Snowflake Challenge #4
Jan. 7th, 2023 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justanorthernlight
Challenge #4
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
For Babylon 5, I want an explanation of how/whether the telepathy gene can conceivably skip a generation and what happens to non-telepaths born to two members of the Psi Corps.
It must happen, because there are no canonical hints or implications that Ivanova's brother Ganya was also a telepath, and the Corps doesn't treat it as suspicious or impossible that Ivanova could be a mundane when her mother was a telepath. To borrow a term from Harry Potter, there must be some telepath equivalent of Squibs.
Are there support groups for kids whose entire families are members of the Psi Corps, who are perpetual outsiders with both the Corps and the world of the Mundanes? Do those kids get put straight into foster-care or are they raised in the Corps? Are they ever pressured into doing some kind of liaison job between the Corps and the rest of human civilization? Do they run away and form their own communes?
(Also, and only semi-related, post season 5 Lise Hampton-Edgars-Garibaldi uses her billions of credits to sue her first husband for joint custody of their daughter and/or uses the media to draw attention to inequality in how Earth and Mars citizens get treated in the courts and effect some positive change other people who have been in her situation.)
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Date: 2023-01-07 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-07 05:45 pm (UTC)I had no idea about this bit of backstory. Whoa indeed.
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Date: 2023-01-07 05:54 pm (UTC)A couple of years ago a web community was doing an organized rewatch and one of the comment moderators had some of the script books with JMS's commentary and shared a bunch of excerpts, it was very illuminating!
(Sorry if this is oversharing, but my parents actually met in a cult and I was in it until about middle school, so I found the portrayal of the Corps very resonant with my on experience as well.)
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Date: 2023-01-07 06:08 pm (UTC)I see there are several B5 communities here on DW. I have subscribed to them but so far have done little aside from just reading posts and following an occasional fic link.
Not oversharing, but what an experience to have to draw on. I hope your memories of that time of your life are not too awful. It gives you a deeper understanding that escapes some of us.
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Date: 2023-01-07 06:39 pm (UTC)My memories aren't that awful, as far as cults go it wasn't a violent place or anything. I was pretty young when we quit and even that wasn't really dramatic, my parents just kind of started coming out of the fog. Before that it was just the normal life I was used to, and it's only in hindsight and with the benefit of my exposure to the outside world that I compare my old "normal" to most everyone else's normal and realize how weird my baseline was. I'm 30 now, and we left when I was about 9 or 10, if I remember correctly, so I've had a lot of time to unlearn things.
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Date: 2023-01-08 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-07 08:29 pm (UTC)Haha, I knew about the Franklin stabbing being based on JMS's own experience, and what that experience was, but had failed to make a connection to San Diego being nuked in B5 canon. Amazing XD
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Date: 2023-01-07 08:27 pm (UTC)Ooh, I didn't know that! (I think, unless I knew it and forgot...) I've read Becoming Superman, so I know about the cult, but never made the PsiCorps connection, although that makes a lot of sense.
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Date: 2023-01-08 08:27 am (UTC)