I am exactly the opposite, unsurprisingly. I don't identify or "get" Kara at all but somehow I'm writing more often from her POV. THIS MAKES NO SENSE. Though I do write them more equally, maybe. But still, I'm confused.
It's quite possible I am subconsciously bored of Lee because I think my Laura/Lee tends to be from his POV.
It's funny, I identify with Kara really strongly even though I don't think I resemble her at all. Some of the things she goes through, especially in season 4, remind me of some of the things I struggle with. So I feel like I identify with her struggles, but I don't really resemble her, if that makes sense.
There are ways in which I identify with Lee as well. I really identify with his ability to give himself so wholeheartedly to the ideal of Democracy, even when he can't always live up to it. I haven't yet put the ways in which I identify with Kara and the ways in which I identify with Lee into the same fic, but that would be interesting to try.
I didn't answer the final question because I'd prefer to read than write. Some writers are excellent at writing from Lee or Kara's POV, and some are great at 3rd person. Not everyone is a writer, but everyone has a skill. :)
I see Kara more as my id, those fleeting thoughts of things I could do/might do/wish to do, were it not for Lee being the careful one on the surface. I write about Kara more often than her POV, but I think in terms of Lee/Kara I'm pretty much a 50/50 writer.
Even if thinking about it I chose "both" for the 1st question, I do identify a lot with Lee (sometimes a little too much) and very little with Kara at times.
Do I actually have to explain my answer to the 3rd question???? like SERIOUSLY (season 1 Grey's Anatomy voice to be inserted)
and btw, I choose the option wit the pilots going away on a trip even if I would enjoy a week of debating religious beliefs and stuff with KAra and at least a month of debating (yes really like somebody is going to believe me) political stuff with Lee.
It's funny, I decided that I resemble Lee and identify with Kara-is that even possible? Like rirenec's "id" idea--she speaks to my inner badass, my secret, more awesome, truest self?
The thing about Kara, for me: I love her, deeply, but I honestly don't really *like* her. (Part of what I love about her is that she gives an ol'-fashioned "frak you" to the idea that she should need/want to be liked.)
But that question about who I wanted to spend a week with made me think about it. What would a week with Kara be like? Would she play fair in a conversation about what we should have for dinner? How good is she at compromising? She has a lot of traits that I admire in general, but up close, I'm not sure I would be that big a fan of.
On thinking about it, I behave more like Lee in real life, but there's a lot about Kara's headspace that really resonates with things I've thought and said in the past. As does Lee's indecision and holding himself to very high standards that he often feels he's fallen short of. So I think I really do resemble/identify with both of them to the same (very slight) degree. Same with when it comes to whom I find more attractive, I can't choose!
As for spending a week with either or both of them if they were real, I don't think so. Lee strikes me as the type who wouldn't really like having enforced company but would be polite enough, Kara would straight-up not give a frak, and anyway pilots are best when they're together with no third parties interfering (but hope they won't notice they're being recorded, lol).
And even though I seem to have written fic from both their perspectives, I oddly find Kara to be the easier pov.
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Date: 2012-04-26 03:42 pm (UTC)It's quite possible I am subconsciously bored of Lee because I think my Laura/Lee tends to be from his POV.
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Date: 2012-04-26 02:53 pm (UTC)There are ways in which I identify with Lee as well. I really identify with his ability to give himself so wholeheartedly to the ideal of Democracy, even when he can't always live up to it. I haven't yet put the ways in which I identify with Kara and the ways in which I identify with Lee into the same fic, but that would be interesting to try.
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Date: 2012-04-26 03:05 pm (UTC)I like to write them both equally but Lee's voice is probably more comfortable for me because it's more similar to my own internal voice.
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Date: 2012-04-26 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-26 08:22 pm (UTC)Not everyone is a writer, but everyone has a skill.
oh yes - me for example, I like to think (in my own delusional mind) that I'm a very good commenter while I'm not even decent as a writer.
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:01 pm (UTC)::is embarrassed::
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-26 06:39 pm (UTC)I write about Kara more often than her POV, but I think in terms of Lee/Kara I'm pretty much a 50/50 writer.
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Date: 2012-04-26 08:26 pm (UTC)Do I actually have to explain my answer to the 3rd question???? like SERIOUSLY (season 1 Grey's Anatomy voice to be inserted)
and btw, I choose the option wit the pilots going away on a trip even if I would enjoy a week of debating religious beliefs and stuff with KAra and at least a month of debating (yes really like somebody is going to believe me) political stuff with Lee.
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Date: 2012-04-26 09:04 pm (UTC)The thing about Kara, for me: I love her, deeply, but I honestly don't really *like* her. (Part of what I love about her is that she gives an ol'-fashioned "frak you" to the idea that she should need/want to be liked.)
But that question about who I wanted to spend a week with made me think about it. What would a week with Kara be like? Would she play fair in a conversation about what we should have for dinner? How good is she at compromising? She has a lot of traits that I admire in general, but up close, I'm not sure I would be that big a fan of.
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Date: 2012-04-26 10:05 pm (UTC)As for spending a week with either or both of them if they were real, I don't think so. Lee strikes me as the type who wouldn't really like having enforced company but would be polite enough, Kara would straight-up not give a frak, and anyway pilots are best when they're together with no third parties interfering (but hope they won't notice they're being recorded, lol).
And even though I seem to have written fic from both their perspectives, I oddly find Kara to be the easier pov.