BSG fic: Lifeline (R)

[rose_griffes]

More post-finale meta disguised as fanfiction!
another "make Two into a real boy" story

title: Lifeline
fandom: Battlestar Galactica
rating: R-ish for themes
contents: death (including infant mortality), suicidal thoughts, pregnancy & childbirth, brief reference to euthenasia
characters/pairings: Mark (a Two) / Laine (original female character),

Comments

[rose_griffes]

Thank you! By the time I was done, I felt rather immersed in this, so I'm glad other people liked it as well.

[daybreak777]

I really enjoyed this. I feel I really got to know these characters through the three stories, Settlement, Generations Untold, and now Lifeline. I love the ending and how he remembers and how he wants his family and community to remember too.

As you know in the first story, I worried the resolution to the Cylon-human conflict seemed too fast, too easy. I didn't want them to forget the genocide or the destruction of the Twelve Worlds in a single generation. I didn't want them to ever forget. And here with Mark's story I see that they hadn't. No one, Cylon or human, could ever forget.

This is a love story too. We lose Laine again here and she's one of my favorites of your characters (up there with Trina and your Jean). But that's made easier by knowing she's left this family behind, this . . . legacy. I was not happy with the throw-everything-into-the sun choice the show made. But I am happy in your world and that these people survive.

Great story, Rose. :-)

[rose_griffes]

Awww, thanks! *hugs*

As you know in the first story, I worried the resolution to the Cylon-human conflict seemed too fast, too easy.
Yup, I remember. That general theme (are we forgetting too fast) is part of what pushed me to write this--because I had in mind that someone had to play that role.

This is a love story too.
Oh, definitely. I found it really satisfying (though a bit heartbreaking) to use that idea throughout. Laine really was a lifeline to humanity for Mark.

Thanks for the many sessions of cheerleading and the generous positive feedback! It helps motivate me to write more. :)

[lizardbeth_j]

oh, this is so lovely! Very Two-ish, yet a definitely more mature one than most.

[rose_griffes]

Yay, thanks!

[grey_sw]

Aw, this is nice. I like how Mark tries and fails to tell the humans about his people -- because yeah, when you're living day-to-day and you've finally put the war behind you, maybe it's not the kind of story anybody wants to hear.

I also particularly loved the way Mark remembered his lost brothers, just a little. I think that loss would be really hard for the Cylons -- "too much betrayal on both sides" pretty much sums it up. Great job!

[rose_griffes]

Thanks for commenting!

I do think that the grind of such a difficult life (subsistence living, really) would take its toll. Especially because the cylons are stronger than humans--they would benefit any communities they lived in. That would be a discouragement to keeping the memory of their former atrocities close to the surface... that and lots of other motivations would lead to avoiding the past.

[rose_griffes]

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback!