DPP: Favorite Fanfic Catalyst

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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

[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