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frakandfight) wrote2012-02-07 11:21 pm
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PERSONAL
NAME: Miren
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
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EMAIL: boadiceamoon@gmail.com
AIM: fraknfight
PLURK: here
WIKI NAME: N/A
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
SERIES: Battlestar Galactica
CANON POINT: At the end of "Maelstrom" season 3 ep16
LOSS: All memories of her father, not including the song he taught her on the piano. However should she hear or accidentally play the song, it will bear absolutely no significance to her. All she remembers of her father is that he was a piano player and had left her and her mother in order to pursue his career.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: Everything you need to know about the major premise/history of Battlestar Galactica right here.
Upon first impression, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is your typical badass tomboy. Her hair is cropped short, her hygiene is questionable, and you wouldn't catch her dead in a frakkin' dress. She swears, she smokes, she drinks (copiously), she defies authority, she's the best damn Viper pilot on the Galactica, she enjoys sex with many and shamelessly, and will not hesitate to kick the ass of anyone who gets in her way. However, under the tough exterior is a real and complex personality.
She is intensely spiritual, often praying to the Lords of Kobol in hard times; especially favoring the gods Artemis and Aphrodite. Under the swearing and drinking and defensive posture belies a young woman who is sensitive, but also strong-willed, driven, and fiercely competitive. She is well aware of her status in the fleet. She had a shot as a pro Pyramid player before she busted her knee. She'll beat anyone in Triad (the canon's version of poker). She is more soulful and emotional than she'd ever care to admit. Dealing with people and Feelings isn't exactly a strong point for her; she'd rather cut ties or start a fight, and move on.
She has a Destiny with a capital D...though as of the canon point, she's not exactly sure what that is yet. She may not know it, but she is blessed with a divine purpose; she is an angel "blazing with the light of God", the Harbringer of Death--but also the savior of mankind. She is the very essence of humanity: flawed, but with all the right intentions. However, the Kara "Starbuck" Thrace that you will see will likely be that of her persona--rash, brash, and capable.
Kara is also a survivor. She grew up on Caprica, where she suffered brutal physical and emotional abuse from her mother, who was a Sergeant Major in the Colonial Marine Corps. Her father Dreilide Thrace vanished at a young age to pursue his musical career (but not before teaching her a very important song on the piano). The traumas that she endured from childhood resulted in a pervasive sense of unworthiness that Kara readily takes great pains to conceal with her overconfidence. She was the first in her family to obtain officership as a pilot for the colonial forces. Even so, her military career has been riddled with demerits, despite being hailed as one of the best Viper pilots of all time. She nonetheless ascended the ranks of officership, and was even a flight instructor at one point for the fleet. During this time, she became engaged to Zak Adama, the son of Commander Bill Adama of the Galactica and one of her students. She unfortunately let her feelings get in the way of her work and passed Zak on his flight exam when he failed 3 crucial maneuvers. Zak died on a subsequent routine mission, and Kara has always blamed herself for his death. Following that tragedy, Kara resigned as an instructor and returned to the Colonial Fleet as an operational Viper pilot under Commander Adama on the Galactica. At this time she also began to form a close relationship with both Bill and Zak's younger brother, Lee Adama.
After the attack on the Colonies, Kara proves herself as an invaluable member of the Fleet, despite facing pending charges for assaulting a superior officer. The Cylon crisis causes for Adama to pardon her charges so that she may return to her military duties; which she performs admirably. At one point, she becomes stranded on an uninhabitable moon after a Cylon attack, only to repair a downed Cylon raider herself and fly back to Galactica.She returns to a Cylon-occupied Caprica against Adama's orders to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo for President Roslin. Her non-conventional battle planning leads to several highly successful recon missions against the Cylons. And that is just a brief overview of her overall impact on the success of the Fleet.
Throughout the first three seasons Kara endures additional trauma when she is captured on two separate occasions. In the first, she is subjected to medical experiments on a "farm" meant to create human/cylon hybrids on Cylon-occupied Caprica. In the second, she is subjected to four brutal months of psychological torture at the hands of the Cylon Leoben on New Caprica. Kara emerges from these traumatic encounters bearing its scars but stronger, nonetheless. However, the New Caprica ordeal left her feeling empty and lost; and she took her self-destructiveness to new heights, at one point even losing her flight status.
