DPP: Fanonity

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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!

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My own personal bit of fanon...

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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.