DPP: Favorite Fanfic Catalyst

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Greetings and salutations, 'shipper nation! This is Amy, known on your internets as ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...

Today being "hump" day, the topic for discussion is: what is your favorite reason that Kara and Lee hook up in a story?

The funny thing to me about K/L (and their slow motion trainwreck of inevitableness) is that a lot of the time in fanfic, there isn't a specific catalyst. They have a few drinks and find a wall somewhere. But that can't always be the case, so tell us - what is your favorite reason they stop fighting the attraction?

As a writer, I'm always looking for an angle, a reason for their behavior to change. In my old fandom, I've snowed characters down on a planet overnight with one room left to stay in. I've had one knock down the other, jogging blindly through their ship (trying to stop thinking about him), and land on him. But sometimes, sure, one just confronts the other.

In other fandoms, ships crash. People get stranded. Doors inadvertantly slam shut and lock from the outside. Strangers misunderstand the relationship and say something and after the initial protests, conversations start. Somebody has to have written a good hurt/comfort fic for our pilots, or one where they are trapped somewhere (provide links to the fic(s) if possible). Or supply your own ideas and maybe someone will write it!

Comments

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

I love it when Lee actually stops holding his emotions in and tells Kara how he feels. In fic world, that's usually a great catalyst because it seems that's what Kara needs to stop running. And I don't mean the way Lee tells her in canon (in UB) in a backhanded reassuring way ("of course you're what I want. I didn't know it until JUST now, but yeah."), but in a real, "hey Kara, I know this scares the crap out of you, but I love you and am not going anywhere" kinda way. Basically, I love it when Lee mans up :-)

I always felt that Lee was the one who didn't move things along in canon. He blew a lot of opp's IMO. The example you used above, in the mini: if we are to believe that Lee had an instant gobsmacked reaction to Kara the first time he met her (at her place with Zak), the logical thing maybe would've been that when he pulls her out from under the viper, he at least hugs her. For the best resolution to this, I urge everyone who hasn't read this to rush immediately to workerbee73's magnificent fic, Borrowed Time, found Here (http://workerbee73.livejournal.com/85612.html). This will forever be my version of their relationship prior to the mini.

I also love any fic where they're already together and are either hiding it or not, but basically, have resolved their individual personal crap way before the mini :-)

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

This! That ridiculous handshake in the mini was sooooo "stay tuned for UST if we get picked up for series" because everyone else was hugging. Hey even Boxey got a cookie, but no sugar for pilots :(

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

See but I love that they don't hug there. Because everyone else in the clip up to it and maybe even after is hugging and kissing, and right away you see that these two frakups who have a closer bond than anyone else possibly on the ship, can't even hug each other!

Maybe at heart I am a bit of an angst whore but I thought that said so much. The endless handshake! Swooooon!

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the endless handshake. It made more of a statement of how even the end of the world and a return from the dead weren't enough to set them straight.

Although, I will admit to imagining a scene where she stands there a beat after he goes, then follows him to the ready room for... hugs. ;)

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Read the epilogue to Borrowed Time. *sigh*

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Read the epilogue to Borrowed Time. *sigh*

Oh, believe me, I have. More than once. :)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Heh somewhereapart wrote that fic. Yum. The Better Part of 33 minutes (http://community.livejournal.com/somewhere_fic/2760.html)

But I'm glad they didn't get it together that early. Even with the crappy ending.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Oooooo ... I totally forgot about that piece of yumminess. Thanks for the reminder!