She begins to see the connection between a 4000-year old mandala found in the Temple of Five on the algae planet with a mandala she had painted in her own apartment (and had been painting since she was a small child). In the episode "Maelstrom", Kara is strongly attracted to a planetary storm which resembles that same mandala. She chases what she perceives to be a Cylon raider into the storm, and Lee watches her Viper explode right after she states "I'll see you on the other side...just let me go". She is presumed dead.
Kara's canon point is taken from the very end of "Maelstrom".
ABILITIES: Kara is intelligent, tough, knowledgeable on military tactics, and artistic. She thinks well outside the box. She will be able to fly just about any airborne vessel. She may or may not be immortal as she is also essentially an angel--although she is currently unaware of that (her only "mystical power".) Things just seem to sort of...fall into place around her. Her weaknesses include issues with authority, monogamy, and self-destructive behavior.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
Kara stared at the ceiling of her rack, thoughts racing. Was she going crazy? What had the frak had she been thinking, chasing that Cylon raider into the storm? She had nearly died, she--
--could have sworn it had been calling to her. Had had significance. Had looked precisely like the mandala in the Temple of Five that Helo had shown her. Which was precisely the mandala she had drawn since... "Frak me," she muttered exasperatingly, rubbing her temples.
And now she saw It everywhere. It had swirled in the shape of that storm. It congealed in candlewax, It danced to flickering lights, It haunted her dreams.
It was like tripping on some fantastic drugs, without the fantastic or the drugs. Which meant it had finally happened: she was going crazy.
Could this be the destiny Leoben had told her about? But what the hell was that supposed to be? A frakking nutcase? She didn't have any damn answers.
The only destiny I've ever had is to be a world-class frakkup. I thought Leoben was full of shit but...
But what?
That still doesn't explain frak all. Why my Viper didn't have any damage. Why I am shooting at nothing in the gun camera footage. It doesn't explain what I saw. What I feel. I know what I saw, and it was real. It was THERE. I didn't imagine it...
She sighed, turning over in her rack.
Why am I the only one? I'm not frakkin' crazy...not that kind of batshit crazy, anyway.
If it weren't for Lee, she'd be grounded completely. He seemed to be the only one who felt that she wasn't crazy, that what she had seen was real, that she was still fit to fly. But she knew Lee probably felt that this incident had been an anomaly; surely Starbuck would be fine the next CAP, which was tomorrow. Silly, reliable, foolish Lee.
What if I see it again?
Because if she saw that raider again...she would follow it into the storm, and not come out. She would follow it until she shot it down, until what ever end. She had to know. She wasn't afraid. But someplace inside of her...she was afraid that she was not afraid, because she had always been not afraid...which was an odd feeling.
Did that make her crazy?
"Gods, what is happening to me?" she finally uttered aloud. Both a plea and a prayer.
Kara knew they would answer, expected an answer. But she also knew the gods never answered in the way that you'd expect.
As if on cue, her alarm went off, interrupting her internal monologue. 04:00. It was time to start her day.
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
[Dictated/Action]
[ The sound of rustling sheets, as if someone is frantically flipping through the journal. Kara is currently trying to figure out exactly how her journal works. It looks like a typical paper journal, right on down to its hexagonal shape. But that's here the similarities ended. ]
Galactica, this is Starbuck. Confirm.
[ She didn't expect it to work. Here she was, in some sort of fancypants room in some fancypants castle out of a children's book, on a planet with star constellations she couldn't recognize. Even if this book could broadcast anything she said...but she still had to try...just in case. Although it probably wouldn't to the rightpeople toasters; but her surroundings were entirely too...foreign to be Cylon. Right? ]
Galactica, this is Starbuck. Confirm. I blacked out. I was unable to shoot down the bogey. The storm it...[ should have destroyed her Viper. ] Look, I don't know where I am, or where my Viper is, or how I even got here. But I am ali--
[ She stopped right there, unable to continue. Was she alive? Could she say for sure? "I'll see you on the other side", she had said to Lee. Was this then...? ]
Galactica, this is Starbuck.... [ But really to no one in particular...they wouldn't be able to hear her here. ]...I have made it to the other side.
