Comments | igrockspock: Fic: More Important Than the Stars (Joanna McCoy, gen)

igrockspock

Fic: More Important Than the Stars (Joanna McCoy, gen)

Feb 01, 2011 18:45

Title: More Important Than the Stars
Rating: PG
Characters: Joanna McCoy, Jocelyn McCoy
Summary: Dreading her mother's second marriage, a young Joanna hatches a secret plot to visit her father on the Enterprise
Notes: for halfamoon
Word Count: 2700

( Joanna is 15 when she hatches a plot to sneak aboard the Enterprise while her mother is on her honeymoon. )

!fic: star trek

Comments 37

rubynye February 2 2011, 01:59:34 UTC

Oh, Joanna. I love your sensible, complete worldbuilding, and your Joanna with all the self-knowledge she pushes away. And this:

And he never fails to react -- sometimes with angry transmissions, more often with strange mementos of even stranger worlds. She ends up with a room full of things she can pick up and touch and remember that he cares, and that buys her acceptance for six months or a year.

reminds me of a lot of people I've known.

igrockspock February 6 2011, 17:56:37 UTC

Thank you so much! It really means a lot that you thought it was true to life :)

loneraven February 2 2011, 02:19:24 UTC

This is really, really good. I absolutely love fic that show us the civilian Federation, and this goes one further and shows us the flipside of Starfleet itself. I love your worldbuilding, I love your nuanced and thoughtful characterisation. Really good.

igrockspock February 6 2011, 17:57:13 UTC

Thank you so much! I did not even think of this as any kind of world building, so it means a lot that you saw it there!

secretsolitaire February 2 2011, 02:45:29 UTC

Oh, Joanna. This is lovely and painful. I really like her relationship with her mom, and the non-relationship she has with her dad feels sadly spot on, down to the awful bureaucratic auto-response message!

Joanna is 15 when she hatches a plot to sneak aboard the Enterprise while her mother is on her husband.

Honeymoon?

igrockspock February 6 2011, 17:58:00 UTC

Thank you so much! I worried that this would seem untrue to McCoy's character, so I'm glad it felt accurate to you.

And yeah, bad typo. *blushes* Thanks for the tip!

cakeordeath44 February 2 2011, 15:23:51 UTC

Her room is cluttered with souvenirs like these, which she half-dramatically and half-sincerely calls part of her divorce settlement.

Oh God. I have a hell of a lot of random crap back home.

This is so true, and wonderful.

igrockspock February 6 2011, 17:58:28 UTC

Thank you! I'm so glad that it felt true to you!

screamlet February 2 2011, 16:21:58 UTC

Holy shit, this is AMAZING. Wow. Wow. Wow. Thank you for writing such a beautiful, intelligent, REAL Joanna. This is so good.

igrockspock February 6 2011, 17:59:17 UTC

Oh wow! Thank you for such a lovely comment! I'm so glad you thought Joanna seemed real :)