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1. If I read one more story where Keller decides not to go back to Atlantis at the end of season 5 because it's too frightening, I shall cry. She was *kidnapped* in early season 4, for pete's sake, and ended up shooting the guy. She nearly turned into a hive ship at the start of season 5. I don't think anything that happened since those events would suddenly convince her to leave.
I mean, I get that people need her out of the way so they can pair up John and Rodney, but what's wrong with them breaking up? Or her deciding to stay on Earth to be near her father? Or her getting an offer of a better job on Earth? She's tough, why can't people write her that way?
2. If you won't have the application pcks for a job ready until next week, would it not make sense to hold off on advertising it until next week? Seems like that would make the process a lot simpler for pretty much everyone.
I mean, I get that people need her out of the way so they can pair up John and Rodney, but what's wrong with them breaking up? Or her deciding to stay on Earth to be near her father? Or her getting an offer of a better job on Earth? She's tough, why can't people write her that way?
2. If you won't have the application pcks for a job ready until next week, would it not make sense to hold off on advertising it until next week? Seems like that would make the process a lot simpler for pretty much everyone.
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"Our heroes are pretty damn tough and not prone to breaking down in hysterics. If they survive torture and the death of close loved ones *in canon* without hiding under the covers and whimpering a lot, I think it's safe to say they shouldn't be doing it in your fanfic either."
Oy. And it's not even like this Keller fic is writing angst about *Keller* and how she's all emo and traumatised. It's just a convenient way to get rid of her.
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This! I mean, I can buy her being frightened, and even traumatised, and taking some steps to deal with it, but I'm thinking steps like therapy or stick training with Teyla or getting one of the marines to teach her to shoot or whatever. Not fleeing to Earth just so Rodney and John can fall for each other. What's wrong with 'and then Rodney realised he'd always been inlove with John and broke it off with Keller who wound up Dr Porter' or 'and then Keller realised Rodney was, whatever, too serious/not serious enough/obsessed with work/incredibly thoughtless sometimes, and dumped him for Ronon/Teyla/Radek/Lorne/some combination thereof.' She doesn't have to literally disappear from the galaxy for John and Rodney to hook up, and if she does, it says something truly worrying about the likely stability of their hypothetical relationship.