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singerdiva01Answering this week's meta question posted over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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How does your headcanon for your favourite characters vary from story to story? If you multiship your character in some way, how does your headcanon change between ships?
As I’ve noted before, BSG is my very first fandom and the first show for which I ever even considered writing fanfiction. I was drawn to the show because of the Laura Roslin character and while I primarily tend to ship A/R, my writing up to this point always centers on Laura in some way.
There are a couple of things that stay the same about Laura throughout my fics. Basic biographical things, like the fact that she lost her mother to cancer before losing her father and sisters to a drunk driver as an adult and that she was having an affair with the married President Adar while serving as Secretary of Education. In my headcanon, Laura was a history teacher and, while I’ve seen many fics that portray her as a kindergarten teacher, in my mind she taught older children. I also have her as moving from the classroom to administration sometime before Adar’s mayoral race, and as Superintendent of Caprica City School District after he won that election. I simply can’t find another way to reconcile her jump from “school teacher” to Secretary of Education without those career steps. This piece of headcanon also supports the solid political and leadership skills she displays throughout the show canon.
No matter when in the timeline I am writing her, Laura is a woman whose personality and leadership style have been shaped by incredible loss. She is consistently cautious about developing close, personal relationships and prides herself on her independence. She is practical to a fault, able to compartmentalize her personal feelings to make decisions for the benefit of humanity as a whole. I also maintain, in the end, that while her faith was true it was imbued with that same practicality.
When I ship A/R, I have quite a flexible headcanon, mostly centering around when they started frakking. There are just too many good opportunities to pass up if I always go with Mary Mcdonnell and the show’s canon! However, my headcanon maintains that they began as adversaries and their relationship grew through their mutual respect of one another as leaders. I also believe they were conflicted about the personal and political ramifications of developing a romantic relationship until quite late in the show canon. No matter what, in my headcanon, Laura and Bill are in the end destined for each other as both leaders and lovers.
As for challenges, I don’t have a consistent headcanon because they’re just such a different animal. I’ve written Laura/Lee, Laura/Elosha, Laura/Kara, and am working on Laura/Zarek right now. Those pairing don’t fit with my headcanon; I’m just stretching my writing muscles and playing in a different sandbox. However, I approach each of these pairings by grounding them in my sense of Laura and how she would interact with other characters and what reactions, unconscious or otherwise, she elicits from those characters.
bsg_epics:How does your headcanon for your favourite characters vary from story to story? If you multiship your character in some way, how does your headcanon change between ships?
As I’ve noted before, BSG is my very first fandom and the first show for which I ever even considered writing fanfiction. I was drawn to the show because of the Laura Roslin character and while I primarily tend to ship A/R, my writing up to this point always centers on Laura in some way.
There are a couple of things that stay the same about Laura throughout my fics. Basic biographical things, like the fact that she lost her mother to cancer before losing her father and sisters to a drunk driver as an adult and that she was having an affair with the married President Adar while serving as Secretary of Education. In my headcanon, Laura was a history teacher and, while I’ve seen many fics that portray her as a kindergarten teacher, in my mind she taught older children. I also have her as moving from the classroom to administration sometime before Adar’s mayoral race, and as Superintendent of Caprica City School District after he won that election. I simply can’t find another way to reconcile her jump from “school teacher” to Secretary of Education without those career steps. This piece of headcanon also supports the solid political and leadership skills she displays throughout the show canon.
No matter when in the timeline I am writing her, Laura is a woman whose personality and leadership style have been shaped by incredible loss. She is consistently cautious about developing close, personal relationships and prides herself on her independence. She is practical to a fault, able to compartmentalize her personal feelings to make decisions for the benefit of humanity as a whole. I also maintain, in the end, that while her faith was true it was imbued with that same practicality.
When I ship A/R, I have quite a flexible headcanon, mostly centering around when they started frakking. There are just too many good opportunities to pass up if I always go with Mary Mcdonnell and the show’s canon! However, my headcanon maintains that they began as adversaries and their relationship grew through their mutual respect of one another as leaders. I also believe they were conflicted about the personal and political ramifications of developing a romantic relationship until quite late in the show canon. No matter what, in my headcanon, Laura and Bill are in the end destined for each other as both leaders and lovers.
As for challenges, I don’t have a consistent headcanon because they’re just such a different animal. I’ve written Laura/Lee, Laura/Elosha, Laura/Kara, and am working on Laura/Zarek right now. Those pairing don’t fit with my headcanon; I’m just stretching my writing muscles and playing in a different sandbox. However, I approach each of these pairings by grounding them in my sense of Laura and how she would interact with other characters and what reactions, unconscious or otherwise, she elicits from those characters.
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