DPP: Fanonity

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Y'all really brought the funny with the macros yesterday! I'm still cracking up. GIVE YOURSELVES A ROUND OF APPLAUSE!

I'm compiling a list of everyone's nominees from yesterday's list of favorites, and I'll post the voting poll later today. If you haven't nominated your scenes yet, there's still time!

Favorite Kiss
Favorite UST Scene
Favorite Fight
Favorite "I've got your back" Scene
Favorite Overall Pilots Moment

You can leave them in a comment on yesterday's entry or this one.


Today's DPP is about FANONITY. The fabulous workerbee73 got us thinking about canon v. fanon in general. So let's get physical personal! What are your personal bits of fanon, shippers? Maybe you think that Kara secretly loves Sudoku. Maybe you think that Lee spends his spare time reading proposed amendments to the Articles. Whatever it is, today's the day to share with the class. For example:

Kara was so awesome at the Academy that “to Starbuck” something came to mean “to kick ass at,” as in, “I'm not worried about passing Basic Flight! I'm gonna Starbuck that test!”

Illustrations are welcome in any form you wish!

Comments

My own personal bit of fanon...

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Here is a snippet (from The Officers' Club) which I wrote to explain the origin's of Kara's callsign. Enjoy!

“Because I was scared, Lee...” Kara glanced over to him, where a wrinkle had emerged between his eyebrows. She smiled, “you know why I got my callsign, right?”

Lee thought back slowly to his time at the Academy... he’d heard the story at some point. “Star of the C-Bucks. Wasn’t that it?” Kara laughed loudly.

“May the gods bless you, Lee Adama, you naive fool, for believing that spin...”

She shook her head, as if considering how much to share. Lee bumped her again, grinning deviously. “I’ll only think the worst if you don’t tell me, you know.” She shrugged, her breasts pulling tightly against the thin fabric, distracting Lee, before beginning her story.

“I was just good at running away... didn’t matter what it was. Didn’t really need a reason, either... I was just a bit chicken-shit... First year at the Academy, it got around that I’d try to buck about anything, before I actually did it...” Kara glanced up at Lee. He was watching her with a tender smile on his face. She smiled back at him, heart tightening and she continued as they left the wide tree-lined street to walk up the main sidewalk.

“Didn’t matter that I’d spent my entire life wanting to fly. Came the day to crawl into a sim... blew it off, skipped class. First day of we were supposed to analyze engines... same thing. Anything different, anything I didn’t know how to do... Anything that scared me... If I was unsure, I’d run.” She sighed; her lost breath left her slightly deflated. Lee put an arm, comfortingly, around her shoulders.

Kara’s story began again. “So I had this one prof, first year, a real bad-ass veteran of the cylon war, and he just started calling me on it... called me on it in front of everyone. ‘Oh yeah, there goes Kara again, gonna buck this off too.’” She mocked his accented voice angrily, cheeks flaming with colour. “The group of us had passed all the sim requirements for Basic Flight, but had never taken up a real bird. I was already pretty good,” she glanced up at Lee who was watching her. He nodded; that didn’t surprise him in the least. No one learned to be as good as Kara was; people like her were born with part of that gift. “So anyhow, this prof says that given my scores, I’m gonna go first... but I tried to walk away from it... tried to bail on him...” Kara’s voice had gotten quieter, and Lee slowed the pace of their walking, to give her time.

“And so the prof started taunting me in front of the entire class, making clucking noises... Buck-buck-buck-buck...” Kara frowned suddenly, and straightened up, as if reliving the moment, and its embarrassment. “I was so gods-damned angry, I couldn’t even think straight, Lee... I got in that frakking bird and pulled off one amazing manoeuvre after another, pissed as I’d ever been at anyone.” Lee watched her, wondering that she could be that good, and still be so scared... Ready to run away from her future. There were parts of Kara he still didn’t really understand. She laughed once more, bitterly.

“And when I landed the viper that day, everyone on the ground was cheering. The prof called me a ‘star’... adding in the buck so I’d never frakking forget how close I’d been to blowing it all off.” She shrugged, “...and suddenly I had a new callsign.” Kara shook her head, sending the bad memory back into the archives of her hidden past. She grinned at Lee then, raising an eyebrow.

“Of course I spent the rest of the year telling everyone who’d listen that it was because I’d almost been drafted by the C-Bucks the year before...” She chuckled. “I was good at pyramid, Lee. But not that frakking good.” And the two of them began laughing together in earnest as they finally reached the front doors of the Veterans’ Hall.

A second bit of fanon

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's another. I was playing with Photoshop yesterday while working on my trailer mash up. Since my story was AU, I needed to tweak the picture.

