Meme! In place of Productivity!
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beccatoriaSo, I totally failed at being AT ALL productive yesterday - no vidding (though the next challenge vidlet is in hand), no writing, didn't read over my essay, nuttin' but cruisin' the internet in a generally bored fashion and being nowhere near as excited about getting my first paycheck in 8 months as I should be because...I have nothing to spend it on!
SO, I randomly found this meme on the wilds of the internet and the last time I tried one of these it was HILARIOUS (at least I thought so). So even if it entertains no one but me, I'll feel like I "achieved" something today. RAH.
Pick 10 characters from as many fandoms as you wish.
Answer 16 questions. Drabble responses are very welcome, too.
Bonus: Name the meme pairing you like best and least.
1. Sam Anders
2. Aeryn Sun
3. Laura Roslin
4. Saul Tigh
5. Sarah Connor
6. The Operative (Serenity)
7. Caprica Six
8. Wendy Watson
9. John Crichton
10. Benjamin Sisko
I'm not sure why I picked those guys. It was a kind of "Okay, think of someone who's NOT in BSG, dammit!" and I still ended up with what, four of them? I suppose it's a vaguely representative list of my fandom interests at least?
1. Describe the children of #3 and #7, are they good parents?
The kids of Laura Roslin and Caprica Six?! SPORFLE. Okay, I totally didn't plan that! Clearly, discovering his true identity as a cylon forces Bill and Saul to confront some DEEPSET ISSUES in their thirty year bromance and realise HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO EACH OTHER. Having been ditched by their respective menfolk, Caprica and Laura decide to shack up on wrecked earth and raise Caprica's flipperbaby together. I mean, it totally makes sense, right? Quite aside from the fact that they can bond over their various kidnappings of Hera, Roslin's been itchy for an adopted robot child and a hot young girlfriend ever since Maya kicked the bucket, and Caprica really doesn't care WHO she's with as long as they'll pretend to LOOOOVE HER.
Also, they would be awesome parents. Laura would ensure it had a proper education and had appropriately flexible morals, and then Caprica would instill in it a capacity for massive violence in the name of LOVE. It'd be like some nursery school for guerilla resistance fighters!
2. Describe #5 and #1's first kiss.
Sarah Connor and Sam Anders? Well, clearly, Sam is one of the final 5000 Terminator series, scrapped because they were "too human". He travelled back in time to the 2000s and erased his own memory so he could live a human life, but because of his subconscious knowledge of his own identity, he's started independently following up on these Skynet conspiracy rumours and ends up seeking out Sarah Connor to help her. Of course Cameron IDs him as a Terminator. Cue much angsting about whether he's faking or not, whether he's safe to be around, and whether they should tell him the truth.
Much like that Andy dude who built the Turk, Sarah flirt-spies on Sam while kind of fighting the fact that he's so humanlike she's falling for him a bit. Derek sees them kissing (which Sarah MAINTAINS is just part of her attempts to lull him into a false sense of security) and starts a fistfight. Sam fights back and almost kills Derek because of his Terminator strength - limited due to his own reprogramming, but reactivated because he was threatened - and WORKS OUT WHAT HE IS WHILE HEARING A BEAR MCCREARY REWRITE OF A PIECE OF POPULAR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.
3. How would #2 react if #6 is pregnant with #10's baby?
How would Aeryn react if the Operative was pregnant with Benjamin Sisko's baby? o_O
Um...she'd probably slap the Operative on the shoulder, commiserate with him about weird pregnancies, and then...assume it was just something that happened to humans sometimes, move on, and act exasperated when John was weirded out by the whole thing? Or, more hilariously, casually ask John if that was something they ought to worry about in future...
4. How does #8 convince #7 to go with him/her on a date?
How does Wendy Watson convince Caprica Six to go out with her on a date? I imagine that Wendy has been instructed to get close to Six by the Middleman because something odd is going on. Like, for instance, Caprica Six has been recruited into a temp agency whose temps never seem to age, due to an ancient agreement they have with the PITS OF HELL. So at first, they think that Caprica's in on this and is teh EVIL, but later they realise that the agreement with the PITS OF HELL is actually quite harmless - they're granted eternal life and youth as long as they keep the Devil's filing and paperwork in order: basically they formed themselves like three thousand years ago as the world's first temp agency because the Devil was such an awful employer he couldn't keep any workers. Except now the Devil has upgraded to some electronic system he bought offplanet and they needed to recruit a robot to do maintenance and upgrades (hence Caprica).
