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The other day, I was flipping through my AO3 archive, and found that I'd started a fic with the line "The other kids started to be afraid of Kara Thrace in the 5th grade," and went on to describe a scene where she pushes a kid for bullying someone else and ends up in trouble for it.
When we think about Kara and Lee's childhoods, I think, as fandom, we generally think about what the show showed us about their relationships to their parents, and...well... abuse, neglect, general not good times. However, I say that we do not think about their childhoods enough. That's the thing about children, whether you like them or not, you were one at some point. Same goes for our lovely pilots.
Today, I thought maybe we could spend some time chatting about what they might have been like as kids-be it in elementary school, middle school, or high school, there's a wide range of stuff out there that made our pilots who they are today. Who did they connect to--friends? teachers? coaches? counselors? Who did they not get along with? Did they play video games, read books? Why exactly can Kara quote poetry off the top of her head? (For those watching Caprica, or not if you're so inclined) Does Lee have any connection at all to his Tauron heritage? First boyfriend/girlfriend/one-night stand? The questions go on and on.
Before it was canon-shafted to hell there were fics about Kara and Lee knowing each other in their younger years, pre-Academy type stuff. Thoughts? Recommendations? Recs.
I'm just throwing it all out there for you. Feel free to discuss and drabble to your hearts content! It's late for me, so I'm gonna swing back by in the morning. <3
The other day, I was flipping through my AO3 archive, and found that I'd started a fic with the line "The other kids started to be afraid of Kara Thrace in the 5th grade," and went on to describe a scene where she pushes a kid for bullying someone else and ends up in trouble for it.
When we think about Kara and Lee's childhoods, I think, as fandom, we generally think about what the show showed us about their relationships to their parents, and...well... abuse, neglect, general not good times. However, I say that we do not think about their childhoods enough. That's the thing about children, whether you like them or not, you were one at some point. Same goes for our lovely pilots.
Today, I thought maybe we could spend some time chatting about what they might have been like as kids-be it in elementary school, middle school, or high school, there's a wide range of stuff out there that made our pilots who they are today. Who did they connect to--friends? teachers? coaches? counselors? Who did they not get along with? Did they play video games, read books? Why exactly can Kara quote poetry off the top of her head? (For those watching Caprica, or not if you're so inclined) Does Lee have any connection at all to his Tauron heritage? First boyfriend/girlfriend/one-night stand? The questions go on and on.
Before it was canon-shafted to hell there were fics about Kara and Lee knowing each other in their younger years, pre-Academy type stuff. Thoughts? Recommendations? Recs.
I'm just throwing it all out there for you. Feel free to discuss and drabble to your hearts content! It's late for me, so I'm gonna swing back by in the morning. <3
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Date: 2010-05-25 06:34 am (UTC)In my (seemingly obnoxiously ubiquitous) WIP that talks at one point about Zak and Lee's younger years in a way that explains some of the differences between them, I basically imagine that Lee sadly did not have much of a childhood because he was forced to grow up pretty fast, so that he could take care of his brother. I imagine there was a point of him having that realization that his mother wasn't taking good care of them and that he would have to basically take charge, so in my mind he's very used to depending on himself, while Zak on the other hand probably turned out slightly less bitter with the family but always felt kind of overshadowed by his brother.
I think Lee is very "Capricanized" and probably isn't in touch with Tauron culture much at all.
I think growing up he probably was one of those good catches who managed to have a whole line of nearly identical relationships with nearly identical, generically attractive women. I have always, always thought, that Kara is not his "type," or that he at least would not have considered himself attracted to women like her until he first laid eyes on her.
I totally think Kara was a bully, too. I don't think she was nearly as violent as a kid but I can imagine she might have attempted to be a bossy, powerful person around her peers at school because she would never have felt that kind of control at home. I've always imagined that Kara just connected with guys more in terms of making friends; maybe because of her daddy issues, maybe because she's always been frequently sexual with people she cares about, maybe some other borishly un-Freudian reason. In my mind she had a lot of close guy friends growing up and was probably physical and cuddly with a lot of them.
I think Kara was drinking long before it was legal for her to drink, and I think she was an alcoholic before she lost her virginity. She lost it to her first serious boyfriend, who dumped her for a lousy reason, and her mother hardly bothered to comfort her, instead bemoaning to her about how you can't trust people like that and she shouldn't be all that surprised.
I am almost positive that William Adama is the first authority figure who has ever seen enough potential in Kara to inspire feelings that would make her want to adopt them as a kind of parental figure. I think throughout school she managed to misbehave in ways that wouldn't have sent up much of a red flag, and was a good liar about things because she didn't want her mother to get in trouble, so she didn't really have anyone to mentor her through her problems when she was a kid.