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thebeastofblackmoor · 2 years

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Drew Crew video game headcanons

Nancy:

Nancy got a Wii for Christmas when she was young, which she loved and played regularly until she started getting into mystery solving. She still played the occasional Mario Kart with her family (she and Kate kicked ass while Carson is one of those parents who will never understand how to work a controller and ends up driving backwards half the time) but as she got more and more cases and became more popular, she just had less and less free time on her hands.

One day, she came home from a case to find her parents going ham on Just Dance, karaoke mode and all, and she acted like it was the cringeiest thing she’d ever seen. Truthfully, she thought it was cute that they were having so much fun together.

When her mother died, she left behind a ton of high scores on Just Dance and Mario Kart. The household eventually graduated to a Switch, but when the Drew Crew starts coming over a lot and they play on the Wii, Nancy inwardly hopes no one will ever break her mom’s high scores.

When Ryan comes to stay, he brings all his next-gen consoles and a whole library of games. Nancy isn’t interested in most of them (they’re usually really violent), but she often finds herself watching him playing late at night or over breakfast (she doesn’t ask if he got up early or if he’s been up all night). He’s very animated in his gameplay, and he and Nancy get fiercely competitive when he joins her in Mario Kart.

George:

The Fans never had that much disposable income for fun things, and game consoles are expensive, but that didn’t stop George’s sisters from begging for a Wii or an Xbox or a PlayStation at every birthday or Christmas. One day, George found a GameCube at a garage sale, reasonably priced (and in black, which George appreciated), and brought it home with a handful of cheap games. It was an old system even then, but her sisters were overjoyed.

It did not lead to the kind of wholesome family bonding time George was secretly hoping it might. Even years later, they are incapable of playing Mario Party 7 or Mario Kart without breaking into screaming matches or actual fistfights. They taught all their Animal Crossing villagers swear words and always make a point to sabotage each others’ homes. When they all play games at Nancy’s house, all hell breaks loose, but George still manages to be the most bloodthirsty. When they play Mario Kart, she’s going to get that trophy. And she doesn’t care if she puts Bess on the verge of tears in the process.

That damn GameCube probably did more harm than good in the Fan household, and George has almost sold it to pay the bills more times than she can count, but she can never bring herself to do it.

Nick

Nick was never super into video games. He always preferred going out and playing sports, and his mother never let him get a game console anyway, thinking video games might make him violent. But in Florida, he would sometimes hang out in his friends’ basements and play sports games like Madden, with the occasional Halo or GTA thrown in for good measure.

Casual hangouts like that are one of the things he didn’t realize he was missing until he starts hanging with the Drew Crew again. He loves seeing everyone go crazy over them and he’s proud of George’s mad skills.

When he becomes a part of the Fan family, he’s overwhelmed by her sisters’ insane playstyle. They show him no mercy in any game, of course, and the sisters unabashedly gang up on him every single time. He takes this as an opportunity to prove himself and decides he has to step up his game.

He’s still waiting for the day he actually beat them in anything (even after they ease up on him once they start accepting him), but when he does, it will be glorious.

Bess

Bess never had any video games in her early childhood, but when she became a con artist, she acquired (see: stole) a 3DS with New Leaf. She spent a lot of time riding in the car as she and Stephen went from city to city, and there were a lot of lonely nights in motel rooms that the little game made a lot more bright. She had it for almost two years and built the town into something really lovely when one night, Stephen broke it in a fit of rage.

She played some video games with the children she au pairs for in New Hampshire, and later plays with the Drew Crew at Nancy’s, but she’s not very good and she hasn’t had her own game system since the 3DS. For her birthday one year, Ace and Nancy go in on a Switch for her and she can finally play Animal Crossing again. She doesn’t get all the same villagers she used to have, but she chooses her new ones very carefully and treasures them all.

They are never allowed to leave, no matter how many times they ask.

Ace

Ace is a PC gamer, of course. In high school, he built his own gaming computer and spent a lot of time in the next few years playing first person shooters. Since he didn’t have any siblings or a lot friends, he liked to socialize using online multiplayer games. He gets harassed by trolls a lot, because he’s really good at it, and he made a habit out of hacking trolls out of their accounts when once his computer skills advanced to the illegal.

When he gets real life friends, only gets online late at night when he can’t sleep, but he’s less bothered by what random people have to say.

His favorite game, is Portal 2. He’s earned every trophy and knows the solution to every level by heart, but it still brings him comfort.

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aces-drew · 3 years

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we fall in love 'til it hurts or bleeds (post 2x12 nace fic)

author : acesdrxw (find me on ao3 here)

fandom : nancy x ace (nace) from cw's nancy drew

word count : 1027 words

tags : angst hehe it's all just gut-wrenching angst lmao (but cathartic bc confrontation)

warnings : none

premise : nancy confronts ace after picking up on how off he'd been with her since his almost death at the paper-mill

Ace wasn’t ready to go home yet.