But anyway, it turns out that the First Ever Temp Agency is actually doing more than just upgrading the Devil's systems, they're getting Caprica to sabotage them so they can blackmail the Devil for, I dunno, MOAR eternal youth or something, even though Caprica doesn't know what she's doing or who she's pissing off. So Wendy has to convince Caprica to get out of the temp agency HQ RIGHT FRAKKING NOW or the Devil and his gang of evil Auditors are going to show up and punk her. First thing she tries is to use her FBI badge to convince Caprica that she's from the "Federal Bureau of Interim-employment. We'd like to recruit you. Like...NOW."
But that doesn't fly, and Caprica asks why Wendy's been following her for days, so Wendy yells, "Because I'm in love with you! Yes! In love with you, and I'm tired of hiding it! Let's run away together!"
And to her utter shock, Caprica's like, "LOVE? DID YOU SAY LOVE? YOU LOVE ME? NO ONE'S EVER DONE THAT BEFORE! YES, LET US RUN AWAY AND GET MARRIED IN CALIFORNIA!"
5. Where would #9 and #6 go for their honeymoon? How is #4 going to sabotage their honeymoon?
So, John Crichton and the Operative get their honeymoon sabotaged by Saul Tigh? Aces.
Clearly what happens is: in the aftermath of the Operative's defection from the Alliance, he becomes a wanted man, as is John Crichton after he pulls that wormhole stunt at the end of the Peacekeeper Wars. So when the vaguely reconstructed wormhole tech allows the PKs to build a bridge to the future of Earth and forge an alliance with the, err, Alliance, both the Operative and John end up in a high security interrogation unit and just like John and Stark in The Hidden Memory when Scorpy's torturing them, John and the Operative are angsty slashy cell mates.
They finally escape, and procure tickets on a civilian passenger liner, posing as a couple on their honeymoon. They're off to Ariel. Unfortunately for them, through sheer coincidence, this is the passenger liner that Saul Tigh has chosen to load up his latest viper pilot suicide bomber onto, because HE HAS ONE JOB, AND ONE JOB ONLY. TO DISTRUPTCYLONS THE ALLIANCE!
6. #6 is in love with #1. #3 confesses his/her love to #6. Whom would #6 pick? Does #8 think s/he made the right choice?
So, The Operative is in love with Sam Anders. Roslin confesses her love to the Operative. Who does he pick and does Wendy Watson approve?
Well, in my head, the Operative is the head of Roslin's new CIA division (Colonial Intelligence Agency, natch), after he reports to her when he realises he's the only surviving member of his supersekrit blackops SD-6 analogue, and then he recruits Wendy Watson after he finds her middlemannin' it up in the Fleet following The Middleman's death in the attacks, and Sam because of his experience with running a resistance against and gathering intelligence on the Cylon.
So down on New Caprica, Wendy Watson's getting hella pissed off at the fact that YET ANOTHER "my boss loves my best friend," triangle is developing, made worse by the fact that Sam's like, totally oblivious to the Operative's crush because he has eyes only for his KIDNAPPED WIFE. So anyway, Wendy drops her last Truth Bomb at a staff meeting in an attempt to clear the air. However, she fails to take into account Roslin's presence who suddenly announces her love for the Operative!
Faced with the truth that Sam will never love him because KARA, MY WIFE, WHO IS NOT DEAD, I LOVE HER, he decides to give things a shot with Roslin. Wendy is totally find with this because it means that the "my boss is in love with my best friend," mess has been passed over to Maya and is no longer her problem. But retrospectively in season four, she's totally gonna claim that it was because "Those robots won't fool ME twice!"
This being because Wendy Watson's dark secret is that Baltar didn't actually bring down the Colonial Defense system mainframe. He just thinks he did. That was plan A. But his code was so crappy that even with Caprica's rewrites it didn't work, so Ida - who is secretly the Final Cylon - had to get on the HEIDAR and pull the system herself.
(Also note: as I have previously mentioned on this journal, should I ever see Mary McDonnell and Chiwetel Ejiofor on screen together, and I fail to show up here for a while, it's only because I died of the hot).
7. #5 and #2 must pretend to be a married couple. Why?
Sarah Connor and Aeryn Sun must pretend to be a married couple? Why?
BECAUSE I SAY SO BECAUSE IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS.
Or, you know, blah blah undercover, blah blah, Skynet/the Peacekeepers blah blah underestimating the domestic womenfolk, blah blah.
