fic - I AM A CYLON

[kiki_miserychic]

Title: I AM A CYLON
Characters: Boomer
Timeline: Spoilers for 4x15 - No Exit
Title Music: "I AM A CYLON (a crowd electric remix)" from David Crabb

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[beccatoria]

*blinks*

Awesome.

Fantastic last line. And fantastic sketch of Boomer and Eights in general. I always have such a hard time latching onto them but...I finally think I'm getting it. When I realised that, well...lines like this:

You’re sensitive and indecisive until called on it. That’s when you leap forward to latch onto something. Nothing more than desperate grabs to prove you’re not weak.

What an awesome summation of her character. Of Athena's and Boomer's both.

Which sounds like I...hate them or something. Which I don't. I just think I understood them much better when I stopped trying to buy into the wholesome, sympathetic, little lost girl image and realised they were...profoundly indecisive until they had something to prove and then they were kind of twistedly bitter about whatever that was.

Which really is far more compelling.

And the point is, this fic does an awesome job of showing it.

And the soundtrack music, as always, is perfect.

[kiki_miserychic]

<# Wow, thank you.

The cylon models have categories and defined personality traits. The Eights all act the same way. In different situations it can seem like they're different, like Athena. But they are the most subject to their programming, I think. Boomer and Athena are more alike than either would want to admit.

I've recent come to adore Boomer, but at the same time I don't like her. The same is true with Ellen. The Ellen in No Exit was cool, but I didn't like when she went to the Fleet and become ALL ABOUT SAUL.

I think the Eights are most likely the "youngest sibling" of the cylon models. The way there's always one of your friends' little sisters tagging along on everything, trying to act like they're just as mature. That's Boomer. The Eights.

[cyborganize]

this is an amazing dialogue-only fic, with bonus awesome in the metatastic framing!

I love the dynamic of Boomer and Ellen. girl fight! of the most fabulously cerebral kind.

[kiki_miserychic]

Thanks. I really loved that Fourth Wall deleted scene bit. Boomer and Ellen are so interesting.