Rising Sign [Master Post]
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ninety6tearsR i s i n g S i g n
[Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek XI crossover]
Characters/Pairings: Starbuck, Kirk, McCoy, Spock. (Kirk/Kara), Kara/McCoy.
Rating: R for language, mild violence and non-explicit sex.
Spoilers for Trek XI and BSG up through "Maelstrom," lots of references to the entire series.
Summary: Loosely in response to this prompt at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
st_xi_kink. In short: "When Kara Thrace flies through the wormhole near the end of Season Three, she finds Earth-- but not the Earth that Galactica's been searching for. Instead she finds herself hailed by a ship calling itself the USS Enterprise."
Final Word Count: ~39350
...Part One...
...Part Two...
...Part Three...
...Part Four...
...Part Five...
...Part Six...
...Part Seven...
...Part Eight...
...epilogue...
ETA:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jolinar_rosha has done some wonderful art for this fic; see it here.
So, I wrote this fic because I was going crazy or something: I have never written a multi-parter before, I had never and didn't think I would ever write a crossover, and frankly, when I first saw the suggestion of "Bones/Kara" on the kink meme prompt and a couple other comments saying that those two would make an "amazing couple", I'm pretty sure I made this face and was like, "Eh, I don't know if I can see that."
It's not a surprise I finally got to posting the fic over a month after the prompt was written, cause I had no intention of ever writing it when I first saw it. Somewhere between thinking about how Kara would interact with the rest of the crew and my brain still attempting to wrap around this McCoy/Starbuck thing, I kind of got hit over the head with the fact that it made perfect sense because Kara has never been with somebody quite like him, somebody who can be unexpectedly caring and forgiving but not too forgiving and demands enough of her respect for the attraction to be initially uncomfortable to her. And that relationship resembles my approach to the entire plot in terms of "How do I give Kara a happy ending?" I was sort of warned in the process of writing this not to take it too seriously because it's just a crossover and people read crossover for the crack appeal, but I just couldn't see it being Kara if I disregarded how damn hard it is for people to change. I've always felt that there is this irony about Starbuck in that she very easily makes people love her without even trying but never has the perspective to realize quite how much; severing her from everybody she's ever known isn't the prettiest ending for her, but by the time Kara gets very quickly drawn into the unsentimental but very accepting sense of family on Enterprise, (without trying,) I was trying to provide some remotely believable case in which she actually finally gets it.
I think the point I'm trying to make here is that this fic was quite a challenge for me but ultimately the most fun I've ever had writing for a fandom and I feel like I owe a lot to the OP who wrote the prompt for planting this seed of total insanity. I want to thank every single person who actually read it through its monstrous hiatuses, and had I the money right now I would showerflowrs4ophelia with those damn cookies we both love for being part of the thinking process that made me want to write this. (Partners in insanity, apparently.)
On a random note: My senior paper last year was on this novel The Golden Notebook which references a shit ton of Jung's dream symbolism and archetypes, and while in the process of researching for the paper I found myself very badly wanting to write a meta essay on the events of "Maelstrom" in terms of what Jung would say it means about Starbuck's character, which eventually would have concluded in some optimistic viewpoint that Kara basically has one hell of a dark side, or "shadow," but through her impossible death/resurrection achieves the ideal individuation and freedom. Of course after actually finishing the paper I was a little tired of Jung and couldn't imagine extending the effort to research more about his ideas (since literally all I really know is his dream symbolism) -- not to mention the BSG finale kind of messed with my concluding statement a little -- and dropped the whole thing. But some of the ideas of it made it into Kirk's drunken musings about her in chapter 8, and I'm not entirely certain if I mean to get across that any of his intuitions are correct, but I was hoping that with such an entirely implausible plot this half-symbolic idea of Kara becoming joined from her opposing halves might provide some kind of intellectual MacGuffin, if you will. Or...something. That scene is also meant to portray that neither Bones nor Jim really gets Kara more than the other; both are presenting the ideas they can live with if they never see her again, and both of them are right, in a way.
playlist wut?
These are just a few of the songs I put on the playlist for this fic, as I have playlists for a lot of stuff while I'm in the process of writing it. So their associations with the fic are kind of vague and personal, but other people might enjoy them too. Zip cause I'm lazy, but if you want an individual mp3 just hit me up with a comment.
"think i'm in love"-beck
whisperin' hello through a smoke ring smile, she doesn't know what happens when she's around/I think I'm in love, but it makes me kinda nervous to say so
"non-entity"-nine inch nails
the echos in my eyes of all they used to see/burning down the world, the ashes and debris
"buttons"-sia
i am no good for you, i'm seeing ghosts in everything i do/you've got me turning all the lights on and off/when will you see that i am carrying this stuff?
"the moth"-aimee mann
the moth don't care when he sees the flame, he might get burned but he's in the game
"magic trick"-m. ward
it's like now you see her, now you don't/you think you're gonna get to know her, now well you won't/she's got one magic trick, just one and that's it...
"leif erikson"-interpol
she swears i'm just prey to the female, well then hook me up and throw me baby cakes, cause I like to get hooked/clock is set for nine but you know you're gonna make it eight, all the people that you've loved they're all bound to leave some keepsakes/i've been swinging all the time, think it's time I learned your way/picture you and me together in the jungle, it will be okay
"elegy"-bear mccreary
"death and all his friends"-coldplay
just be patient, and don't worry/no I don't want to battle from beginning to end, I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge, i don't want to follow death and all of his friends
"rising sign"-mike doughty
why do you overestimate the size of the lie? i've seen the dangers of your rising sign, but i swear i'd like to drink the fuel straight from your lighter/it's all inside the wrist, it's all inside the way you time it/i resent the way you make me like myself
[Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek XI crossover]
Characters/Pairings: Starbuck, Kirk, McCoy, Spock. (Kirk/Kara), Kara/McCoy.