(in other words, it's funny but it's not pinging crazy cracked out tales in me right now. I suppose given Sarah's habit of using her status as overlooked woman to flirt and spy on things there could be an amusing scene where they're discussing how best to infiltrate someplace and Aeryn is like, "I will shoot it until it lets us in," and Sarah's like, "No, we'll just pretend to be lost on our honeymoon and the guards will be so blinded by their bizarre infatuation with people they think are hot lesbians they will totally not notice our spying." But what they are spying on I'm not sure.)
9. How will #4 prove his/her love to #1?
How will Saul Tigh prove his love to Sam Anders?! OMG that's kind of...absurdly wonderful.
So first off, Tigh doesn't actually love anyone except in that bitter, crazy "I would send out suicide bombers for you, commit suicide for you, or force you to commit suicide," kind of way.
I think probably after Gaeta had his leg amputated and Sam wanted to do something crazy like tell Kara he was a cylon even if he did get a bullet between his eyes, Saul Tigh sat up with him all night in his quarters, being bitter, angry, drunken and bitching every time Anders stole one of his bottles of moonshine or cigarettes, but basically being there to keep the man sane. Because Tory and Sam and Galen are his family now and so he loves them, even if he thinks he hates them, and hates that they're more his family than Bill is right now, and lies to himself that he's only doing it to protect the crew and his own life and position. And he'd rather die than admit he loves anything since Ellen.
And such.
10. #7 and #4. Love at first sight?
Caprica Six and Saul Tigh. Love at first sight? I cannot stress enough how much I didn't rig this list. *FALLS OVER LAUGHING*
And...I think that's really all I need to say about that one.
11. What would #2 give #9 for Valentine's Day?
What would Aeryn give John for Valentine's Day? Again, I totally didn't rig this and at this point it's getting a bit o_O with the coincidences.
Actually it's kind of a shame that this fits so well because it's not really that silly. I guess probably what would happen is that Aeryn would do some research, discover that St Valentine was martyred, make some speech about how weird these human customs are only to have John explain that that's not the point, the point is chocolate and lovin'.
Either that or a hilarious intra-Terra-Firma story (yes I know, wrong time of year) where Aeryn tries to "fix" things with John with lolarious results. Like, "John, here is a Valentine's day card. As is customary, I haven't signed it so you don't know it's from me."
12. Under what circumstances could #3 and #5 have a happy end?
Under what circumstances could Laura Roslin and Sarah Connor have a happy end? When they manage to successfully obliterate the robotic forces of evil threatening their civilisations, DUH!
Perhaps they can team up to this end. Laura can show Sarah where the Terminator resurrection hub is located and reassure her that just because all of this happened before doesn't mean it has to happen again.
And then they can bond over their Cancer-based angst. And Laura can reassure Sarah that if she can't find a terminator baby to magically cure her when she inevitably starts dying, she can borrow Hera.
11. What would #8 like to change about #10? Does number #10 approve?
What would Wendy Watson like to change about Benjamin Sisko?
Actually...I think they'd get on really well. They both have an underlayer of steel and an ability to get the job done, and they both have pretty open, pretty silly and geeky senses of humour (yes I'd argue that Sisko's sense of humour is geeky).
I think that Wendy would probably think that Sisko needed to learn how to keep that sense of humour closer to stop him from falling quite so much into the dark pool of angst he likes to shave his head and live in.
I think Sisko would look at her very seriously, and a little sadly, and tell her that he hoped she'd never have to understand, but in her line of work, one day, she probably would.
12. #2 and #7 are together. Who is more protective of the other?
Who's more protective, Aeryn Sun or Caprica Six? Wow, tough call actually. Aeryn would be more physically protective, Caprica Six would be more emotionally protective. And possessive. And she's actually a much stronger and more durable individual which would probably piss Aeryn the hell off.
So weirdly, even though I think Aeryn's the more protective person in general, I think Six's understanding of her own power and her possessiveness would lead to her constantly physically protect Aeryn while Aeryn got more and more irritated. And robbed of her ability to be the protector and defender, I think Aeryn would just end up...trying to assert her independence and being snarky?
13. Who is first going to say "I love you", #1 or #9?
HAHAHA! It's like the battle of the devotedly in love manly men!
Sam Anders: I love you, no matter what!
John Crichton: No! I said that first!
Sam Anders: Did not! I'm the ridiculously patient and accepting one in this relationship!
John Crichton: Are not!
Sam Anders: Am too! Look at your ex! You waited for your neural clone to possess you and declare your love for you and then you brained her!
John Crichton: Yeah, but I'm comfortable being the manly male lead while having WHITE WEDDING FANTASIES!
