Lovely, sbabe! Loved Helo's immediate attention to her :). That *particular* Sharon model has no brains for choosing the Chief, I swear. The Chief vs Helo isn't a fair game.
Yeah, well, that may have also been her programming kicking in, to a certain extent. If we assume that Galactica!Boomer (as opposed to Caprica!Boomer, who has all of GalBoomer's memories but hasn't actually interacted with any of the people GalBoomer remembers except for Helo) was getting nudges from her programming even back in the day, i.e. applying for flight school so she'll be heavily embedded in the Colonial military (how much of this was GalBoomer's free choice and how much was her programming "encouraging" her to want to choose a career that would put her in the thick of things? Anyway, so if we assume that her Cylon programming does nudge her, then maybe it nudged her towards Chief Tyrol as soon as she got on board a sensitive military asset like a battlestar
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And you've read this pretty much exactly as it was intended, so I guess, go me? Hee.
In fact, my beta mentioned at one point that she thought it might be good to have Sharon feeling a bit of jealosy about Kara and, when she sees Helo on Galactica, turn to the Chief to try to make Helo jealous, but that didn't work so well for me. GBoomer (and, at this point, this *is* GBoomer) was definitely with the Chief while she and Helo were pilot/ECO and I wanted this to dovetail with canon as much as possible.
And I think the similarities between Helo and Tyrol are even stronger, now that we've seen Tyrol's immediate reaction to finding out that his Sharon is a Cylon. Very similar reaction to when Helo found out. (FWIW, I don't think there ever was a "real" Sharon on Galactica. I think she has always been a Cylon, although there may have been an original decades ago.)
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Sharon watched his progress - she couldn't fault her friend's taste in men, not this time.
"Watched his progress" -- I love that! I know what *I'd* be watching, and I have a feeling Sharon was on the same page :D
And the outdoor descriptives...echoing kate98, but that was extremely vivid and evocative.
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Beautiful descriptions of the garden :).
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And you've read this pretty much exactly as it was intended, so I guess, go me? Hee.
In fact, my beta mentioned at one point that she thought it might be good to have Sharon feeling a bit of jealosy about Kara and, when she sees Helo on Galactica, turn to the Chief to try to make Helo jealous, but that didn't work so well for me. GBoomer (and, at this point, this *is* GBoomer) was definitely with the Chief while she and Helo were pilot/ECO and I wanted this to dovetail with canon as much as possible.
And I think the similarities between Helo and Tyrol are even stronger, now that we've seen Tyrol's immediate reaction to finding out that his Sharon is a Cylon. Very similar reaction to when Helo found out. (FWIW, I don't think there ever was a "real" Sharon on Galactica. I think she has always been a Cylon, although there may have been an original decades ago.)
Anyway, thanks for reading! :)
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Great line! You did the Starbuck/Helo/Boomer thing so well. =D
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