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BSG - Tell The Gods

Sep 02, 2009 20:10

Title: Tell The Gods
Rating: All ages
Characters: Brendan Costanza, mentions of Starbuck and Apollo
Genre: General
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1170
Summary: There are 800 other first-year cadets at the Academy to choose from; if Brendan Costanza washes out, the Colonial Fleet won't even notice.

Author's Note: I wrote this in the middle of my Intro ( Read more... )

character: bsg: lee "apollo" adama, 'verse: battlestar galactica, besties: bsg: kara/helo, series: oneshot, category: bsg: academy, length: 501-1500, rating: all ages, character: bsg: kara "starbuck" thrace, character: bsg: brendan "hotdog" costanz

Comments 7

lls_mutant September 3 2009, 11:41:47 UTC

Oooh, Hot Dog fic! I love the minor characters, so I clicked on this one pretty quick. I really like how you portrayed Brendan here. It makes a lot of sense that this is the guy who could wash out of the Academy, but still end up CAG later. That it was a lack of ambition, not skill or intelligence. I really like that.

Nice job!

kappamaki33 September 3 2009, 16:09:19 UTC

I really liked this piece. Hotdog is a fun character, so I'm always happy to see more fic with him, but I especially liked your take on his personality: very capable, but he needs the apocalypse to light a fire under his backside and get him to measure up to the star pilots whom he admires.

rdave1 September 3 2009, 17:46:15 UTC

I must admit this is my first Hot Dog fic. You did such a great job with it. You bought the right amount emotion that just screams Brendan. The very last line was just beauty. He got the chance to fly with Gods only it was not for a fly over.

Great work!

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rdave1 September 3 2009, 20:58:17 UTC

No problem. That last line really sums of up everything from Hot Dog's past, present and future. It was a great line.

gentlehobbit September 3 2009, 23:31:27 UTC

I really liked this. It felt very true to Constanza, and I love this window into the past when there were still futures and possibilities and dreams and normalcy. I also liked how Starbuck and Apollo are seen as far-off "personalities", and this hints at dynamics going on that weren't fully explored in the show. I love it when fanfic does this. Thanks! :)

safenthecity September 5 2009, 05:41:06 UTC

Yay Hotdog! (Though this came uncomfortably close to my own study habits, so maybe I should be worried.)

I like this a lot, how even in Academy Starbuck and Apollo are legendary, and how Brendan wants to fly but not be a soldier. That seems very in character for him.

Also, this
(generally put around by a ridiculously tall Raptor ECO called Helo, who, Brendan's noticed, seems to be present 90 percent of the time and yet manages to escape trouble nearly 100 percent of the time).

SO IT BEGINS EARLY. ;) It made me smile.