DPP: In the beginning...

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Good morning, Shipper Nation.  Welcome to day two of my reign of terror the land of rainbows and kittens.  I have one question for you:


How did those crazy kids meet?

Disregard the lame-ass flashbacks in Daybreak for a moment.  I know that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU has their own version in their head of how Kara and Lee met.  So guess what, peeps?  I want to hear it.
 
Was it funny? Angsty? Silly? Did sparks fly? Was it the traditional rom-com meetcute or a full-out confrontational exchange? Did the earth move and angles weep?  Did they know each other as kids?  Meet at the Academy?  Attend band camp together?


Whatever it is, I need to know, so spill, m'kay?  *g*

NOTE:  For purposes of this discussion, I'm asking you to forget about the DB flashbacks and go back and remember what your theory was before we were bombarded with all that.  (Not just because of the controversial table scene but because the meeting and subsequent early interactions of K/L deserve their OWN FRAKKING MINISERIES-- NOT FIVE MINUTES IN A HASTILY-WRITTEN FINALE.) 

Comments

[amidala-thrace.livejournal.com]

In my own mind, K/L met through Zak, and I thought this long before Daybreak was even a twinkle in RDM's eye. No Academy hijinks or "we knew each other before" - I do occasionally read and enjoy Academy fic, but it's not my personal canon. Don't know why, it just never has been. *shrug*

Kara and Lee were friends first, and there might have been a bit of the love-at-first-sight thing on his part, but he repressed that - our Lee is good at repression! - out of loyalty to Zak. Kara, for her part, found him attractive and probably had a few passing thoughts about what might have happened if she'd met Lee first, but again, her allegiance was first and foremost to her boyfriend/fiancé. (I waffle on whether or not Zak and Kara were engaged when she first met Lee - I tend to fall more on the side of "yes", but I also change my mind a lot. Ask me again tomorrow. ;D) To me, Zak represented for Kara the first relationship in which she was able to truly be herself, and could experience happiness and contentment. She also would not have given that up easily - after all, she did pass him for Basic Flight when he ought to have failed - not for a random one-night stand, and certainly not for Zak's own older brother, whom she probably saw as a bit of a stick-in-the-mud anyway. ;) And yes, I know my interpretation likely runs completely counter to RDM's, but it's one I am most unwilling to concede. :P

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

So... is it safe to say that in your mind, the K/L attraction/love was one that bloomed slowly over the series as opposed to being relized immediately on the front end?

[amidala-thrace.livejournal.com]

I think so, yeah, although to me a lot of the prior rules got tossed out the window once the worlds ended. That's not to say there wasn't still a hell of a lot of history between these two characters, just that they might have been more prone to ignore some of the barriers that were previously present to their relationship.

To me, Kara first got an inkling of exactly how much she cared about Lee after Colonial One was believed to have been destroyed. When I watched the Miniseries for the first time (already shipping K/L from having seen "Scar"), I remember thinking to myself, "Oh yeah, she gets it now!" when Kara was praying for Lee's soul. His "aha!" moment came for me in "You Can't Go Home Again" ... and of course, I ended up writing a whole fic about THAT. Heh. Before those two moments, they were good friends, definitely rivals, bound together by the common memory of someone they both loved, but not necessarily romantically linked. After those moments, Kara started to realize she was in love and Lee backed off on the repression, though it was by no means an easy process, I'm sure. ;)

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

It's like we share a brain. I agree with this so very much.