Prepared. Sarek/Amanda and baby Spock

[noein9]

Oh hai!

Here's an Amanda fic for you, featuring baby Spock and Sarek!

Summary: Amanda has to present baby Spock to the Clan. All does not go as expected.

Rated PG for one swear word.

Prepared
Noein9

Comments

[rubynye]

Go Amanda GO!

I really love your way with Vulcans in general and Sarek in specific, and Amanda is simultaneously a Human a Vulcan can love and so vibrantly recognizeably Human to us.

This is well and awesomely done. *applauds*

(PS I love the callback to Dr. Spock. :D)

[noein9]

Hey there!

Oh, thank you! I really was feeling my way through this. I think that in RebootVerse Amanda did not allow herself to become as submerged in her marriage and identity as TOSverse Amanda did.

Yes, Benjamin Spock, defender of children, anti war activist and all out good guy! Thanks for picking that up.

[ebonbird_fic]

Thank you for this.

It's strong and intriguing. Amanda and Sarek are wonderful. Spock adorable. T'Pau understandable. :)

I enjoyed it and delighted in Amanda's choice in making her own way so that Spock would have an experience of Vulcan welcoming him. And, in doing so Amanda added to Sarek's cachet aside from what his family could give him.

She is a magnificent wife and a tenacious fighter of a mother.

[noein9]

Thank you for your very kind comments! I really think that in this verse, Amanda did make her own way, which probably gave Spock some his self confidence- almost arrogance- in his personality.

[forthisreason]

This was great. Really puts into perspective how peculiar and horrible of a childhood Spock must have lead.

And when you said Spock was laughing I was like, D: So when people would say Spock would never laugh, Amanda could say she's seen it.

Amanda is an effin' legend. Love her to pieces.

[noein9]

Oh, hey there!

Thank you for reading! I really had to think how much Amanda was in love with Sarek, how Sarek was utterly devoted to her and to Spock, and how Amanda had to make her own way.

Of course Spock laughed! He was a baby. Babies are usually full of joy! But you can see how that natural joy could be utterly crushed by this society, you know?

[forthisreason]

Yeah, it's just...still something I never thought about. They do say that they start learning the way in their youth, but it's not immediate...I just never thought of Vulcan babies laughing.

[noein9]

hey, so happy you enjoyed this! And yeah, Amanda- Spock got that attitude from somewhere!

[diane_kepler]

Your Vulcan is so different from mine. But I liked this story. It was rich with detail and your version of Sarek was so lovable. Nice job.

[noein9]

My interpretation of Vulcan is based on what I have gathered from Canon, from Nimoy and some ofthe older civilizations on Earth- China and India.

1) China and India are old. The cultures were around at the time of Egypt, which was older As such, I think Vulcan, with it's hundreds of years of spaceflight and nearly 2000 years of peace, would be extremely settled and comfortable with it's own ways of doing things- even when they were wrong.

2) Spock's character is one who is extremely privileged and raised by extraordinary people- his mom has to be a rebel of sorts to marry an alien yet she is a apparently a woman of great intellect and taste. Spock's father is an ambassador and the son, grandson of very important people as well as the direct matrileanal descendant of Surak. Yet due to nastiness of his culture towards him, he runs away to the circus um, Starfleet

[diane_kepler]

So very cool to hear about where your interpretations came from. I love this behind-the-scenes sort of chatter about interesting characters.

And as for me reading your scribblings, I'm just as happy that you are reading mine! Also, I am frending you because you're cool like that. :)