Helo/Athena shipper love post
First reactions to Hana Yori Dango 2 ep 3 are out and you have no idea of the willpower I have to exercise in order not to click on them. Yeah, Hanadan love has turned me somewhat spoiler free? Will miracles ever cease?
But that is not the post about that. This post is about one of my huge non-drama OTPs.
Helo and Athena (otherwise known as Karl Agathon and Sharon Valerii) in Battlestar Galactica.
I know Kara/Lee is most viewers’ ship of choice, but not me. I can squee over K/L in eps like ‘Unfinished Business’ but Helo/Athena is my one REAL otp for BSG. (Also, as far as Kara shipping, I generally I prefer Kara/Anders).
I mean, I mean, I mean.
It hits all my OTP kinks. Korean dramas have got nothing on the star-crossedness and angst of those two.
Let’s start with the species. Even though Sharon looks human, she is not. She is a Cylon, a sentient robot. Helo? A human military pilot. Problem Number 1.
Did I mention the fact that Cylons and Humans are mortal enemies? When BSG opens, Cylons just launched a nuclear attack on the human worlds, wiping most of them out? Yeah. Picture THAT family reunion. Problem Number 2.
How about the fact that Helo first meets Athena when he is stranded on a post-nuked planet, on the run from the Cylons hunting him? And that she looks exactly like another copy, a ‘Sharon Valerii’ whom he served with and whom he liked for ages? And that he thinks it’s that Sharon, and that he doesn’t know she isn’t human? Problem Number 3.
And Cylons stage a fake kidnap and he goes to rescue her even though he is alone and it’s hopeless, because he won’t leave her behind? And there is comforting and hair kissing? Except she is supposed to trap him and use him like a rat lab in a maze in order to further weird Cylon cross-breeding experiments, but she falls in love with him and goes rogue and now they are being hunted by everyone? Problem Number 4.
And then he finds out she is a Cylon. And he freaks and he knows it’s insane, but he loves her anyway. And she comes back for him, and gets him off the planet. Only to take her to a ship full of humans who hate her and imprison her (understandably so, the ‘Sharon’ on the ship shot the Commander point-blank and they hate Cylons in general) so for a year they can only talk on the phone, through a thick Plexiglas? Problem Number 5.
And she betrays her whole species for him and he refuses to give her up or hide his love even though he’s ostracized and he won’t give up when she refuses to interact with him at all after the President makes Helo and Athena believe their baby is dead? And they overcome it and get married and she is commissioned an officer but she finds out her child is alive and in Cylon hands. Problem Number 6.
So far, Athena is the only one to truly overcome programming, to develop real free will, isn’t she? GUUUH. Love. And Helo stands by her no matter what and they both have paid in full to the other for sacrifices they made for each other. There is kissing, there is making out, and protecting (mutual) and crying, and angst and fighting together and even my pet thing of huge guy tiny girl.
So yeah. Impossible and totally committed and very hot? Sign me up.
1. The scene in the ep when Helo has prevented humans from committing genocide on the Cylons. He is talking to Athena, freaking out he’ll be taken away, and he says, matter of factly, in conversation, that the thing he loves seeing more than anything in the morning is her face. Did I mention the kissing in that ep?
2. Helo (and Tyrol) rushing to rescue Sharon from being gang-raped. And Helo going berserk. And then later talking to Tyrol (they both know they’ll be executed) about how he knows it’s insane he loves a machine, he knows it’s all messed up, but he can’t help it.
3. When they are both in uniforms in S3 and she promises him she won’t betray the uniform and there is kissing.
4. When President Roslin decides Sharon’s baby should be aborted *cringe* and as they are taking her to the medbay, Helo appears, and he has a gun (!!!!) and even though it’s hopeless as marines are there, he will try anyway, to take her away, to protect her. And he pleads with Adama to let him take Sharon away somewhere.
5. The Fighting Agathons. Heeeee.
6. When Helo and Sharon make love in the woods in S1. And he tells her about always liking her, and she tells him about preferring him.
7. When Helo goes off to rescue Sharon, on the planet, even though he’s alone and wounded and terrified. I think that is when she really falls for him. And there is rescuing and kissing and comforting and GUUUUH. It’s probably my favorite scene.
8. Helo and Sharon joking with each other on Kobol. The banter and the cuteness. Even though the situation is so dire. I love it.
9. When they are asleep in that loft in S1, all curled up around each other.
10. Helo, so utterly absorbed in Sharon and no one else at the briefing at the end of S2, after she’s lost the baby. Or the giddiness over their kid. Yeah, it’s 11 but whatever. Or when she gets her call sign. Yeah, yeah, let’s make it an even dozen.
