such a good thing I can amuse myself

[bedlamsbard]

I appear to be actually writing the BSG/Dollhouse crossover, or at least playing with it. We've got Helo, who is of course obsessive paranoid violent Special Agent Paul Ballard (Athena: "CAVIL MADE MY HUSBAND CRAZY. ABOUT ANOTHER WOMAN. I AM GOING TO RIP HIS EYES OUT."), and Athena, who is Special Agent Athena Valerii, then we've got Anders, who was a high school PE teacher and football coach, and Starbuck, who I think was a forest service helicopter pilot, and then Leoben, who was...Leoben. I think he was a barista or a baker or something. He's the first one to break through the imprint, which really doesn't work that well on Cylons, and being Leoben, takes off to go find Kara. (Look, everyone has to have a hobby, okay?) And then they find Anders and Athena and start looking for (a) Helo and (b) the truth behind what the hell is going on.

Strangely, it is terrifyingly easy to get into (at least early season one) Paul Ballard's head. He just wants people to believe him, y'all! He just wants a friend! Also he will probably beat you up if you don't, but if you do then, he will be very happy at you and tell you all the classified details about his top-secret conspiracy theory case. (Which he does. In canon. It makes more sense if you assume he's imprinted that way. Also, I'm sure there's a fabulous scene coming up where Athena and Starbuck are trying to explain what's happened and he freaks the fuck out because he thinks they're saying he's a doll.)

So far we've got Ballard/Athena interactions:

Valerii scrapes a scrap of pita across the bottom of the hummus dish. “Listen, He – Bal –”

“Paul is fine,” he offers, smiling at her.

She closes her eyes for a moment. “You don’t know me, do you?”

“We just met,” he says. “Should I? Did we go to college together or something?”

Her gaze flutters down. “Or something,” she says.