hi ! feel free to answer this publicly or privately . i was just reading your discovery canon divergences and was happy to see that in your canon jett is reunited with her wife ! i was wondering if you'd thought more about her as a character ? if i recall she was non - human but that's literally all the show gave us . i'd love to hear any ideas you have about her and her relationship with jett !
first of all, ily a lot. and second, this is an absolutely wonderful question!! i’m still figuring out a lot of the littler details about jett and developing her beyond what we see in the show so this is perfect, but!!! in zanza canon, the bury your gays trope doesn’t exist and every lgbtq+ character in zanza canon gets to have their happy ending in my main verses ( which, for the record, is all of them not a single muse on this blog is even remotely straight and the only time any of them die are for Personal Temporary Angst Purposes, u heard it here first, folks every muse on this blog is immortal from here on out ), so obviously that was the first thing that needed to be fixed. but onto actually answering the question!!
so! jett’s wife is soyousian, and we know literally nothing about them except for the fact that they exist, so i’m gonna honestly be creating her as i go. which is always fun!! u know, trust me and my adhd brain to craft an entire alien race from their name?? cool let’s do it, what could possibly go wrong? i’m gonna be vague to begin with, bc i wanna give the development of the soyousians themselves the care and thought they deserve, so mostly this is gonna be me talkin about their relationship?
sO in zanza canon, as far as it’s been established, the soyousians are fairly newly known to humans. they’ve been warp-capable for almost 300 years, and share a bond with humans in that their first contact was also with vulcans. this common thread is what led jett’s wife, who i’ve gone ahead and named iminre, to want to visit earth not too long after humans and soyousians made initial contact. a small delegation was chosen, some were commoners, some were diplomats, some were students. iminre was one of those who fell into the latter category. she’d always been fascinated by other cultures, and even on her own planet she loved learning about the differences between those who lived even cities apart. she was fairly young when the first group were going to earth, roughly 23 in earth years, and still a student. from what we know about her from the brief conversation jett had with hugh, she’s the sort of person who just knows what they want and isn’t afraid to do whatever it takes to get it — which is probably how she ended up being one of those picked for the trip in the first place.
this isn’t where she met jett, but it’s where she first really became infatuated with humanity in general. the way people lived, their general zeal for exploration — it wasn’t something she saw much on her home-world. they were warp capable, yes, but many preferred to keep to themselves, and others were downright xenophobic. iminre had always been seen as odd for having such a desire to explore, so when the delegation of soyousians left, she stayed behind. she joined starfleet and became a xenoanthropologist which is?? sort of how we get into her and jett meeting.
sO they were assigned to the same starship after iminre’s graduation from the academy, and jett was a lieutenant already, and obvi. an engineer, but not really a people person? she sort of kept to herself, didn’t have many friends, and really just preferred to work or sit in her quarters reading. so the two of them didn’t even meet until the comm system in iminre’s quarters stopped working and jett was the one sent to fix it. she didn’t say much, she really just let iminre talk her ear off, but there was some decent banter and a connection right off the bat. before anything could really spark, though, jett was transferred to another ship.
it was another three years before they saw each other again, and to both of their surprise, jett was the one who approached iminre and asked her out. said she hadn’t been able to stop thinking about a certain annoying, talkative, opinionated soyousian for three damn years and figured she might as well. for a long time it was long distance bc they were assigned to different ships, but one day iminre showed up on the ship jett was assigned to and jett was like ‘wtf you’re supposed to be on a mission right now’, and iminre just kissed her and was like ‘well i decided i didn’t like that, so i came up with a solution’ and fucking proposed right there ( bc ‘you asked me out first, jett, this gets to be my thing’ ).
jett didn’t really want any part of wedding planning, especially since she knew iminre would be all over it ( which we know she was ), and despite the complaining she does to hugh about the micromanaging, jett ended up really surprised that her girl — despite all of her opinions, and strong-willed stubbornness — managed to make it the perfect day for both of them. and really? jett can be kind of a drama queen, and has a tendency to blow things a little bit out of proportion for the sake of a story.
but honestly they’re just the kind of people who work really well together? they fight over dumb little things, but they also bring out the best in each other. jett likes to joke that iminre only married her because of her fascination with humans, but she’s (almost) always kidding, and she Knows she’ll always get a kiss out of it?? and uh. they’re pure and soft and iminre brings jett out of her shell more, and jett helps iminre to tone it down a little when she needs to. and when they’re reunited? they get into a “i thought you were dead!!” “well i heard you were almost dead!!!!” arguing match before they both start crying and hugging each other, and iminre transfers to the discovery as soon as she’s cleared to return to duty and jett acts more like she did before the war and everyone’s like ‘???? who are you and what have you done with jett reno?’ and she flips them all off. thank you.
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