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ext_10249 ([identity profile] nicole-anell.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2010-05-31 03:26 am

The Gold and the Grey by sunshine_queen (G/PG)

Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NEW)
Characters/Pairing: Caprica-Six, Leoben, Caprica/Baltar
Length: one-shot
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sunshine_queen/[livejournal.com profile] olividarling
Author Website: fic journal
Why this must be read:

It's a small Caprica Six-centric story that is sympathetic, haunting, and beautifully written. The tone and characterization are great - Six is both adept at analyzing, setting and manipulating things, but has more and more deeply out of her control.

Her painfully strained and twisted relationship with Baltar is an important part of this fic, but I love that it also focuses on her completely apart from him, in her own early-morning routine which is disrupted by the appearance of a lost human child. It's a brilliant 'missing' scene with both sweetness and very dark undercurrents (if you've seen season 3), and totally captures the naive optimism/bleakness of New Caprica.

The Gold and the Grey
ext_28340: Credit: <lj user=aiken_4graphics> (Leoben: Bitchy Toaster)

[identity profile] lucifuge-5.livejournal.com 2010-06-01 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Great rec! I've just read it and it's easily one of my favourite BSG fics ever. :)

[identity profile] sunshine-queen.livejournal.com 2010-06-01 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, thanks for the kind words and rec! ♥