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How does your headcanon for your favorite characters vary from story to story?
If you multiship your character in some way, how does your headcanon change between 'ships?



My default headcanon is and always will be Kara & Lee, together and happy to fight with and for each other to infinity and beyond.

That said, I can totally believe in an AU where Kara stays with Zak and he lives and they're happy together. She and Lee resolve their epic attraction to each other, with or without carnal knowledge, and they stay friends, even intimate friends, until the end of time. In this kind of AU, sometimes Zak knows about her attraction to Lee and sometimes he doesn't. When he knows, sometimes it's a problem, and sometimes he's their enabler.

Then there's the universe where Kara acknowledges that she's attracted to both Adama brothers, and either decides she wants them to share or tells them both to take a hike when they can't stop their pissing contest over her. In her mind, she's got better things to do than be the bone to two yappy dogs.

No matter what universe it is, Karl is almost always the BFF, the guy whose feelings she doesn't run from - maybe because he lets her feel them without making her articulate them. Karl is the guy she loves who gets that for her, actions speak louder than words, and he never backs down from her, but doesn't push her past her breaking point, either. He accepts that she's not always nice, that she strikes out when she feels emotionally threatened, and he doesn't usually take her insults personally. This friendship is the basis for the entire plot and most of the action in New Normal, which is the fanfic albatross around my neck. I love it and I hate it, and I both can't wait to get it finished and dread saying goodbye to these particular incarnations of my characters.

I can also believe in a universe where Karl was pushier and pursued Kara until she let him catch her. In this kind of AU, Kara's happier. She's able to reconcile her abusive past within herself and comes out better for it - maybe never completely whole, but less damaged than she is in canon. In this kind of AU, it's usually because Karl has stuck with her through thick and thin and has never run when she tells him some new ugly thing about herself or her childhood. Sometimes it's because he met her earlier than Basic or the Academy, and his friendship (and maybe his family welcoming her as a part of them) helps her overcome her mother's horrible programming.

Kara/Laura is a new one for me, an experiment, if you will, to push myself to write something I don't totally believe in. I don't see my fundamental Kara this way, in a long-term relationship with any woman, much less Laura, but I can wrap my mind around a universe in which she could be less damaged, more able to communicate, and finds love in an unusual place/way/person. It's been fun and most definitely a challenge. Aside from anything else, writing girl!smut is hard/er for me, so working my way up to that is a whole new experience.

My headcanon for Kara and Lee almost never includes Sam or Dee. Neither of them are true loves for their respective partners. I have written fics in which both characters are part of the dynamic of Kara and Lee, and they have been fics that are actually unpleasant for me to write. Not that I hate what I came up with, but that writing them makes me actually feel a little icky inside.

Then there are the fics I love to read, which include Kara/Leoben. I've not written any K/LC fic, mostly because I don't think I really get Leoben well enough to write him, but I do love reading them - from epically happy forever-afters to the most dubious of dubious consent.

I love reading Kara/Laura, because so many authors do it better than I do, and make it realistic for me. Kara/Saul is a less evident pairing, though even in canon they are so alike in so many ways that it's just ridiculous why they aren't friends. Or at least drinking buddies.

So I'm a 'shippiest of multi-shippers, with a strong focus on what I see as the epic friendship and enduring love of Kara Thrace and Lee Adama. They belong together if for no other reason than to push each other's buttons until the end of time.

Date: 2014-01-20 10:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] newnumbertwo.livejournal.com
Multishippers ftw.

Love how Kara and Lee should be friends (at least) forever, if only to push each other's buttons. I should explore that friend!ship angle, even when I pair them with different people. Of course, Kara/Lee/Laura makes me all kinds of happy atm.

And I love you for reading and writing Kara/Laura. They're my other OTP, and I just adore them. I love Kara, Laura too. When they can bond, there's this wonderful healing that happens, and they're both so damaged (in very different ways) but together, they just...work. It's one of my happiest surprises from fandom. (That and my profound love for Saul Tigh).

Date: 2014-01-20 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] astreamofstars.livejournal.com
I love your love for Kara :) I sometimes think that, when you adore a character that much, multishipping is the only way to go, because it's the only way to see every side of them.

I like your thoughts on the Kara/Lee/Zak dynamic. And I love how much you're experimenting with other pairings too :)

Date: 2014-01-21 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] astreamofstars.livejournal.com
That's one of the things I find really fascinating about it (multishipping, I mean). That it suddenly opens up new facets to the characters because they're subtly different with different partners. I really enjoy discovering that.

Date: 2014-01-21 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baliao.livejournal.com
I really want to be a multi-shipper. I do. But it's tough for some reason. Every time I try to write another pair... I come up with a way of making it k/k and for some reason that makes it feel so much better to me.

You seem to do a fine job with the girl!smut. *nods*
Edited Date: 2014-01-21 01:03 am (UTC)

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