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The Gold and the Grey (Edge Hill Remix) by carnography (T)
Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Pairing: Leoben/Kara
Author on LJ: carnography
Author Website: Fic Index
Why this must be read:
So, a while back The Gold and the Grey was recced, and I am reccing this remix because it is both an awesome fic in its own right and a textbook example of how changing a POV can change everything about a story, even when the plot stays the same. The original was in Caprica's POV, this one is in Leoben's. It's a short story about a gray day on New Caprica, and that sounds so simple, but it's a lot more than that. It is a deft exploration of Leoben's character and thought process, and a filling-in-a-gap-in-canon, all at once.
Most mornings Leoben wakes before the sun. He likes to watch that dingy star climb over the horizon; he likes how the sunlight stretches across the ground. Reaching. Slowly. Across the dirt and the rocks and the muddy tire tracks that look like lacerations in the early light.
He likes the silence.
He sees the Six every now and then--the Six named after the capital. Caprica. You can tell it's her by the way she walks - long, long steps - and by the hopeless sort of look that's settled over her eyes. She walks in pain; he knows, because he walks in it too.
Love is pain. Love is suffering.
Kara. Kara Thrace. Your mother told you that suffering was good for the soul.
Love is God.
And to see the face of God is to know madness.
They know madness -- he and Caprica. The other models, even the other Sixes...they don't appreciate the patterns; they don't appreciate the way that humans interact with God.
The Gold and the Grey (Edge Hill Remix)
Pairing: Leoben/Kara
Author on LJ: carnography
Author Website: Fic Index
Why this must be read:
So, a while back The Gold and the Grey was recced, and I am reccing this remix because it is both an awesome fic in its own right and a textbook example of how changing a POV can change everything about a story, even when the plot stays the same. The original was in Caprica's POV, this one is in Leoben's. It's a short story about a gray day on New Caprica, and that sounds so simple, but it's a lot more than that. It is a deft exploration of Leoben's character and thought process, and a filling-in-a-gap-in-canon, all at once.
Most mornings Leoben wakes before the sun. He likes to watch that dingy star climb over the horizon; he likes how the sunlight stretches across the ground. Reaching. Slowly. Across the dirt and the rocks and the muddy tire tracks that look like lacerations in the early light.
He likes the silence.
He sees the Six every now and then--the Six named after the capital. Caprica. You can tell it's her by the way she walks - long, long steps - and by the hopeless sort of look that's settled over her eyes. She walks in pain; he knows, because he walks in it too.
Love is pain. Love is suffering.
Kara. Kara Thrace. Your mother told you that suffering was good for the soul.
Love is God.
And to see the face of God is to know madness.
They know madness -- he and Caprica. The other models, even the other Sixes...they don't appreciate the patterns; they don't appreciate the way that humans interact with God.
The Gold and the Grey (Edge Hill Remix)