Plaid, with regards to the post you reblogged. Who fell in love first, Kirk or Spock? What do you think? I think it would be Jim because he's the kind of person that falls in love with everything. For Spock I think he would be in love for a while but completely oblivious about it. And then one day it would hit him, Oh my Surak, this is what love feels like.
i’m totally with you there. jim strikes me as the kind of person who will love and love and love and keep giving, even if he winds up hurt in the end. i see him as someone who is happy to give and gives freely, but never expects to receive in return. for this reason, i think he falls in love with spock first but doesn’t push or shove himself into spock’s life.
and then we have spock, who perhaps never understood what love is in a romantic context on his own. like he has the example of his parents to follow but seeing and feeling are much different--especially when one is intent on repressing their emotions. spock has every ability to love just as anyone else does; it’s just how he reacts to it that defines him as a vulcan.
but one day, all the small smiles, the half-lidded gazes, the chess matches, the small touches on the bridge, the “ah, yes, mister spock”s, that slap when he admitted shame to feeling friendship...they all become unavoidable to process as logic.
that’s when spock falls and he falls hard.
