#numbr8

[thr4ce]

if the marines are confused by starbuck's marked lack of caution when it comes to the toaster hidden in the bowels of the galactica, they don't show it: they're good at all the things she's not, shutting up and taking orders as read, and right now she's grateful. this isn't a talk they can have through two-odd feet of metal and plexiglass. if @numbr8 wanted to kill her, she wouldn't have ...

" i want to know why you did it. " it's flat, toneless; the very same tone they used for the one that called himself leoben. a gunman guards the door, ready to intervene at the slightest provocation, but they're effectively alone. kara fights the impulse to massage their throat.

[lghtyear]

where do you hold your love ?

you  hold  your  love  in  your  heart .   love  is  intrinsic ,  inevitable ,  love  is  the  beating  core  of  everything ;  love  is  also  hard  to  talk  about .   your  love  comes  out  with  more  rareness ,  mostly  shows  up  for  the  big  things  in  a  big  way -  this  doesn't  mean  it  doesn't  beat  for  the  small  stuff ,   you  feel  it  all ,   in  fact  you  feel  it  more  intensely  than  most  which  is  why  it's  so  hard  to  get  out .   you  hold  your  love  inside  you  because  it  matters ,   it  might  be  the  only  thing  that  does .

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[truhk]

[thr4ce]

hera's down for the night - sleeping peacefully in her father's lap, curled away from the light of their rudimentary fire. she's a sweet kid so far, even in spite of all that suffering. maybe she'll learn anger, the way kara did; more likely, she'll learn kindness like her mother. there's peace in the air. kara can feel it, in some strange, metaphysical way. her time here is drawing to a close. the music in her bones has played itself out, and the old ways are dying, and it's good. she is death like tarot; a herald of new beginnings, robed in stardust, fundamentally unknowable. [ fundamentally human. part of everyone and everything. ]

they sit, legs crossed, cheated away from the fire too. there's no fiddling, no messing with their dogtags or their jacket or drumming out notes on their thighs. this is their last stop, and there's a foreign serenity behind the cocksure grin. " so, who's gonna teach her to shoot pyramid? "

@numbr8 gets a daybreak starter because i love crying.

[thr4ce]

[ stolen ] (from boomer)

it's one of those things they don't talk about, growing in number with every day they're at war; people are hurting, they're lonely, they're scared. starbuck's been all three since the attacks - a walking adrenaline bomb, like there are stims in her blood still, slow-acting, extended release. [ if she could only walk, she'd be stalking for the chief, twice-broken fingers itching to bleed over his jaw. instead they tap against triad cards, erratic, and boomer kisses her on occasion, only in ways that could be seen as acceptable between friends at a stretch. it's not the most elegant solution, but it works. it works. ]

" yeah, yeah, " they say, cuffing her shoulder, grinning wide. there's no privacy here, absolutely none, so natural is the only way to respond to the rushed press of boomer's lips, a little flash of boldness kara would like very much to crack wide open when she's better. " try not to miss me too much out there, mkay? "

[thr4ce]

a loose breakdown of my canon divergences for the new caprica arc, since @numbr8 helped me to hammer them out properly and i figure i should get them written down before i lose track.

first and foremost, kara remains on the galactica. she's got absolutely no interest whatsoever in settling on new caprica for any number of reasons; effectively giving up on the search for earth leaves a sour taste in her mouth when she risked everything in that effort and literally stood there, to say nothing of the fact that all her life up to that point has been spent in motion, between colonies, aboard ships, and she has never before expressed any interest in settling down anywhere. given that in my canon, they broke off anything romantic with anders after the caprica rescue, their strongest ties are to lee, helo, athena, and adama, all of whom are spread across the fleet, most of whom are aboard the galactica. they stay on to help maintain the ship, and retain their role as galactica cag. necessarily, this means that a lot of the leoben arc does not occur. i'll have a canon compliant verse that encompasses this if anyone ever writes leoben, which i highly doubt will ever happen. i do think it's important that they have some interaction on new caprica; i approach that by having him take her hostage during the rescue op, which starbuck leads in name only - it's still athena's show all the way. in this version of events, he only has them for a few days at the absolute outside. that's enough time to create shadows of the dynamic we see canonically without being so deeply traumatic and cruel. there is no child, taken from her rightful mother and used to manipulate someone who never wanted to be a mother in the first place. she has a hand in her own rescue, and kills leoben several times in several unique ways. tl;dr: fight me, ron, this arc made no frakking sense.

[thr4ce]

#THR4CE is an independent, highly private portrayal of captain k.ara "starbuck" th.race, as originally conceived in ronald d. m.oore's battle.star galacti.ca. flown by jadzia, 9teen, they & them.

affiliated with: @numbr8.

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