DPP: First Name Basis

[winegums]

Welcome to a new DPP week, pilotshippers! I've shamelessly stolen the title of this post from letterstonorah's flawless and amazing fic, but the actual topic really is the subject of the names of our pilots, and the ways that they use them.

We've seen in canon that pilots, for a couple so obviously in love on such an epic scale, are rather different from

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[rachelindeed]

Oh, I think Tara wrote a cute fic about this once called "Terms of Endearment." And yeah, the point was exactly what you said, that their names are endearments.

Sidenote: I feel like I've noticed that both Jamie and Katie have a tendency to refer to Kara as "Starbuck" in interviews. And Katee will sometimes say "Apollo" rather than Lee. Not sure why, but they seem to use callsigns more than their characters did :)

[winegums]

She called Sam 'honey' once in UB - while eyefrakking Lee, too - so there is that - Kara's not incapable of using schmoop (as Tara calls it), I just prefer to believe that Lee is the exception and what they have is wayyy too intense for that :)

I feel like I've noticed that both Jamie and Katie have a tendency to refer to Kara as "Starbuck" in interviews.

haha, I noticed that too! Though I wonder whether we notice it more because we tend to refer to them by name and not by callsign around these parts.

[mserrada]

I always figured they said soooo much with their body language, tone and choice of name/rank/callsign that endearments were completely unnecessary.

And, like you mentioned, their very inability to stick to rank when worried, just shows how deep their feelings.

[winegums]

I completely agree - calling each other things like 'honey' or 'sweetie' or 'love' would never ring true to their characters or their relationship, on top of everything else. Like you said, it's unnecessary.