Comments | pocky_slash: fic draft - section four of "the bailey family is awesome" (working title)

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fic draft - section four of "the bailey family is awesome" (working title)

Nov 03, 2006 23:55

This still has a lot of details that need to be ironed out. I think I'm going to change what years of Will's life his dad was SACEUR, and fine tune the section about his brothers. I'm not sure yet. But I wrote it today and it made me kind of happy, so I thought I would post it ( Read more... )

fic: unfinished, thomas bailey, fic: tww, will, tww, writing

Comments 6

scrollgirl November 4 2006, 05:51:12 UTC

I've fallen in love with the Supreme Commander. *adores* General Bailey! How are you so awesome? Giving Will's ex the evil-eye. Oh man, I can't even imagine how great it'll be when he finally meets Sam!

I'm falling asleep at my desk right now but more feedback in the morning. Seriously, this is excellent. You've really fleshed out this family in such short pieces.

pocky_slash November 4 2006, 06:32:42 UTC

Admittedly, I first developed him as a benevolant lunatic because I was sick of reading, "Will's father was a military guy and thus EVOL!!!111!!" But it actually makes so much sense if you look at the show. I mean, Will speaks of his father with the upmost respect and so does Elsie, so I can't imagine Gen. Bailey being meanspirited. I can't imagine that his kids would turn out to be such loveable, neurotic dorks if he were.

I'm so excited for him meeting Sam! In a couple of my other stories (yet to be posted/finished) he teases Will good-naturedly about Sam in tandem with Elsie. And I can see Sam being completely freaked out. "OH MY GOD, WILL, YOUR FATHER WAS SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER! A FOUR-STAR GENERAL. AND I'M THE GUY FUCKING HIS SON. I AM GOING TO DIE."

scrollgirl November 4 2006, 17:23:33 UTC

"Will's father was a military guy and thus EVOL!!!111!!"
Gah. I've been in Stargate fandom and it always bugged me when idiots would use the short-cut of military = big, mean bullies. As if liking the non-military characters means you have to bash the military ones. Some people have no sense of proportion. Will and Elsie, and everybody else who has spoken of Gen Bailey, have shown nothing but admiration and respect for him.

Gen Bailey and Elsie tag-teaming Will, hee! Poor guy, he is so put-upon. Sam would definitely freak, and Gen Bailey would be gruff at first, sort of test Sam's mettle and Sam would make a goof of himself until Elsie finally burst out laughing and Will put his head in his hands in despair, and Gen Bailey finally relented and said, "I'm really not that scary." Hee!

pocky_slash November 5 2006, 02:06:58 UTC

everybody else who has spoken of Gen Bailey, have shown nothing but admiration and respect for him.I'm especially inclined to believe he's pretty cool because Bartlet seems to have respect for him, both when he tells the rest of the staff who Will's father is and when he confronts Will about his father the first time. He makes the "model of a modern major general" crack, but the way he says it makes me think that he means it as the song means it: That he's a General well versed in other disiplines as well, and not just a mindless military guy ( ... )

scrollgirl November 4 2006, 17:36:38 UTC

Btw, I thought Will went to Cambridge, not Oxford? I was just watching "Swiss Diplomacy" and "Artic Radar" last night (*love* these two eps, they are so underrated) and Will tells Toby when they first meet that he was President of Cambridge Union on a Marshall Scholarship. (Though according to Wikipedia you can go to Cambridge for one year of your scholarship, then switch to Oxford your second year.)

Will's academic career kinda confuses me, but this is how I figure it went: Eton from ages 13-18, Carnegie Mellon for undergrad, Cambridge for some kind of graduate program/law school. Can UK law degrees work in the US? This is the bit that confuses me. And then of course does he do any training to join the AF Reserves, or is it just paperwork?

Clearly I've thought waaaaaay too much about this!

pocky_slash November 5 2006, 01:57:17 UTC

I know he went to Cambridge for Grad school (or I'm assuming so, because the Marshall Scholarship is usually awarded to grad students), but does it say in canon that he went to Carnegie Mellon for undergrad? I couldn't remember if it ever mentioned where he did his undergrad, so I pulled Oxford out of my ass. (I was at work when I wrote most of it, so I was afraid to google to find out the answer XD ( ... )