fic I am not writing
May. 17th, 2009 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobel...I am totally not writing a fic about Spock Prime watching Spock (who is the same sort of thin-vulcan-shell-over-mess-of-emotions but has a lot more anger and sharp edges to him, and grief now, and illogical responsibility for his mother's death (because if he'd been faster, if he had come just a few seconds earlier, if he had held her closer--)) and thinking about how much he's lost, and how much of that is in some respect his fault. The destruction of Romulus, not so much*, except by twisted non-logic; the destruction of Vulcan, indirectly, because it was done specifically to punish him (and he knows that he isn't responsible for Nero's craziness -- Nero would put the responsibility entirely on Spock using the same "look what you made me do" nonlogic that abusers use to blame the victim -- but he is still one of the causes); by some angles, the destruction of an entire timeline reality, which ... I'm not sure whether Star Trek canon would allow for simultaneous parallel realities (i.e. Universe Prime didn't get replaced by the reboot universe) or not, but in any effect, he can't return, and ...
... not writing. totally not.
* backseat-driver moment: my memory may be suspect because I've only seen it once, but IIRC the sequence was: spock comes up with method to stop the supernova from eating romulus, the supernova eats romulus before he gets there, he uses the method to stop it from eating the rest of the universe or something like that, and creates the singularity that magically allows time travel. yes? because if so, it would have been awesomer -- at least from a story perspective if, you know, not so much awesome in the sense of Spock and responsibility -- if romulus was in a maybe situation and the red-matter singularity was what ate the planet. because as it was presented, or at least as I remember it occurring, nero had no sane reason to blame spock.
... not writing. totally not.
* backseat-driver moment: my memory may be suspect because I've only seen it once, but IIRC the sequence was: spock comes up with method to stop the supernova from eating romulus, the supernova eats romulus before he gets there, he uses the method to stop it from eating the rest of the universe or something like that, and creates the singularity that magically allows time travel. yes? because if so, it would have been awesomer -- at least from a story perspective if, you know, not so much awesome in the sense of Spock and responsibility -- if romulus was in a maybe situation and the red-matter singularity was what ate the planet. because as it was presented, or at least as I remember it occurring, nero had no sane reason to blame spock.
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Date: 2009-05-17 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-18 06:00 am (UTC)And no, Nero's not very sane and his blame of Spock isn't particularly either. Even allowing for Vulcan being asshats about helping the Romulans, Spock was certainly doing his personal damnedest.