I've become set on RHW's suggestion of Freya for female!Tyr, since that was the name of the original concept character that then got split into Tyr and Beka. And then Freya Anasazi could have a short-lived marriage to Tyr of the Orca Pride!
As for Harper...Siobhan, maybe, but then you'd have to rename her cousin. Sinead? I'm attached to the idea of it being non-Anglicized, which also carries the implication "I go by my last name because SPACERS CAN'T PRONOUNCE MY FIRST NAME", which has always been one of my justifications for Harper anyway.
male!Beka I've been calling Ben in my head, IDK why though.
I'm determined that male!Beka would retain the daddy issues and history of emotionally abusive relationships. And also he would be a teetotaller until he accidentally becomes a Flash addict mid-season-one, and then he would go back to being a teetotaller but with added addiction angst and struggles.
I feel like female!Harper would probably play up the cute more than the humor, where male!Harper was the reverse, but both would have that "I'm harmless, please don't hurt me, AND NOW YOU'RE DEAD, BITCH" unexpected badass thing going on. And yeah, Earth would have been even harder on her than it was on male!Harper.
One thing that's occurred to me is that a male spaceship captain rescuing a female refugee and giving her a job does have vastly different implications and power dynamics from the original setup -- the "dump you back on that trashheap" scene would be even darker this way, for example. And would they even be able to get away with the cuddling and getting in each other's personal space and so on? I want male!Beka and female!Harper to be BFFs, but I feel like their dynamic would be heavily different. (And I feel like more random people would assume they were sleeping together. And male!Beka would be appalled that anyone would believe he would take advantage like that, while female!Harper quite cheerfully plays up the misconception.)
...actually, female!Harper is probably less of a flirt than male!Harper. Or maybe not less of a flirt, but her flirting is probably less overtly sexual, just because of her history on Earth.
...which then leads to the question of male!Rommie and whether he would imply that Harper built him as a sex toy. I can't decide.
male!Trance probably has to work a lot harder to be seen as harmlessly adorable. And female!Tyr...ooh, the Tamerlane plot would have to be completely overhauled. I wouldn't want to lose it altogether (although I definitely want to lose the ending of that particular plotline) so we might have to have female!Tyr vanish for a while, to ~hide her pregnancy. And then she turns up and is all "I just had to take care of some loose ends" and male!Beka and the rest of the crew is all "..." AND THEN eventually Tamerlane turns up with the Orca matriarch and female!Tyr is all "Oh, yeah, remember when I disappeared, I gave birth, surprise!"
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Date: 2010-08-26 03:38 pm (UTC)As for Harper...Siobhan, maybe, but then you'd have to rename her cousin. Sinead? I'm attached to the idea of it being non-Anglicized, which also carries the implication "I go by my last name because SPACERS CAN'T PRONOUNCE MY FIRST NAME", which has always been one of my justifications for Harper anyway.
male!Beka I've been calling Ben in my head, IDK why though.
I'm determined that male!Beka would retain the daddy issues and history of emotionally abusive relationships. And also he would be a teetotaller until he accidentally becomes a Flash addict mid-season-one, and then he would go back to being a teetotaller but with added addiction angst and struggles.
I feel like female!Harper would probably play up the cute more than the humor, where male!Harper was the reverse, but both would have that "I'm harmless, please don't hurt me, AND NOW YOU'RE DEAD, BITCH" unexpected badass thing going on. And yeah, Earth would have been even harder on her than it was on male!Harper.
One thing that's occurred to me is that a male spaceship captain rescuing a female refugee and giving her a job does have vastly different implications and power dynamics from the original setup -- the "dump you back on that trashheap" scene would be even darker this way, for example. And would they even be able to get away with the cuddling and getting in each other's personal space and so on? I want male!Beka and female!Harper to be BFFs, but I feel like their dynamic would be heavily different. (And I feel like more random people would assume they were sleeping together. And male!Beka would be appalled that anyone would believe he would take advantage like that, while female!Harper quite cheerfully plays up the misconception.)
...actually, female!Harper is probably less of a flirt than male!Harper. Or maybe not less of a flirt, but her flirting is probably less overtly sexual, just because of her history on Earth.
...which then leads to the question of male!Rommie and whether he would imply that Harper built him as a sex toy. I can't decide.
male!Trance probably has to work a lot harder to be seen as harmlessly adorable. And female!Tyr...ooh, the Tamerlane plot would have to be completely overhauled. I wouldn't want to lose it altogether (although I definitely want to lose the ending of that particular plotline) so we might have to have female!Tyr vanish for a while, to ~hide her pregnancy. And then she turns up and is all "I just had to take care of some loose ends" and male!Beka and the rest of the crew is all "..." AND THEN eventually Tamerlane turns up with the Orca matriarch and female!Tyr is all "Oh, yeah, remember when I disappeared, I gave birth, surprise!"
...this is addictive. :D