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mylittleredgirl ([personal profile] mylittleredgirl) wrote2004-09-28 03:14 am

[livejournal.com profile] lyssie asked nicely...

and [livejournal.com profile] familyarchives made me an ICON! So. I write mini!OTP fic.

The idea behind mini!OTP, for any who don't know, is that Thor *totally* took the opportunity to clone Sam off-camera in "Fragile Balance," and, while he probably told her something about needing to back up her supah-brilliant genes, it might really be because Thor wants Jack's superior genes passed on to the next generation, already, and he has given up on the classic!OTP to get it done.

A.j. and I are nowhere near the first people to have this idea, as there is a critical mass of folk on ff.net writing their own mini!OTPs for it to safely be called an SG-1 Fanfic Cliche.

This isn't actually the mini!OTP fic that I have been working on, which is longer and takes place earlier than this and may make more sense to those of you who have *not* spent time squeeeing about this. (I'd say "It's coming! Really!" but I don't think there's anyone left who believes my fic promises, you wise folk you). But Lyssie, as I said, asked nicely for mini!OTP so I write this. And, inspired by Lyssie's mad LJ prolificness and to show off my pretty pretty icon, I'm posting it too. It's unedited, random, and almost fluffy enough to kill you.

"day of rest"
summary: clue for 49 across
spoilers: Fragile Balance, er... The Curse.

Sam has a new appreciation for mornings.

When she was Major Carter (she still is, but she isn't, and it's a distinction that's getting easier to live with), she never lounged in bed. One hit of the snooze button was a luxury, two extravagant when there were worlds to save and commendations to earn. Even first thing in the morning. Even on Sundays.

Things are different now. Everything is different now, but there are some parts of that she likes.

Now it's already 10:45 and she can hear that it's raining outside but hasn't yet been up to check. The Sunday paper is strewn all over the bed. Jack is grumbling about the stalled hockey players' union talks and playing with her hair while she flips through Parade Magazine.

She's starting to understand, at thirty-nine and sixteen, why weekends are something to look forward to.

The newspaper rustles excessively next to her. She's not really reading the inane article about how upgrading her PDA will change the way she does business, but she still can't muster up the energy to turn over and see what sort of elaborate origami it sounds like Jack is constructing next to her.

There's more rustling as sections of newspaper slide off the bed onto the floor, and then Jack is sliding down the bed behind her and spooning up against her back. The magazine is unceremoniously yanked from her hands and set down somewhere behind him.

"I was reading that," Sam says, but she can't really work up even that much fake indignation on a Sunday morning. It occurs to her that she's not sure where her clothes ended up last night and she makes a mental note to check underneath the bed and amidst the bedding before she takes the laundry to the coin-operated machines in the basement.

"Read this instead." Jack holds a wad of folded newsprint with a crossword puzzle front and center before her eyes.

He snuggles closer as she takes the crossword. He's warm around her and smells of relaxation in a way that's intoxicating. They were ridiculous for a few months after they started to explore a physical relationship -- she doesn't think she has ever had as much sex as she had over the past summer -- but some of the frantic desperation has had a chance to wear off. There's something incredible about just being naked together without it immediately turning sexual. She trusts him enough to let him touch her and hold her and sit next to her with the lights on, even when she is who she is and looks like she does.

Holding the newspaper in one hand, Sam reaches over the necessary few feet to the milk-crate nightstand where she left a pencil holding her place in To Kill a Mockingbird the night before. She feels a flash of guilt when she thinks of the stack of homework requiring her attention -- the rest of that book included -- but mentally waves it off in a voice that sounds surprisingly like his. Twenty years ago -- hell, four months ago -- she started her homework at 3 on Fridays and never dreamed of renting the movie instead or of using Cliffs Notes as anything but additional, supplementary reading material. She calls him a bad influence on her but some part of her thinks that maybe he's teaching her just as much now as he did when he taught her how to think six tactical steps ahead and keep her cool on the battlefield and command the respect of men in uniform.

