Looking for Daniel in all the right places

[lolmac]

This is a very different call for help from my last one.  (Thank heavens.)

Like many Stargate fans, I came to the show with a focus on Jack.  I've branched out since then, and my fave flavour is now Teamy Goodness.  My partner and I have been doing a full rewatch, and I've been paying much more attention to the other characters.  But I'm still in

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[annejack]

Hmmm... I do love h/C fics, because there is way too little h/c on the show to go with the angst and the h/c is what always drives me to write because angst without h/c is like a onesided coin. They are supposed to be friends, family, a team - so they need h/c for it to be believable what makes SG-1 so special and TPTB neglected that part of the team dynamic way too often.
HOWEVER - and here's the thing - if the h/c is too onesided, if it's always Daniel who gets the hurt and the comfort, it grows old pretty quick. Daniel is NOT a simpering, whiny, needy, always-breaking-down-and-crying little boy. He's strong and while he's in ways more sensitive and more passionate or even more willing to let his emotions show than Jack or T, he is not simpering and he doesn't need coddling on a regular basis. He can take care of himself, but at the same time is constant tries to be so strong and to push away friends who WANT to help him and take care of him sometimes, makes it so nice to give him that care and to make him see his friends are his family and do care about him - without always having his patronizing thing going on.

What I love about Daniel is when he's allowed to do his job; being an archeologist, being the soul of the team, being the negoiator. When he's allowed to take the verbal lead off world, when Jack isn't cutting him off at every opportunity - or when Jack does it and Daniel bites back and stands his ground because he's right and Jack can go and suck on a lemmon (I'm a Jack girl through and through, but even I know Jack needs his butt kicked on a regular basis :)).

I love when Daniel gives as much of the comfort for his team as he gets. I love it when he's not made the 'translation and coffee addicted guy' but a real valid member of the unit - WITH the coffee addiction too :p . When he has to kill to survive - without having a mental breakdown about it afterwards.

But Daniel also has all these traumas and he does have issues with trust and with being dependent and with trying to always ward off helping hands and I like it when his flaws are shown as well as his strength. He's not always right. He's right a LOT, but not all the time - genius or not. And sometimes he needs the comfort and I love when he gets it instead of being pushed aside like they did so often in the show.

My pet peeve is Daniel-getting-sick-in-every-story. I can't read that anymore. Him getting sick or injured is okay, but not in every story I read. He can't have all these allergy issues for example because if he'd have a nosebleed, a wheezing sneezing attack, an asthma attack etc etc on every opportunity he wouldn't be able to go off world to so many different climates, floras and faunas. The way he is written in some stories it seems he can't even have a walk in the park without getting sick, snort. He's a healthy, strong guy nd even if he has these allergies, they can't bother him that much, imo.

Well, that's my two cents :) Not sure if it helps. Everyone has their different opinion on the characters and everyone 'sees' and 'hears' them different.