This is the best Star Trek story I've ever read. I could say something massively insulting about how "hey, it's not even slash and I loved it!" but honestly, you've written a story that's... beyond slash or het or pairings of any kind, if that makes sense? What I mean is that the characters are so real, more vivid than I've ever read before, and romance isn't what this story is about. It's about people, not pairs.
You've created an incredibly layered and fascinating and funny original character, and when I read the line that Sakel had been on Vulcan when it died, I started crying. Jim's reaction was absolutely heartbreaking -- his first thought of what Sakel would say about grief, and then getting up and doing his job again.
The humor that you put into this was likewise pure genius; there's far too many parts that made me laugh for me to count. But the thing that I loved most is that Kirk would make some ridicutarded and hysterical comment or observation, and then follow it up with something like this:
"If Jim was a different person, more like the person he had seen in the other Spock's memories, maybe he'd have the words to tell Spock that it was okay. It wasn't logical, maybe, but you learned to live with the pain, even got used to it. You could bear it with some degree of grace. But he's not that person, he's just the Jim Kirk of here, broken himself and held together with the hopes and dreams of other people and his own stubborn will, and he has no words to tell this Spock that things will get more bearable.
... aaaaand cue more tears.
I love that Uhura's such a linguistic fangirl, that Sulu just casually carries his foldy-sword with him wherever he goes, that Spock is already laughing at Kirk and his dumbass-ness, that Bones is more fascinated than concerned about Kirk's allergies of amazing. I love that, and the Oregon, and its crew, and the names for relations in Pre-Revolution Vulcan, and... everything, in short and in long, about this story.
Thank you for writing this. I'm grateful that I've read it.
You've created an incredibly layered and fascinating and funny original character
Yes, and it adds nuances to Kirk's relationship with Older Spock - with this story Older Spock becomes an echo of somebody Kirk already loves, and the easy trust Kirk shows in him is... fascinating? Not quite the right word I'm looking for here.
You've created an incredibly layered and fascinating and funny original character, and when I read the line that Sakel had been on Vulcan when it died, I started crying. Jim's reaction was absolutely heartbreaking -- his first thought of what Sakel would say about grief, and then getting up and doing his job again.
The humor that you put into this was likewise pure genius; there's far too many parts that made me laugh for me to count. But the thing that I loved most is that Kirk would make some ridicutarded and hysterical comment or observation, and then follow it up with something like this:
"If Jim was a different person, more like the person he had seen in the other Spock's memories, maybe he'd have the words to tell Spock that it was okay. It wasn't logical, maybe, but you learned to live with the pain, even got used to it. You could bear it with some degree of grace. But he's not that person, he's just the Jim Kirk of here, broken himself and held together with the hopes and dreams of other people and his own stubborn will, and he has no words to tell this Spock that things will get more bearable.
... aaaaand cue more tears.
I love that Uhura's such a linguistic fangirl, that Sulu just casually carries his foldy-sword with him wherever he goes, that Spock is already laughing at Kirk and his dumbass-ness, that Bones is more fascinated than concerned about Kirk's allergies of amazing. I love that, and the Oregon, and its crew, and the names for relations in Pre-Revolution Vulcan, and... everything, in short and in long, about this story.
Thank you for writing this. I'm grateful that I've read it.
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Yes, and it adds nuances to Kirk's relationship with Older Spock - with this story Older Spock becomes an echo of somebody Kirk already loves, and the easy trust Kirk shows in him is... fascinating? Not quite the right word I'm looking for here.
Totally in my head!canon now.
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