DPP: I still remember the sun always warm on my back...

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Or not.

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I always remember the fic "A Terrible, No Good Day" on fanfiction.net, when I think of Lee as a child. It's a AU story, but it has a very good description of what Lee could have been like as a child, responsible, wise beyond his age, introverted, by not as social as Zak and a loner. I think it offers quite a realistic picture of what children with absent or abusive parents, who have to take care of siblings might be like, how they sometimes adopt a very somber personality, not very childlike and are afraid of doing something wrong.
It's a really good read but absolutely heartbreaking and quite dark, so be warned! (and there's no Kara in it). I wish there was a sequel.

I guess it doesn't quite go with what we saw in the daybreak flashbacks though, since they make it seem like the Adama brothers are all in all quite normal und not totally screwed up. But I can see Lee being an uncharacteristically selfless child, who would always want to do the right thing from an early age.