Sam Anders: I GOT MARRIED AND I LOVED HER SO MUCH I DIDN'T EVEN CARE SHE WAS CHEATING ON ME!
John Crichton: I WAS GONNA ASK HER TO MARRY ME BECAUSE I LOVED HER SO MUCH I DIDN'T CARE IF THE KID WAS MINE!
Sam Anders: NO! ME! I LOVE YOU MORE!
John Crichton: NO, I DO!
...
Ahem.
14. Describe #10 and #4's perfect romantic outing.
Benjamin Sisko and Saul Tigh on a romantic outing? o_O
Oookay then.
I'm kind of having trouble with this one. I mean, I guess they could bond over the hard and immoral decisions you have to make during war and how their spouses are dead and they feel responsible (though, um, Saul Tigh actually is). And the best place for that would be a bar with lots and lots of hard liquor.
So yeah. I think that Saul should take Ben to Joe's. So classy, it has its own embossed napkins, even after the end of the world!
15. Who suffers from pre-wedding jitters, #3 or #8? How does bridesmaid/best man #10 soothe them?
Wendy Watson is marrying Laura Roslin and Benjamin Sisko is the best man? I TOLD YOU that Wendy and Ben would get on well!
Wendy Watson gets pre-wedding jitters. She's worried that there's be a middle-emergency during the ceremony and she'll have to fight zombies in her wedding dress or something. Plus she doesn't strictly believe in marriage but apparently Laura is facing re-election and the Geminese won't approve of her "living in sin," or what-have-you.
Laura has no pre-wedding jitters because she pays people to take care of zombie-infestations and alien boy bands and demonic modelling agencies and if they can't handle it, then she's going to let Tory airlock them and hire more competant people.
Ben calms Wendy down by pointing out Laura has people she's paying to take care of zombie-infestations and alien boy bands and demonic modelling agencies so she probably won't have to. Probably. Also by pointing out that Ida wasn't invited.
16. #6 is a secret admirer. What presents will they make the wo/man of their dreams?
The Operative...wow. Um. Something exquisitely tasteful. Like the most expensive yet understated jewelry followed by a trip on the 'verse's finest space yacht with oysters and caviar and all those other gross things that are supposed to be romantic. But not chocolate. That wouldn't be understated. And then a trip to the world's most exclusive Opera with the best box seats and a beautiful and tasteful gown. Etc, ad infinitum.
It would just be a nonstop rollercoaster of tasteful high culture that's so expensively understated it couldn't POSSIBLY be a cliche.
Bastard still wouldn't tell you his name, though.
Bonus
Best pairing: Laura Roslin and the Operative. I WOULD DIE, PEOPLE. I WOULD DIE.
Worst pairing: Saul Tigh and Benjamin Sisko. I just...really don't get that. I guess it's funny for three seconds but after that it's not even that funny anymore, just random. Or maybe the Operative and Benjamin Sisko. I didn't really get that much either, and in fact that one isn't even as funny as Tigh/Sisko for the first three seconds. I think the problem is Sisko. He's just...not very slashy. Which is ODD for a man who spends a lot of his television career BROODING IN THE DARK.
And that's that, folks!
SO, I randomly found this meme on the wilds of the internet and the last time I tried one of these it was HILARIOUS (at least I thought so). So even if it entertains no one but me, I'll feel like I "achieved" something today. RAH.
Pick 10 characters from as many fandoms as you wish.
Answer 16 questions. Drabble responses are very welcome, too.
Bonus: Name the meme pairing you like best and least.
1. Sam Anders
2. Aeryn Sun
3. Laura Roslin
4. Saul Tigh
5. Sarah Connor
6. The Operative (Serenity)
7. Caprica Six
8. Wendy Watson
9. John Crichton
10. Benjamin Sisko
I'm not sure why I picked those guys. It was a kind of "Okay, think of someone who's NOT in BSG, dammit!" and I still ended up with what, four of them? I suppose it's a vaguely representative list of my fandom interests at least?
1. Describe the children of #3 and #7, are they good parents?
The kids of Laura Roslin and Caprica Six?! SPORFLE. Okay, I totally didn't plan that! Clearly, discovering his true identity as a cylon forces Bill and Saul to confront some DEEPSET ISSUES in their thirty year bromance and realise HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO EACH OTHER. Having been ditched by their respective menfolk, Caprica and Laura decide to shack up on wrecked earth and raise Caprica's flipperbaby together. I mean, it totally makes sense, right? Quite aside from the fact that they can bond over their various kidnappings of Hera, Roslin's been itchy for an adopted robot child and a hot young girlfriend ever since Maya kicked the bucket, and Caprica really doesn't care WHO she's with as long as they'll pretend to LOOOOVE HER.
