Rachel Belmont plot page

[Rachel Belmont]

so here's rachel belmont! i'm brand new to the this site, but Rachel isn't brand new to Caprica, obviously, so naturally she's gonna have to have known some people.

for a quick run down, she's young, impulsive, tempermental, protective, and a damn good viper pilot. Her lethal skills in the cockpit has earned her the call name: artemis, after the kobol goddess of the hunt. she's been in the military for pretty much her entire life, seeing as how her father was a high ranking officer in the marines until he was killed in the attack. she joined the airforce when she was 18, and has been in it ever since.

so she needs all of it. friends, rivals, and perhaps even potential love interests as the plot goes on.

so please help a girl out! she's nothing without her friends and relationships!

[Phaethon Kosta]

I've got Phaethon as a Caprican born Viper pilot two years your senior. Due to his initial enlistment before he became a pilot it's possible that the two of them went through flight training at the same time and know each other from there if you want to try and build something off of that.

My other Caprican, Lycurgus, could have a relationship with Rachel's father, the marine commander assuming he was still commissioned at the time of the attack and not retired or anything. Lycurgus is a marine warrant officer and thus could have been under his command before the attack and maybe even knew Rachel through the father.

[Rachel Belmont]

i love it. Rachel probably needs someone to keep her in check sometimes, while at the same time someone to compete with. maybe helios was that guy for her when they started out? he seems to be more like the "good egg" sort to speak, and Rache most certainly is the bad one. so i do like the idea of them going through training together, which means they've probably known and flown together for the past eight years or so. so i'm thinking they've gotten close over the years, maybe like a brother/sister type love/hate kind of thing?

as far as Lycurgus, i like that too. Rachel's father wasn't retired, so he could have still been his command officer before he died. I'm not sure how well they would have known each other personally. Rachel didn't exactly spent too much time with the marines or on the base with them, but i do think they would have crossed paths once or twice. i just see her giving him a hard time, cracking lawyer jokes and what not. all in fun though.

[Drake Wolfe]

If you like, Drake could take her under his proverbial wing, because he's just that kind of person. Maybe he notices the raw, undisciplined potential and wants to help her hone it. Maybe you heard legends of his prowess while you were in flight school? (totally kidding on that one lol) But... yeah. lol

[Rachel Belmont]

aw. i actually don't think rachel will do well with "mentors" at the moment, at least ones who are so close in age and at the same rank as she is. i think it would be great if he tried to take her under his wing when she first started out, she would have appreciated that, but then i think as time went on and she got more confident and accomplished in the cockpit, she would wouldn't really need him to show her the ropes. at this point, i think she'd see him as a peer, and would treat hims as such. crack jokes while they're flying, taunting him, that sort of thing. she may be one hell of a flier, but she's still pretty young, and acts it.

[Drake Wolfe]

Makes so much sense. lol *checks time of post* oy vey, no wonder i thought it was a good idea

[Phaethon Kosta]

Well rumor is that Drake is in line for a promotion to captain and the position of deputy CAG. I don't know if that's actually going to happen or not. Wilson was supposed to be CAG again and now he's stuck on Caprica so anything could happen I suppose.

[Drake Wolfe]

*cough*DrakeforCAG*cough*

[Rachel Belmont]

lol. well him being CAG will definitely be interesting. she'd respect him and all that, but that's not to say she wouldn't give him shit from time to time... you know, just to keep him on his toes. lol.

[Drake Wolfe]

Do eet. Give him shit. I approve of this plan. lol

[Phaethon Kosta]

Just thinking on this with the call signs. Helios is the sun and often associated with Apollo while Diana, Apollo's sister, is the goddess of the moon. It's not a perfect match (perfect being Apollo - Artemis or Helios - Selene) but I was wondering if the two received their call signs in flight school to mirror each other in a way.

[Rachel Belmont]

Haha, i love it! I sort of noticed that too. Sun/Moon sort of thing could work. I can definitely see some people comparing them when they first got their call signs. While Rachel primarily got her call sign because of Artemis' associating to being a huntress and predator, i think whenever the two went out on missions together, maybe they worked really well as a team, and they started being known as the sun and moon or something.

i agree though. The titan of the sun and the goddess of the moon probably wasn't a coincidence. Especially if they were close when they got their call signs.