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Fic: How Well Do We Know You?

Jul 23, 2009 03:05

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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fic, star trek, trek09

Comments 40

stella_owned July 23 2009, 10:33:48 UTC

Liked this a lot. :D

shadowloverk July 23 2009, 16:34:55 UTC

Thanks so much!

cleokoneko July 24 2009, 13:31:55 UTC

Wow. Amazing fic! *loves*

shadowloverk July 24 2009, 17:14:02 UTC

Thank you!

avidita July 26 2009, 14:58:11 UTC

Hrmpf. This is now canon, for me. It will be quite hard not to let his watch chime now and again in upcoming writing. XD It all just makes so much sense!

Also, I love how you portrayed Frank. While I am a sucker for Hurt!Kirk and therefore tolerate Bastard!Frank, writing it myself, too, it's actually not very reasonable to believe Kirk came out of his childhood the way he did with neglect or absuse going on.

TL;DR: loved this. been waiting for Caring!Frank. will have problems separating this from canon facts.

shadowloverk July 27 2009, 01:49:50 UTC

Thank you! I find that a lot of things from great stories I love become part of my personal canon, for a lot of fandoms. I also like to try writing things that aren't in my personal canon but should be interesting to write (or because they're utilized so seldomly). That's where the caring!Frank came from. He's demonized so often in fanfic that he needed to be the nice guy for once.

The eating problem is actually something that I have, though the cause is physiological in my case and not psychological as it is with Kirk. I wanted to try using it in a fanfic and I'd been meaning to write a eating disorder stemming from Tarsus so I just melded the two. I'm so glad it worked and you enjoyed it!

anonymous July 26 2009, 17:28:22 UTC

i loved it. you even mentioned Jim's hazel eyes!!!

i LOVED it.

shadowloverk July 27 2009, 02:02:50 UTC

Thank you! I've seen a few fics that tried to explain the difference (because it does bother me, in a back of my mind sort of way) but I hadn't yet encountered the idea of colored contacts.

anonymous July 29 2009, 00:47:45 UTC

I love this, especially numbers 3 and 4.

Many forget that Kirk is actually a genius and I really do doubt that he wasted his whole life away before Star Fleet.

A Caring!Frank also seems more likely than an abusive one because I am sure that evidence of abuse would be hard to hide from futur technology.

I love how these situations are different than most fanon ideas. It's really refreshing.

shadowloverk July 29 2009, 02:12:53 UTC

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 ( ... )