A Discussion: Put on your Thinking Caps - Fic Prompt-a-thon

[rayruz]

I often find that I cannot have conversations with fanboys. I don't know why but their conversations tend towards bizarre nitpicking of the writing. Now I find that fangirls are critical too, but in different ways. I don't know, I'm not explaining it well.

Anyways, I spent this weekend mother's helping for a family with an autistic boy, but their

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[lls_mutant]

I just wrote something like this a day or two ago, you mind reader! :) Seriously:

They reached the edge of the city. There was no fence around it, which seemed a little odd, but New Caprica was not so rife with game and edible fruits that a person could survive on their own. People didn't run because there was no place to run to.

I think the simple answer is they were caught by surprise. (The humans, I mean.) I think that the resources on New Caprica were so scant enough that it made individual or small group survival- especially if you didn't know what you were doing- too difficult. It would have made sense in the short term, where perhaps the humans scattered to x number of locations, and Adama swooped in and pulled them out, but again, Cylons have superior numbers, which was always part of the problem.

I'd really, really, really love to see an AU where Helo and Athena were on the ground when the Cylons landed. I'd love to know what they would have done.

I'll have to think up other thoughts later. Most of mine are just explorations of things that were implied or possible- like the different relationships that could have been explored, or the fact I am still convinced that there was rape going on (nothing will ever convince me that that didn't happen to at least Seelix or Jean, if not both), or I'd love to see more of the PTSD!Six or stuff like that.

[rayruz]

I am still convinced that there was rape going on

One of the idea I obsess over, a lot, is that Leoben crafted a "white knight" scenario for himself. I highly doubt Kara went straight to his dollhouse. I always imagined she was detained, possibly tortured, and Leoben "rescues" her from that, by taking her to his place.

[nicole_anell]

*nods* I imagine that too, it's even how I set up the Lee/Six version of it.

[rayruz]

Which is part of WHY I LOVED IT.

[nicole_anell]

*blush*