Ramble!fic wherein Jim accidentally becomes a therapist

[kayliemalinza]

Previously titled: "Wherein Jim continues to be an asshole"

Remember this fic, one of the very first ramble!verse fic, before the ramble!verse was even designated as such? the one wherein Kirk is an asshole? No? Well go read it, right now, that's why I've included the link. ::waits patiently

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[order_of_chaos]

*cackles* This is the beginning of a beautiful, beautiful friendship.

I love it. It's the kind of story I'd expect to see if a movie happened and someone decided to write a snippet of backstory from the POV of the villain, except that this one has 100% more pineapple and that's awesome.

Favourite paragraph, on the grounds of brilliant Bones-characterisation and Jim being calculating and self-centered to a terrifying degree and geode.

Even during the worst time of his life, Jim can see a lot of the good. All heart and no bite, that's Bones, wrapped around a core of obsessive altruism and tempered with enough sarcasm that no-one gets embarassed. The Ex split this man right down the middle so Jim can see his insides, uterine and prickly like a geode. There aren't going to be any surprises from this guy, Jim knows. He'll be the perfect thing to lean on for the next three years.

PS: My spellchecker has helpfully underlined embarassed in red, as if to suggest that you might wish to add another 'r'. It also wishes me to hyphenate

[kayliemalinza]

I suspect you just like evil people, full stop. :P

I'm kind of torn about the Jim is an Asshole sequence of Ramble!fic because on the one hand, I do think that Jim and Bones have a genuinely good relationship, but on the other hand BikerBrat!Jim has such potential to be a scheming sociopath. I'm compromising with myself by having Jim be horrible person for the first year or so of the Academy, but even then I think he's still essentially a good person, he's just built up a lot of walls around himself, and/or may have such stringent standards of goodness that he thinks he is a bad person when really he's just normal. Either way, he spends a lot of time lying to himself. :/ Does that make sense?

YAY GEODE. :D
I basically posted this after months of it sitting on my hard drive because I came up with the geode thing during a random revision pass and I thought I WAS SO BRILLIANT that I had to show other people. So I'll just lie here while you stroke my ego, yes, yes, a little to the left, ahhhhhh.

curse you, standardized spelling!

[order_of_chaos]

Fictional evil people, by preference*. I really, really do.

Perfect sense. There are probably pages on TV Tropes, even** - person on the side of evil (but really good, y'know, deep down inside - will totally turn to the light side later in the plot) making up steadily more convoluted reasons why letting someone cry on their shoulder for months and waiting around to make sure they get to bed after overnight clinic shifts is all just part of their evil plan. So all his good motivations would be squished before making it into his internal monologue, which is the part we get to see. The difference being that Jim isn't on the side of evil, and the plot doesn't hang in the balance, which makes everything hilarious. Or something. And maybe he really doesn't know that normal people*** also get bored listening to other people's woes for ages and ages and aaaaaaaaaaages.

Your ego is very stroke-able. Like a tribble. *strokes*

Or possibly a dictionary. But that doesn't have the same insulting ring to it. Your mother's a dic?*Also my

[kayliemalinza]

:DDDDD

You explain things so much more sensibly than I do. :/

The difference being that Jim isn't on the side of evil, and the plot doesn't hang in the balance, which makes everything hilarious.
looooooolll. :D

And maybe he really doesn't know that normal people also get bored listening to other people's woes for ages and ages and aaaaaaaaaaages.
Verily, you are wise.

oh goodness i hope my ego can't reproduce. i don't even want to imagine what the results would be.