SGA fic: Inheritance 1/1 K+ (for the Teyla ficathon)

[missyvortexdv]

Title: Inheritance
Author: Purpleyin

Rating: K+
Spoilers: Just for Season one, I believe, as most is a complete fill of her history.

Summary: Written for celtic_sky as part of the Teyla ficathon with the request of Teyla, the child who became a leader.

A/N: Thanks to fififolle for betaing and a very very big thanks to fanwoman for her beta’s of this, which have

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[missyvortexdv]

I'd always imagined it was part by inheritance, but also by qualification and decisions of the elders upon who was suitable - that her father had a unique ability, as did she, had perhaps made her more desirable a choice in the sense that both had an unexplained and yet useful almost magical/mystical aspect. In this fic at least I'd say the reasons for her becoming leader were both her gift and her training by her father in the latter years. I'm sure there would have been other possible candidate but somehow Teyla won out.

I'd really love to see what take the writers have on this, as they must have official Teyla backstory worked out and it would be good to know how they explain a 20 something woman leading when surely there would have been older perhaps more experience people in the tribe/clan/whatever they call their group. I can accept that she was possibly more qualified than most if she had been trained up for the position but I've always wanted a definite explanation of exactly how they think it all works - for example did her grandfather/mother lead them? In fact, though she calls herself by daughter of Tegan maybe he wasn't a leader and it's just traditional to introduce yourself that way around Pegasus or within the Athosians. There's so much that is unknown about her people.