Also, they would be awesome parents. Laura would ensure it had a proper education and had appropriately flexible morals, and then Caprica would instill in it a capacity for massive violence in the name of LOVE. It'd be like some nursery school for guerilla resistance fighters!
2. Describe #5 and #1's first kiss.
Sarah Connor and Sam Anders? Well, clearly, Sam is one of the final 5000 Terminator series, scrapped because they were "too human". He travelled back in time to the 2000s and erased his own memory so he could live a human life, but because of his subconscious knowledge of his own identity, he's started independently following up on these Skynet conspiracy rumours and ends up seeking out Sarah Connor to help her. Of course Cameron IDs him as a Terminator. Cue much angsting about whether he's faking or not, whether he's safe to be around, and whether they should tell him the truth.
Much like that Andy dude who built the Turk, Sarah flirt-spies on Sam while kind of fighting the fact that he's so humanlike she's falling for him a bit. Derek sees them kissing (which Sarah MAINTAINS is just part of her attempts to lull him into a false sense of security) and starts a fistfight. Sam fights back and almost kills Derek because of his Terminator strength - limited due to his own reprogramming, but reactivated because he was threatened - and WORKS OUT WHAT HE IS WHILE HEARING A BEAR MCCREARY REWRITE OF A PIECE OF POPULAR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.
3. How would #2 react if #6 is pregnant with #10's baby?
How would Aeryn react if the Operative was pregnant with Benjamin Sisko's baby? o_O
Um...she'd probably slap the Operative on the shoulder, commiserate with him about weird pregnancies, and then...assume it was just something that happened to humans sometimes, move on, and act exasperated when John was weirded out by the whole thing? Or, more hilariously, casually ask John if that was something they ought to worry about in future...
4. How does #8 convince #7 to go with him/her on a date?
How does Wendy Watson convince Caprica Six to go out with her on a date? I imagine that Wendy has been instructed to get close to Six by the Middleman because something odd is going on. Like, for instance, Caprica Six has been recruited into a temp agency whose temps never seem to age, due to an ancient agreement they have with the PITS OF HELL. So at first, they think that Caprica's in on this and is teh EVIL, but later they realise that the agreement with the PITS OF HELL is actually quite harmless - they're granted eternal life and youth as long as they keep the Devil's filing and paperwork in order: basically they formed themselves like three thousand years ago as the world's first temp agency because the Devil was such an awful employer he couldn't keep any workers. Except now the Devil has upgraded to some electronic system he bought offplanet and they needed to recruit a robot to do maintenance and upgrades (hence Caprica).
But anyway, it turns out that the First Ever Temp Agency is actually doing more than just upgrading the Devil's systems, they're getting Caprica to sabotage them so they can blackmail the Devil for, I dunno, MOAR eternal youth or something, even though Caprica doesn't know what she's doing or who she's pissing off. So Wendy has to convince Caprica to get out of the temp agency HQ RIGHT FRAKKING NOW or the Devil and his gang of evil Auditors are going to show up and punk her. First thing she tries is to use her FBI badge to convince Caprica that she's from the "Federal Bureau of Interim-employment. We'd like to recruit you. Like...NOW."
But that doesn't fly, and Caprica asks why Wendy's been following her for days, so Wendy yells, "Because I'm in love with you! Yes! In love with you, and I'm tired of hiding it! Let's run away together!"
And to her utter shock, Caprica's like, "LOVE? DID YOU SAY LOVE? YOU LOVE ME? NO ONE'S EVER DONE THAT BEFORE! YES, LET US RUN AWAY AND GET MARRIED IN CALIFORNIA!"
5. Where would #9 and #6 go for their honeymoon? How is #4 going to sabotage their honeymoon?
So, John Crichton and the Operative get their honeymoon sabotaged by Saul Tigh? Aces.
Clearly what happens is: in the aftermath of the Operative's defection from the Alliance, he becomes a wanted man, as is John Crichton after he pulls that wormhole stunt at the end of the Peacekeeper Wars. So when the vaguely reconstructed wormhole tech allows the PKs to build a bridge to the future of Earth and forge an alliance with the, err, Alliance, both the Operative and John end up in a high security interrogation unit and just like John and Stark in The Hidden Memory when Scorpy's torturing them, John and the Operative are angsty slashy cell mates.
