BSG; Apollo/Sharon Pic Fic - "The Rest is Silence" (PG)
Title: Pic Fic: The Rest is Silence
Characters: Apollo/Sharon
Spoilers: Miniseries, season 1 and season 1
Notes: Sharon-centric as it is written from Apollo's point of view. Very much AU (duh! :).
Part 1 of pic fic.
Part 2 of fic pic
Part 3 of fic pic.
Before you read it though - be warned that there are lots and lots of images to this pic fic so you might want to wait for the images to load before you start reading.
I did all the screen captures myself (bar a couple) so if anyone likes any of the images, feel free to take them. There's no need to credit.
One because all Battlestar Galactica materials belong to USA Cable Entertainment and I have absolutely no legal, moral or ethical right (express or implied) to even use them without permission let alone make derivative works out of them and demand any form of credit or attribution.
Secondly, I've never given a hoot about that kind of thing. I've found entire websites and reviews of mine copied in total and gone: "Ho hum" and moved on :)
Before someone picks me up on the 'implied right to use' issue. None of us in BSG fandom have implied rights to use the BSG materials. Ron Moore might have said in Q&A that fans can write fan fic, but to be honest I doubt he is the IP holder in all the BSG works - these would be held by a corporation which he does not control. Technically we are all infringing intellectual property rights and if you talk to a rabidly fascist IP person, they will call this theft.
I'm not going to quibble and I'll keep infringing with impunity. For one thing I don't care and for another I'd really enjoy trying to watch them do an out of jurisdiction notice of service to me here in China. The roads around my apartment are so badly designed my friends have a hard time finding me without assistance let alone Evil American Lawyers :)
My first attempt at a Pic Fic was the much shorter Helo/Sharon fic A Day In The Life of a Cylon. To be honest, my entire reason for writing that piece was because I love That Image of Helo so much and wrote the whole story just to lead up to the concluding image.
As to this whole Apollo/Sharon thing. I still like Helo and Sharon a lot, but let's face it there are a lot of other people out there who are doing things and writing things and I'm not really needed there. I thought I'd play for a bit in a less populated (umm desert-like) ship.
I'm kidding.
Actually to be honest, my liking for Apollo and Sharon started out of revenge. Apollo's look of contempt and his words in "Home 2" kind of got to me. It was then that I started playing with the idea of having him fall hard for someone he never could have.
The thing was, even before I knew about the hospital scene - I discovered that the two of them really do have a lot of chemistry and it didn't require a lot of additional imagining on my part. Maybe it's just me who sees that.
Helo and Sharon are great but to be honest I loved them best on Caprica when they were on the run, on a desert island. They're sweet, romantic and lovable together and I love that but I'm a bit of sucker for the long, dark looks that Apollo and Sharon give one another. Sparks and antagonistic chemistry appeal to me.
I suppose I should be able to get that kind of angatonistic chemistry out of the Lee/Starbuck combination. I do love those two (you love me, no take backs!) but they just flip flop so often. Sometimes they're so 'sibling' that to think of them together is almost icky.
Before anyone kebabs me, I'll link again to my index of eleven Helo/Sharon fics :). I'm particularly fond of Artichoke (set after Home 2) and Common Ground (set after Pegasus) although the table meet nugget's head in Acceptance is also enjoyable.
Ogles amsie's 'Helo's Arms' user icon. Mwa mwa mwa.
See ma, not jumping ship, not going anywhere!
Edit: Response to a post by repr0b8 which he made here. My post was too long for me to put in a comment so I whack it here instead:
repr0b8: I think you have to write what your muse tells you to write :) To be honest I'm interested in trying an Apollo/Dualla story for fun because I so enjoyed the ruffled feathers. Then I'll come back and write a couple of missing Sharon/Helo Caprica scenes. I still want to know how Helo gets from hearing Sharon's "I'm pregnant" line to his headspace during the scene when Starbuck shows up in the museum. It's not that they walked through the door hand in hand, skipping like little kiddies, but obviously a reconciliation of sorts has happened - but it's not a full one given that when Sharon flies away in the Raider he doesn't really show anything on his face.
Does he know she'll definitely return? Is he resigned to her loss? But as I said that's a story I feel like coming back to once I've got a few other things out of my system.
As to Apollo, I think that's what I like him about him - he's not easy to 'get'. You can't look at him and 'tick a box' and say: "OK I get him, that's the kind of person he is, that's what he'd do and say". In a way he's much like Sharon but his complications and compexities are for different reasons. Given that he's a main character he doesn't have the question mark over his head of his motives or whether he's evil but what I find interesting about him is that he's someone haunted by his past, he's damaged - but the 'end of the world' has put his own problems into perspective.
I saw him in the mini series as being a bit of a whiny pilot, Angsty Parental Syndrome Brat but he really came along quite nicely when he stepped out of that 'I'm so angry' mode and began to do what he had to do as CAG.
Also, I find it interesting that he loves the people around him without ever getting to close to them emotionally or intimately. I've seen the fan fic stories pairing him with Kara and every other single person on the Galactica and one would think that he had discovered Baltar's secret stash of Viagra or something but in the show's reality - Apollo's very ascetic and not particularly hedonistic in his actions from what we can gather. He chooses not to sleep around - given his position, his appearance and his undeniable sex appeal I find that an interesting choice.
