First appearance: S4E4 — Death Dealers — The Scourge v Bone Daddy · watch it on YouTube
Darcy is a skeleton with a few strands of blonde hair, one green eye and, despite having no lips, the faint sense of a small smile. She is the beloved companion of Bone Daddy, who calls her “my true love.” She is also his greatest weapon: her ribs open to take him inside, and she becomes a towering bone mech around him. She has fought at his side in every one of his Deathmatches and was there at his end each time. Her story is one of the show’s oddest and most sincere tragedies.
Story
Death Dealers
Darcy first appeared in S4E4 — Death Dealers — The Scourge v Bone Daddy. She was the last of six skeleton “children” Bone Daddy raised against The Scourge. The others had names like Dabby, Dibby, Doobie and Dino, and the Grandmaster admitted she would not remember them: “I got Darcy.” The Grandmaster asked The Acolytes to show Darcy some love. She noted that Darcy was “lucky to have anything honestly organic on her.”
Midway through the fight, the skeletons climbed onto each other’s shoulders like a ladder. Darcy, at the top, elbow-dropped down through her siblings, and all six merged into a single giant skeleton. The Grandmaster allowed it, though she ruled it “not biologically correct in any way whatsoever.” From then on the giant was simply Darcy. She slashed the snake from around the Scourge’s neck, and when Bone Daddy declared “I love you, Darcy,” she winked back at him. Then he called on her final trick: “All right, Darcy, it’s time to open up.” Her ribs swung open, he hopped inside, and he wore her like a mech. The Scourge summed it up: “You’re a skeleton wearing a meat suit, wearing a skeleton, fine.”
Her finest moment went badly. Bone Daddy had her plunge her sword down the Scourge’s back, and she rolled a natural 1. Using the wrong end of the sword, she crashed down, lost her balance and stabbed out her own one good eye. “Oh, Darce,” said the Grandmaster. “I believed in you.” The Scourge twisted the knife, suggesting she was finally understanding “all those birthday parties and ballet receptions” her father had missed. A cold breeze then chilled the arena to the bone, goosebumps rose, and “some shrinkage” began to occur (“Look, it’s not always like this,” the Scourge protested. “I’m just tired, okay?”). Everyone in the arena shrank, and Darcy no longer looked so giant.
When Bone Daddy finally collapsed and fell out of her chest, he asked her to “take your daddy for one last ride.” Darcy dropped to one knee and lifted him in her arms, carrying him “the way that he never carried her.” He begged her forgiveness, and a single tear fell from Darcy’s void eye. She gave a slow nod, walked to the edge of the wooden platform, and stepped off into The Void below. The crowd wept as the top of her skull sank out of sight.
BoneBound Brawl
Darcy returned with Bone Daddy in S5E10 — BoneBound Brawl — King Bofus v Bone Daddy (and Darcy), facing the man-frog King Bofus. Bone Daddy explained that he could never truly die as long as Darcy nursed him back “with the power of bone and the power of daddy.” When Bofus asked whether she was a dog, a child or his mother, Bone Daddy said the relationship “hasn’t really been set in stone yet.” Thea approved: “We’ve discovered labels are really restrictive.” When Bone Daddy complained that Thea hadn’t asked Darcy about a hat, Thea burst into tears, literal crocodiles dripping from her eyes, and gave Darcy a present: a hat with three pom-poms, which Darcy tore open with her long bone claws.
In the fight, Darcy grappled Bofus. When she collapsed into a pile of bones, part of her stayed wrapped around him like a jacket. Bofus ripped her off and flung her like a whip at Bone Daddy, who pulled her back together. She caught herself with a twirl, and the two of them high-fived. She also snatched up flying Totino’s, tried to trip Bofus (he simply hopped over her: “This is amateur hour”), and clung to Bone Daddy’s neck for comfort.
Then Bone Daddy called his signature move: “Death Armor Reborn in the Combat Yard. D-A-R-C-Y, Darcy!” Her ribcage engulfed him, and bones rose from the soil to build her into a full mech. As Darcy, she hurled Thea at Bofus in a “basketball special,” and Thea was more than willing. When a mysterious figure awakened Bone Daddy’s inner monster, yellow and pink fire lit up between every one of Darcy’s bones. For the finale she stretched out extra-jointed arms to lift Bone Daddy’s mother and father onto his shoulders, “wrapped in Darcy’s cloak of calcium,” and a tidal wave of bone surged behind them. The blow ended in a dead tie. As Bone Daddy fell, his father reminded him that he’d forgotten the only rule: “You gotta listen for the safe word.” His life flashed before his eyes, ending with Darcy “becoming all of it.” Her skull looked down at him and nodded: it’s okay.
