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my boy builds coffins by waldorph (Teen And Up Audiences)
Fandom: STAR TREK: REBOOT
Pairing: Jim Kirk/Spock
Length: 2618 words
Author on LJ: no lj listed under AO3 profile
Author Website: archiveofourown.org/users/waldorph/pseuds/waldorph
Why this must be read:
This is an interesting one. A quietly devastating and darkly romantic Spock POV, “my boy builds coffins” lives up to its chilling name. With the exception of a few Britisms, this fic is damn near flawless. It’s almost like a half-step towards Mirror ‘verse fic, existing somewhere between STR canon and that one. This is a less forgiving look at the codependence between Jim and Spock. It supports its reasoning for viewing the two men as maybe a little less heroic, maybe a little more sociopathic, with the same cold logic that the author’s Spock uses in his view of events. There’s a lot of mass killing here, but as waldorph’s Spock points out, it’s not unprovoked mass killing. It’s all done in defense of one’s self and one’s friends. The choice is repeatedly made: Them, or Us. Both Spock and Jim continually choose “Us”, meaning both the Enterprise crew, and each other. And maybe they even feel a little bad about the costs that come along with that. But not that bad. waldorph lets us see that not all of the characters embrace this menality. That maybe Spock and Jim are a very dangerous partnership.
I don’t necessarily agree with every slant of the facts and each bend of characterization (particularly regarding Uhura, considering certain reactions of hers in the Into Darkness movie, but this was written before then, so that’s forgivable) that waldorph takes here, but I can see the seeds for such an approach and appreciate it for its fiercely romantic and gleefully savage qualities all bound up in extremely elegant prose. This is kind of like Mirror ‘verse fic for people who have no stomachs for all that usually entails. It’s not about the gore, but the eerie beauty that can be found alongside the viciousness of protecting one’s own. It’s about what protecting one’s own really means.
It doesn’t come cheap.
Let me just leave you with one of my favorite non-spoilery lines:
Jim has taken hold of the universe and forced it to accept him[.]
my boy builds coffins
Pairing: Jim Kirk/Spock
Length: 2618 words
Author on LJ: no lj listed under AO3 profile
Author Website: archiveofourown.org/users/waldorph/pseuds/waldorph
Why this must be read:
This is an interesting one. A quietly devastating and darkly romantic Spock POV, “my boy builds coffins” lives up to its chilling name. With the exception of a few Britisms, this fic is damn near flawless. It’s almost like a half-step towards Mirror ‘verse fic, existing somewhere between STR canon and that one. This is a less forgiving look at the codependence between Jim and Spock. It supports its reasoning for viewing the two men as maybe a little less heroic, maybe a little more sociopathic, with the same cold logic that the author’s Spock uses in his view of events. There’s a lot of mass killing here, but as waldorph’s Spock points out, it’s not unprovoked mass killing. It’s all done in defense of one’s self and one’s friends. The choice is repeatedly made: Them, or Us. Both Spock and Jim continually choose “Us”, meaning both the Enterprise crew, and each other. And maybe they even feel a little bad about the costs that come along with that. But not that bad. waldorph lets us see that not all of the characters embrace this menality. That maybe Spock and Jim are a very dangerous partnership.
I don’t necessarily agree with every slant of the facts and each bend of characterization (particularly regarding Uhura, considering certain reactions of hers in the Into Darkness movie, but this was written before then, so that’s forgivable) that waldorph takes here, but I can see the seeds for such an approach and appreciate it for its fiercely romantic and gleefully savage qualities all bound up in extremely elegant prose. This is kind of like Mirror ‘verse fic for people who have no stomachs for all that usually entails. It’s not about the gore, but the eerie beauty that can be found alongside the viciousness of protecting one’s own. It’s about what protecting one’s own really means.
It doesn’t come cheap.
Let me just leave you with one of my favorite non-spoilery lines:
Jim has taken hold of the universe and forced it to accept him[.]
my boy builds coffins