I think for me that's why I gave his 'long look' to Sharon in Home 2 a second and third consideration. This guy doesn't sleep around, he doesn't fall easily but when he falls - he falls hard and gets hurt badly. So then I thought - what would be the biggest, most hurtful and 'sad' fall? Make him fall for a Cylon. Make him question everything. Take apart everything he believes in and see if he can put himself back together. :) Does he make love a positive or a negative emotion, especially when the object of his love and desires is a Cylon?
Hee hee. Sorry for such a long and nerdy post ;) You know me. I can't help it.
You know what - Crashdown and Apollo really won my heart yesterday when they visited Sharon in the hospital. Gal Boomer always seemed so lost and lonely to me - from her sitting there, confused and bewildered, dripping with water. What must it have been like to think you were going mad, to think you were a Cylon? Some of my favourite caps were of that scene when she's sitting there with Baltar - debating to whether to kill herself. It's so sad. Everyone says Gal Boomer was weak and whiney - I think she was lost and confused. Essentially a good and heroic person and in the end no one remembers the good she does, just the fact that she tried to kill Adama - which admittedly is a very bad thing but to be honest most of the crew seem to have done One Unforgiveable Thing For Which He/She Has Been Forgiven. Oh I just remembered the blowing up the water tank thing, too :P
In any case, the fact that they visited her warmed the cockles of my heart. I even stole Crashdown's handclasp and gave it to Apollo for my pic fic. I didn't think he would mind - since he's dead :'(
Thanks again for the feedback. It always means a lot. banthafodder really hit home when she described one of her fics as "my Zarek/Meiers fic went largely unloved". :)
We've had this discussion before and sometimes I might ask why I continue producing Largely Unloved Fics but think I think I so enjoy writing them and creating something. I think I really finally managed to overcome the Largely Unloved/Comment bug bear when I produced this pic fic.
I knew when I wrote it that it was for me - there was no ready made audience of Apollo/Sharon fans.
The fact that others like it makes me so glad especially as screen capping a lot of the scenes makes me feel like capping a Wong Kar Wai movie - so many stills are really beautiful. Sharon in particular is very photogenic and many of her stills are haunting.
The colours on Kobol as well - contrasting her red jumpsuit with the green just look gorgeous. I feel bad comparing BSG with WKW but I thought it so I'll write it ;) For that matter, Apollo is the male equivalent - he's equally photogenic and also caps well. That's a bad reason to write a story about them but it helps when capping.
Characters: Apollo/Sharon
Spoilers: Miniseries, season 1 and season 1
Notes: Sharon-centric as it is written from Apollo's point of view. Very much AU (duh! :).
Part 1 of pic fic.
Part 2 of fic pic
Part 3 of fic pic.
Before you read it though - be warned that there are lots and lots of images to this pic fic so you might want to wait for the images to load before you start reading.
I did all the screen captures myself (bar a couple) so if anyone likes any of the images, feel free to take them. There's no need to credit.
One because all Battlestar Galactica materials belong to USA Cable Entertainment and I have absolutely no legal, moral or ethical right (express or implied) to even use them without permission let alone make derivative works out of them and demand any form of credit or attribution.
Secondly, I've never given a hoot about that kind of thing. I've found entire websites and reviews of mine copied in total and gone: "Ho hum" and moved on :)
Before someone picks me up on the 'implied right to use' issue. None of us in BSG fandom have implied rights to use the BSG materials. Ron Moore might have said in Q&A that fans can write fan fic, but to be honest I doubt he is the IP holder in all the BSG works - these would be held by a corporation which he does not control. Technically we are all infringing intellectual property rights and if you talk to a rabidly fascist IP person, they will call this theft.
I'm not going to quibble and I'll keep infringing with impunity. For one thing I don't care and for another I'd really enjoy trying to watch them do an out of jurisdiction notice of service to me here in China. The roads around my apartment are so badly designed my friends have a hard time finding me without assistance let alone Evil American Lawyers :)
My first attempt at a Pic Fic was the much shorter Helo/Sharon fic A Day In The Life of a Cylon. To be honest, my entire reason for writing that piece was because I love That Image of Helo so much and wrote the whole story just to lead up to the concluding image.
As to this whole Apollo/Sharon thing. I still like Helo and Sharon a lot, but let's face it there are a lot of other people out there who are doing things and writing things and I'm not really needed there. I thought I'd play for a bit in a less populated (umm desert-like) ship.
I'm kidding.
Actually to be honest, my liking for Apollo and Sharon started out of revenge. Apollo's look of contempt and his words in "Home 2" kind of got to me. It was then that I started playing with the idea of having him fall hard for someone he never could have.
The thing was, even before I knew about the hospital scene - I discovered that the two of them really do have a lot of chemistry and it didn't require a lot of additional imagining on my part. Maybe it's just me who sees that.
