04th landing . video, locked from felix gaeta

[landfall]

So.

What do you guys do when you're really mad at someone?

Productive and unproductive tactics welcome. I also enjoy colorful stories.

[ Private to Felix Gaeta, later ]

[ Okay, it's time to confront this. She's calm. She's good. She's going to say something elegant, and Felix is going to respect her, and they will be friends.

Here goes! ]

You're stupid.

[ wow not as planned ]

Comments

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

Kids were never a foregone conclusion for me before the Barge.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Which is why I say if. There are a lot of factors and things, even besides whether or not you want them.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

I wouldn't have made for a good father.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

See, that's a pretty stupid thing to think. If you love a kid, they'll forgive you a whole frakking lot.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

I wouldn't have been a good father because I don't know what makes a good father.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Nobody does until they have to do it, I'm pretty sure.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

But you still want kids. Despite everything horrible that's happened.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

...why would I not?

I thought I would die without leaving a trace. I thought it for the last four years. I'm okay with that not being the case.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

You don't have to have kids for your life to have meaningful traces. It's not a prerequisite.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

No. I left plenty of meaningful traces. I think I saved a lot of lives.

By killing a lot of Cylons.

I'd just like to do something that's not killing.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

You're talking to me. Right now.

That's not killing.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Yeah, but the minute this place got exciting, I was killing things again.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

That tends to be the case when 'excitement' happens. Otherwise you don't live to see the boring bits.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Can't we have wild parties instead of deathly attacks by wild dogs? That's what I want to know.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

Both of those sound equally horrifying to me.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Then something is wrong in your brain, my friend.

Re: [reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

I'm not much of a party person.

At all.

Re: [reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

There is food and alcohol. You don't have to talk to anyone.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

I'd rather not, if it's all the same. I wouldn't know what to say.

Re: [reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Whereas the expectations are clear when you're being torn apart by dogs?

"Argh, this hurts, help me"?

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

It's easier to be more definite about what I'm saying in that particular case.

Re: [reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

Here, I'll come up with dialogue for you.

"Hello, excuse me, I have to go make pie while my limbs aren't being ripped out of their sockets."

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

Unfortunately I don't speak limb-ripping dog.

Re: [reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[landfall]

That was for a party.

[reluctantly private to Iris/Mal/Ned]

[deadly_ned]

Why would you bring dogs to a party?