BSG Community Day Meta: Five Things (Laura, Zarek, Bill/Saul/Laura, bonus Billy)

[singerdiva01_sk]

Yesterday's community discussion question over at bsg-epics asked folks to leave characters or pairings for you then to write: "the five most important concepts/ideas/things you always keep in mind when you write them or that you feel you need to see when you read about them. The things you feel are essential to accurately depicting those characters in fic

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[laura_mayfair]

I loved ALL of your meta here.

I agree wholeheartedly with every single one of your thoughts about Zarek.

I think Laura is a lot more of an inner mess than we sometimes think because she is so good at that cool demeanor. She can be her own worst enemy, closing herself off to what she really needs because she has to make such difficult decisions and she can't always allow emotion to come into the equation. She's very unwilling to share those burdens. I think she has a huge fear of attachment after the loss of her family; loss is terribly difficult for her and, unfortunately, there's a lot of it in the BSG universe.

When I write Laura, I always feel such a sense of release when she opens up. I imagine it must be hard to keep that armor on all the time. It's heavy. And lonely.

[scifishipper]

I really enjoyed reading your comments on Tom. I agree with almost everything you've said although we differ on his happy childhood. I really like what you've said about his relationship with Laura and I really loved their dynamic on NC -- it had great potential for something else.

It's Tom's ruthlessness that rubs both ways. On one hand, he is unrelenting in his standards that people should be free and choose their own government, but his ruthlessness lets him believe that any means are acceptable to get what he wants. The shooting of the Quorum seems like a full-circle act of terrorism similar to what he did in the government bombing. The one thing that is curious about Tom is that his story line never seemed to allow space for his redemption (not that many BSG stories allow it), but it does strike me as interesting to think about at this moment. I wonder what redemption could have looked like for him?

Wonderful post!