Helo and Sharon are great but to be honest I loved them best on Caprica when they were on the run, on a desert island. They're sweet, romantic and lovable together and I love that but I'm a bit of sucker for the long, dark looks that Apollo and Sharon give one another. Sparks and antagonistic chemistry appeal to me.
I suppose I should be able to get that kind of angatonistic chemistry out of the Lee/Starbuck combination. I do love those two (you love me, no take backs!) but they just flip flop so often. Sometimes they're so 'sibling' that to think of them together is almost icky.
Before anyone kebabs me, I'll link again to my index of eleven Helo/Sharon fics :). I'm particularly fond of Artichoke (set after Home 2) and Common Ground (set after Pegasus) although the table meet nugget's head in Acceptance is also enjoyable.
Ogles amsie's 'Helo's Arms' user icon. Mwa mwa mwa.
See ma, not jumping ship, not going anywhere!
Edit: Response to a post by repr0b8 which he made here. My post was too long for me to put in a comment so I whack it here instead:
repr0b8: I think you have to write what your muse tells you to write :) To be honest I'm interested in trying an Apollo/Dualla story for fun because I so enjoyed the ruffled feathers. Then I'll come back and write a couple of missing Sharon/Helo Caprica scenes. I still want to know how Helo gets from hearing Sharon's "I'm pregnant" line to his headspace during the scene when Starbuck shows up in the museum. It's not that they walked through the door hand in hand, skipping like little kiddies, but obviously a reconciliation of sorts has happened - but it's not a full one given that when Sharon flies away in the Raider he doesn't really show anything on his face.
Does he know she'll definitely return? Is he resigned to her loss? But as I said that's a story I feel like coming back to once I've got a few other things out of my system.
As to Apollo, I think that's what I like him about him - he's not easy to 'get'. You can't look at him and 'tick a box' and say: "OK I get him, that's the kind of person he is, that's what he'd do and say". In a way he's much like Sharon but his complications and compexities are for different reasons. Given that he's a main character he doesn't have the question mark over his head of his motives or whether he's evil but what I find interesting about him is that he's someone haunted by his past, he's damaged - but the 'end of the world' has put his own problems into perspective.
I saw him in the mini series as being a bit of a whiny pilot, Angsty Parental Syndrome Brat but he really came along quite nicely when he stepped out of that 'I'm so angry' mode and began to do what he had to do as CAG.
Also, I find it interesting that he loves the people around him without ever getting to close to them emotionally or intimately. I've seen the fan fic stories pairing him with Kara and every other single person on the Galactica and one would think that he had discovered Baltar's secret stash of Viagra or something but in the show's reality - Apollo's very ascetic and not particularly hedonistic in his actions from what we can gather. He chooses not to sleep around - given his position, his appearance and his undeniable sex appeal I find that an interesting choice.
I think for me that's why I gave his 'long look' to Sharon in Home 2 a second and third consideration. This guy doesn't sleep around, he doesn't fall easily but when he falls - he falls hard and gets hurt badly. So then I thought - what would be the biggest, most hurtful and 'sad' fall? Make him fall for a Cylon. Make him question everything. Take apart everything he believes in and see if he can put himself back together. :) Does he make love a positive or a negative emotion, especially when the object of his love and desires is a Cylon?
Hee hee. Sorry for such a long and nerdy post ;) You know me. I can't help it.
You know what - Crashdown and Apollo really won my heart yesterday when they visited Sharon in the hospital. Gal Boomer always seemed so lost and lonely to me - from her sitting there, confused and bewildered, dripping with water. What must it have been like to think you were going mad, to think you were a Cylon? Some of my favourite caps were of that scene when she's sitting there with Baltar - debating to whether to kill herself. It's so sad. Everyone says Gal Boomer was weak and whiney - I think she was lost and confused. Essentially a good and heroic person and in the end no one remembers the good she does, just the fact that she tried to kill Adama - which admittedly is a very bad thing but to be honest most of the crew seem to have done One Unforgiveable Thing For Which He/She Has Been Forgiven. Oh I just remembered the blowing up the water tank thing, too :P
In any case, the fact that they visited her warmed the cockles of my heart. I even stole Crashdown's handclasp and gave it to Apollo for my pic fic. I didn't think he would mind - since he's dead :'(
Thanks again for the feedback. It always means a lot. banthafodder really hit home when she described one of her fics as "my Zarek/Meiers fic went largely unloved". :)
We've had this discussion before and sometimes I might ask why I continue producing Largely Unloved Fics but think I think I so enjoy writing them and creating something. I think I really finally managed to overcome the Largely Unloved/Comment bug bear when I produced this pic fic.
I knew when I wrote it that it was for me - there was no ready made audience of Apollo/Sharon fans.
The fact that others like it makes me so glad especially as screen capping a lot of the scenes makes me feel like capping a Wong Kar Wai movie - so many stills are really beautiful. Sharon in particular is very photogenic and many of her stills are haunting.
The colours on Kobol as well - contrasting her red jumpsuit with the green just look gorgeous. I feel bad comparing BSG with WKW but I thought it so I'll write it ;) For that matter, Apollo is the male equivalent - he's equally photogenic and also caps well. That's a bad reason to write a story about them but it helps when capping.