BSG drabbles
So daybreak777 has told me this is what is called WIP Amnesty. I don't know I'd really call it that, because these drabbly bits don't really feel to me like they were ever truly going to be works, and they just mostly sat on my hard drive after a burst of energy, never really "in progress." But I've been feeling ill, in bed, and I'm a little bored and
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Helo and Athena assigned Felix to the Demetrius so they could frak him? LOL. Sneaky, sneaky... They must have felt awful when he lost his leg. Especially if they'd only been interested in sex. I'd really love to know how this one would have gone on after all the undoubtedly hot sex.
I'm very amused that young Gaius, using his brains to impress his teacher, still shut his brain off the moment the sex started. It's amusing that he's exactly as we know him, except younger.
At the end of the third one, I went... BUT FELIX CAN COUNT CARDS! Heh! :)
The last one made me really curious! How did Felix grow into our Felix? What made him start compulsively eating his food in the right order? You hint at that a little bit with the father but there must be more to it! It's a lovely snippet, and it's so sad to think that Felix will meet Gaius later, thinking he isn't that clever after all. Being such a geek kid, he probably doesn't have much else to take pride in... which I think plays a major part in explaining his readiness to be ignored.
As I said, I liked all of these. It's always great to read new fic of yours, even if it's actually old fic. ;)
BTW, I hope I'll get to read your scene tonight. My thesis is keeping me busy, and whenever I've got time, I'm at the wrong computer. It's annoying.
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You liked the Helo/Sharon/Felix threesome? Hee, I should have guessed. I bet you would write a really good sex aftermath continuation story to this. That's totally up your alley. :)
Well, I wanted to show both Gaius and Felix in these drabbles at seminal (pun sorta intended with Gaius) moments in their lives. I don't know how clear it was, but I think that this teacher of Gaius' definitely helped settle his tastes in women later on. (Powerful blonde women who tell him to give himself over to them in complete obedience seems to be a thing with him, no?)
Hee, it is *totally* my fanon that Felix can count cards. I wrote him in another story doing that too.
The last one was the only one that I ever held any illusions about it turning into a story (and I guess deep in my heart, I still do kinda, but it'd be a long time until I ever get around to it). That story aimed to tell how Felix got from the gangly, disorganized genius kid to the straitlaced, eating-his-plate-in-order guy we know today. A lot of it had to do with Jerome, but not exactly in the way you'd think. I'll reserve revealing what I had in mind for the moment, in case I do actually get back to writing it. Because there were more snippets than this on my hard drive and notebooks.
I agree, btw, that it's totally sad about him meeting Baltar later on. I think his mother was probably a great force in boosting his geeky ego. What's sort of tragic about it is that probably when he met Gaius for the first time, he had a fleeting wish to be able to call up his mother and tell her he met this celebrity genius I'm sure they both knew. I think Felix's mom was in her day a minor version of Gaius Baltar, actually. Notice she was working on programming for the military, for example. She was by no means as famous as Baltar, and not as smart, but not too shabby either.
No worries about reading my scene. Theses are important! It's good to hear it's actually keeping you busy. I know last time we talked about it, you said you were finding it hard to not run out of things to do while you waited for your professors to catch up with you. :)
Thanks for reading and commenting on these.
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Heh. What I meant was actually that Felix would start winning all the games now because he can count cards! Drunk Baltar and Kara would end up all naked, while Felix could smirk at them smugly. ;)
(I admit I don't get the whole counting cards thing... I don't play poker but I play local card games, and with those it's all common and expected that you'd count cards- everybody is supposed to be doing it. I see that it's different with poker but I don't know why. More cards, maybe? No clue! I remain a bit vague on all that. :))
It's good to hear it's actually keeping you busy. I know last time we talked about it, you said you were finding it hard to not run out of things to do while you waited for your professors to catch up with you. :)
Yup, now I have more to do than I can handle. :) I'm currently writing a very long and complex introduction wherein I try to give a minimum amount of necessary knowledge about history and law and obscure theoretical concepts, and I'm busy with that all day. But at least I have something to write about now!
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To be honest, I don't get the counting cards thing either. I think in our culture, it comes from it being common knowledge that casinos reserve the right to kick you off their card tables if they are even reasonably sure that you're counting cards. I've never thought it was fair, but they can do whatever they want, it's a private business. There's some odd sense of supposed fair play about it, I guess, in our culture, where it's thought to be unsportsmanlike to have any kind of knowledge that the other players might not, even if it's knowledge gained only by your hard work and brain power?
Good luck with your introduction!
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