Rating: R for language, mild violence and non-explicit sex.
Spoilers for Trek XI and BSG up through "Maelstrom," lots of references to the entire series.
Summary: Loosely in response to this prompt at
st_xi_kink. In short: "When Kara Thrace flies through the wormhole near the end of Season Three, she finds Earth-- but not the Earth that Galactica's been searching for. Instead she finds herself hailed by a ship calling itself the USS Enterprise."Final Word Count: ~39350
...Part One...
...Part Two...
...Part Three...
...Part Four...
...Part Five...
...Part Six...
...Part Seven...
...Part Eight...
...epilogue...
ETA:
jolinar_rosha has done some wonderful art for this fic; see it here.So, I wrote this fic because I was going crazy or something: I have never written a multi-parter before, I had never and didn't think I would ever write a crossover, and frankly, when I first saw the suggestion of "Bones/Kara" on the kink meme prompt and a couple other comments saying that those two would make an "amazing couple", I'm pretty sure I made this face and was like, "Eh, I don't know if I can see that."
It's not a surprise I finally got to posting the fic over a month after the prompt was written, cause I had no intention of ever writing it when I first saw it. Somewhere between thinking about how Kara would interact with the rest of the crew and my brain still attempting to wrap around this McCoy/Starbuck thing, I kind of got hit over the head with the fact that it made perfect sense because Kara has never been with somebody quite like him, somebody who can be unexpectedly caring and forgiving but not too forgiving and demands enough of her respect for the attraction to be initially uncomfortable to her. And that relationship resembles my approach to the entire plot in terms of "How do I give Kara a happy ending?" I was sort of warned in the process of writing this not to take it too seriously because it's just a crossover and people read crossover for the crack appeal, but I just couldn't see it being Kara if I disregarded how damn hard it is for people to change. I've always felt that there is this irony about Starbuck in that she very easily makes people love her without even trying but never has the perspective to realize quite how much; severing her from everybody she's ever known isn't the prettiest ending for her, but by the time Kara gets very quickly drawn into the unsentimental but very accepting sense of family on Enterprise, (without trying,) I was trying to provide some remotely believable case in which she actually finally gets it.
I think the point I'm trying to make here is that this fic was quite a challenge for me but ultimately the most fun I've ever had writing for a fandom and I feel like I owe a lot to the OP who wrote the prompt for planting this seed of total insanity. I want to thank every single person who actually read it through its monstrous hiatuses, and had I the money right now I would shower
flowrs4ophelia with those damn cookies we both love for being part of the thinking process that made me want to write this. (Partners in insanity, apparently.)On a random note: My senior paper last year was on this novel The Golden Notebook which references a shit ton of Jung's dream symbolism and archetypes, and while in the process of researching for the paper I found myself very badly wanting to write a meta essay on the events of "Maelstrom" in terms of what Jung would say it means about Starbuck's character, which eventually would have concluded in some optimistic viewpoint that Kara basically has one hell of a dark side, or "shadow," but through her impossible death/resurrection achieves the ideal individuation and freedom. Of course after actually finishing the paper I was a little tired of Jung and couldn't imagine extending the effort to research more about his ideas (since literally all I really know is his dream symbolism) -- not to mention the BSG finale kind of messed with my concluding statement a little -- and dropped the whole thing. But some of the ideas of it made it into Kirk's drunken musings about her in chapter 8, and I'm not entirely certain if I mean to get across that any of his intuitions are correct, but I was hoping that with such an entirely implausible plot this half-symbolic idea of Kara becoming joined from her opposing halves might provide some kind of intellectual MacGuffin, if you will. Or...something. That scene is also meant to portray that neither Bones nor Jim really gets Kara more than the other; both are presenting the ideas they can live with if they never see her again, and both of them are right, in a way.
playlist wut?
These are just a few of the songs I put on the playlist for this fic, as I have playlists for a lot of stuff while I'm in the process of writing it. So their associations with the fic are kind of vague and personal, but other people might enjoy them too. Zip cause I'm lazy, but if you want an individual mp3 just hit me up with a comment.
"think i'm in love"-beck
whisperin' hello through a smoke ring smile, she doesn't know what happens when she's around/I think I'm in love, but it makes me kinda nervous to say so
"non-entity"-nine inch nails
the echos in my eyes of all they used to see/burning down the world, the ashes and debris
"buttons"-sia
i am no good for you, i'm seeing ghosts in everything i do/you've got me turning all the lights on and off/when will you see that i am carrying this stuff?
"the moth"-aimee mann
the moth don't care when he sees the flame, he might get burned but he's in the game
"magic trick"-m. ward
it's like now you see her, now you don't/you think you're gonna get to know her, now well you won't/she's got one magic trick, just one and that's it...
"leif erikson"-interpol
she swears i'm just prey to the female, well then hook me up and throw me baby cakes, cause I like to get hooked/clock is set for nine but you know you're gonna make it eight, all the people that you've loved they're all bound to leave some keepsakes/i've been swinging all the time, think it's time I learned your way/picture you and me together in the jungle, it will be okay
"elegy"-bear mccreary
"death and all his friends"-coldplay
just be patient, and don't worry/no I don't want to battle from beginning to end, I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge, i don't want to follow death and all of his friends
"rising sign"-mike doughty
why do you overestimate the size of the lie? i've seen the dangers of your rising sign, but i swear i'd like to drink the fuel straight from your lighter/it's all inside the wrist, it's all inside the way you time it/i resent the way you make me like myself
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Date: 2009-11-12 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 12:23 am (UTC)I do so hope that you enjoy it :)
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Date: 2009-11-12 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-02-21 03:39 am (UTC)You wrote a great one.
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