"Fine. 1 across." She doesn't even read the clue aloud, penciling in ACRE for 'land measurement.'

"You've got to give me a chance," Jack chides gently, his breath rushing warm and gentle over her ear and cheek. "I knew that one." She knows he'll outgrow her in height soon enough, but right now they're more or less even.

She shifts, tangling her legs with his and closing her eyes for a brief moment. "You read it, then."

He answers the ones about sports and popular culture and kisses down the top of her spine until she squirms and giggles when 59 down has the clue back of the neck. He knows she likes addressing the clues in numerical order -- someone once told her that it's more of a challenge that way and it has been a habit ever since -- so he skips around as much as possible. They argue over a six-letter word for trouble beginning with T when he insists it must be Tok'ra, and she lets him write it in if only to see how he'll find a way of starting 22 down with an apostrophe. She swats his hand away -- somehow he found another pencil in the sheets -- when he tries to write THOR in for a blank four-letter "combining form meaning 'strange'."

"JACK fits too," she points out, instead of picking bones about the definition of combining forms. It was a long time before they could joke about anything Asgard and actually find it funny, longer than for other aspects of their old lives, but her stomach and fists no longer coil tight when she remembers her last time on an Asgard ship.

They are making themselves okay with it. Neither of them will say that they're grateful it happened, that it's a good thing that they were cheated out of the lives they knew and exiled into these bodies and this life, but, nearly a year into this strange second childhood, she's not always unhappy. They have found ways to make the best of it, to make this new rather than simply reliving a part of their lives they've already gone through. She's sure they would go back if given the chance to erase what happened, but she also thinks she would miss this.

"Egyptian goddess of fertility," he reads, and then pauses. "Four letters. Did we meet that one?"

"Well, I did. But she was dead and in a jar at the time," Sam turns her head enough to offer a cheeky smile after she crosses out an errant O and writes in ISIS. Her attempts at the Sunday crossword used to be a lot neater, but the company makes up for it. Weekend mornings in the cold, quiet kitchen of her old house feel very far away.

"I heard about that symbiote autopsy thing," he says, making a face that reminds her of exactly how he used to look whenever Daniel translated the literal name of some alien delicacy to them. "Fraiser gave me the gory rundown. With pictures."

She's often startled by the way he's growing into the man she will recognize. The features are all already there, on both of them, but they are yet to be hardened into place and it's only sometimes that it really strikes her. There are moments when he'll smile at her the same way that used to send warmth like spikes through her in long, boring briefings, and he'll look so much like Colonel O'Neill that she can't help remembering the guilty mantra of regulations and inappropriate conduct that beat through her grown-up head for all those years.

He does it, too. He still doesn't narrate his emotional state to her much, but now that she's allowed to look she can read it all over him like he's wearing subtitles. She can tell that he remembers how she was off-limits when she's slouched just the right way over her honors physics textbook.

Distraction is usually their means of dealing with the unusual paradoxes of who and what they are and the lives they have, and today is no different. Jack kisses the hollow under her ear, rubs a hand up and down her ribs, and asks, "What's next?"

They've completely butchered the crossword beyond repair, filling it with invented spellings and alien races and even the name of Sam's English teacher for "famous 19th century despot." Sam is getting hungry and, as well as she has managed to ignore it so far, she really does have homework to do. They both have a history midterm to study for.

"Brunch?" They're past being able to call it breakfast.

"What, giving up?"

"It's afternoon," she points out. She can justify wasting a Sunday morning, but, even as a sixteen-year-old, she can't write off the entire day. "And we should have started studying for that history test already."

He pokes her in the shoulder a few times as she disentangles herself from the sheets. "You wrote out flash cards last week."

"But now I have to study them," she explains. "And so do you."

He beams at her, the same grin that used to cheat her out of the last glass of jell-o in the SGC cafeteria when she wasn't paying enough attention. "But I sit next to the smartest kid in class."

"Nice try."

"Hey, it's not like I haven't studied at all. There was that question about the 28th President on the crossword," he points out, getting himself up and digging pants out of the dresser.

