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Stargate SG1 and childhood. Please & thank you!
Ooh, thank you! Ok, here we go:
Until Cassie came to Earth, she figured all childhoods were pretty much the same. Her own childhood was disrupted by Nirrti, but what she remembered of the earlier years was warmth, comfort, laughter.
And then she got to know her new family, and realised no two childhoods are the same.
Janet’s childhood was most similar to Cassie’s experience. She grew up with parents who loved each other and doted on their brood of three children. She wasn’t spoilt but didn’t want for anything, and had lots of lovely memories of vacations spent with numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. The Fraiser brood quickly adopt Cassie as one of their own but, although she loves them, Cassie doesn’t feel the same bond with them as she does with her SG family, which Janet accepts without question.
Daniel’s childhood years clearly played a big part in making him who he is. Unlike the kids who played outside and got into all sorts of mischief, Daniel is 100% the stereotypical bookworm. He loves books, the older the better, and spent so many of his formative years in dusty museum archives or on sandy digs with his parents. Until they died, that is. After that... He threw himself into his studies, into his research, into his theories that were often thought too wild to be true. Because Daniel decided, after his parents died, that he was safer surrounding himself with relics of the past than get involved with real life people who could one day leave and hurt him.
Jack’s childhood is a good one. Relaxed. He’s an only child but has cousins he spends a lot of time with. He has the kind of childhood little boys dream about - full of outdoors adventures, building campfires and dens in the woodland around his grandfathers cabin. He has street smarts from time spent in busy cities. He opts for the military - the Air Force - at a young age because planes are cool and his grandpa would regale him with tales of being a pilot and soaring through the skies. He loves the thought of flying, of being able to touch the sky. He developed a love of astronomy from sitting outside with his grandfather, looking up at clear starry skies at the cabin, warmed by a campfire, listening to those stories.
Sam’s childhood is different, though no less formative. She tries so hard to please everyone, to meet up with the expectations placed on her. While her brother cracks under the pressure and follows his own path as soon as he’s able, Sam tries to be all things to all people. Her mom is the one who encourages her passion for science and space and stars, indulging her daughter as she brushes her hair with stories of astronauts and space travel and they often sit out under the stars staring up at the moon together on the lonely nights Jacob is away with the Air Force. Cassie thinks Sam’s childhood was a lonely one, and Sam privately agrees. Due to moving constantly with her fathers assignments, Sam doesn’t really get the chance to make lifelong childhood friends. There’s a couple of military brats like herself she tries to keep in touch with, but it’s difficult when they’re never in one place for long so she turns her attention to her studies and the stars. When her mom dies, and Mark leaves home, she tries to fill the hole they’ve left and aspires to follow in her fathers footsteps. Someone has to, after all.
Teal’c’s childhood surprises them all. It’s not all doom and gloom and serving the Goa’uld. Before his father died, they lived quite well. He was the apple of his mother’s eye, the proud son of a very proud Jaffa. He had good friends, and high aspirations. He wanted to be the best, First Prime to his God, good husband to a good woman, good father to his future children. Cronus killing his father made him all the more determined to succeed, to be strong. To be the best he could be.