[ A pause. ] And if anyone else is listening...my name is Kara.
NAME: Miren
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
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AIM: fraknfight
PLURK: here
WIKI NAME: N/A
CURRENT CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
SERIES: Battlestar Galactica
CANON POINT: At the end of "Maelstrom" season 3 ep16
LOSS: All memories of her father, not including the song he taught her on the piano. However should she hear or accidentally play the song, it will bear absolutely no significance to her. All she remembers of her father is that he was a piano player and had left her and her mother in order to pursue his career.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: Everything you need to know about the major premise/history of Battlestar Galactica right here.
Upon first impression, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is your typical badass tomboy. Her hair is cropped short, her hygiene is questionable, and you wouldn't catch her dead in a frakkin' dress. She swears, she smokes, she drinks (copiously), she defies authority, she's the best damn Viper pilot on the Galactica, she enjoys sex with many and shamelessly, and will not hesitate to kick the ass of anyone who gets in her way. However, under the tough exterior is a real and complex personality.
She is intensely spiritual, often praying to the Lords of Kobol in hard times; especially favoring the gods Artemis and Aphrodite. Under the swearing and drinking and defensive posture belies a young woman who is sensitive, but also strong-willed, driven, and fiercely competitive. She is well aware of her status in the fleet. She had a shot as a pro Pyramid player before she busted her knee. She'll beat anyone in Triad (the canon's version of poker). She is more soulful and emotional than she'd ever care to admit. Dealing with people and Feelings isn't exactly a strong point for her; she'd rather cut ties or start a fight, and move on.
She has a Destiny with a capital D...though as of the canon point, she's not exactly sure what that is yet. She may not know it, but she is blessed with a divine purpose; she is an angel "blazing with the light of God", the Harbringer of Death--but also the savior of mankind. She is the very essence of humanity: flawed, but with all the right intentions. However, the Kara "Starbuck" Thrace that you will see will likely be that of her persona--rash, brash, and capable.
Kara is also a survivor. She grew up on Caprica, where she suffered brutal physical and emotional abuse from her mother, who was a Sergeant Major in the Colonial Marine Corps. Her father Dreilide Thrace vanished at a young age to pursue his musical career (but not before teaching her a very important song on the piano). The traumas that she endured from childhood resulted in a pervasive sense of unworthiness that Kara readily takes great pains to conceal with her overconfidence. She was the first in her family to obtain officership as a pilot for the colonial forces. Even so, her military career has been riddled with demerits, despite being hailed as one of the best Viper pilots of all time. She nonetheless ascended the ranks of officership, and was even a flight instructor at one point for the fleet. During this time, she became engaged to Zak Adama, the son of Commander Bill Adama of the Galactica and one of her students. She unfortunately let her feelings get in the way of her work and passed Zak on his flight exam when he failed 3 crucial maneuvers. Zak died on a subsequent routine mission, and Kara has always blamed herself for his death. Following that tragedy, Kara resigned as an instructor and returned to the Colonial Fleet as an operational Viper pilot under Commander Adama on the Galactica. At this time she also began to form a close relationship with both Bill and Zak's younger brother, Lee Adama.
After the attack on the Colonies, Kara proves herself as an invaluable member of the Fleet, despite facing pending charges for assaulting a superior officer. The Cylon crisis causes for Adama to pardon her charges so that she may return to her military duties; which she performs admirably. At one point, she becomes stranded on an uninhabitable moon after a Cylon attack, only to repair a downed Cylon raider herself and fly back to Galactica.She returns to a Cylon-occupied Caprica against Adama's orders to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo for President Roslin. Her non-conventional battle planning leads to several highly successful recon missions against the Cylons. And that is just a brief overview of her overall impact on the success of the Fleet.
Throughout the first three seasons Kara endures additional trauma when she is captured on two separate occasions. In the first, she is subjected to medical experiments on a "farm" meant to create human/cylon hybrids on Cylon-occupied Caprica. In the second, she is subjected to four brutal months of psychological torture at the hands of the Cylon Leoben on New Caprica. Kara emerges from these traumatic encounters bearing its scars but stronger, nonetheless. However, the New Caprica ordeal left her feeling empty and lost; and she took her self-destructiveness to new heights, at one point even losing her flight status.
