#mirror!culber

[noworneverphantom]

Falling in love in the Terran universe is a dangerous thing…

(ignore the ugly watermark)

inspired by @sadmushroomgoblin’s Terran fics and the knife flirting they like to write…

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[chillychive]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Mirror Hugh Culber/Mirror Paul Stamets Characters: Mirror Paul Stamets, Mirror Hugh Culber, Mirror Tracy Pollard Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mirror Universe (Star Trek), Dark, Fluff and Angst, weirdly tender in that way I write Terran fics…, Mass murder can be something so personal, Hurt/Comfort Series: Part 18 of Goblin’s Star Trek Discovery Fics Summary:

A Terran relationship is dangerous. There are rules to navigating it. This is how Paul Stamets and Hugh Culber break those rules.

Based kind of on the song How To Be A Heartbreaker by MARINA

  (updates every day)

This, other than being a fantastic fic you should read, I find super interesting based on a comment that Mirror!Georgiou makes about Paul and Hugh in (i believe?) season 3. In the scene, she tries to flirt with Paul (again, i think), and Hugh sees how clearly uncomfortable Paul is & speaks up that he’s gay. Georgiou replies that in her universe he’s pan (or bi? I don’t remember). 

This is quite interesting because in this amazing fic by @sadmushroomgoblin it explains that Terran relationships differ from the Prime Universe relationships because they are not based on feelings, merely a fun pastime that is to be fled from as soon as things could get dangerous. Which is on track based on Georgiou’s comments. 

I think it’s fairly likely that sexuality in the mirrorverse is far more of necessity and less serious than in Prime, which means Mirror!Culmets wouldn’t necessarily actually be bi/pan, since romantic feelings are to be squashed and the object of said feelings to be murdered. 

It also begs the question of “is sexuality a universal constant”. Of course, how someone defines it is based on the words they have, their environment and their own experiences. But is it possible that their actual attraction is the same from universe to universe? We can definitively say that genetics is not a role in sexuality (other than the “gay gene” concept being offensive, it’s also easily disproven by looking at identical twins.), which means that the main factor shared between counterparts is taken away. So what is it? Is it a universal constant in the first place? Are Georgiou’s comments correct?