They finally escape, and procure tickets on a civilian passenger liner, posing as a couple on their honeymoon. They're off to Ariel. Unfortunately for them, through sheer coincidence, this is the passenger liner that Saul Tigh has chosen to load up his latest viper pilot suicide bomber onto, because HE HAS ONE JOB, AND ONE JOB ONLY. TO DISTRUPT
6. #6 is in love with #1. #3 confesses his/her love to #6. Whom would #6 pick? Does #8 think s/he made the right choice?
So, The Operative is in love with Sam Anders. Roslin confesses her love to the Operative. Who does he pick and does Wendy Watson approve?
Well, in my head, the Operative is the head of Roslin's new CIA division (Colonial Intelligence Agency, natch), after he reports to her when he realises he's the only surviving member of his supersekrit blackops SD-6 analogue, and then he recruits Wendy Watson after he finds her middlemannin' it up in the Fleet following The Middleman's death in the attacks, and Sam because of his experience with running a resistance against and gathering intelligence on the Cylon.
So down on New Caprica, Wendy Watson's getting hella pissed off at the fact that YET ANOTHER "my boss loves my best friend," triangle is developing, made worse by the fact that Sam's like, totally oblivious to the Operative's crush because he has eyes only for his KIDNAPPED WIFE. So anyway, Wendy drops her last Truth Bomb at a staff meeting in an attempt to clear the air. However, she fails to take into account Roslin's presence who suddenly announces her love for the Operative!
Faced with the truth that Sam will never love him because KARA, MY WIFE, WHO IS NOT DEAD, I LOVE HER, he decides to give things a shot with Roslin. Wendy is totally find with this because it means that the "my boss is in love with my best friend," mess has been passed over to Maya and is no longer her problem. But retrospectively in season four, she's totally gonna claim that it was because "Those robots won't fool ME twice!"
This being because Wendy Watson's dark secret is that Baltar didn't actually bring down the Colonial Defense system mainframe. He just thinks he did. That was plan A. But his code was so crappy that even with Caprica's rewrites it didn't work, so Ida - who is secretly the Final Cylon - had to get on the HEIDAR and pull the system herself.
(Also note: as I have previously mentioned on this journal, should I ever see Mary McDonnell and Chiwetel Ejiofor on screen together, and I fail to show up here for a while, it's only because I died of the hot).
7. #5 and #2 must pretend to be a married couple. Why?
Sarah Connor and Aeryn Sun must pretend to be a married couple? Why?
BECAUSE I SAY SO BECAUSE IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS.
Or, you know, blah blah undercover, blah blah, Skynet/the Peacekeepers blah blah underestimating the domestic womenfolk, blah blah.
(in other words, it's funny but it's not pinging crazy cracked out tales in me right now. I suppose given Sarah's habit of using her status as overlooked woman to flirt and spy on things there could be an amusing scene where they're discussing how best to infiltrate someplace and Aeryn is like, "I will shoot it until it lets us in," and Sarah's like, "No, we'll just pretend to be lost on our honeymoon and the guards will be so blinded by their bizarre infatuation with people they think are hot lesbians they will totally not notice our spying." But what they are spying on I'm not sure.)
9. How will #4 prove his/her love to #1?
How will Saul Tigh prove his love to Sam Anders?! OMG that's kind of...absurdly wonderful.
So first off, Tigh doesn't actually love anyone except in that bitter, crazy "I would send out suicide bombers for you, commit suicide for you, or force you to commit suicide," kind of way.
I think probably after Gaeta had his leg amputated and Sam wanted to do something crazy like tell Kara he was a cylon even if he did get a bullet between his eyes, Saul Tigh sat up with him all night in his quarters, being bitter, angry, drunken and bitching every time Anders stole one of his bottles of moonshine or cigarettes, but basically being there to keep the man sane. Because Tory and Sam and Galen are his family now and so he loves them, even if he thinks he hates them, and hates that they're more his family than Bill is right now, and lies to himself that he's only doing it to protect the crew and his own life and position. And he'd rather die than admit he loves anything since Ellen.
And such.
10. #7 and #4. Love at first sight?
Caprica Six and Saul Tigh. Love at first sight? I cannot stress enough how much I didn't rig this list. *FALLS OVER LAUGHING*
And...I think that's really all I need to say about that one.
11. What would #2 give #9 for Valentine's Day?
What would Aeryn give John for Valentine's Day? Again, I totally didn't rig this and at this point it's getting a bit o_O with the coincidences.
