DPP: Alternate Universes

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Greetings and salutations, 'shipper nation! This is Amy, known on your internets as ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...

Lee and Kara are timeless. Our fandom is spilling over with great AU works. Let's talk about how you like to imagine Lee and Kara outside of their post-apocolyptic space adventure.

Wikipedia gives the following definition at the page on Alternate Universes:

Commonly abbreviated AU, stories of this type are usually what-ifs, where possibilities arising from different circumstances or character decisions are explored. Unlike regular fan fiction, which generally remains within the boundaries of the canon set out by the author, alternative universe fiction writers like to explore the possibilities of pivotal changes made to characters' history, motivations or environment.

Link to your fav AU pieces (have you read rayruz's Did I Fall Alseep Dollhouse crossover?), write something new (comment!fic will get you a virtual cookie), hypothesize about other universes where the characters of Kara and Lee are still our pilots without necessarily being pilots, per se.
 

Later today, I'll post a follow-up poll to nail down the exact rewatch details so we can get a calendar together.

Comments

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this AU.

You don't want Kara and Lee to end up brother and sister though. That's no good. I enjoy but am not familiar enough with Blue Bloods to be any more help though. ;)

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Yeah that would be so very very wrong. I would have gotten more into that but my post was already long hehe.

Danny on the show is married, so they could just be married, or perhaps they could be partners on the show that become romantically entangled? If you wanted to bring more of BSG cannon into it, could even play Kara (Danny) was engaged to his brother when he died on duty.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

That's ok. You just made me think I should watch and pay attention. It's a good show.

I like the romantically entangled partners angle. I dislike the dead brother guilt, but I always had a hard time with that one. It's the end of the world, give it up!

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Yeah I can do without the dead brother guilt, but I threw it out there as it's an obvious parallel. Also there's alot around the brother's death that could enhance the plot of the story. Didn't and don't want to get into details since I'm sure alot of ya haven't watched the whole show yet.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

But now I'm wondering how far back the episodes go on onDemand. I want to watch and pay attention. :)