Sorta!Fic - or, using my LJ as a sketch!pad for Starbuck.

[beccatoria]

Spamming because I'm bored. Also not real writing because it's not finished or beta'd or anything. It's just a draft, really, so no worries on comments or anything. Just a post-3.20 fragment. I'm toying with trying to make it into an actual story. I think I see the edges of a plot

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[asta77]

It's hard to judge right now (brother?), but I'm curious to see where you go with it.

[beccatoria]

Yeah...I think the problem is, I have something very specific I want to be doing with Starbuck's voice, but I just. can't. get. it. right. It's highly frustrating, hence throwing it out here, I think? Usually I find pitching the "narrator" (or close third person POV) much easier. But not today. Gah.

The 'brother' thing is going to be revealed pretty soon - it's not intended as a long, secret mystery, just a tip off that all is not right - or at least not quite the same - in the Land of Starbuck.

But I'm glad it's at least peaked your curiosity - that speaks in its favour. *gnashes teeth* Hmm. Perhaps I'll try again. And thanks for your thoughts. Call it beta-by-LJ-spam ;)

[asta77]

The 'brother' thing is going to be revealed pretty soon - it's not intended as a long, secret mystery, just a tip off that all is not right - or at least not quite the same - in the Land of Starbuck.

I definitely got something was not right with Starbuck and that left me with a few possibilities. That she is dead, or in some sort of land of the dead, and not yet returned to Galactica. That she is finding herself in some sort of AU. Or that she had a brother or could have had a brother (miscarriage by her mother) and that her reality is getting blurred with other possible realities in which he grew into adulthood and survived the attacks. Or maybe it's her version of Head Six.

If you need any more thoughts, just let me know, I like hashing out idea. Just don't ask me to correct spelling or grammar. ;)

[beccatoria]

Hmm - interesting ideas. Much more interesting than my own really. Her brother in this context is Sam - it's a reference to the fact he's a cylon - something I wanted to flag up in her references to the Chief as a sibling also. Part of the ongoing story is Starbuck's human/cylon status. It's not as simple as ZOMG she's a cylon, but a lot of the story is underpinned by the idea that the final five are much older than the first seven and are actively attempting to help humanity and have religious significance in the human's religion. And that Starbuck was taken by them and has returned changed. The Campbellian concept of being between two worlds. I want to contrast Starbuck and her final-five modifications with Laura and her first-seven modifications

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I really, really like this and would like to read more of it. :-)

("The others wait back." made me grin.)