stunt_muppet

SEE THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY YOU NEED TO COME OVER AND VISIT ME. We can watch BWoC together and The Menagerie as well! I'll be there for emotional support and yelling "banaaaaang" at dramatic moments so you'll laugh. :(

also calling someone "Daddy" when, you know, they are one.

Exactly. That, and maybe it's because I really, honestly cannot wrap my brain around the whole Oedipal thing. I get it in concept, but it seems so bassackwards that I can't buy it except as a very unconscious, subtextual thing - rivalry, or tension between child and parent, or...I don't know, something, but whenever it goes so far as explicit sexual attachment I just stop buying it, and the idea of someone in the "father" position (especially someone who's actually a father) wanting something like that from their "child" just...doesn't work. But YKINMK and all that.

(I'm ashamed to admit that I actually did write infantilization of a sort once, mostly to see if I could, but even then I couldn't take it all the way to Daddy-kink. And it was infantilization-of-one-character-via-mind-altering-spores-and-the-other-character-serving-as-their-caretaker-and-wracked-with-guilt-over-how-appealing-they-find-the-whole-thing rather than infantilization proper. Which is probably even worse, and has overtones of Special Bonus Kink-Shaming which was why I never posted it, but I felt I should get that off my chest.)

Ooooh, I do love the corporal-punishment idea - it plays with the layers of their relationship and manages to be kind of emotionally-kinky without being actually shippy or casting the relationship as sexual, which I think is very sneaky and cool of you. I think there might be a plausibility issue with Starfleet administering corporal punishment, but it's nothing you couldn't handwave away so long as you did go to the effort of handwaving. I do love the shippy ideas, especially because I'd love to see how you reconcile Kirk's admiration of and striving to be like Pike with his more confrontational and defiant personality, and especially the way movie!Kirk thinks about his father compared to TOS!Kirk - just based on what the movie says about it movie!Pike would be even more of a mould for Kirk to fit snce he wouldn't have the additional influence of his father (at least, not directly - he'd only have his legacy, which isn't the same thing as being influenced by a person).

I did know that Pike was supposed to be the main character (Dad told me when I informed him that Pike was in the new movie, which made him happy - I think he rather likes Captain Pike himself), and I like your reading of how that translates to Kirk's characterization.

To be fair to McCoy, evil!bearded!Spock is a rather intimidating figure. But hey, sub!McCoy makes perfect sense to me - he's a doctor, after all not a bricklayer I'M SORRY I COULDN'T HELP IT, and doesn't particularly like space travel - command and giving orders aren't his thing to begin with. And the people he *can* boss around are patients, usually already vulnerable and not in a position to give orders or confront him in any meaningful way.

Also, the first time I looked at the comment above, with the .gifs, I had the medley from the end of the film Kinky Boots playing on my iTunes. You know, the one with Chiwetel Ejiofor in drag singing "These Boots Are Made For Walkin" and "Cha Cha Heels" and the like.

It made the scene a little weird.