"'Hammond' was not the 28th President of the United States," Sam echoes their earlier argument.

"Past life," Jack shrugs. "Saw it on The X-Files."

She groans and heads for the kitchen, picking up a shirt on the way. "Want pancakes? I think we have mix still."

"I'll make them," he offers, too quickly.

"Oh?" She has gotten better with pancakes, now that she figured out the fluctuations of their finicky stove, so she doubts it's culinary self-preservation.

"You can teach me history."

She really doesn't mind him using her flash cards -- is oddly pleased, in fact, that he still relies on her intelligence even in a capacity limited by an eleventh grade curriculum. "After I shower," she bargains.

"It won't take long to make. Shower after, and I'll bike to the video store for To Kill A Mockingbird. Unless you're actually going to finish reading that."

She will, after he goes to sleep, but she won't mind watching the movie anyway, especially if he's willing to brave the rain to get it for her. "Okay."

She heads for the living room to locate either of their history books, and he calls after her, "Chocolate chips in the pancakes?"

"Definitely," Sam yells back, and thinks that there are a lot of good things about Sunday afternoons, too.

***

-- Little Red
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[personal profile] anr 2004-09-28 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
squee!

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
ee! :)

[identity profile] callista1159.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

mini!cuteness!

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY!! I love e's! And got lots of them!

mini!OTP are too freaking cute. *snuggles them* Man, I love this show.

[identity profile] alliesings.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
Jack is grumbling about the stalled hockey players' union talks and playing with her hair while she flips through Parade Magazine.

I've been waiting for someone to put this into a fic. It's seriously the first think I thought about when I heard it on the news.

And so what if we've all already written a MiniOTP fic. This is different enough and quite an adorable read. I'm glad you posted it :)

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been waiting for someone to put this into a fic.

ME TOO! I was going to make a whole fic of it -- still might -- but it ended up here in the meantime. Seriously, poor guy. He saves the planet FOR WHAT!? For THIS??

I can also imagine him stalking around the base all in a funk for weeks and Sam's all "EEK! This is because I'm *thatspoilerforAffinity*!!" And really it's all about hockey. I mean, not that he's not despondent about that other thing, but, there's NO HOCKEY. (I can't even get through a conversation with my hockey-obsessed friend. Every twenty minutes he'll remember and go "I can't BELIEVE it!")

And so what if we've all already written a MiniOTP fic

Woohoo! I feel that once you steal an idea from six different people, it stops being stealing and starts being... well, either public domain or mass hallucination, one or the other. :)
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[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Explain in my journal or somewhere where it won't bother the spoiler-conscious--what is this "spoiler for Affinity"? My brain is coming up with aaaaaall sorts of possibilities, and since I only watch SG vicariously through you guys, I need to know these things! :D

Pwease? With chocolate chip pancakes?

--Nenya, TV-less and far too spoiler-free for her liking :P

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, honey. Will do right away. *pets you*
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[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
*fangirls Little Red, who supports her geek!addictions*

*is petted* *purrrs*
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[personal profile] woodface 2004-09-28 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, that's completely adorable and squee!worthy!

Are you going to write more of it? *looks pleadingly*

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*gleee* Mini!OTP are the cutest freaking things ever. It's pint-sized squeee. Seriously, how can you be a fic writer and NOT love this show? They give us a canonical reason to stick characters in high school. SG-1 = God's Gift to Fanfic Writers. Seriously.

Are you going to write more of it? *looks pleadingly*

Hee! I think this particular random ficlet is done, but I will definitely be playing more with the mini!OTP. Because they are adorable and occasionally consume my brain. And because I have a WiP that's been blinking at me from my desktop forever and a half. *pets them*
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[personal profile] woodface 2004-09-30 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
*snerks*

Dude, I'm really looking forward to that WiP. I adored this piece and now I want more! Moooooooooooooore!

[identity profile] lisayaeger.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
As always, I loved it and I *smooch* you!!!