Actually it's kind of a shame that this fits so well because it's not really that silly. I guess probably what would happen is that Aeryn would do some research, discover that St Valentine was martyred, make some speech about how weird these human customs are only to have John explain that that's not the point, the point is chocolate and lovin'.
Either that or a hilarious intra-Terra-Firma story (yes I know, wrong time of year) where Aeryn tries to "fix" things with John with lolarious results. Like, "John, here is a Valentine's day card. As is customary, I haven't signed it so you don't know it's from me."
12. Under what circumstances could #3 and #5 have a happy end?
Under what circumstances could Laura Roslin and Sarah Connor have a happy end? When they manage to successfully obliterate the robotic forces of evil threatening their civilisations, DUH!
Perhaps they can team up to this end. Laura can show Sarah where the Terminator resurrection hub is located and reassure her that just because all of this happened before doesn't mean it has to happen again.
And then they can bond over their Cancer-based angst. And Laura can reassure Sarah that if she can't find a terminator baby to magically cure her when she inevitably starts dying, she can borrow Hera.
11. What would #8 like to change about #10? Does number #10 approve?
What would Wendy Watson like to change about Benjamin Sisko?
Actually...I think they'd get on really well. They both have an underlayer of steel and an ability to get the job done, and they both have pretty open, pretty silly and geeky senses of humour (yes I'd argue that Sisko's sense of humour is geeky).
I think that Wendy would probably think that Sisko needed to learn how to keep that sense of humour closer to stop him from falling quite so much into the dark pool of angst he likes to shave his head and live in.
I think Sisko would look at her very seriously, and a little sadly, and tell her that he hoped she'd never have to understand, but in her line of work, one day, she probably would.
12. #2 and #7 are together. Who is more protective of the other?
Who's more protective, Aeryn Sun or Caprica Six? Wow, tough call actually. Aeryn would be more physically protective, Caprica Six would be more emotionally protective. And possessive. And she's actually a much stronger and more durable individual which would probably piss Aeryn the hell off.
So weirdly, even though I think Aeryn's the more protective person in general, I think Six's understanding of her own power and her possessiveness would lead to her constantly physically protect Aeryn while Aeryn got more and more irritated. And robbed of her ability to be the protector and defender, I think Aeryn would just end up...trying to assert her independence and being snarky?
13. Who is first going to say "I love you", #1 or #9?
HAHAHA! It's like the battle of the devotedly in love manly men!
Sam Anders: I love you, no matter what!
John Crichton: No! I said that first!
Sam Anders: Did not! I'm the ridiculously patient and accepting one in this relationship!
John Crichton: Are not!
Sam Anders: Am too! Look at your ex! You waited for your neural clone to possess you and declare your love for you and then you brained her!
John Crichton: Yeah, but I'm comfortable being the manly male lead while having WHITE WEDDING FANTASIES!
Sam Anders: I GOT MARRIED AND I LOVED HER SO MUCH I DIDN'T EVEN CARE SHE WAS CHEATING ON ME!
John Crichton: I WAS GONNA ASK HER TO MARRY ME BECAUSE I LOVED HER SO MUCH I DIDN'T CARE IF THE KID WAS MINE!
Sam Anders: NO! ME! I LOVE YOU MORE!
John Crichton: NO, I DO!
...
Ahem.
14. Describe #10 and #4's perfect romantic outing.
Benjamin Sisko and Saul Tigh on a romantic outing? o_O
Oookay then.
I'm kind of having trouble with this one. I mean, I guess they could bond over the hard and immoral decisions you have to make during war and how their spouses are dead and they feel responsible (though, um, Saul Tigh actually is). And the best place for that would be a bar with lots and lots of hard liquor.
So yeah. I think that Saul should take Ben to Joe's. So classy, it has its own embossed napkins, even after the end of the world!
15. Who suffers from pre-wedding jitters, #3 or #8? How does bridesmaid/best man #10 soothe them?
Wendy Watson is marrying Laura Roslin and Benjamin Sisko is the best man? I TOLD YOU that Wendy and Ben would get on well!
Wendy Watson gets pre-wedding jitters. She's worried that there's be a middle-emergency during the ceremony and she'll have to fight zombies in her wedding dress or something. Plus she doesn't strictly believe in marriage but apparently Laura is facing re-election and the Geminese won't approve of her "living in sin," or what-have-you.
Laura has no pre-wedding jitters because she pays people to take care of zombie-infestations and alien boy bands and demonic modelling agencies and if they can't handle it, then she's going to let Tory airlock them and hire more competant people.
