#under readmore bc i know i have moots who haven't gotten there yet!

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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.