Watching his dad lose a part of his heart to regret after he’d met Grant, almost dying, gaining and losing a brother all in a 16-hour window had left a heavy weight on him, constricting his ribcage and tying knots onto his spine. The dread he felt at having to process all of it for himself and then having to talk to his father about it, having to come to terms that he’d mostly never get to see Grant again – his big brother, his only brother – had heavily worn him down in the brief time he’d had to hold onto all of it.

He took a deep breath, trying to quell inevitable tears as he sat on the bench in the Claw’s storeroom. He didn’t even realise Nancy had walked in until she spoke up behind him.

‘I’m sorry I hurt you.’

He took a second and composed himself before he turned to face her. She looked uncharacteristically apprehensive, and he didn’t necessarily blame her. Something about the two of them had shifted and it was unfailingly and uncomfortably evident.

‘Hurt me? Nancy people could die because of me, they’re the ones who could get hurt.’

It was difficult for Ace to keep an even tone, so he stood up to steady himself a little more. ‘Do we even know for sure that he didn’t send out the list of names to anyone? Was it really the best decision to even have taken that chance? And God Nancy, how did you even know Celia would do what you asked her? I just-’

Ace stopped himself, unwilling to say anything he would regret.

‘It wasn’t a favour, it was a deal.’ She replied.

‘What?’

She took her turn to ready herself with a shaky breath, worrying Ace more than anything. ‘Celia asked that I change my statement against Everett in court in return for catching Daniel West and keeping you safe.’ She said, looking away from him. ‘I agreed to the terms.’

His temples buzzed with adrenaline as he digested the words. He couldn’t really process what he was hearing as his mind raced a mile a minute, ‘What the actual hell Nancy? What were you thinkin-’

‘I couldn’t gamble your safety.’ Nancy interrupted, looking away again; finality etched in her tone. That was enough to effectively set him over the edge.

‘And yet you gambled your integrity?’ Ace felt sick; he couldn’t help but yell. He was now not only responsible for the possible murders of multiple people, but he was also the reason that Nancy had given up everything she’d believed in and worked for, the reason that a known murderer would walk free. ‘This isn’t who you are Nancy, this town trusts you to do the right thing, your dad trusted that you would do the right thing, you’re better than this!’

Nancy recovered just as fast as she’d flinched at his words. ‘Really? Am I? Because last time I checked, all of you were very comfortable with telling me how much of a Hudson I am, so guess what? I am a Hudson; I did what I had to.’ Nancy bit back. Ace couldn’t miss the sincerity that was absent in her tone.

He was so tired. ‘This wasn’t the right call Nancy, you fucked up… I wasn’t worth it.’ Ace tried to remove himself from seeing the way a part of her broke at how he didn’t fight for the decision she’d made to save his life, how he didn’t try to understand what that had cost her, how she was willing to do it anyway. But he could see that she saw him too, that she was also processing his side of things. Even if, just like him, she wasn’t willing to come to terms with what it implied for the two of them.

They studied each other until the silence got too heavy.

‘But it was my call to make. I couldn’t lose you.’ She gave up, looking right at him with tears threatening to fall. She was still scanning his face for some semblance of understanding, for some approval. When it didn’t come, she pulled her last straw, ‘Tell me that you wouldn’t have done the same for me.’

If it were anybody else, Ace would’ve become the pacifist right then. He would’ve put up the front he always did and manage all his feelings onto the backburner, letting everything go for the sake of preserving peace, convincing himself that he’d process it all himself and get over it. He would’ve forgiven it and swallowed the hurt and exhaustion he was feeling. He would’ve managed the anger he felt at her for asking him for an answer that would even mildly justify the clearly wrong decision she’d made – the decision to choose him. He would’ve looked away from her crystal blue eyes and arrested his case.

But with Nancy, against all his better rational judgment, he didn’t feel the need to reserve himself like he always did, he wanted to feel everything he was feeling in full force and overwhelm her with it too. Despite everything, it felt important to be honest with her, to liberate himself from holding back in the only way he could given their current circumstances – he wanted to be angry with her because he was angry with her.

Ace had decided on that much; tonight, he wasn’t going to give either of them the comfort of coming to terms with what she’d done because of him, of unpacking why she’d done it when there was so much – too much, to lose. He’d settled on it, ending the conversation.

‘Amanda is waiting for me. I’m heading out.’ Ace didn’t know why, but he knew that mentioning her was a cheap shot.

And that’s what he did. Before he saw Nancy’s tears, tears he knew would break him into a million more pieces than he’d already been broken into today, tears that would force him to deal with more than he could handle with everything he felt for and about her, he made his way out of the Bayside Claw.

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