Previous Helo/Sharon picspam I did.
But that is not the post about that. This post is about one of my huge non-drama OTPs.
Helo and Athena (otherwise known as Karl Agathon and Sharon Valerii) in Battlestar Galactica.
I know Kara/Lee is most viewers’ ship of choice, but not me. I can squee over K/L in eps like ‘Unfinished Business’ but Helo/Athena is my one REAL otp for BSG. (Also, as far as Kara shipping, I generally I prefer Kara/Anders).
I mean, I mean, I mean.
It hits all my OTP kinks. Korean dramas have got nothing on the star-crossedness and angst of those two.
Let’s start with the species. Even though Sharon looks human, she is not. She is a Cylon, a sentient robot. Helo? A human military pilot. Problem Number 1.
Did I mention the fact that Cylons and Humans are mortal enemies? When BSG opens, Cylons just launched a nuclear attack on the human worlds, wiping most of them out? Yeah. Picture THAT family reunion. Problem Number 2.
How about the fact that Helo first meets Athena when he is stranded on a post-nuked planet, on the run from the Cylons hunting him? And that she looks exactly like another copy, a ‘Sharon Valerii’ whom he served with and whom he liked for ages? And that he thinks it’s that Sharon, and that he doesn’t know she isn’t human? Problem Number 3.
And Cylons stage a fake kidnap and he goes to rescue her even though he is alone and it’s hopeless, because he won’t leave her behind? And there is comforting and hair kissing? Except she is supposed to trap him and use him like a rat lab in a maze in order to further weird Cylon cross-breeding experiments, but she falls in love with him and goes rogue and now they are being hunted by everyone? Problem Number 4.
And then he finds out she is a Cylon. And he freaks and he knows it’s insane, but he loves her anyway. And she comes back for him, and gets him off the planet. Only to take her to a ship full of humans who hate her and imprison her (understandably so, the ‘Sharon’ on the ship shot the Commander point-blank and they hate Cylons in general) so for a year they can only talk on the phone, through a thick Plexiglas? Problem Number 5.
And she betrays her whole species for him and he refuses to give her up or hide his love even though he’s ostracized and he won’t give up when she refuses to interact with him at all after the President makes Helo and Athena believe their baby is dead? And they overcome it and get married and she is commissioned an officer but she finds out her child is alive and in Cylon hands. Problem Number 6.
So far, Athena is the only one to truly overcome programming, to develop real free will, isn’t she? GUUUH. Love. And Helo stands by her no matter what and they both have paid in full to the other for sacrifices they made for each other. There is kissing, there is making out, and protecting (mutual) and crying, and angst and fighting together and even my pet thing of huge guy tiny girl.
So yeah. Impossible and totally committed and very hot? Sign me up.
1. The scene in the ep when Helo has prevented humans from committing genocide on the Cylons. He is talking to Athena, freaking out he’ll be taken away, and he says, matter of factly, in conversation, that the thing he loves seeing more than anything in the morning is her face. Did I mention the kissing in that ep?
2. Helo (and Tyrol) rushing to rescue Sharon from being gang-raped. And Helo going berserk. And then later talking to Tyrol (they both know they’ll be executed) about how he knows it’s insane he loves a machine, he knows it’s all messed up, but he can’t help it.
3. When they are both in uniforms in S3 and she promises him she won’t betray the uniform and there is kissing.
4. When President Roslin decides Sharon’s baby should be aborted *cringe* and as they are taking her to the medbay, Helo appears, and he has a gun (!!!!) and even though it’s hopeless as marines are there, he will try anyway, to take her away, to protect her. And he pleads with Adama to let him take Sharon away somewhere.
5. The Fighting Agathons. Heeeee.
6. When Helo and Sharon make love in the woods in S1. And he tells her about always liking her, and she tells him about preferring him.
7. When Helo goes off to rescue Sharon, on the planet, even though he’s alone and wounded and terrified. I think that is when she really falls for him. And there is rescuing and kissing and comforting and GUUUUH. It’s probably my favorite scene.
8. Helo and Sharon joking with each other on Kobol. The banter and the cuteness. Even though the situation is so dire. I love it.
9. When they are asleep in that loft in S1, all curled up around each other.
10. Helo, so utterly absorbed in Sharon and no one else at the briefing at the end of S2, after she’s lost the baby. Or the giddiness over their kid. Yeah, it’s 11 but whatever. Or when she gets her call sign. Yeah, yeah, let’s make it an even dozen.
Previous Helo/Sharon picspam I did.
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