halfamoon | [Fanfic Recs] 35 recs for Battlestar Galactica

I've torn through my rec lists, bookmarks and memories to compile a short list of 35 stories featuring the amazing female characters from 'Battlestar Galactica'.

I think I managed to get at least one story featuring each character (expect Ellen Tigh) on the list, there are original characters, ensemble pieces, character studies, action stories.... This list is mostly Gen or gen'ish stories featuring the multitude of canon relationships as part of the stories (some might call them Bob) with some Het thrown in as well. BSG fandom has an amazingly well-tagged fem-slash community:

bsg_femslash masterlist (del.icio.us and a community dedicated to the female characters:

bsg_women. Both are great places to find more fanworks of different types.

Featured here are Six, Gina, Boomer, Athena, Dee, Kara, Laura, Racetrack, Kat, Seelix, Jean, Tory, Elosha, Cally, Cain and several original characters.

Warning: Spoilers for everything aired to date!

Number Eight / Sharon "Boomer" Valerii / Sharon "Athena" Agathon

How (not) to leave your lover by

kaydeefalls
(Helo/Sharon, PG-13, spoilers through season 2.6 'Home I')
Summary: the rhetoric and treason of saying that i'll miss you / of saying "hey, well maybe you should stay." -the weakerthans, pamphleteer

And The Off-Notes by

voleuse
(Helo/Boomer, PG, set pre-series)
Summary: Deep sounds in the cusp and shift.

Breathe by

seldear
(Boomer, PG-13, angst, character study, spoilers up to 'Resistance' )
Summary: Sharon on a bad day

Collective Memory by

walkingdaydream
(Number Eights, R, spoilers through season 1)
Summary: She has the combined knowledge and experience of twenty-seven other Boomer models; twenty-seven lifetimes lived in the weeks since her activation.

Sinistra by

rose_griffes
(Boomer, a Six, PG-13, g, spoilers through 3.06 ‘Torn’ )
Summary: This empty desolation wasn't her doing. When they landed she walked away from the others, into the heart of the city.

Show an Affirming Flame by

redbrickrose
(Athena, Athena/Helo, Boomer Tyrol, PG, set post 3.12 'Rapture')
Summary: She wants to carve her identity into her skin, has wanted to ever since she came aboard Galactica.

Number Six /Gina

Glass Slipper (Gina) by

nicole_anell
(Gina, R, spoilers through season 2 and vaguely for 3.6 'Torn')
Summary: Gina dreams the other Sixes can sense deformity in her -- that she resurrects and she is ugly still. She is different, worse, in the way words trip and stammer from her mouth in a rush to escape, and her commands sound like questions and her questions sound like pleas. Her body fidgets where it should glide.

Three Winters Cold by

inlovewithnight
(Six (the model number, not the specific character), PG, Pre-series, set in the 40 years when the Cylons were gone.)
Summary: They receive ideas that only exist on the human worlds, not Here

Anastasia Dualla

Absolution by

inlovewithnight
(Dee, Lee/Dee, PG, set during the gap in 2.20 'Lay Down Your Burdens II')
Summary: People tell her their secrets, and expect that she won't pass them on, and she doesn't, because after all, no one expects or desires that she will speak.

Anatomy of a Triangle by

daphnaea
(Lee, Dee, Kara, PG-13, spoilers through 3.11 'The Eye of Jupiter')
Summary: I’m sorry, but we have to end this, he thinks for the thousandth time.

Thy Vigils Keep by

queenofthorns
(Dee, Lee, Billy, Dee/Billy, Dee/Lee, R, spoilers through 2.13 'Epiphanies' )
Summary: Be careful what you wish for because it will most likely turn out all wrong.

Kinesic by

marenfic
(Dee, Lee, Kara, Dee/Lee, Kara/Lee, PG-13, post-ep, spoilers for 3.9 'Unifinished Business')
Summary: His body speaks and she listens.

Bottom of a Well by

brynnmck
(Dee, PG, character study, spoilers for the mini)
Summary: Dee's earpiece gives her a headache after awhile, so sometimes, on late shifts, the Old Man (she always thinks of him that way: the Old Man, with capital letters) lets her pipe the comm traffic through to the speaker on her console.

Set Light To Me Some Surprising Day by

mercurial_wit (Fahye)
(Dee, PG-13, character sturdy, spoilers through season 3 just to be on the safe side)
Summary: It would be very easy to say no, you won’t, to say: don’t lie to me, Lee. Easy, and she’d feel more like she had even the slightest grip on her marriage, but she doesn’t.

Human for a Moment by

brynna82
(Dee, Lee, Dee/Lee, PG, spoilers through 2.9 'Flight of The Phoenix')
Summary: Most of the time, if she saw him there, she’d leave without a word and she knew he did the same for her. Sometimes, though, it wasn’t privacy they sought but merely simple silence.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace

Jealous Gods by

rose_griffes
(Kara Thrace/Sam Anders, references to Kara/Lee and Kara/Zak, PG-13 for sexuality and violence, g, spoilers )
Summary: She’s ripped herself in two and the halves don’t fit together any more.

