shadowsong26 | BSG AU Meme

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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This is a spectacularly bad idea. Although really, Billy could have told the Doge that five days ago when he'd first heard about it. Donna Laura Roslin does not respond well to coercion.

This time, she apparently responded well enough to agree. Billy has a horrible sick feeling that the Doge's "persuasive" tactics centered on him, but he has no idea how to bring it up with his mother, and he's fairly sure that she won't ever tell him why she agreed to this. Besides, it feels more than a little bit narcissistic to assume that everything his mother does revolves around him-- it doesn't, especially now that he's an adult, and for all he knows the Doge threatened her personally.

Billy doesn't trust the Doge at all.

He isn't sure how he feels about Commander Adama, either. The man strongly resembles his father, with whom Billy is not best pleased just at the moment, and of course he's stolen Billy's name, relative birth years notwithstanding. He does, however, seem to be extremely embarrassed about this whole business, and he's treating Billy's mother with a sort of delicate, concerned respect that is a little bit hilarious but at the same time rather sweet. Billy he's ignoring, as he should-- they'll have very little to do with one another, in the end.

Billy decides, eventually, to reserve judgment. If Commander Adama treats his mother well, he'll probably end up liking the man. If he doesn't...

Well.

If he doesn't, then Billy will guard his mother's back. That's all she's ever needed from him.

She has her own ways of solving problems.

THIS IS GREAT!! thanks kat! I still have no idea what i want to request next...

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