Of Kirk and McCoy...

[denorios]

I'm trying to figure out why this time round I've been completely bitten by the Kirk/McCoy bug. I can't quite understand it. I mean, it was always Kirk/Spock. Always. The entire show, all the movies...it's Kirk/Spock. Hell, pretty much the entire plots of movies II and III are about Kirk and Spock's epic love. And this new reboot, it's all about

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[insane_duckfish]

I've found that this is my gen fandom. I didn't think that would EVER happen, but I love all the characters so much that I actually don't care who's getting with who so long as we get awesome and adorable snark. And yeah, I love Kirk/Spock because WOAH sexual tension but the thing I always loved about TOS (first the idea of it, and now the actual thing having finally freaking seen some of it XD) is Spock and Kirk's Epic Love Story BFFness, which isn't in the reboot. Which is fine, they're really all different characters and I adore the conflicted start we're getting, but I don't see it as TRUE LOVE FOREVER (yet, at least. I SAID, YET!). As with most ships in this fandom, I don't really have an opinion either way on McCoy/Kirk - I'll happily read it, if it's in the fic (even if it's the focus of the fic) but I won't really actively seek it. It's more like... "Oh, this author is really hysterically funny and look! They wrote another fic! It happens to be McCoy/Kirk. Oh well, bring on the McCoy/Kirk then", but the same goes for pretty much any ship. I'm pretty easy when it comes to this fandom.

I haven't seen the movies (again with the yet) but I know all about II and III and I love the fact that it seems like TPTB decided that what we had wasn't slashy enough, so they'd better go out and read through all the best fics and worst romance novels they could find and then smush them together into an EPIC STORY OF TRAGEDY, DEVOTION AND TRUE LOVE OVERCOMING ALL ODDS*. IN SPACE. (And now I kinda want a K/S icon that says 'Death cannot stop true love', because the Princess Bride/Star Trek = OTP Y/Y???)

Tell me why you ship Kirk/Pike, because I'd never even really thought about it before. I guess it could be interesting *ponders*

*I'd like to believe this was the trashy romance novels talking but, um. I'd be lying if I said I was sure

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[insane_duckfish]

Oh fuck it. Clearly this is a sign I use too much html in my lj comments. The first 'Epic Love Story' was meant to be crossed out, but I guess it works ok as it is anyway. I'm not going to stoop to deleting and reposting a comment THREE TIMES. D:

[denorios]

Why Kirk/Pike? I don't really know, to be honest. Probably because I just adore Pike, and I love the slash, and I have a real kink for twisting mentor relationships and in this movie at least Pike doesn't really have an onscreen relationship with anyone else!

[insane_duckfish]

Haha, fair enough. I think it's really interesting how different ships work for different people, and the reasons (often without really thinking about it) people have for liking a ship, is all.