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We spend a lot of time here thinking and talking about what the pilots would do in every conceivable scenario. How about what they wouldn't do? List your suggestions for things that Lee and Kara would never do, together or individually, AU or canon-compliant, past, present or future! Here's a few to get you started (sorry if some of these are a bit on the schmaltzy side!)
- Lee and Kara never use cutesy nicknames or even such standard couple-y forms of address like "babe" or "honey" or "sweetie." Their favorite terms of endearment for each other remain, as they have since the first night they met, "Lee Adama" and "Kara Thrace."
- They never let Uncle Saul and Aunt Ellen babysit.
- Even after they've been together longer than they've been apart, Lee never gets used to the tattoo on Kara's left arm.
- Kara never stops praying to the Gods-- for friends and family, safety and peace, courage and conviction. But the thing she prays for most is that Lee never changes his mind about her being worth it.
- When they find out the baby is a boy, Zak is the first name they both think of. For reasons both shared and individual, neither one ever suggests it.
- They go to Sunday dinner at Bill and Laura's insistence every week. Neither one of them ever tell Laura how terrible her cooking is.
- Lee never gets tired of hearing Kara laugh.
- Kara never gets tired of seeing Lee smile.
- When their kids are teenagers, they learn to never invite friends over without calling home first. (They've caught mom and dad in rather compromising situations more than once.)
- Deep down, neither of them ever stop thinking the cylons might come back some day. They keep up-to-date on weapons training.
- Lee thinks he's never seen anything more beautiful than Kara wearing his sweats and bitching about her swollen ankles and bloated body at 8 months pregnant. He never tells her though, because for a pregnant lady, he'd bet she still has a mean right hook.
- They fight loudly and often. Kara runs sometimes, but not very far. Lee does a cold shoulder better than the Yeti. But they never let it last too long without a rousing bout of makeup sex.
- They get married, eventually, but they never have a discussion about whether or not Kara will change her last name. It's an antiquated tradition and she didn't the first time she got married (a sore subject), plus there's the Zak baggage (an even sorer subject). Still, when, a few days after they get back from their honeymoon, his wife corrects someone who calls her by her full name to say she's "Kara Thrace Adama, now", Lee grins from ear-to-ear and doesn't stop until Kara suggests a better use for those lips.
- Kara never misses flying. It surprises her sometimes, when she thinks about it, but that's not very often. She's grounded in more ways than one now, but she's still got her wingman on her six and there's nowhere she'd rather be.
- The sex, once they get over the novelty of just having it with each other whenever and wherever and as often as they want, is adventurous and mind-blowing with a frequency that's probably higher than normal (all those years of repression equaling foreplay), but, predictably, Lee's favorite thing about sleeping with Kara is just that: sleeping with her. The way she turns into him after, sweaty and sated and smiling, and he wraps his arms around her to pull her closer, her lips brushing his collarbone, head pillowed on his shoulder, her arms slipping around his waist as their breathing falls into a rhythm. She never tells him that it's her favorite part too.
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Date: 2010-10-22 04:36 pm (UTC)I teared up at a couple of them. (And I can only say there was one I disagreed with at all... but that is because I think differently than most. Not because it is anything other than perfect in its own way.)
Lovely writing. Truly.
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Date: 2010-10-22 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-22 04:40 pm (UTC)I'm split on that one, too, although I think if Kara was really happy in her life, she would be okay with out it. *squishes her*
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Date: 2010-10-22 04:41 pm (UTC)And I get what you are saying, but I just... I don't know. I can't see her changing it (or adding his name) because for me that concept makes no sense.
*shrugs* Honestly, it's me. Not you. (Or her for that matter).
Again just have to tell you this is a LOVELY list and I wish I had time to write some more. (Bloody MEETING took half my writing time! *grrrrr!*)
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Date: 2010-10-22 04:43 pm (UTC)And maybe his name is now Leland Joseph Adama Thrace. So there.
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Date: 2010-10-22 04:49 pm (UTC)Ladies... *cough* Yes, Heather and Tara, I'm addressing you both. I said this was about ME. Not about Kara. It doesn't even have to make sense. It's just my perspective.
*grins*
You aren't going to change my mind on that. Because I live in a world where no one changes their name (and the shortest height for a male TV star is 5'11".)
(I'm in a wacky moody - sorry!)
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-22 06:31 pm (UTC)JB is most certainly an actor - AN AWESOME actor - in my world. I'm a huge K / L shipper after all and my fanfic revolves around resolving things for the two of them. But the fact is, I can't actually meet him, because then I'll have to face the reality that he is short. And in my world, I don't WANT Lee Adama to be short. I want him at least 5'11".
So, what does this make me? Well, possibly one of the only fangirls who DOESN'T want to meet or see the "real" JB, because then I won't be able to suspend my disbelief anymore.
I told you I'm in a weird mood today. (Though in my defense, this conversation was going on yesterday.) K :>)
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:36 pm (UTC)PFFT.
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:44 pm (UTC)You better not frakking tempt me into manips today, my dear. *rolls eyes* I'm supposed to be writing smut right now.
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-22 06:54 pm (UTC)*shoves computer at you*
I'll disagree with you more later (after the smut has been written).
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:47 pm (UTC)I love that they are very close in height because it makes for delicious eyefrakking possibilities (and good framing!) Can't eyefrak meaningfully when you're also craning your neck, IMO.
Seriously though I was watching Life Unexpected last night and there's a big height difference between the heroine and one of her male leads and it was almost off-putting to me. Kara and Lee's almost-equal heights is just another bit of the equality of their relationship that I adore. (The scene in my icon would have been soooo less powerful if he was like a half-foot taller than her.)
But I do understand not wanting reality to fuck with your illusions. I adore Katee but I am in love with Kara and sometimes it's hard for me to watch/listen to Katee and know that she will never be Kara really again. (Occasionally the same for Jamie/Lee.)
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:18 pm (UTC)The reason why I think maybe it works for Kara (and I think of all of these as just possible scenarios, not ironclad or anything) is that I do think she always secretly wanted to be an Adama, since the Zak days.
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Date: 2010-10-22 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-22 06:31 pm (UTC)Tomorrow I might think Kara will always, always miss flying and that she loves to call Lee baby.
BUT I WILL NEVER ENDORSE "KARE," OLAF! <3 <3 <3