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Title: Of Earth and Stars
Author: Lionchilde
Characters/Pairings: Darstar/Terra
Summary: A few months after the destruction of E-Protectorate’s Aquabunker, society is in chaos as the Protectorate’s power-base crumbles and an economy based on water-trading now contends with ecological changes and the availability of open water. Darstar and the Solarbabies are safely at the Eco-Warriors’ Oasis, but Darstar isn’t sure he wants to stay. Terra doesn’t like the idea of his leaving, but what can she do about it?
Rating: PG
Length: About 2000 words
Category:Romance
Fandom: Solarbabies
A/N: The story is written for mercscilla, who turned me on to Solarbabies in the first place. She’s right. Darstar is much more interesting than Jason. I’m not a big fan of AU stories where the author just decrees that one or another character isn’t there, and I do like Jason, though I’d prefer he wasn’t with Terra. (There’s just no chemistry and the whole relationship seemed to be mostly based on the fact that both of them were in a sort of displaced parental role with Daniel and the fact that they were together all the time than any real connection on a psycho-emotional level. ) My first idea was to have Jason not survive the jump over the bridge and then do a partial re-write of the movie from there, but the more I thought about it, the more I was uncomfortable with the trauma that would have caused Daniel. So what I ended up with was a story set a few months after the film.

Solarbabies falls into the category of “bad movies I like anyway.” I just don’t happen to like it as much as I like certain other ones. Actually, I don’t usually like post apocalyptic anything, but the elements of fantasy in this appeal to me, and the Eco-Warriors remind me of the Fremen The film strikes me as something with a marvelously interesting premise and annoyingly poor execution. The characters could have been interesting, but there isn’t much development of their personalities. A lot of things either don’t make sense or require further explanation. For example, roller skates do not work in the desert for any length of time in a sandy, rock-strewn environment. Yet the kids were on their skates in the desert for day without any problem. Distilling TIRES for water? And how exactly does a glacier get trapped under a lava flow? I have some ideas both for character development and explanation—or at least re-imagining—but I’m not sure I want to invest that kind of effort. One Path needs to be finished before I undertake any more major fanfiction projects, and currently my original work is my priority. So, for now this is a one-shot.

( Of Earth And Stars )