fic: A Theory of Parallels snippet [sga au]

[bratfarrar]

Here's another thing that's probably part of something longer. I even have a maybe-sort-of storyline roughed out, but it's not going anywhere. So give it a kick in the pants. Give me prompts for what might happen further down the line. Or tell me to stop being silly and go back to writing about John being all traumatized by everyone dying.

Comments

[kensieg]

Yay! I love this! More please! I adore John being Mathy.

What happens the next morning? Breakfast? what do they eat? What time do they get up? Is John a morning person? Is John in any of Rodney's classes?

John's pov? Definitely romantic. Love story. Their marriage? Sorry that's too far ahead. But I adore this. They are rommates and friends and then lovers and then they get married and live happily ever after. Drs. McKay + Shepphard.

Write them as lab partners! Maybe they do a great big project together and jointly win the Nobel Prize?

Hope this wasn't too much.

Feel free to ignore these too detailed prompts.

[bratfarrar]

What happens the next morning? Breakfast? what do they eat? What time do they get up? Is John a morning person?

This definitely kicked things back into gear. Just need to write things out. And get some sleep. Preferably in the reverse order, I think.

[kensieg]

I'm glad I helped! Good night! Sleep well.

[kriadydragon]

Yes, this must be finished. But... so must the mentally-shattered John fic. Oh, the dillemma

[bratfarrar]

This is helpful--it's stuff that I've been sort of thinking about, but collected into a much more coherent whole. John dragging Rodney (or Rodney allowing himself to be dragged) to a fair has distinct possibilities.

John comes down with the flu and Rodney reluctantly takes care of him.

Hmmm....

[sholio]

This is really neat! I don't know what it is about SGA that makes AUs so incredibly appealing. I love how Rodney's determination not to like John falls slowly apart under prolonged exposure. It's been 10 years since my dorm days, but this brought the feeling rushing back -- the late impromptu runs to cheap restaurants, the feeling of being thrown together with people you don't know and might not like and end up bonding with anyway.

[bratfarrar]

I don't know what it is about SGA that makes AUs so incredibly appealing.

I'm not sure either, but there certainly are a lot of them. It must be something about the characters, and how utterly themselves they are, even under completely different circumstances.

It's been 10 years since my dorm days, but this brought the feeling rushing back

I should probably mention paper-thin walls and really loud parties at one in the morning, just to make it really authentic. ^_^

[bratfarrar]

Robotics competition. . . hm. That has distinct possibilities. Though probably no laser eyes of death (much to John's disappointment), since I'm trying to keep this semi-realistic. (Mostly because I don't think I've seen a version of this that wasn't completely cracked-out.)

[misskatieleigh]

! and there's more - or, a beginning really, to the other piece. I am very much a fan of college au. And falling asleep standing up!John is love.

♥

ideas....hm. Is this going to be slash? It seems to be leaning that way, but I wasn't sure. Maybe there's a girl (or another boy) that starts to occupy John and Rodney is oh so totally not jealous because really, he never wanted a roommate in the first place and clearly if the administration had seen the extent of his genius they would have built him a room directly off the science labs, or a science lab in his room - so when he has his nobel prize winning epiphany at 2:30 in the morning his notes won't end up written on a discarded candy wrapper or in the margins of John's math homework. er... I think I veered off there - point: Rodney is jealous, even though he'll never admit it. And John is... oblivious? slinky, perhaps, as well.

[bratfarrar]

Hee! What you've described is almost exactly what I've got in my head--I figure Rodney hasn't had many friends, let alone romantic relationships, and so doesn't really know what he feels toward John. So when John starts bringing Lucy around (at first just because her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend insist on having sex at all hours of the day, and they don't care whether or not Lucy's there, but later because he thinks Lucy's pretty cool--she does crew and makes paper airplanes and knows how to muck out a stall) Rodney can't help resenting her. Not because John stops hanging out with him, because he doesn't, but because Lucy's always there too. Or it feels like she is

[misskatieleigh]

oh, I wholly approve of this. *nods*

Crew girls are tough - I shared a room with one in college. Oooh her and John could go for five AM runs together and Rodney could be all like - bzah? It's freaking cold out there shut the door and then Lucy (or John) could put sneak in and stick freezing cold fingers down the back of Rodney's t-shirt so he squeals and jumps out of bed with his hair sticking up in nine hundred directions and his blanket wrapped crookedly around his shoulders.

Also, I secretly think that Lucy should have a thing for Rodney. Maybe. Because he is sort of adorably rumpled. :D

[bratfarrar]

Oooh her and John could go for five AM runs together and Rodney could be all like - bzah? It's freaking cold out there shut the door and then Lucy (or John) could put sneak in and stick freezing cold fingers down the back of Rodney's t-shirt so he squeals and jumps out of bed with his hair sticking up in nine hundred directions and his blanket wrapped crookedly around his shoulders.

Totally. John (this version of him, anyway) grew up on a farm (there's a long and complicated backstory to this which I really ought to write out at some point), so he's used to getting up reeeeally early, which Rodney cannot understand at all. Sure, Rodney pulls all-nighters with increasing frequency as the semester wears on, but to voluntarily get out of bed once you're in it--crazy