Sam/Jack Kisses

Sam/Jack kisses

well, we decided to stay here and teach the next generation. we’ve taught them everything we can, farah. it’s time to trust them. i do! doesn’t mean i like sitting here waiting.

For the headcanons, Fate: the winx saga and childhood. You know which characters😉

Thank you! Here we go!

Farah has a good childhood. She’s the eldest sister of three daughters, and learns from a young age that she likes to teach. It sometimes gets her into trouble - her mum doesn’t approve when she teaches her younger siblings to use their powers to play tricks on each other, for example - but it’s a fun childhood, marred only by the threat of the Burned Ones that cause lines of stress and worry to appear on her parents faces when they think their oldest child isn’t paying attention.

She also likes to study and learn, and wants to be the best she can be. She studies despite the teasing from her sisters with the sole purpose of being admitted to Alfea. There are other schools for fairies throughout the Otherworld but Alfea is the best. Farah is the only one of her sisters to secure a place and, while they don’t care for the studying element, her middle sister is a little jealous she gets to learn alongside Specialists, too, as the other schools are either fairy or not. Alfea is the only mixed school in this respect, and Farah’s parents are equally proud and worried that their eldest is accepted and leaves home to attend.

Saul’s childhood is shadowed by the the threat of the Burned Ones. He’s an only child, and therefore carries the burden of his parents worry for him and his future from a young age. He grows up on the border of Solaria, in a small town surrounded by forests. He learns to hunt with his father, learns to fight with the other boys in the town who are older than he is but not as quick, not as sharp.

When his father dies in front of him, the victim of a Burned One, he shoulders his mother’s grief as well as his own and goes from boy to man overnight. When he’s offered the chance to try for a place at Alfea, the best school in the area for those like him who want to be soldiers, he jumps at the chance, kisses his mother goodbye and leaves his old town behind.

Ben has a good childhood. Full of love and warmth from his parents, he makes friends easily but never feels like he really fits in. He much prefers spending time with his plants, cultivating them as he cultivates his powers. He loves the calm tranquility of it, the peacefulness that comes with nurturing life and helping it grow. He’s a soft, gentle child, and takes those qualities into adulthood with him.

Utterly convinced Farah was watching Saul from the window, and you can’t convince me otherwise.

The Thing About that Unaired Kiss in “Hunters”

The thing about that kiss in “Hunters,” filmed but never aired, is that if it had aired as originally planned, every single episode after that point would have played out differently. Every single one. Every interaction between Janeway and Chakotay after that point, whether consciously romantic or not, would have had a subtext. To be honest, every interaction pretty much did have a subtext, which is why there were so many J/Cers in the first place. But after that point, the subtext would have been an acknowledged subtext rather than one we fans were reading into the scenes whether RB and KM were playing it that way on purpose or not.

Just think about that for a minute.

How different would “Unforgettable” have been if there had been a J/C relationship on top of it? How different would “Night” have been, and “Timeless,” and “Counterpoint?”

How much more powerful would “The Fight” have been if we knew, if it had been acknowledged instead of built up in our heads, that Janeway was asking her lover to possibly sacrifice his sanity to save them? And how much more moving his quiet and courageous acquiescence?

Would “Equinox” have brought them closer together, or would it have broken them?

Would “Fair Haven” and “Spirit Folk” even have happened, or would we have gotten a much more in-character holoprogram for the Captain? Maybe one in which she is a pirate queen, or an early 20th Century adventurer? Or a super hotshot WASP pilot in WWII, maybe one with a handsome lover in a different branch of the service?

Would the clasped hands on the Bridge in “Unimatrix Zero” have meant even more? Would “Shattered” have ended very differently?

Would the series have ended very differently?

I think about these things. I wonder, and I wish, and I think about these things.

There’s an alternate universe of stories to be told here, from the farce of the crew finding out one by one, to the drama of the moments that almost tore them apart for good, to the powerfully uplifting ending, in which they realize that their reliance on each other, their love and care for each other, kept them alive and sane and human in a part of the Universe that would have irrevocably changed them if they hadn’t had each other to keep them grounded and healthy.

So many possibilities.

Intriguing, isn’t it?