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I've been reading Reboot Kirk-Spock friendship fic - which, I've discovered, is my favorite kind - in my spare time. I have discerned a pattern of sorts:
(1) James trying too hard - (2) awkwardness - (3) mentions of both working together swimmingly during missions - (4) awkwardness remains when off-duty - (5) humorous passage - (6) brief ten seconds window where they "get" each other, which somehow should be taken as clear indication they'll eventually be bff/The End
I think I'd enjoy some of those fics a lot more without step 6, tho. It can feel a bit tacked on after many paragraphs on their inability to talk outside mission/crisis situations and just be at ease around each other.
The idea that they may not ever work as really close friends, even if they have all the same blocks that make their AU counterparts besties/bros/t'hy'la, is really interesting, too, if way sad. So the rushed "It'll all work out in the end, trust" ending isn't necessary.
(1) James trying too hard - (2) awkwardness - (3) mentions of both working together swimmingly during missions - (4) awkwardness remains when off-duty - (5) humorous passage - (6) brief ten seconds window where they "get" each other, which somehow should be taken as clear indication they'll eventually be bff/The End
I think I'd enjoy some of those fics a lot more without step 6, tho. It can feel a bit tacked on after many paragraphs on their inability to talk outside mission/crisis situations and just be at ease around each other.
The idea that they may not ever work as really close friends, even if they have all the same blocks that make their AU counterparts besties/bros/t'hy'la, is really interesting, too, if way sad. So the rushed "It'll all work out in the end, trust" ending isn't necessary.