(http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/?action=view&current=LeeZakKara.png)

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Lee plays the piano. : )

Kara is a crossword puzzle genius.

[eugis.livejournal.com]

Lee plays the piano.

That is canon. ;)

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

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That is all

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

I was hoping that icon would make an appearance. *g*

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

any most references to Piano!Lee brings it out....I made a promise after all

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Kara was a smoker in high school and college but toned it down to cigars after her mom got sick.

Also? Girl is really freaking smart, especially good with numbers and mathematics-- although she'd never advertise it.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

I agree very much with that second one.

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with the math thing!

Kara has a secret stash of Sudoku books in her locker. DON'T TELL ANYONE.

[zenzero42.livejournal.com]

I totally agree about her being very very smart and the math stuff, in particular the fact that for her was just natural and she never paid attention to that

[zenzero42.livejournal.com]

Kara loved to ride bicycle, in fact the sensation of the sun on the skin and the wind between hairs when you ride a bicycle was one of her favorite memories from the life in the colonies.

[zenzero42.livejournal.com]

After the first few weeks that Kara was onboard Galactica, Adama invited her for dinner. When Kara saw the First Cylon War painting in his quarters, she made a very intelligent and profound comment about the painter's style and painting in general. It was at that point that Adama started to understand how beautiful, smart and deep Kara was.

[zenzero42.livejournal.com]

Kara had at least one very great professor that helped her to find her way during the high school

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

I think underneath all that Starbuck bravado, I think Kara is such a girly girl. I can totally see her getting all dressed up, doing her hair and nails. And I mean before the whole Colonial Day for Lee deal.

I can see Lee as motorcycle lover. It would give him the same sort of freedom that he would get in his viper but on land. Just riding on a long road with the wind blowing through your hair.:D

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

I can see Lee as motorcycle lover.
Oooh, just like in Iced!

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

Kara absolutely came back to visit Lee after he was shot--he just wasn't awake.

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Kara's never actually out of control. Starbuck acts out of control, sure, but Kara never is. She never drinks so much that she passes out. Never throws up from just alcohol. Acts like she doesn't care about anyone else, but deep down, she's hoping she'll believe herself someday.

[antismiles.livejournal.com]

Well... My personal canon was that there was so much more going on in S3 than we knew, and there was way more to the Quad of Doom than we got to see such as all the hot sex So, my personal canon goes something like this:

See, Lee is in love with Kara and married to Dee, and he's pissed off with Kara so he seduces Sam to get back at her. Sam only loves Kara, but is willing to frak Lee on the side because, let's face it, Lee's frakking hot and Kara's frakked up. And who's he to turn down an opportunity like that?

But Kara (who doesn't know about this little thing with Lee and Sam) she's also a bit in love with Lee, so she starts sleeping with Lee on the side, too. Lee is thrilled and ditches Sam's dick. Sam is pretty pissed off about this for reasons he doesn't know, so he turns to Dee to get back at Lee.

Dee, however, is only sleeping with Lee because she's in love with Billy, long dead. Lee was the last person Billy was near other than her before he was killed, so she's frakking Lee to be close to Billy. Of course Lee doesn't know this and thinks she's really in love with him, so he's all angst-filled over his previous affair with Sam and his new affair with Kara.

Kara, sadly, has just decided being with Lee might be nice (sex on top, oh yes) and is maybe possibly willing to finally ditch Sam for him. But Lee's unfounded angst prevents him from getting with her. She's hurt and pissed, and stops frakking Lee and goes back to frakking Sam. And so Sam no longer feels threatened, so he stops frakking Dee. Dee then turns to Lee more than ever since she doesn't have another outlet for her grief in Sam.

So Lee and Dee are stuck with each other, and Kara is stuck with Sam. Sam, of course, is loving life. And then a bunch of shit happens with some circle painting thingy, and there's more angst, and the cycle continues.

It's all very soap operatic.

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

I am in love with your brain and your personal cannon....

Dee, however, is only sleeping with Lee because she's in love with Billy, long dead. Lee was the last person Billy was near other than her before he was killed, so she's frakking Lee to be close to Billy. Of course Lee doesn't know this and thinks she's really in love with him, so he's all angst-filled over his previous affair with Sam and his new affair with Kara.
Especially this

[antismiles.livejournal.com]

You know, the more I ponder on it, the more I'm convinced it is totally not my personal canon. It is canon. I mean, how else do you explain all those longing oh-god(s)-take-me-now gazes between Lee and Sam, Sam and Dee? Come on. It's not subtext, it's text. I don't know why everyone does not realize all this.