DPP: If Pilots Weren't Pilots....

[winegums.livejournal.com]

 ...what do you think they'd be? In-canon, we've seen both pilots drop out of military life and give up their wings (Kara returned to it, Lee didn't), and we know that they've had career aspirations that didn't involve flying - Kara initially wanted to be a pro Pyramid player before she busted her knee, Lee intended to quit the service after he'd done his required four years. 




What I'm wondering about is, are there any other professions you guys can picture them in? How would their relationship play out if there were no frat regs to be considered, they weren't responsible for keeping people safe/alive, or Kara had to spend all day behind a desk (an image I have real trouble with)? 

Comments

[lizziec]

Okay, I think this could sound really odd, but I could kind of see them as teachers (only in a secondary school or sixth form college [I think for people not in the UK that works out as the Junior High-High School range] - could you see Kara with kids younger than 11/12?!).

I think Kara'd be quite a good PE/Gym teacher, art teacher or even possibly an English Lit teacher (the poetry quoting in Final Cut comes to mind). I think she must have it in her because she was a Viper instructor so she can't be completely incapable of imparting her knowledge to others.

I think Lee'd teach something less hands on. Maths or Law comes to mind. I know Law is because he expresses an interest at the end of S3, but I'm not sure why maths. He just kind of struck me as a maths teacher type.

Kara'd be that really cool teacher that I think everyone has, who would keep pushing the boundaries of accepted student/teacher conduct (you know she'd swear in front of the students for example). She'd also have a ball at the post work drink and bitch sessions, but I think she'd always be behind on her marking.

Lee'd be the kind of uncool teacher. I think he would keep order with few problems (if he can be deal with Kara as CAG and the Pegasus crew as their Commander then he can deal with students), but I don't think he'd be the teacher that's known for being cool. I think he would be the kind of teacher to go the extra mile for his students though.

Also, can you imagine the opportunities in school supply closets...? ;)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

It's not odd at all - they spend a fair bit of time in the early seasons playing Mommy and Daddy Pilot, so it's not at all difficult to imagine them carrying that over to slightly younger kids! (though like you said, Kara with elementary-school-aged kids would be CRAZY).

They do seem like they'd be born instructors and good at keeping order in the classroom, though in rather different ways - like you, I see Lee as the geekier one, but still student-friendly (and if he taught sixth-form college, he'd also probably have quite a few of his students inappropriately crushing on him, hee!) And YES to pilots-as-teachers-outmaking-in-supply-closets, such a delicious possibility!

[lizziec]

and if he taught sixth-form college, he'd also probably have quite a few of his students inappropriately crushing on him

Yes! Totally! :D

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

ok... to properly respond to this would take me like too many words so i'll try to keep it short and really try (not sire that i;ll succeed) to make some sense

1. Kara and kids (like pre-teen kids) would be a no-no. idk why but really... her own kids yes, a classroom of them, no.

2. i'm there with you on Lee teaching math. again, idk why. he just seems like the type of the cool (on both meanings of it) math prof. or maybe even better physics - and there we do have the explanation - the scene in the mini with the generators. and law is clearly and option.

3. i agree with the fact that Kara would be the kind of teacher that can will push the boundaries and about that extra mile in Lee's case. but i do think that he would be cool. especially for some older students (around 22-25, like mine). not in the same way as Kara, like the kind to go to parties and stuff with but the kind of teacher that you go and ask all kind of strange things and he will have the knowledge and patience to answer you. i mean, he does have the patience to deal with this other teacher that does all those crazy things - doesn't he?

ETA: how did i forgot - school supply closets... i can see the possibilities *grins*

[lizziec]

Kara and kids (like pre-teen kids) would be a no-no

Oh yes, absolutely. I can't see Kara teaching pre-teens at all.

maybe even better physics - and there we do have the explanation - the scene in the mini with the generators

I'd managed to forget about that. Yes, now you've reminded me I could see Lee teaching Physics :)

but the kind of teacher that you go and ask all kind of strange things and he will have the knowledge and patience to answer you

Ooh, definitely. Kara'd be the cool-crazy teacher who would swear in class and go off plan frequently, but Lee would be the cool-understanding teacher. The one you'd go to if you had a problem with anything.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Somewhere in my brainstorming I started to picture Lee as a pop star and Kara as a bodyguard, which resulted in the mental image of her carrying him through a crowd while a Whitney Houston ballad plays in the background.

ANYWAY, if Lee was a politician he would need a bodyguard (hasn't something like that actually been written?) Or I could totally see them both as teachers or professors who teach very different subjects but manage to strike up a few conversations in the lounge.

Ooh! OR they could be some type of extracurricular coaches for competing schools and have a strange kinda friendship/rivalry over saying "My team is gonna have yours for dinner on Friday night, bitch!"

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like these scenarios! It does seem like anything that'd allow pilots to retain their personalities, works for them (love the "my team is gonna have yours for dinner!" idea, I can so see Kara boasting and Lee needling her by being all, well, Lee).

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

wisteria_ wrote a small snippet of story where Kara was Lee's security detail. He wasn't a politican exactly... I forget what he was.

Ah some sort of environmental crusader type:

http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/1003615.html#cutid4

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that was hot! And Kara still got to be in a plane and have Lee being idealistic and principled in a suit, and now my brain just wants to make jokes about them being in the Mile High Club.

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

The whole 'buddy/cop' just seems the perfect option for our pair. Probably detectives. I just love the idea of them tracking down criminals and could see Lee always wanting a turn at playing bad cop, but Kara rarely letting him.

An alternative would be having Kara a firefighter & Lee an EMT.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

The whole 'buddy/cop' just seems the perfect option for our pair. Probably detectives. they're like perfect for that.

[rirenec.livejournal.com]

I agree with this! Cops... I think it must be Kara's mirror shades. I had this dream a couple of weeks ago that they were in this Doctor Who ep, where the Doctor jumped in (to use BSG slang)and they were trying to solve this murder where someone had been killed on this open air ice rink, but that the killer was some kind of shape shifter and Kara and Lee were the cops in charge and the Doctor didn't know if to tell them the truth (sometimes I have no idea how my mind works) but yes, cops. 70's cops with all the rolling over some kind of pimped up car that belongs to Starbuck.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

That sounds like quite the dream....any chance you could turn it to fic? It'd make for awesome crossover fic!

[rirenec.livejournal.com]

I did start to, but then it got too complicated and I figured it would be just a tad out there... nevertheless the idea lurks... I'd just love to see any of the last three Doctor's confront Kara.

Nine: Menacingly - 'I'm the oncoming storm,' Kara: 'Your rack or mine?'
Ten: Hollowly - 'But I love Rose Tyler,' Kara: 'She's in another universe, let alone a planet, get over it and lets compare spaceships.'
Eleven: 'Fez's are cool!', Kara: 'Not as cool as my Viper helmet flyboy.'

Okay, so perhaps I've given this way to much thought. :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Lee always wanting a turn at playing bad cop, but Kara rarely letting him.

Awwww, this just made me smile now.