Bone Rust
In S5E13 — Bone Rust — Ruby Rust v Bone Daddy, Darcy and Bone Daddy faced Ruby Rust in a tavern. She was busy from the start. She scooped Bone Daddy away from Ruby’s crawling black ichor, tried to shove Ruby into the fireplace (her hands sank into him like tar), and threw a femur straight into his mouth. Her best moment was catching Bone Daddy on the ceiling like a trapeze artist as he flipped over Ruby and burst him open with a whip. Then, “getting hungry,” she dove in and shredded Ruby’s back half; the meat went into her ribcage and fell right back out. Thea started posing as Bone Daddy with a wannabe-Darcy skeleton of her own: “Yes, Darcy, you are my best friend.”
Bone Daddy called “Darcy, to me,” and she covered him as death armor once more. He crowned the armor with a monstrous skull from above the fireplace and slammed Ruby with his signature move, “Daddy’s Girl,” but Ruby dodged it. Bone Daddy also hurled a barrel with Darcy’s giant arm, and the armor tried to engulf Ruby. When everything missed, Bone Daddy said for the first time, “Darcy, I’ve never been disappointed in you until this very day.”
As the end neared, Bone Daddy offered to give himself up if Ruby would spare her: “she did nothing wrong.” Ruby refused. He called her “nothing more than a table,” and Bone Daddy flew into a fury in her defense: “She will prevail. She will outlast us all.” He dragged them both into the fire. With his last breath he punched free of Ruby and let go of a single finger bone of Darcy, hoping it could “find her way home.” That finger bone slipped out of the tavern unnoticed, and it survives.
Personality and Abilities
Darcy never speaks, but she says plenty. She winks, nods, weeps a single tear from her empty eye socket, and scampers about with her bones flapping. Bone Daddy talks to her as daughter, partner and love all at once (and “from time to time mommy”). She answers with total loyalty, or what looks like it. Ruby insisted she moves only on Bone Daddy’s command, but Bone Daddy swore there is a heart, a mind and a love inside that skeleton. She has long-fingered bone claws, two thumbs (“pointing right at daddy”), and a three-pom-pom hat from Thea.
In a fight, Darcy grapples, throws bones, catches, carries and chews. Her body can scatter into a pile of bones and pull itself back together. She can even be used as a whip. Her defining power is becoming the Death Armor Reborn in the Combat Yard: her ribs open to take Bone Daddy inside, and she swells with extra bones into a mech that can throw barrels, people, and tidal waves of bone.
Relationships
- Bone Daddy: The one who raised her “from the sleep of the ages,” her partner and “true love.” He adores her, failed her, and spent his last moments trying to save her.
- Thea: Gave her a pom-pom hat, was thrown by her at Bofus, and later imitated her with a skeleton of her own.
- The Scourge: Her first opponent, who mocked her for her father’s missed birthday parties.
- King Bofus: Wore her as a bone jacket and then used her as a whip.
- Ruby Rust: Dismissed her as “nothing more than a table,” and Bone Daddy could not let that go.
- The Grandmaster: Introduced her to the Acolytes and believed in her, right up until the sword went into her eye.
Memorable Quotes
- “My girl Darcy’s still with me. I love you, Darcy.” (Bone Daddy, S4E4)
- “Darcy girl, I’m sorry. I done you wrong. I never got to do you right. Will you forgive your Bone Daddy?” (Bone Daddy, S4E4)
- “Death Armor Reborn in the Combat Yard. D-A-R-C-Y, Darcy!” (Bone Daddy, S5E10)
- “There’s not a bad bone in her body.” (Bone Daddy, S5E13)
- “Your Darcy is inanimate. She only moves by your command. She is nothing more than a table to me.” (Ruby Rust, S5E13)
“She will prevail. She will outlast us all, even the Lord of Fate.” (Bone Daddy, S5E13)