Prompt 9.07

[paian]

Five people Ba'al has never broken.


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Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

oh you know i adore that ba'al target icon. *smooches you*

and oh yes, so great what you wrote about "he was only a clone of himself anyway." it raises a whole question of how the original (if indeed it is the original) responds to the clone.

and ouch for daniel, especially in relationship to jack's experience.

and an even bigger ouch for ba'al's host. i'd love to see who that person is.

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

hee! thank you, the feeling is mutual. and really, he got very acclimated to life on earth before he left.

sending you good thinking and writing thoughts. and oh, poor ba'al's host. who might still shop at target thoguh.

as for tripoli's story, oh yes. that story broke me in all the right ways and has haunted me ever since. i'm so glad it didn't happen too. ouch. but oh jack is so fine.

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

bwaha!

general hammond: "really, we think it's best if you went home now."

ex-host: "but i wouldn't be able to keep up with the latest michael graves designed home-ware out there."

jack: "daniel..."

daniel: "what?"

jacks: "why didn't you tell me michael graves was designing for target?!"

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

hee hee hee! ah, made your snarf.

:::preens:::

:::hands you anti-snarf paper towel and feels a bit of snarf related guilt:::

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

ah, that's good then. *veg*

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[rydra_wong]

I've gotten intrigued by the idea of his host lately too. Have a little bit about that in this darkficathon thing I'm finishing up, and I want to think more about it.

Add me to the list of people who would like very much to know more about this *g*.

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[rydra_wong]

Seriously. a) it's a fascinating idea, and b) I've been missing the bastard ever since I posted "Under Every Green Tree".

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[rydra_wong]

The Tok'ra have been able to do it since s3, when they de-Goa'ulded Skaara. And now the Asgard can do it too (just beam the symbiote out - SGA canon), so there's no longer even a need to phone up the Tok'ra.

I'm more interested, I think, in a fic where Ba'al can be suppressed long enough for his host to have a fighting chance

Well, there's the Tollan device from s3. Okay, no more Tollan, but given that the SGC know it can be done, and know that some things (like zatting) will suppress the symbiote briefly, it would be plausible if they'd been working on reverse-engineering it.

Have there been any fics about that?

Not that I know of.

I mean, I don't think it was ever made clear on the show how Ba'al managed to clone himself complete with his memories and personality

Given Goa'uld genetic memory, it follows that a cloned symbiote would be complete with the same memories/personality. But a cloned human host wouldn't.

So you might potentially end up with a completely blank slate, someone who's got to re-learn everything from infancy on. Or they might retain enough of Ba'al's memories - including perhaps even Ba'al's memories of the original host's memories - to have some level of functioning based on that.

Btw, I hear I make a useful sounding-board in chat (AIM or LJTalk), if you want someone to bounce ideas off at any point.

*looks hopeful*

Re: Five people Ba'al has never broken

[rydra_wong]

When I start buckling down to it I'll definitely look for you in chat -- I've never used LJTalk, so that'll be a fun excuse to play with it *g* -- and maybe sooner, with questions about other fics.

*glee*