What does a Cylon do all day?

[lizardbeth]

I have Sammy stuck on the baseship for weeks and months during Ariadne now that New Caprica's been evacuated. He does pretty much have the run of the place, so he can do anything the Cylons are doing.

I've already used and/or considered:
- pyramid
- triad
- sex
- tai chi (naked and otherwise *g*)
- ?

Obviously the Cylons can project so that shifts a lot of their entertainment inward, but I'm sort of drawing a blank for something else he can do, especially WITH his Cylon buddies.

ETA:
Or in other words, cuz I am a lame-o and did not give direction, I'm looking for a group activity so I can have something going on in the background while all the Cylons talk politics, basically.

Do Cylons play Twister? Movie night? Charades? Baking cupcakes? knitting circles?

Penny for your thoughts?



Anyone?

Comments

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

Random thoughts here...

Do you have him interacting with all the Cylons? Because each one prompts different ideas in my head. I see him having a spiritual kind of friendship with the Eights, maybe just hanging out and talking about personal things. The Sixes, maybe him asking religious questions. Leoben, trying to figure out what the heck they're all about, and I can see him being fascinated with the fact that maybe Leoben's just crazy and how does that work if they're programmed to be this way? The others don't give me any vivid ideas, but I wonder if Simon or Doral would be interested in him and approach him. Or D'anna, for that matter.

He's not the Chief, but eventually I'm pretty sure he'd be curious about the Raiders and how they work. Maybe one of the Eights mentions that they have personalities, and he tries to communicate. Same with the Centurions maybe. And through Leoben, maybe the hybrid?

Sam's a very people-oriented person, so I see him being curious about life in general because of the people he talks too. He's also very identity-oriented, though, so I see a lot of soul-searching and self-discovery. Maybe testing Cylon strength and limits through different activities (sex and pyramid, yes please).

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

oh, he already has his pet Raider he talks to (the one that saved him). His two-ton Rottweiler with guns, as I like to call it. *g*

And I should fess up that I've already got a LOT of talking going on, that's why I'm looking for something new to DO while they're talking. Imagine my outline says: "Sam, Thea, and his other allies talk Cylon politics while playing Triad." Except, y'know, not triad, cuz I've already done that.

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's the plot with the Raider—sorry, I forgot that it was that one. But if not communicating, then fixing Raiders, fixing Centurions maybe? Who cooks on the baseship? Where do their clothes come from? Do they practice fighting hand-to-hand? I get weird pictures of painting/playing some kind of instrument/singing/making models and other hobby type things going on, too. Religious rituals for some. But mostly meditating and talking, so I'm afraid I'm not much help there.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

WHAT? YOU'RE NOT TELEPATHIC? WELL< HARUMPF. :P (er, sorry, yes, I was vague.)

y'know, I thought of the art/music thing, and then was unsure, because if Daniel was the special arty one, do any of the others know HOW to play instruments? It's not like they'd bother have gotten lessons from humans. Though I do have the basic rules for Triad programmed into them, so it's not a stretch to imagine Original Recipe Sam programmed some basic music knowledge into them. maybe?

And the thought of, say, Doral building a model ship, as Adama's working on his, is kind of awesome.

oh, and I can tell you that Sam believes Leoben's clothes got looted from the Sisters of Mercy Thrift Stores on Caprica and Picon. :) (the Sixes looted the couture shops, and the Eights looted the Gap)

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

LOL! The clothes thing is hilarious.

I kind of assumed they all had some artsy type tendencies, hence the Leoben painting in "The Road Less Traveled" and the Eights doing tai chi. It's just that Daniel was uber-arty, and felt the creativity rather than doing it just to pass time. So, though I wasn't thinking a ship per se, that's the general idea (although given your example, my mind immediately went to Doral and Leoben arguing with D'Anna about models vs. toys, because she doesn't seem like the type who would understand)