#prime lorca

Then, second of all, have it that Prime!Lorca was BFFs with Georgiou and Pike bc they all went to the academy together, and as soon as Mirror!Lorca showed up, both Georgiou and Pike went “Uh no, this isn’t Gabriel Lorca” and instead locked Mirror!Lorca up and mounted a rescue mission to the mirror verse with the Discovery and the Enterprise to save their best friend? 

Like why can’t we have this healthy model of loyalty and positive human emotions to let Michael start her journey to greatness? She sees how vastly different Pike, Georgiou and Lorca are with their personalities, but how they’ve all achieved greatness in their own way and all value each other - and then she realizes that Tilly’s enthusiasm has its own illogical value and that she should broaden her horizon and risk things as well? 

Don’t get me wrong, the edgy antiheroes from the mirrorverse are fun sometimes, but I’d like some positive role models and painful but gradual growth. I want Prime!Georgiou. I want her to be three dimensional and bad ass with her own motley group that she went through fire with that the rest of the Discovery gets to meet and learn from and from that find their path to greatness. 

Or heck, maybe its the prequel, the Shenzhou is Georgiou’s ship, she and Pike with the Enterprise go over and rescue Prime!Lorca and after that experience, Michael learns what she needs to to trust herself and jump out of the nest. And just right out of the gate is made captain of the Discovery when it’s commissioned and put in charge of the crew and slowly becomes best friends with Tilly even though she’s a cadet because she’s learned friendship doesn’t care about rank or even dimensions. I don’t know I have a lot of thoughts about the possibilities of this that I’m sure no one cares about, but still.

when I started shipping it if I did: From the moment Kat and Gabriel started bickering in episode 5 of season 1. We did not know it was MU Gabriel then and by episode 6, I was a hardcore shipper.

my thoughts: Where do I start? Just so much potential and the feels!!!  Canon moments like when Kat assumed he died (”My Gabriel” *sobs forever*) and that time they bickered just makes me wish that we got to know Prime Gabriel. I’d love to meet the man that a woman like Kat chose to fall in love with. I have many headcanons for them and just thinking about them just make both happy and sad.  seeing an age-appropriate relationship and the deep bond and devotion from Kat’s part made me realize they were just more than friends with benefits. 

What makes me happy about them: The little moments. Them watching perseids together and the obvious chemistry they have even when they are apart and the fact that Kat loved him and knew him enough to know something was very wrong when others didn’t suspect a thing.

What makes me sad about them: Obviously, We never saw PU Gabriel and what Kat had with him.  All I wanted to see was a reunion between them and now that Kat is gone (sobs) I don’t want Gabriel back just to live in a place where Kat isn’t.

things are done in fanfic that annoys me: I don’t read much of fanfics that they are paired with different people but if there is any cheating involved I'm not comfortable with that. Also, there are some pairings like Micheal x Kat that slightly gross me out but I do know people have the freedom to ship whoever they want. 

things I look for in fanfic: Happy endings. call me a hopeless romantic but these two have their canon relationship doomed and at least I want fanfic to be at least palatable. If there is angsty (of course it is) I prefer them in the middle of the story. Also good characterization. Kat is a complex character and prime Gabriel is basically all-fanfic at this point. They can’t and won’t behave like teenagers when they are obviously late-middle-aged decorated officers.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: They are just two overachievers who drifted apart and both had various relationships in their lives but they sure kept drifting towards each other. So I’m into them ending up with each other.

My happily ever after for them: Kat is alive, Gabriel comes back from MU and they live in a small wood cabin on shores of Lake George (see what I did there?) and work on their respective traumas together and just being together with each other.

who is the big spoon/little spoon: they’d switch occasionally but I do think Gabriel loves to cuddle anyway

Amanda Grayson from the original dystopian timeline

Airiam from the original dystopian timeline

Prime Georgiou from the original dystopian timeline

Zora (from the short trek future)

Michael’s mother from the original dystopian timeline

Michael (through some bootstrap paradox?)

dark horse/crackpot guesses:

Pike (from future with Talosian tech?)

Spock (old Spock maybe from Kelvin timeline?)

Picard (since he’s getting his own show)

Tilly (i mean she is already an angel :D)

what i want:

Warm thanks to @icecream-junkie for the prompt and @killermanatee for beta-reading. 

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katrina Cornwell/Gabriel Lorca Prime Characters: Katrina Cornwell, Gabriel Lorca Prime Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, post-Season 1, Friends With Benefits, love without marriage, Medical, Implied Sexual Content, Aftermath of Violence, Explicit Language, Hurt/Comfort, Inspired by Poetry, Songfic (just a little bit), Long Live Feedback Comment Project Summary:

Exploring the relationship between Katrina Cornwell and “her” Gabriel Lorca, (long) before and shortly after the canon events of Season One.

Stanza I. Singing in hard wind / Ceaselessly

Mid-2236.

“Come on, drink up,” Katrina said, tossing back the last of the whiskey in her glass in a blithely fluid motion that spoke of places to go, one foot already on the ship that would take her away from Gabriel.

As if he didn’t have a ship to board himself. They were both leaving Earth again, the rank bands shiny on their new lieutenant commander uniforms.

But that didn’t change the fact that she was leaving him.

He drank.