Author's Note: Not a chapter. More of an end notes page.
Oh What a Tangled Web!
I started this story as an Advent calendar story, meaning to post a chapter a day during Advent 2015. As sometimes happens however, other needs came first – and family or work duties will always take priority with me. That being said – this story was meant to be an exploration of the joyous truth that is family. The family has always been the source of my strength and my reason for getting up each morning and moving forward. Family can be blood or family can be chosen, but family is everything.
Now, a couple of reviewers asked me about other people and their bonds and connections. I decided to post my notes and headcanons in response. Each of Darcy's soulmates are listed below along with their own list of bonds and romantic soulbonds are marked. (So are any marks that I considered "unknown" – people Darcy would not have met.) Quite a few of them cross with each other, with Darcy at the center as she is attached to all of them. Right now I do not have any plot bunnies to go further with this or to explore the other bonds, but I would love to see other fics including the idea of soulbonds beyond romance and/or sex. I do enjoy a good romantic link, but give me those soulmates who are siblings and best friends.
Betty Ross
Unknown
Bruce Banner/Hulk – romantic
Darcy Lewis
Jane Foster
Erik Selvig
Darcy Lewis
Thor Odinson – romantic
Bruce Banner/Hulk
Jemma Simmons
Leo Fitz
Skye
Pietro Maximoff
Bucky Barnes
Erik Selvig
Unknown
Unknown
Jane Foster
Darcy Lewis
Phil Coulson
Melinda May – romantic
Clint Barton
Natasha Romanoff
Tony Stark
Pepper Potts
Darcy Lewis
Steve Rogers
Skye
Clint Barton
Phil Coulson
Natasha Romanoff – romantic
Darcy Lewis
Thor Odinson
Sif
Volstagg
Fandral
Hogun
Jane Foster – romantic
Darcy Lewis
Natasha Romanoff
Bucky Barnes
Clint Barton – romantic
Phil Coulson
Darcy Lewis
Steve Rogers
JARVIS/Vision
Darcy Lewis
Skye
Wanda Maximoff – romantic
Pepper Potts
Tony Stark – romantic
Phil Coulson
Darcy Lewis
Tony Stark
Pepper Potts – romantic
James Rhodes
Phil Coulson
Steve Rogers
Bruce Banner
Darcy Lewis
Bruce Banner/Hulk
Betty Ross – romantic
Tony Stark
Jane Foster
Darcy Lewis
James "Rhodey" Rhodes
Tony Stark
Darcy Lewis
Unknown
Steve Rogers
Bucky Barnes
Peggy Carter – romantic
Howard Stark
Phil Coulson
Natasha Romanoff
Maria Hill
Tony Stark
Darcy Lewis
Maria Hill
Unknown – romantic
Steve Rogers
Darcy Lewis
Melinda May
Phil Coulson – romantic
Skye
Darcy Lewis
Jemma Simmons
Leo Fitz – romantic
Grant Ward
Darcy Lewis
Jane Foster
Grant Ward
Jemma Simmons
Skye – romantic
Darcy Lewis
Leo Fitz
Jemma Simmons – romantic
Jane Foster
Darcy Lewis
Skye
Phil Coulson
Grant Ward – romantic
Melinda May
Darcy Lewis
Jane Foster
JARVIS/Vision
Bucky Barnes
Sam Wilson
Brian Riley
Steve Rogers
Darcy Lewis
Sharon Carter – romantic
Bucky Barnes
Sharon Carter
Unknown
Darcy Lewis
Sam Wilson – romantic
Wanda Maximoff
Pietro Maximoff
JARVIS/Vision – romantic
Darcy Lewis
Pietro Maximoff
Wanda Maximoff
Darcy Lewis
Jane Foster
Unknown
Bucky Barnes
Steve Rogers
Sam Wilson
Darcy Lewis – romantic
Jane Foster
Skye
Heimdall
With the exception of Darcy, I'm unsure of Heimdall's soulmates. All I do know is that he possesses a bunch of them – at least in the double digits, probably as many as Darcy has.
Relationships as I saw them:
Darcy/Buck
Betty/Bruce
Jane/Thor
Phil/Melinda
Clint/Natasha
Pepper/Tony
Steve/Maria – developed from friendship into romance
Jemma/Leo
Grant/Skye
Sam/Sharon
JARVIS-Vision/Wanda