I love this, it feels so organic and completely plausible. It's also rather fascinating to see them discuss Lee's lack of flight status and Lee actually admitting his suicidal tendencies... I’m not out there because I’m a frakkin’ headcase. I know how easy it would be to just go Kamikaze on Scar’s ass or fly into a rock and just be done with it all.”
And I think you captured both of their characters really well. And stayed loyal to the fact that the aborted frak in Scar wasn't just about their personal feelings for one another but included the angst and issues and guilt weighting them both down.
When I rewatched this episode to be sure of a few details (like red-shirt nugget names) it became really obvious to me that Lee had some guilt issues here that were hinted at but weren't being directly addressed because Scar was ultimately Kara's story.
It's good to hear these characters feel authentic; my biggest problem with my abandoned first-prompt fic (s1, no drunken fraks) was that their voices felt so forced and my concocted scenarios felt downright silly. Changing to the second prompt seems to have freed my muse.
Thanks for the feedback--and for being an awesome beta! You helped give me the confidence to put this out here for public consumption:)
Wow, I really like this! I wish I had time for more detailed fb but alas, the gallstones await. :)
This was really painful, but felt almost like Scar did upon watching it - seeing the closeness between them but feeling the distance. Knowing they're both too frakked up and hurting inside to even console one another.
This was really painful, but felt almost like Scar did upon watching it - seeing the closeness between them but feeling the distance. Knowing they're both too frakked up and hurting inside to even console one another.
Would you believe this was supposed to be fluff? I have no frakkin clue how it ended up so damned angsty. But I only had the beginning and the end written when I rewatched Scar for my detail notes, and by the time I got back to the page, the conversation (and subsequent schmoopiness) I had planned had transmogrified into this instead. I just couldn't take it AU as much as I had wanted to. This story needed to be told intead, even if it wasn't exactly pretty.
It means the world to me that you took the time to read this before heading off for your surgery! Good luck today, and feel better soon! (((hugs)))
No, I find it hard to believe this was supposed to be fluff. Sure didn't end up that way! Sometimes stories go where they want though, and you have to let them.
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You a Calvin and Hobbes fan too? I love that word.
It means the world to me that you took the time to read this before heading off for your surgery! Good luck today, and feel better soon! (((hugs)))
You're welcome! It's always nice to get a good BSG fix before heading off to the hospital. Thankfully the surgery went well and I was home the same day. Still sore but I'm sure I'll be feeling better in a few days. :)
Sometimes stories go where they want though, and you have to let them.
Yup, this story ran me over like a mack truck. No matter what I tried (first prompt or second) I simply couldn't write fluff. Pesky uncooperative pilots.
You a Calvin and Hobbes fan too? I love that word.
You know it!
Still sore but I'm sure I'll be feeling better in a few days. :)
I'd like to think they talked after the near-frak. And in my fic, they almost talked about the near-frak. But then they didn't, lol. Typical pilots. They're stuck in their holding pattern of giving away just enough of themselves to feel both vulnerable and close without ever really talking about what's between them.
I am *so* relieved that you like it! I tried like heck to write you shiny happy S1 pilots with a hint of UST and a really tight friendship and it just would not come out on the page.
Getting into Lee's head was quite the challenge, particularly Lee in this phase of his life where he's on the downward spiral, but not quite the fat bored man who ended up married to Dee for lack of something better to do with his life. Rewatching Scar the other day, I was reminded of how much of Lee's story at this time was hinted at rather than successfully made real on the screen, and this was a story that needed to be told. I'm glad his--and Kara's--motivations felt true to self here. Thanks for the prompt. I guarantee I would not have written this, or even conceived of this, otherwise!
This was really well done. You really kept to the emotions and feeling of the episode and didn't make everything neat and tidy and clean, it was raw, and emotional, and I loved seeing Lee's weakness and the fact that they both know about it. Very well done!
It had been ages since I watched Scar in full (easily a year) and I don't think the rawness affected me as much at the time as it did on the rewatch when doing this fic. (can you say previously distracted by omgpilots and wtf being hung up on Sam, thereby getting in the way of omgpilots?) I'm pleased to think that some of what they were trying to accomplish rubbed off in my writing. I am one of the hugest Kara/Lee shippers known to fandom and yet I couldn't give them the tidy AU I had planned in the face of RDM's canon. Damn him.
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And I think you captured both of their characters really well. And stayed loyal to the fact that the aborted frak in Scar wasn't just about their personal feelings for one another but included the angst and issues and guilt weighting them both down.
Wonderful!!
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It's good to hear these characters feel authentic; my biggest problem with my abandoned first-prompt fic (s1, no drunken fraks) was that their voices felt so forced and my concocted scenarios felt downright silly. Changing to the second prompt seems to have freed my muse.
Thanks for the feedback--and for being an awesome beta! You helped give me the confidence to put this out here for public consumption:)
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This was really painful, but felt almost like Scar did upon watching it - seeing the closeness between them but feeling the distance. Knowing they're both too frakked up and hurting inside to even console one another.
Wonderful stuff! Definitely worth waiting for. :)
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Would you believe this was supposed to be fluff? I have no frakkin clue how it ended up so damned angsty. But I only had the beginning and the end written when I rewatched Scar for my detail notes, and by the time I got back to the page, the conversation (and subsequent schmoopiness) I had planned had transmogrified into this instead. I just couldn't take it AU as much as I had wanted to. This story needed to be told intead, even if it wasn't exactly pretty.
It means the world to me that you took the time to read this before heading off for your surgery! Good luck today, and feel better soon! (((hugs)))
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You a Calvin and Hobbes fan too? I love that word.
It means the world to me that you took the time to read this before heading off for your surgery! Good luck today, and feel better soon! (((hugs)))
You're welcome! It's always nice to get a good BSG fix before heading off to the hospital. Thankfully the surgery went well and I was home the same day. Still sore but I'm sure I'll be feeling better in a few days. :)
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Yup, this story ran me over like a mack truck. No matter what I tried (first prompt or second) I simply couldn't write fluff. Pesky uncooperative pilots.
You a Calvin and Hobbes fan too? I love that word.
You know it!
Still sore but I'm sure I'll be feeling better in a few days. :)
Here's hoping! Take it easy!
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Well done, I enjoyed every angsty moment!
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Thanks for the feedback!
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Getting into Lee's head was quite the challenge, particularly Lee in this phase of his life where he's on the downward spiral, but not quite the fat bored man who ended up married to Dee for lack of something better to do with his life. Rewatching Scar the other day, I was reminded of how much of Lee's story at this time was hinted at rather than successfully made real on the screen, and this was a story that needed to be told. I'm glad his--and Kara's--motivations felt true to self here. Thanks for the prompt. I guarantee I would not have written this, or even conceived of this, otherwise!
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I am so glad this worked for you!
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