(Thank you because you always send me asks and generally talk a lot to me about SGU/my fics)
Well, my idea is that Belle just never met Gold. She’s just like any other AU Belle, but instead of a grumpy pawnbroker she found an even grumpier scientist. I do write angst, but I just couldn’t bring myself to write about Belle falling in love with Rush after losing Rumple. Especially since they not only look alike, but they’re also alike in personality. It would have felt strange >.<
Belle is an archaeologist, but what she does for the Stargate Program is something unique, because it’s obviously not something that is taught in college. She studies the Gates and the Ancients, trying to understand what was the gates’ function and meaning beside the obvious “really fast travel” option. Pretty much like we keep wondering what Stonehenge was for, just on a much bigger level. She also knows the Ancient language perfectly, and is trying to analyze it to see if there were any changes in it throughout time.
She ended up on the Stargate program because she was one of the best in her field, and because she really has no sense of self preservation. A dangerous, secret work that would give her access to incredible knowledge and give her a chance to escape her over protective and slightly-suffocating father? She accepted the work without a second thought.
Beside the slight inconvenience of being stranded on a spaceship on the other side of the universe, Belle secretly enjoys Destiny much more than she’d like to admit to anyone, except Rush. They share this enthusiasm for Destiny because yes, we might die at every moment but we’re doing it FOR SCIENCE.
Belle and Rush knew each other barely more than by name before Destiny, but Belle was already curious about the grumpy scientist. During the very first days on board they argued because Belle kept trying to explore the ship and Rush was trying to keep her from doing any damage. Once he actually got some sleep and started getting used to the lack of caffeine and nicotine, things got better. She still spends most of her time exploring the ship, both to localize damages or stuff they can use and to see if she can learn anything more about the Ancients as a society.
Will there be more of this fic? Idk. I do have lots of ideas for S1, but I’m not sure about S2, because Belle’s presence would change a lot of things. Anyway I can’t imagine writing it before RCIJ ends, because I have to finish that first.
I hope I answered everything 🙂
My pleasure 🙂 I like to support writers when I see TMI Tuesday pop up on my dash. I always think it’s sad if someone doesn’t get any asks. I struggle sometimes thinking of questions to ask but I do my best. As for SGU, I love the entire Stargate franchise, I could talk all day about it. Nicholas Rush is my favourite from SGU so yeah – Team Rush! 🙂
I don’t know if you have seen SG1 or Atlantis but they did say in Atlantis, the hologram in the first two-parter episode ‘Rising’ in season one, why they built Stargates in Pegasus. To allow the second evolution to journey among the stars and foster understanding and trade for those that weren’t developed enough to travel through space on their own.
When I hear that explanation and then I think about the space gates I just laugh. The second evolution would have been on foot and their technology didn’t include MALP’s so the first they would have known of a space gate is stepping through and dying. Do that a couple of times and that gate address would have been blacklisted among that planet but they wouldn’t know what was so deadly about it.
Obviously the second evolution wasn’t why they built the Stargates initially because that came millions of years after the gates were first produced. That is actually what is so damn fascinating about the Stargate franchise. It has this tremendous backstory to it. One of the Alteran’s had the idea for the Stargate when they left their home galaxy to avoid civil war with the majority of their brethren (who would become the Ori) and one of the first gates they built was the Earth gate which we found in Antarctica.
We don’t know how long it took them to build the gate, or how they developed one gate into a network of gates. To be fair I think the Alteran’s (or Ancients as they become known) were very much – FOR SCIENCE – in terms of their reasoning. Although unfortunately that did seem to have a detrimental effect on their common sense.
We also don’t know much about Ancient culture. We tend to think of them as scientists because we know them for their technology. However, my headcanon is that their society was as diverse as ours is and only a small fraction of their population were scientists. Otherwise how could their civilization have been as vast as it was? They needed people to build things, to produce food, clothing etc. There is some evidence for this because the SGC met some Ancients on Atlantis through stasis/time delay/time travel weirdness and they had regular soldiers etc.
Belle’s job would be mega important and I bet Daniel Jackson loved her! Maybe he’s the one that recruited her? I can just imagine Belle being frustrated with him though because Daniel ascended twice and remembers nothing from that time.
Erm yeah I think I’ve gone on a bit /hides
