BSG AU Meme

[shadowsong26]

So, I am still rather stuck on For Sorrow Sung, so we'll do a meme to hopefully get things going again! ...meme in a completely different universe, but what the hey.

 

This is for a Total AU BSG 'verse, which is basically BSG Characters IN RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE VENICE (with some modifications)! This universe (and the full-length fic which will eventually come from it) is called Serenissima.

 

 

General Background:

 

When whatever Full-length Fic I end up writing begins, Joseph Adama is the Doge (elected crowned head of the city, for those who don't know). Roslin is a widowed noblewoman, and Billy is her son. Zarak is shortly to return from a twenty-year exile after having attempted to unseat/assassinate either Joseph or his predecessor. Baltar is a cardinal, with a bastard daughter currently being raised in a convent in the city (yes, he is a cardinal. He is certainly not the only one in the period with an acknowledged bastard. Take a look at Renaissance/Baroque cardinals/Popes. I recommend starting with the Borgias). Starbuck and the Doge's younger grandson have recently eloped. In keeping with the setting, Cylons are Turks, and Caprica-Six is a Turkish courtesan. There may or may not be other Turks in the city as well.

 

 

Due to either Zarak's imminent return or possibly recently-outmaneuvered similar attempts on either/both of their parts (separate, obviously), Joseph wants Roslin and Baltar firmly in his camp. so he arranges for Roslin to marry his similarly-widowed son, Commander William Adama, and his grandson Lee will marry Baltar's daughter in a year, when she turns fifteen.

 

Rules and Other Miscellania:

I have generally decided what roles/ranks people have in this universe, so please bear that in mind when prompting. Any prompts involving Roslin/Adama or Roslin and Billy may be filled by bookblather, who has Encouraged me in this.

 

Three prompts per person, I promise to fill one. (bookblather, you can also request)

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PART ONE OF THREE

[bookblather.livejournal.com]

Bill is a little surprised to realize that he's seen his bride-to-be before.

Not that he should be. He's been about enough in society to know of her, particularly in his younger days, and of course they must have, at some point, attended the same functions. But he's surprised at how long it's been. The last time he saw her, it was years and years ago-- Zak was just a baby, Lee barely more, Carolanne had just died, and he supposes her husband too, because she was in black, and looked tired. Her son must have been an infant, even younger than Zak.

They were all so young then. He wonders if she remembers him.

Probably not. There's nothing but suspicion in her eyes.

And why should there be anything else? This is their first real meeting, and it is three days before their wedding. Why should she look at him with anything more than suspicion?

He bows over her hand to hide the ridiculous disappointment. "Madonna."