Meta on Kara/Laura

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astreamofstars said: "I'm interested in your thoughts on Kara/Laura now that you've started writing them a bit. :)"

When Kinky Valentine came up, I wanted to be able to offer more than just Kara with Lee, Zak, or Karl, my three most common pairings, because I felt like there might not be much interest in them, and I wanted to participate. I was not, am not, confident enough of my Kendra or Leoben voices to feel able to offer to write either of those Kara pairings for someone who loves them.

I wasn’t sure about Kara/Laura, either, so I went away to a little cave (i.e. a document that newnumbertwo can’t see, mostly so that she wouldn't be disappointed if I started writing and it was shite) and challenged myself to write something that would capture the emotional component I felt was crucial to making this pairing believable. The story turned out well and got good responses, enough that I felt like I could offer to write them for KV and not be gifting someone an inferior story.

newnumbertwo’s enthusiasm and my own curiosity about the rest of their story have kept me writing. To be honest, even though I’ve written eight pieces of the story, with more to come, I don’t connect to them in the way other people do, or the way I do to my main 'ships.

Maybe it’s because my ‘verse is a no-attacks AU that I’m able to write them together and believe it. I have a hard time envisioning canon circumstances in which the two of them might connect enough to have a real relationship with each other. Their power is wildly unequal, and canon Laura’s not afraid to use it to get what she wants from Kara. Canon Kara feels her main use to the fleet is as a protector, and I don’t think she’d believe she’d have anything of value to offer a romantic partner (much less someone as in the public eye as Laura is). Aside from that, Kara believes in the Scriptures, and she’d hold Laura, in her role as the dying leader, up as someone unattainable even if Kara were interested.

Bottom line is that I can read and enjoy a good K/LR story, but don’t necessarily go looking for fic, and I can write them, but the circumstances have to be alternate-canon for me to get them together. Like my K/L/S stuff, once this series is done, once I've satisfied my curiosity about their lives together, whether or not I ever write them again is entirely up to the muse and her whims.

It should also be noted that without newnumbertwo's encouragement and brainstorming, I would never have come up with an idea that was interesting enough to my muse to go away and write it.