DPP: Pilots And Friends

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the DPP! Today we'll be talking about something that pilots were probably desperately in need of through most of the series, though they fulfilled that need for each other for the most part*.

In canon, we've seen that Lee and Kara are each other's best friends, but they really don't have too many others - Helo's one of the few people who gets close to Kara, and I'm assuming any friends Lee had before boarding Galactica were nuked with the rest of the Twelve Colonies. And yet, with yesterday's discussion about what we'd tell them if we could stage relationship interventions, it got me thinking - pilots could really do with more friends. Not that I don't love them as friends, esp. when they have *gigglesnort*-inducing moments like this one:



But, they could really use a few more people to unburden to who aren't ghost piano players, head!Cylons or hookers, and where BSG canon will not provide it, we're probably better off looking in other canon. That's right, give Lee and Kara friends from other fandoms! And here is my top nominee:

 RIVER TAM (Firefly) (warning: spoilers for Firefly ahead)


I know the wisdom of giving pilots a friend who's more cuckoo than a shop full of Swiss clocks (not to mention disturbingly good at handling firearms and fighting multiple people at once) seems questionable or outright demented at first. But post-Serenity, River's saner, less-in-constant-need-of-minding self is a girl who might actually get along with either of our pilots, especially since she's become one herself.

Also, on a purely speculative level, I'm fascinated by the idea of how she might "read" pilots' thoughts about each other right out of their heads and perceive that. That, and how Kara might react to someone who's arguably even crazier than she is, and who might be in a position to talk her out of her tree, so to speak, during Maelstrom. I'm trying to picture her as one of Kara's nuggets as we speak, because the combination of mad flying skillz and occasional babble would probably drive Kara nuts, and the situation amuses me. 

Enough about me, shipper nation. What about you? Is there anyone fictional you'd like to see as a friend of pilots? Tell us all about it, and don't hold back on the details! Bring on the pics, fics and general musings in the comments, then!


* get your minds out of the gutter, it wasn't eyefrakking/other kinds of frakking! Though one could argue they needed that too.

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MOAR friends for my pilots!

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Here's someone I really would like to see as a possible friend to Lee, partly because of their similarities (slight geekiness and fish-out-of-water tendencies at first) - River's big brother, Simon Tam:



And if I wanted to give Kara a sane friend who has more than his share of experience with never quite being able to get it together with the woman he loves (also, as I mentioned earlier, he's sane), Captain Tightpants himself, Malcolm Reynolds of Firefly:



(helped along hugely by the fact that Nathan and Katee were actually in a movie together - White Noise 2!)

Re: MOAR friends for my pilots!

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Hee! I almost put exactly this! Good picks. Never go wrong with Firefly. :)

I think Kara and Mal would get along swimmingly!

Re: MOAR friends for my pilots!

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Yup, my first thought was Mal for Kara also. But since you swooped in and scooped me, I put other choices down instead.