:-)

*beams*

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY!! *hugs you* I am smooched!

Ahhh, I love my little squeeeverse offshoots of SG-1...

[identity profile] indiefic.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Loved it!

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Glad you liked it :)
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[personal profile] nandamai 2004-09-28 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. Very cute. I don't normally buy mini!OTP fics, but this is adorable.

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Thank you.

And I feel special that you even tried to read it if you don't like mini!OTP fics ;) (and if it was simply a case of a dire and tragic lack of fic to read, don't tell me please, because I'm enjoying feeling special)
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
*bounces and squees!*

Mini!OTP fic! EEE!!

It is veryvery cute and veryvery fluffy, and I want more. But I will settle for this. *pets them*

Poor Thor. As the biggest shipper ever... Hee.

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, but unlike us other 'shippers, Thor has a vast array of techonology and clone-o-matics to make things go his way ;)

I will write more for you! But I'm glad you will settle for this in the meantime.

[identity profile] splash-the-cat.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. I can't wait to see the actual fic! This was wonderful, Red. Great characterization, cute, a very believable addressing of how they migh tview the situation they're in... Squee!

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay!! I figure a year into it they would either have to find a way to deal or go completely off the deep end... and being cute and flopped all over each other like puppies while they do homework and crosswords is infinitely preferrable to insanity.

*goes to work on actual fic post haste*

[identity profile] joyfulfeather.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
So. Cute! Exactly what I needed this morning. Totally adorable!

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay!! *claps* mini!OTP is an impossibly cute concept. So cute! So tragically unfair... but really really cute.

... and have the lovely potential to make the classic!OTP all angsty. "How come our CLONES get to do it all the time and we don't!?"
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*cheers madly*

[identity profile] aj.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! You posted it! Hrrm. You realize that next time you're going to have to introduce Alyssa. For Alyssa doth rock the freaking house. :D

*proud of you*

Re: *cheers madly*

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
*beams*

Your pride makes me feel happy and fuzzy! :)

And Alyssa DOES rock the freaking house! She's sixteen and not only puts up with Sam, but genuinely likes her. And helps hold back some of the crazy. And bakes cookies, even though she is crap at non-culinary science.

[identity profile] amilyn.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww!

That was lovely. The detail warms my little heart.

[identity profile] amilyn.livejournal.com 2004-09-28 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww.

This is lovely. I particularly like the detail you've poured into it.

Who's cast as Mini!Sam in the icons?

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Er... Reese Witherspoon, I think. The picture of "mini!Sam" like that on the bed was totally what set off my personal mini!OTP fanaticism, I think.

And yay! I'm glad you like it :) mini!OTP are an unending source of cute.
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[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Who then is mini!Jack?

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Er. Michael Welch, I think is the actor's name. He was actually in an episode of SG-1 (I didn't make them up! Wheee!). I love science-fiction. "Oh, yeah, he got cloned, but there was a problem in the geneticresequencerorwhatever and he ended up only being 15." "Oh, cool! Totally!"

mini!Sam just comes from the total obvious fan conclusion that Sam was cloned off-camera. We differ on the *reasons* why she was cloned, but it's all really a means to the end of those two getting to have sex in nimble bodies.
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[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaaaaaah. So mini!Jack is canon, and mini!Sam is reasonable (if fluffily shippy) extrapolation? Makes sense to me. :D

Gotta love SF. :) Didn't they do that on TNG once? Only there was no sex, and they were like ten or twelve instead of late teens. And it was a transporter accident (O, the potential of that plot device, neh?) Picard, Guinan, Ro, and Keiko O'Brien? Yeah. And they saved the ship from eeeevil Ferengi.

Mini!Picard: "I want to see my dad! Now! Now!" *stomps feet*
Ferengi guard: *meep* *can't handle human kid pitching fit* *leads Picard to Riker, where they plot to regain ship, under guise of father/son bonding*

So, yeah. It's like an AU, only not. :D

"He's my number one dad!"

