DPP: Whose Line is it Anyway?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Kara clearly thinks it's Lee's line.

There are so many quotable/iconic lines from our pilots...but I was wondering what would happen to some of them if you did a little switch?

What if it were a jealous Kara who said to Lee: "You're just a pilot who can't keep his pants on!" or maybe a religious Lee said to Kara: "I can't cheat. It's a sin."?

What about other lines? Which ones are interchangeable (mission/job stuff?) and which ones change everything?

Your mission, soldiers? Pick a line that Kara or Lee says in canon, and write a plausible scenario (as a drabble or just describe it, if you don’t write fic) as to how the other person could be the one to say it. Feel free to change the scenario/circumstances around its delivery entirely!

Example: I once joked that someone should write a smutty fic where Lee's "After You" was totally a bet/dare thing with Kara, where they were trying to see who could make the other one climax first. Hee. FEEL FREE TO START WITH THAT ONE IF YOU LIKE. ;)

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

**crickets**

[lizziec]

Apologies in advance, my thoughts are failing to be properly organised tonight.

I know that this is absolutely not who Lee is as a character, but I would have loved to see him chewing out Kara when she briefly outranks him in the Pegasus arc and is trying to adjust to being CAG, just like she did with him in 33 when he was struggling to adapt to being CAG. It was what he needed at the time (even with it being in her own special Kara way), and I kind of like the idea of it being what she would need at the time, in that first tentative moment of being CAG. Admittedly Kara would say and do the right things in a way that Lee never did because Kara is all about bravado, but I'd love to see him spot something and pick at it.

If you don't mind me reccing something, I recently enjoyed kag523's recent Into the Dark where she did quite a bit of twisting of events to altar who things happened to in a way that really worked for me and was really interesting to see what the consequences would be for such switching.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would be out of character for Lee to protest something Kara did while she outranked him. It might actually be amusing for him! LOL. If Lee wasn't so wanked about Cain, maybe he would have. He does say sarcastically that now he's working for one of his pilots.

I think this needs to be written.*points at tara* :P

[lizziec]

What do we need to provide Tara with to write such a thing? :D

*is not above bribery*

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Some free time and a visit from the banter fairy. ;)

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

*clears your schedule*

*sprinkles fairy-dust of the bantery variety on your head*

K go! ;)

[sugarhaven.livejournal.com]

I wanted to write a drabble, but unfortunately I have to leave and I won't have time for it. It's was supposed to be set exactly during the time you mention. Once Lee destroys the Resurrection ship's FTL, he joins Kara and the rest of the vipers in the battle. Kara (his CAG) keeps ordering him to return to base, because the blackbird is not built to withstand a prolonged time under fire. Lee disobeys her orders and continues to fight. He gets hit, ejects and has to be rescued by a raptor.

Kara stays in the battle and doesn't know whether Lee made it. When she comes back and sees him walking in the hall, she is so happy that she shoves him against the nearest bulkhead and kisses him. Lee then says: "Good to see you too captain", to which Kara replies: "Remind me to send you to the brig later".

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this scenario! Pilots' voices are so very much their own that it's sometimes tough to imagine switching them, but it's a nice bantery moment that would sound equally credible coming from either of them.

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

Ohhh yummy! That totally works. I like when they flip their words around on each other all ironically. Adorable AND in character! Like if Lee had ever come around to the "no takebacks" line again to reference their prior conversation. How epic would that have been? *sighs* So . . . you're gonna write this later then?? ;)

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Well, I stay as far away as possible from Black Market, but if Kara were to make an appearance she'd have good reason to say: "You are fine, you are just fine with the dead girls. It's the living ones you can't deal with."

I can also definitely hear Lee saying at some point around mid-season 3: "Enough of that. The only destiny I have is as a world class frak-up."

I think if we'd seen more of Kara and Kendra in Razor, Kara might have gotten to deliver some lines from Lee's Crossroads monologue. "That's not justice. Not to me. Not to me."

I also think it might have been interesting to see Kara deliver Lee's lines to Bill after she came back from the dead: "What if it were Zak who'd come back to us in that plane? If your son had climbed out of that cockpit, would it really matter if he were a Cylon? If he always had been? When all's said and done, would that change how we really feel about him?"

And I think Kara's words to her phantom!Dad in Someone to Watch Over Me could easily fit into Lee's mouth, about his own Dad or even about himself: "You start a family, the going gets tough, you ditch them? Did you ever stop thinking about yourself long enough to consider what you did to your kid?"

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that last one and remember thinking that the same could be said for Bill and Lee. These are all great!

[sugarhaven.livejournal.com]

Excellent thinking Rachael, these are all great.

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

Oi! Had this exact thought earlier about the "What if it was Zak?" comment...and then promptly forgot it. :) *thumbs up to you*

[winegums.livejournal.com]

LOVE the first one (in fact, I rewatched Black Market recently and realized that my main problem with it was only the dead girlfriend who'd never been mentioned before and the fact that Kara as good as doesn't exist in it, which is weird if you're talking about an episode that deals with the love life of Lee Adama).

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

I once joked that someone should write a smutty fic where Lee's "After You" was totally a bet/dare thing with Kara, where they were trying to see who could make the other one climax first. Hee. FEEL FREE TO START WITH THAT ONE IF YOU LIKE. ;)

This is what I'm talking about! ;)

Honestly, I love the idea of this, but it's hard for me to come up with anything as their voices are both so uniquely 'them'. Except maybe a lot of the military jargon stuff. Although I could envision a scene where Lee lets out his own personal vulnerability show with a 'are you sure I'm what you want?' to Kara. Maybe in Taking A Break...after she offers to leave Sam. Idk, I'm blanking on this one.