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]

Aha! See? This is where I have a serious problem with Lee. I honestly feel that he can't get out of his own way. Yes, he is definitely more able, but he's too afraid to trust in that ability, especially when it comes to Kara, IMHO. I mean, what does he think is gonna happen if he just mans up and says "yes, dammit, I love you and I'm not going anywhere so feel free to run away as far as you want, but know that I'm always going to love you and will always be here for you."

To me, Lee came to his own the minute he handed his wings to Papadama and really, truly, picked a side. The hallway scene with him and Kara? THAT's the Lee that I would've loved to have seen throughout the series. Confident in himself and his feelings.

*end of rant*

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, but I also feel like Kara could have done some work to get the hell over herself. (Sorry Kara, bb, I love you but really -- the ego was too much sometimes). No one human being can possibly be the cause of so much death and destruction. I 100% get the guilt. Really I do. But even if Lee had manned up and said something along the lines of what you suggested, Kara would still have had to muster the balls to accept that she deserved that happiness. Otherwise she would have run off and married someone else. No matter how earnestly or tactfully or skillfully Lee had phrased it.

But then there's Echoes. Where the Lords of Kobol did it. :-D

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

But if it had been that way the entire time, what would've been the payoff?

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Well, for one thing, a multi-dimensional Lee. I think if we had seen him really, truly commit to something (someone) and be more in touch with his own feelings, his character arc would've been more defined. Even RDM admitted that they didn't know what to do with Lee until they took him out of uniform and made him a civvie. I also think that if Kara could see/feel Lee's unwavering love for her, she would've made different choices. And, there would've been no need to mutilate Dee's character arc with that stupid Quad of Doom scenario. Same with Sammy. Yes, it would've been a different series, but maybe a bit richer as far as character development esp for Lee, IMHO.