Fanfic Day meme: 5 & 15 🙂
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5. What’s your favorite headcanon you use in fics?
Currently, there is really only one thing I use consistently: Chakotay’s spirit guide is a wolf (thank you, Christie Golden). not a snake. no snakes. just no.
used to use a lot in the old days, I’ll give you two:
Tom’s spirit guide is a golden eagle and B’Elanna’s is a peregrine falcon. I got the latter idea with the whole “B’Elanna’s the only one I know who tried to kill her guide” crack Chakotay made.
Kathryn’s middle name is Melanie. the initial “M” was mentioned in the Caretaker novelization and I gave that to her from that point on since canon never bothered to give her one (and Elizabeth isn’t canon either. that’s someone else’s fanon pick. if it were, that’d be cool because then we’d share a middle name! but it’s not, so i gave her one!)
15. Give us a snippet of something from your WiPs!
from Rainbow #2, the intro to the Delta Flyer in an AU way….
“Now that you’re bothhere, do you have a few minutes?"
"We do,”Chakotay replied. "What’s goingon?“
Instead of replying, Harrytapped his badge. "Kim toParis."
"Paris here.”
“The eagle haslanded."
"Acknowledged.”
Kathryn raised aneyebrow. "Harry?“
The ensign grinned. "You’ll see, Captain."
The distinct hum of animpulse engine echoing from the west broke the relative stillness. Kathryn turned towards the sound just as asmall diamond-shaped craft appeared on the horizon, its Starfleet linesbecoming more apparent as it closed the distance. Swooping over the heads of the gathered crew,the craft banked a wide curve near the opposite horizon and performed a seriesof zigzagging darts above the eastern forest before ascending into thestratosphere and briefly vanishing from sight.
Kathryn turned to thestill beaming Harry. "Is this whatI’ve seen you two whispering about the past couple weeks?"
"Yup. We wanted to surprise you."
The swoosh of the craft’s descent drew her attention once more; itreturned much the way it had come, looping past the forest and back overhead,coming to land a dozen meters behind Voyager. As the crew hurried over, the shuttle’s hatch opened. Tom emerged first, followed by B'Elanna,Seven of Nine and finally Vorik. Tomweaved through the crowd, accepting the praise and backslaps as he made his wayto the command team’s side.
"So what do youthink, Captain?"
"I don’t know whetherto be miffed that you didn’t let me in on this project or to praise youringenuity,” Kathryn admitted. “Maybe a combination of both. But it’s not nice to leave your captain in the dark,” she added,fixing him with a slight glare.
“Wouldn’t be asurprise if we’d told you, though,” Tom winked, gesturing her to followhim as he headed back to the shuttle. "Don’tworry, Tuvok supervised.“
"How long did it taketo construct?” Chakotay asked.
“About two weeks,though this is something B'Elanna and I have been working on in concept formfor about six months now. Because let’sface it—standard Starfleet shuttles just don’t cut it in the DeltaQuadrant. We’ve needed something biggerand better since we got here. So….” The pilot gestured with a grin.“We built it ourselves."
"In two weeks,”she repeated, shaking her head in amazement.
“Beholdthe Delta Flyer. Ultra-aerodynamiccontours, retractable nacelles, parametallic hull plating, unimatrix shieldingbased on a design Tuvok’s been working on, and a Borg-inspired weapons systemcontributed by Seven.” Tom gave thehull an affectionate pat. "Wanna goinside?“
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