Head-Canon Meme
1. He retains many of the memories from his mind-melds. It's not usually referenced, but I can't imagine that he doesn't.
2. Its the human half of him that makes him especially good at telepathy, because he's more accepting of emotional responses than he would like to admit.
3. Tying into the previous one, he's drawn to emotional people. Despite antagonizing, he finds relief through interacting with them.
4. He usually is responsive to young women that remind him of his mother when he was younger.
5. Trying to rescue the Romulan people and rejoin them to Vulcan was an indirect gesture of love toward Saavik. Somehow symbolically he wanted her to reconcile her heritage through reconciling the two cultures.
2. Its the human half of him that makes him especially good at telepathy, because he's more accepting of emotional responses than he would like to admit.
3. Tying into the previous one, he's drawn to emotional people. Despite antagonizing, he finds relief through interacting with them.
4. He usually is responsive to young women that remind him of his mother when he was younger.
5. Trying to rescue the Romulan people and rejoin them to Vulcan was an indirect gesture of love toward Saavik. Somehow symbolically he wanted her to reconcile her heritage through reconciling the two cultures.