Conjunctions, by Sophonisba [amnesty 2007|culture clash/debriefing challenges]

[saphanibaal]

-title- Conjunctions
-author- Sophonisba (saphanibaal)
-warnings- AU, AU, AU: a behind-the-scenes part of my canon-asymptotic AU, with a fair amount of explications between the lines. Gen with inferences. Some oddities with language as artifacts of the translation process. Discussion of religious themes.
-timeframe- Between "The Siege" and "The Intruder."
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Comments

[bratfarrar]

Lovely! And realistic, because things must have been a horrible mess in the wake of "The Siege". Teyla and Sha're make quite a team.

[saphanibaal]

//Lovely!//

Thank you!

(I just noticed that I pasted in one section of dialogue in the wrong place. ARGH.)

//And realistic, because things must have been a horrible mess in the wake of "The Siege".//

Which cannot have been helped by the entire command staff slinking off to Earth with a "hey, Teyla, mind the store," either.

//Teyla and Sha're make quite a team.//

^______^

Pure self-indulgence, I assure you.

[springwoof]

ooooh! Interesting AU, and fascinating glimpse into another way The Siege and its aftermath might have gone....

My! you have a very fertile mind!

[saphanibaal]

//ooooh! Interesting AU,//

Thank you!

I've been working on it off and on for a while.

//and fascinating glimpse into another way The Siege and its aftermath might have gone....//

This is sort of the middle of a larger story; and everything really DOES happen to Daniel (except now and then when it doesn't), so that would bend events around somewhat.

And really, the cleaning up after The Siege would have been extensive, especially as I think the surviving members of Everett's -- I'm not sure if the amount he brought would be a squadron or a very small battalion, and considering the command is ridiculously topheavy anyway it may not matter -- were just left there to integrate themselves (in canon, without any incumbent officers to [help] oversee).

Thank you for your kind compliments!

[ceitie]

Teyla's an excellent leader, and I wish we got a chance to see more of that side of her on the show. Poor Lt. Eccles is just trying to keep up with the Atlanteans, isn't he? :D Also, I love that Chuck paraphrased C.S. Lewis. That idea is pretty much the only thing I really remember about The Last Battle, because I think it's the most important.

[saphanibaal]

//Teyla's an excellent leader, and I wish we got a chance to see more of that side of her on the show.//

YES.

//Poor Lt. Eccles is just trying to keep up with the Atlanteans, isn't he? :D//

Pretty much, yeah. (Plus he makes a good querent to help explain what's up with my OCs and so forth). It isn't his fault he, in effect, started watching at episode 42 of a show with actual ongoing arcs. ^_^

//Also, I love that Chuck paraphrased C.S. Lewis [...]//

I agree that it's the most important idea in that book (which was full of ideas), and one that I internalized at a young and impressionable age.

Thank you so much for commenting (and on three of the areas I was proudest of, too)!

[anonymous]

Interesting AU. One spelling mistake `buffay-tables' -> `buffet-tables'

[saphanibaal]

Actually, that's meant to be Teyla's perception of an unfamiliar word rather than an error per se, much as the gatespeak adjective for "belonging to the United States of America" is "Columbian."