She begins to see the connection between a 4000-year old mandala found in the Temple of Five on the algae planet with a mandala she had painted in her own apartment (and had been painting since she was a small child). In the episode "Maelstrom", Kara is strongly attracted to a planetary storm which resembles that same mandala. She chases what she perceives to be a Cylon raider into the storm, and Lee watches her Viper explode right after she states "I'll see you on the other side...just let me go". She is presumed dead.
Kara's canon point is taken from the very end of "Maelstrom".
ABILITIES: Kara is intelligent, tough, knowledgeable on military tactics, and artistic. She thinks well outside the box. She will be able to fly just about any airborne vessel. She may or may not be immortal as she is also essentially an angel--although she is currently unaware of that (her only "mystical power".) Things just seem to sort of...fall into place around her. Her weaknesses include issues with authority, monogamy, and self-destructive behavior.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
Kara stared at the ceiling of her rack, thoughts racing. Was she going crazy? What had the frak had she been thinking, chasing that Cylon raider into the storm? She had nearly died, she--
--could have sworn it had been calling to her. Had had significance. Had looked precisely like the mandala in the Temple of Five that Helo had shown her. Which was precisely the mandala she had drawn since... "Frak me," she muttered exasperatingly, rubbing her temples.
And now she saw It everywhere. It had swirled in the shape of that storm. It congealed in candlewax, It danced to flickering lights, It haunted her dreams.
It was like tripping on some fantastic drugs, without the fantastic or the drugs. Which meant it had finally happened: she was going crazy.
Could this be the destiny Leoben had told her about? But what the hell was that supposed to be? A frakking nutcase? She didn't have any damn answers.
The only destiny I've ever had is to be a world-class frakkup. I thought Leoben was full of shit but...
But what?
That still doesn't explain frak all. Why my Viper didn't have any damage. Why I am shooting at nothing in the gun camera footage. It doesn't explain what I saw. What I feel. I know what I saw, and it was real. It was THERE. I didn't imagine it...
She sighed, turning over in her rack.
Why am I the only one? I'm not frakkin' crazy...not that kind of batshit crazy, anyway.
If it weren't for Lee, she'd be grounded completely. He seemed to be the only one who felt that she wasn't crazy, that what she had seen was real, that she was still fit to fly. But she knew Lee probably felt that this incident had been an anomaly; surely Starbuck would be fine the next CAP, which was tomorrow. Silly, reliable, foolish Lee.
What if I see it again?
Because if she saw that raider again...she would follow it into the storm, and not come out. She would follow it until she shot it down, until what ever end. She had to know. She wasn't afraid. But someplace inside of her...she was afraid that she was not afraid, because she had always been not afraid...which was an odd feeling.
Did that make her crazy?
"Gods, what is happening to me?" she finally uttered aloud. Both a plea and a prayer.
Kara knew they would answer, expected an answer. But she also knew the gods never answered in the way that you'd expect.
As if on cue, her alarm went off, interrupting her internal monologue. 04:00. It was time to start her day.
FIRST-PERSON JOURNAL SAMPLE:
[Dictated/Action]
[ The sound of rustling sheets, as if someone is frantically flipping through the journal. Kara is currently trying to figure out exactly how her journal works. It looks like a typical paper journal, right on down to its hexagonal shape. But that's here the similarities ended. ]
Galactica, this is Starbuck. Confirm.
[ She didn't expect it to work. Here she was, in some sort of fancypants room in some fancypants castle out of a children's book, on a planet with star constellations she couldn't recognize. Even if this book could broadcast anything she said...but she still had to try...just in case. Although it probably wouldn't to the right
Galactica, this is Starbuck. Confirm. I blacked out. I was unable to shoot down the bogey. The storm it...[ should have destroyed her Viper. ] Look, I don't know where I am, or where my Viper is, or how I even got here. But I am ali--
[ She stopped right there, unable to continue. Was she alive? Could she say for sure? "I'll see you on the other side", she had said to Lee. Was this then...? ]
Galactica, this is Starbuck.... [ But really to no one in particular...they wouldn't be able to hear her here. ]...I have made it to the other side.
[ A pause. ] And if anyone else is listening...my name is Kara.