Fic: How Well Do We Know You?

[shadowloverk]

Title: How Well Do We Know You? Five Times Jim Kirk Surprised His Crew With Something About Himself and One Time They Surprised Him
Author: ShadowLoverK
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Summary: Exactly what it says

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[shadowloverk]

My personal canon includes the idea that Jim was in that bar getting drunk as some kind of annual ritual (I tend to lean towards remembering his father) and that it's not normal behavior for him. I don't see him as a frat boy, despit what fanon seems to tell us. And yeah, that includes him doing something with his life. He didn't enter Starfleet at 17 like Prime Kirk, so what else might he have done? He's obviously good with computers in the movie (especially ignoring the novel where Gaila talks in her sleep {rolls eyes}) so a computer degree made sense.

As for Frank, I have to admit that I tend to lean towards the he's not a great father side, even if I don't always go for the abusive angle (though I like that as well). As technology improves, so will the ways of beating it, so yeah, I think abuse could still be uncaught. But Frank gets bashed so much in fanfic that I figured he deserved some time as a good guy. I don't like writing cliches (except, you know, in crack) even if there is a good reason they became cliches in the first place.