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rascals" was freaking AWESOME. Awesome. I especially love that Alexander is conscripted to help take back the ship with his remote-controlled car.

So, yes, the characters-get-young phenomenon is common, but in this case, mini!Jack actually STAYS young. And gets sent to high school at the end of the episode. Which is horribly cruel to the character, but a nice little present to fanfic writers everywhere.
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Re: "He's my number one dad!"

[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Oh, I heard about that. Somebody did a fic about mini!Jack angsting about how original!Jack had just shucked him and left him to the wiles of highschool on his own. Contained a line to the effect that "I'm the only highschool junior I know with PTSD." And all about how Jack should have taken better care of him, and was being a bastard. (Which was true, I gather.) So--yeah, I like yours better. :D But now I have a frame of reference to put the other story in. (Why I insist on reading stories for things I don't understand is beyond me...oh, right, that 'addicted to sci-fi fic' thing... :D)

Rascals! That's what it was called. And it *was* good, even though at first glance the premise sounds horribly cheesy. And even though Alexander (whom I heart, by the way) wasn't Worf, he looked enough like him that I'm tempted to think that it was five people who got shrunk, and that he was mini!Worf. And Ro got therapy, and...yeah. Very cool.

Re: "He's my number one dad!"

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I read that particular one. I think it was actually mini!Jack's decision to go to high school in the show, although that's very bizarre and suggests that there weren't a lot of other good options. We've heard no more of him since, and the Jacks kind of decided not to keep in touch (although in my mini!verse, they have to, sort of, since the clones have to get medical check-ups at the SGC. Because they totally would.).

Rascals was AWESOME!! Man, I love that one. And all the kids were really good. And Alexander got to do something productive rather than cause trouble for Worf!
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Re: "He's my number one dad!"

[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I do get the impression that it was more of a way to wrap up the episode and get him out of their hair (kind of like the ways they get rid of one-episode-stand girlfriends or aliens) than anything. Couldn't they...I don't know. If he remembers everything Jack does (does he?) couldn't he go work for somebody offworld or something, or just pretend to be one of those brilliant kids who's out of college by the time they're twenty? Weird.

How fast do they age, btw?

Re: "He's my number one dad!"

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
How fast do they age, btw?

*shrugs* Normally, I think. Was there a Star Trek story about fast-aging clones? I think there was, but I can't remember it now.

Couldn't they...I don't know. If he remembers everything Jack does (does he?) couldn't he go work for somebody offworld or something

SEIROUSLY. I've decided that he and mini!Sam will go to Atlantis at some point :-D Elizabeth Weir will hear of their predicament and be like "what the hell? You two. With me. Now."

I wonder if they gave mini!Jack other choices and he turned them down... I mean, getting shrunk in the line of duty might have just been quite enough, and he really couldn't handle getting farmed out to work for the Tok'ra on top of it, or something. Thor should totally have adopted them :) They'd be his cute little human clone pets!
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Re: "He's my number one dad!"

[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think...I think that's one of the standard variants on cloning. Sometimes you get full-grown clones in a day, who then go on to age a a normal rate, and sometimes you grow them at double-speed, like ten years' size for five years' age, or faster, or--oh! I know where I'm getting this. Star Wars. Attack of the Clones. Remember all the half-grown Fett clones? The original stormtroopers.

Oh! And Shinzon. Didn't he? He was Picard's clone after all, and I don't think he'd been made a full twenty years ago even though he looked it. Interesting, that. (Even though that movie sucked compared to First Contact. And they killed Data! Except they didn't--am firm supporter of last-microsecond-rescue, by perhaps Donatra.)

Ooooh! Ooh. They should so totally go to Atlantis. :D Yep. And even if mini!Jack decided to go to highschool out of frustration, at the time, I bet it wouldn't take him too long to change his mind. (Strangely, though--when I read your ficlet above, for some reason I thought they were *on* the Asgard world with Thor. Weird.)

And *did* I mention yet that I think your new mini!icon is teh sexx? Because it is. :)

mini!redux

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I think...I think that's one of the standard variants on cloning.

