moment and become Elysian Mates.

#### Seth Capella

Seth was shown to be the original love interest, and seemed to be genuinely interested in her despite all the asshole things he had done to her. Their attraction to each other is first shown when they dance together at the club. After that Seth asks Darcy to the dance and she accepts. They go outside and he kisses her, before cutting off her hair and betraying her trust. Seth manipulated Darcy and took her hair because he knew that it represented her trust issues.

After sharing their kiss Darcy shows extreme resentment towards Seth, and he becomes obsessed with her. He seemed to believe that they were equals and should be together.

### Friends

#### Seth Capella

Seth and Darcy have had a very controversial relationship. First it seemed they would be a romantic couple, before Seth betrayed her trust. This made Darcy begin to resent Seth with a burning fury and once he began blackmailing her about her relationship with Orion he was became the person she hated most.

After Orion’s trial Seth and Darcy begin to become friends and Darcy eventually forgives Seth for his messed up actions. They realize they are Nebular Allies and seem to become Besties. Darcy is the only one Seth tells about his crush on Caleb. When Orion is in jail Seth sleeps in Darcy’s bed in wolf form every night because he can feel how sad and hopeless she is.

Max Rigel

Although they were originally enemies Darcy becomes close with all the heirs over the summer after fighting Lionel and losing. They bond over their shared hatred of Lionel and desire to keep him off the throne. Darcy seems to have a sibling like relationship with all of the heirs, despite past mishaps.

Caleb Altair

Although they were originally enemies Darcy becomes close with all the heirs over the summer after fighting Lionel and losing. They bond over their shared hatred of Lionel and desire to keep him off the throne. Darcy seems to have a sibling like relationship with all of the heirs, despite past mishaps.

#### Geraldine Grus

At first the twins did not like Geraldine because she was the leader of the A.S.S club and they had no intention of claiming the throne.

Eventually they see that Geraldine is a really great person and a very loyal friend. She is one of the people closest to to twins and they are usually found in a trio.

#### Diego Polaris

Diego was one of the first people the twins became friends with when they arrived at Zodiac Academy.

In Shadow Princess Diego is revealed to by a Nymph who was sent to spy on the Vega twins. But in the end he gives his life to protect Darcy as she struggled to escape the shadows Clara had trapped her in.

#### Sofia Cygnus

Sofia was the first person to show Tory and Darcy any kind of kindness when they arrived at Zodiac Academy and is a member of House Ignis along with Tory. She serves as their walking encyclopedia on all things to do with Zodiac Academy and their friend.

#### Darius Acrux

After Lance was arrested Darcy and Darius begin to bond over their shares pain over losing him. Darius even begins calling Darcy ‘Shrew’ as a nickname, although he still mostly calls her Gwen.

## Quotes

“It’s our birthright” - Darcy Vega (Zodiac Academy 2: Ruthless Fae)

“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me.” - Darcy Vega (Zodiac Academy 2: Ruthless Fae)

”I wouldn’t leave you either” Darcy to Tory (Zodiac Academy 3: The Reckoning)

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