ext_966 ([identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/) wrote in [personal profile] minxy 2006-12-01 05:43 pm (UTC)

Well, it's funny you should mention that, seeing as how Katie M has commented right below you. The Teal'c Ficathon came about when I was really on a writing kick, and Katie's prompt, though it didn't come to me, was for Teal'c backstory. I think her fic actually came in very very late, or maybe defaulted or something, and I spoke to moonshayde about it and eventually all of us realized that while pinch hits really ought to go out, that I was writing my dissertation at that point and I really shouldn't be doing them. So that was that.

Until I went to Boston in prep for heading off to Africa and saw my friend A's 14 year old nephew, whom I knew well when we were in college over there, but who is really, really tall now. A mentioned that now, at his age, it was getting really difficult to draw him out and get him to talk. So Nephew sparked the idea, because I was going to write an early conversation between Bra'tac and Teal'c, where T is on this new planet and losing his second parent and not sure what's going to happen and Bra'tac would have come from her deathbed, having admired her and made her a promise as she lay dying and... yeah. There would have been a 'I can't play favorites, but I can give you personal training. Come by for supper every day after warrior school' or whatever.

Except that morphed into showing how Bra'tac could admire this woman and not really have a relationship with Teal'c yet, who was presumably always around the house, how she made the decisions she made, how Teal'c was protected from the burdens she bore and why, which became her grace and cynicism, and how that might have been taught to Bra'tac and Teal'c... it became a self contained story that didn't need the drama of Mehr'auc dying or the second conversation with Teal'c to complete it. And really, the circumstances of Mehr'auc's death in my head too closely echoed some of the things that Sal did in Water Moon anyway.

So there you go! The origin of a fic. All down to Katie *points down*

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