Yes, you're right. And in this case, I think the little renegade Asgard TRIED to make a fully-grown Jack-clone in a day, but failed because he has copyright-encrypted genes (I'm not even kidding), so he ended up only being 15. I believe he'll go on to age and live normally.

(Strangely, though--when I read your ficlet above, for some reason I thought they were *on* the Asgard world with Thor. Weird.)

That *is* kinda weird, because they're talking about renting movies and playing crossword puzzles and discussing homework and tests and stuff. *eyes you*

My mini!icon IS teh sexx!! It's all thanks to [livejournal.com profile] familyarchives, who made it for me last night when I begged and offered fic in exchange :)
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Re: mini!redux

[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Copyright...encrypted...genes? That's just a metaphor, right? What? How?

Well, you know, I was thinking they were maybe living in a bubble with all the comforts of home or something. It took a while for me to figure it out. But then you already know I'm spaced this morning. :D Hazard of SF--random!alien!planet seems just as plausible as downtown midwestern town. :)

[livejournal.com profile] familyarchives ought to be madly fangirlled for her icon skillz.

the specialness of the o'neill.

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Copyright...encrypted...genes? That's just a metaphor, right? What? How?

Er. Kinda. See, Jack has "special" genes. I'm not exactly sure how this came about, but Once Upon A Time in Season Two, this weird Ancient device started rewriting his brain. This was the first time we had ever actually MET the Asgard (li'l grey cute dudes like Thor), and the Asgard were all "Holy crap! He didn't die with all that Ancient rewriting of his brain! That means his genes are advanced and special." So, apparently, they encrypted his genes or something so that no one could clone him, which is why the Jack!clone ended up being 15 years old instead of Jack's proper age.

Well, you know, I was thinking they were maybe living in a bubble with all the comforts of home or something. It took a while for me to figure it out.

Aww. I'm sorry. It would have made sense had I finished the Establishing Fic For This mini!Universe first and posted that, but no, I had to go be complicated. Ah... a little bubble in Asgard!land with all the comforts of cheap apartments and high school... hee. That thought amuses me a lot.

I shall fangirl A.j. on your behalf.
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Re: the specialness of the o'neill.

[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-10-01 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
OK, I remember that episode--I think I saw most of seasons one and two, but I'm not exactly sure where I came in and where I stopped. I saw like from the second or third episode (have read part of the script for pilot but not seen it) and saw at least the ones with Daniel in an AU with longhaired!nonmilitary!Sam ("There But For the Grace Of God", perhaps) and the one with Jack getting all this info in his head that let them boost the Stargate to Asgard territory. And I saw a couple later-season eps when they had a Stargate marathon of "ten best fan-favourite eps".

But yeah. Your explanation now makes sense. It's amazing how they can do weird stuff with genes in sci-fi, isn't it? "Sure, we'll just take someone's Klingon half out and make 'em all-human. Sure, we'll encrypt his genes so no one can copy them..." Got to love it. :D

And I'm not complaining about not understanding everything right off the bat--it's what I get for purporting to be a Stargate fangirl without having watched much of it. And I like the weirdness. :D

I shall fangirl you for fangirling A.j. (Why a capital A and small j, by the way? It's been bugging me for weeks...)
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[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Revelation! At last I know what the mini!OTP is! Hah!

I adore their style of filling in crosswords. :) *hugs you*

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
At last!! Mini!OTP is gleee.
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[personal profile] nenya_kanadka 2004-09-29 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
*grin* Sometimes I worry about you, but then I realize that I'm worse, so...

Geeek gleee is teh kewl.

[identity profile] mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com 2004-09-29 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, YOU are NOT allowed to worry about me. (Although I suppose gaming and fanfic-writing is about equal levels of geekiness in the final analysis...)

[identity profile] kataclysmic.livejournal.com 2004-10-16 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
How had I not read this?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

OMG.

Love it. Love you.

Come home so we can work on your community.

*smooches*