thosevulcaneyebrows:
obsidianembrace replied to your post “I ♡ T’Pring. Just sayin, bro.”
i’m pretty sure i’m the only person that does not like t’pring. :P tell me more of this love you have and maybe you can convince me. you’re pretty good at the persuasion thing.
*SLAPS HANDS TOGETHER AND RUBS THEM FURIOUSLY*
Let me tell you why I love this space queen.
She was brave enough to give the middle finger to millennia-old customs of her race - a stiff, rigid, and proper people who place high value on traditions and just fitting in.
Stepping back for a moment, can you imagine parents refusing to allow their children to go through kahs-wan? It would never happen. If failing the test would bring shame to the family, I can’t imagine how quickly one would be exiled from society if the parents “illogically” wished to protect their children from the potential dangers and refused to allow them to participate.
While the kal-if-fee exists, I don’t see intended “property” practicing it in modern times because doing so would outcast him or her from what already is a very closed society. Vulcans seem to hold value in not rocking the boat and just blending in. After all… kaiidth!
But T’Pring basically said fuck all of that. She didn’t choose Spock and didn’t want to be tied down to him. Whether she never liked him from the beginning or grew distant because of his many years in space, it doesn’t matter. The fact is that she didn’t want to become a victim of a tradition that would forever dissatisfy her.
But she didn’t stop there. It wasn’t a “this isn’t working out so let me try to get out of this” type of deal. She legitimately MOVED ON without trying to rectify this mess she found herself in because:
1. Maybe Spock would never go through pon farr because he was half human. Why make waves if the ocean is calm?
2. Maybe she didn’t want to cause issues before the time actually came, because perhaps her family or Spock’s would interfere and force her to keep the “relationship”
Therefore, despite the expectations that she would marry Spock, she allowed herself to grow fond of Stonn before addressing the problem of being bonded to Spock. That takes some insane courage. She seriously just said, “Fuck you!” to the world. I LOVE HER.
We never get to see what drew them together, but for all we know, T’Pring and Stonn could’ve been sitting in the desert under the stars together having hand sex and then talking about the potential future they might have. I’m sure they came up with different ideas on how to go about it. I think that’s awesome.
But, after all, no one knew Kirk and McCoy would be there for the ceremony. Quick thinking allowed T’Pring to conjure up the genius idea of naming Kirk as her champion. You saw Stonn standing there with his shifty eyes and looking the Vulcan equivalent of nervous? Yeah, he thought he was gonna have to fight Spock… But sly ol’ awesome T’Pring wasn’t having any of that!
Also. This isn’t just anyone T’Pring rejected. It’s Spock, son of Sarek. The Vulcan Ambassador. His societal importance is extremely high. Spock himself is a legend (as she said herself) and even he was like, “Wtf. There’s no benefit of preferring Stonn over me. grl u cray cray!!one!1” ( or something like that ;D )
So, can you imagine… not only going against tradition and what is expected of you, but doing it when it involves such high-profile figures? Conspicuous gallantry, I tell you!
T’Pring could be cast out so hardcore by society and completely disgrace her own family name… but she decided her free will, her satisfaction, and her desire to live the way she wanted was more important than all of that. You go, space queen.
Besides. If she hadn’t issued the challenge, she would’ve actually married Spock - and wouldn’t that suck? Spock clearly wasn’t too thrilled about the bond, considering he actually said he had hoped his human half would spare him from pon farr. It would’ve put T’Pring, Spock, and Kirk all in shitty positions because none of them would have ended up happy.
SO THERE. This is why T’Pring is the most BAMF ever. Koon-ut-kal-if-fee? Nah. To her, it’s koon-ut-kal-if-fuckyou.
Some thoughts about Vulcans and their behavior when they’re in love…
(This is long dudes and probably full of gramatical errors, just warning)
I was studying some notes about of cubism, expressionism, surrealism and anothers avant-garde arts, but I got bored and I came for computer for do something useless.
So… I was thinking about fanfiction. Why almost all the fanfics that I already read shows Spock like a caveman, possessive, over protective, affectionate and jealousy with Jim? This is canon, or just facts of fics that were repeated so that they seem right?
Well, let’s see. I’m not a trekker for so many years; my knowledge stuff is the episodes (all of them) and the movies (all of them), I didn’t read none of the books (yet). So, I decided think about just in these informations, without think in all the information that fanfics have.
The first thought is that Vulcans are generally known like beings without emotions, so, it’s out of the character characterize Vulcans like possessives caveman when they’re in love.
Well, we all know that it’s pretty clear that is bullshit. Of course, they can do the Koolinar (I don’t remember if it is write this way, but is the ritual for eliminate the emotions), but, if don’t, they have pretty strong emotions. For example: pride. Vulcans are fucking proud of themselves, so proud that sometimes is a little annoying. So, they have emotions; all that they can do naturally is control these emotions.
Second thought: pre Surak societies were passionates warriors, fact that almost drive them to mutual self-destruction. So, after Surak, Vulcans learned how control their emotions (control your emotions or your emotions will control you - I really should learn it).
But… well, this is more observation and speculation from my part. Okay, modern Vulcans can control their strong emotions. Right. But if someone provoke them, really make them pissed off, they will loose their control - Star Trek 2009, This Side of Paradise, The Naked Time… a lot of examples. So, really, really strong emotions and reactions could make their perfect blank face falls.
So, yeah, in my point of view, Vulcans can very well act emotionally for strong emotions. Not so emotionally, they are Vulcans, but… you understand. So, strong emotions.
(I don’t know about you, but I think that love is a very strong emotion).
In the third thought, I thought in the relationships that Spock already had. I am very lazy now for put them all, so I will talk only of the girls that I remember. The first: Leila Kalomi, This Side of Paradise. Spock was - in the lack of the better words - drugged when he was with she. But he was with she. And he seemed to be very… affectionate with Leila. Very, indeed: of all the person, he ignored Jim for stay with she. It means something. (heavy drugs)
In Amok Time, we have T'Pring. Spock did not loved her, and the feeling was reciprocal. He just wanted fuck her for don’t die. So, I will jump she.The Romulan Commander from The Enterprise Incident; well, he seduced (or was seduced) she for business, so, I will jump she too.
Then, we have Droxine from The Cloud Minders. Spock is very strange in this episode. He talks with she about Pon Farr. Pon Farr. Vulcans are fucking prude about Pon Farr, but still; have a lot of flirting feelings in this episode.
So, the most important that I remember: Zarabeth, from All Our Yesterdays. I think Spock really loved her. We know that in this episode he really was a caveman, affected from the time. So, he was protective, a bit possessive and very affectionate with she. But of course that he had to leave the Ice Age and leave she, too.
So, back for the first point: Spock really would act so caveman with Jim?
My answer: yes. How I speculate, in my view, strong emotions could make holes in Vulcan self control. And a canon fate is: Spock have strong feelings for Kirk. I, how slasher, take this feelings out of the platonic view; but anyway, these feelings are there. So, if Spock would have Jim as bondmate, I thought he would be possessive, over protective, affectionate and even dominating with Jim, and this wouldn’t be out of character..
Ugh. I should have been studying avant-garde arts.