Kara Thrace, her relationship with art and music by

dionusia (scroll down for the second fic on the page.)
(Kara Thrace, PG, character study, spoilers through 3.3 'Exodus')
Summary: New Caprica is a frakking mudball. A damp frakking mudball with frak-all to do. Kara finds a way to paint.

Laura Roslin

The Passing of the Queen by

hossgal
(Laura Roslin, PG, Alternate Universe, spoilers up to 'Home' )
Summary: "There she met sleep, the brother of death." - Homer

Five Deaths (Laura Roslin) by

rheanna27
(Laura Roslin, ensemble, R, Alternate Universe, Angst, Drama, Futurefic, Romance)
Summary: Laura Roslin: five ways of living, five ways of dying

Winter Queen by

k_julia
(Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, ensemble, PG, AU, character study, spoilers through season1)
Summary: Not that she faces crises anymore. No decisions on the edge, this or that, either or. She's made those, and now she's sitting on a bench with her feet in the grass and six months to live. No turning points, just a slow, fraying road.

Know Well the Gathering of Stars by

star_like_dust (Claira)
(Laura Roslin, ensemble, PG, spoilers through season 1)
Summary: She misses, more than she’d tell anyone - even Billy - the days in the classroom, where she spent hours analysing the twelve great poets of the Colonies.

(Un)Answered by

nnaylime
(Laura Roslin, PG, character study, spoilers 1.4 'Act of Contrition')
Summary: “The prayers continued even as the gods failed to listen.”

If the While I Think on Thee by

queenofthorns
(Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, PG, spoilers through 2.13 'Epiphanies')
Summary: But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end. (Shakespeare, Sonnet 30)

Eschatos by

pellucid
(Laura Roslin, Bill Adama, ensemble, PG, spoilers for everything aired including 'Razor')
Summary: Dying is more difficult this time. Or rather, she thinks as the day's endless meetings blur together in her mind, living with the knowledge of death has become more difficult.

Ensemble / original characters / everyone else

Exodus part I | part II by

medie (The story was never finished but Persephone's Partition is set in the same universe).
(Original characters, PG-13, AU, spoilers for the mini)
Summary: it is the end of the frakking worlds..

Goodnight, Kat by

rose_griffes
(Kat, Helo, Racetrack, Hotdog, Lee, Cottle, PG, five times fic, character study, spoilers through 3.10 'The Passage')
Summary: He looked for a sign from her as she passed by, waited for a word, but she just stared at the ceiling, face ashen, a small smile curving her lips.

Four mythology ficlets by

rose_griffes
(Boomer, Lee, Leoben, Kara, PG, spoilers through 3.13 'Taking A Break...')
Summary: She had swallowed the pomegranate seeds and would have to return to the underworld. How many seeds, how long in the underworld?

Untitled ficlet about Elosha by

pellucid
(Elosha, Laura Roslin, PG, friendship, spoilers up to 1.13 'Kobol's Last Gleaming II')
Summary: her grasp on hope is so tenuous she dares not entertain doubt.

Scenes from New Caprica by

runawaynun
(Laura, Kara, Tory, Cally, Maya, Seelix and others, PG, friendship, spoilers through 3.9 'Unfinished Business')
Summary: Female friendships in many permutations.

No Child of Mine by

runawaynun
(Tory, G, character study, spoilers through 3.21 'Crossroads I')
Summary: In the dream, Tory cannot stop her tears.

Pretty Girl by

rose_griffes
(Diana Seelix, Sam Anders, Jean Barolay, Cavil, PG-13, spoilers through 3.3 'Exodus')
Summary: She knew what his unspoken words were--that if she'd been hit in the crossfire she couldn't reveal anything. She was used to those unsaid conversations by now.

I Saw You Once, Medusa by

queenofthorns
(Helena Cain, PG-13, character study, spoilers through 2.13 'Epiphanies')
Summary: Sometimes, Admiral Cain thinks she's the only sane person in a world gone mad.

Against All Others by

prolix_allie
(Cally Tyrol, Galen Tyrol, Cally/Galen, PG, spoilers through season 3)
Summary: Family meant fighting; growing up with seven older brothers had taught her that. But it also meant that after you fought you stuck around, which was the part her husband seemed to have trouble with.

Calliope by

rheanna27
(Original characters, rated U, gen, spoilers through early season 1)
Summary: "We're all family now." - a small story, about the smallest ship.

In The Time Between by Perri Smith
(Original character, PG, gen, spoilers through "33")
Summary: I am still fighting. Every one of us is fighting, in our own ways.