Ben calms Wendy down by pointing out Laura has people she's paying to take care of zombie-infestations and alien boy bands and demonic modelling agencies so she probably won't have to. Probably. Also by pointing out that Ida wasn't invited.
16. #6 is a secret admirer. What presents will they make the wo/man of their dreams?
The Operative...wow. Um. Something exquisitely tasteful. Like the most expensive yet understated jewelry followed by a trip on the 'verse's finest space yacht with oysters and caviar and all those other gross things that are supposed to be romantic. But not chocolate. That wouldn't be understated. And then a trip to the world's most exclusive Opera with the best box seats and a beautiful and tasteful gown. Etc, ad infinitum.
It would just be a nonstop rollercoaster of tasteful high culture that's so expensively understated it couldn't POSSIBLY be a cliche.
Bastard still wouldn't tell you his name, though.
Bonus
Best pairing: Laura Roslin and the Operative. I WOULD DIE, PEOPLE. I WOULD DIE.
Worst pairing: Saul Tigh and Benjamin Sisko. I just...really don't get that. I guess it's funny for three seconds but after that it's not even that funny anymore, just random. Or maybe the Operative and Benjamin Sisko. I didn't really get that much either, and in fact that one isn't even as funny as Tigh/Sisko for the first three seconds. I think the problem is Sisko. He's just...not very slashy. Which is ODD for a man who spends a lot of his television career BROODING IN THE DARK.
And that's that, folks!
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Date: 2008-09-19 12:34 pm (UTC)Sisko in the BSG universe in general *would* be interesting, though.
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Date: 2008-09-21 09:07 am (UTC)And, yeah, Sisko in the BSG verse would be hella interesting.
I have fantasies now, of a BSG where Sisko is the Commander of Galactica instead of Adama. It would be just...electric to see him and Roslin interact, consideirng they both share a strong moral center at the same time as having a very flexible moral worldview when needs must.
It wouldn't be the brick wall of "No, you can't do this, we must be a WORTHY," that Adama provides, but since I stopped enjoying that when he stopped presenting good arguments, I'm not sure I'd miss the contrast and the two of them working together, trying to figure out where to draw the lines without someone to be that brick wall could be...awesome.
Plus, Avery Brooks and Mary McDonnell would make a much more visually pleasing "age-appropriate" couple if BSG was actually determined to go in that direction. (LEE! *pines*)
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Date: 2008-09-24 02:41 pm (UTC)also I want Laura Roslin/Sarah Connor fic SO BAD now. *drools*
YOUR BRAIN IS A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL PLACE.
I feel so guilty for neglecting you! I swear I will send you feedback on your essay today. notice how I'm much slower at that than vidbeta. ;P
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Date: 2008-09-25 12:08 pm (UTC)DOESN'T IT?! I can't write that fic though because I have other things to be writing and vidding and doing. Perhaps YOU SHOULD even though I know you have absolutely no time for anything! :p
YOUR BRAIN IS A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL PLACE.
It's always nice to find someone else who is as entertained by me as I am... :p
I feel so guilty for neglecting you! I swear I will send you feedback on your essay today. notice how I'm much slower at that than vidbeta. ;P
I forbid you to feel guilty! You'll get to it when you have time. As long as it's long enough before the deadline for redrafting, there's no worries, right?
I completely sympathise with a) being overworked and b) being overworked and therefore procrastinating with
warcrackthings I do that are like unto but not warcrack and not even doing the stuff that you'd rather be doing.It's all cool.
And I'm much faster at vidding than essaying too. And insensitive enough that I'm probably gonna bug you with my next vidlet in the next few days, YOUR WARCRACK ADDICTION BE DAMNED!
All of this breaks my brain,
Date: 2008-11-13 07:58 pm (UTC)Re: All of this breaks my brain,
Date: 2008-11-14 04:08 pm (UTC)I started watching Dexter because you gave me season one on disc! So I kept watching it.
Terminator, though, I started watching out of curiosity and boredom at some point when I was still living with my parents, so yes, I think before you came to stay, but only briefly before. And I wasn't, and still am not, in love with it, so since I didn't know you were watching it, I guess it didn't occur to me to mention it?
But anyway, I am watching it, so there.
Rather predictably, John sort of bores me, though at points I find him interesting, and certainly more interesting than Derek who just plain old bores me. Ellison may be my favourite with Sarah and/or Cameron running a close second. Cameron I want to like but at the same time, I...feel complicated because I must continually remind myself she's not a cylon.