#eotm

Why do you think (personal headcanons or theories) that Luke and Emily were fighting before he ran out? How long did the arguments last before it happened? Was it just parental overprotectiveness or was it a fundamental disagreement?

Verity at night

Alt versions + base used (bc I am a little bitch who can't do anatomy) under the cut

Okay, first of all: SAME.

Second of all, let’s unpack the sheer emotional and sensory chaos that would hit Jim during their first meld in an intimate moment. Given everything we know about mind melds, especially their intensity and vulnerability, this moment would be like throwing every fanfiction trope and soft-focus filter into a blender.

Picture this: Spock’s touch, already electric (because yes, Jim is extra and notices these things), suddenly cracks open a door to Spock’s mind. Jim doesn’t just feel Spock’s emotions—he experiences them. The longing Spock’s been burying under all that Vulcan restraint? Jim now knows how it tastes, how it burns. Spock’s discipline and logic can’t hold up against the mutual vulnerability of the meld, and Jim would feel that restraint giving way to something raw, primal, and utterly consuming.

On Jim’s side? His chaotic cocktail of command stress, self-doubt, and overwhelming love for Spock would spill out in all its messy glory. He’d be terrified at first—of being seen, of Spock realizing how deeply Jim’s tethered to him—but Spock’s presence would feel like being wrapped in the calmest, warmest starlight. It’s intimacy on a level he’s never known. A bonding moment in the truest sense.

AND THEN—because I am mean to my characters—it would be laced with the tiniest ache. Jim realizing Spock’s mind isn’t just open; it’s lonely. That a connection like this is as alien to Spock as it is to him. The tenderness that would ignite in Jim…ugh.