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  1. SLWalker on Chapter 4 Fri 16 Jun 2023 07:02PM UTC

    Still really love how you recreate Mira here. I didn't care for her in TOS like-- at all, for a large number of reasons (not the least of which how condescending everyone else gets anytime Scotty even remotely thinks about anything besides work, but also because he's such a dumbass in this regard), so your take on her was delightful. That she's bold. That she's thoughtful and capable of making decisions. That she's trans.

    I still have the Same Opinions(tm) re other people breaking his confidences because jfc, people, can we not be those kinds of assholes? But given what it leads to later back in 1989-- little transgressions across boundaries will almost always lead to bigger ones and almost always lead to people forgetting that just because you're mentally ill does not mean they have a right to walk past them.

    Anyway, I like that they almost fucked in the library. I like that she essentially saved herself. Nice fix on TOS canon. I also like that she was smart enough to realize that she could and should take that posting she really wanted to, and to work through what happened to her. Clever lass. She reminds me a bit of Fio Langley, if perhaps not quite as lecherous as Fio. (Fio had that down to an artform. Heh.)

    Excellent chapter. The realization that I am getting closer and closer to EVEN MORE HARROWING SHIT gives me some second-hand anxiety, not gonna lie. XD Marks to an excellent tale that it can do that even knowing the ending.

    Last Edited Fri 16 Jun 2023 07:03PM UTC

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    1. daraoakwise on Chapter 4 Sat 17 Jun 2023 06:02PM UTC

      I wanted her to be trans without it—being A Thing. It’s unremarkable. Like, being born with a cleft lip or something. There was something wrong, we fixed it. Easy. It’s what we do in the 23rd century.

      The TOS episode really took away her autonomy.
      There was this line from McCoy, really condescending, along the lines of ‘she’s a hypochondriac.’ Being trans, though, she is in tune with her body. And she damn well knows where there is something about it that’s NOT HER. (Also, in a couple years, when Scotty says ‘I’m struggling to live in my body,’ she’ll be able to talk to him about it.) I appreciated being able to rewrite this one for sure.

      And aye, there is boundary breaking by friends. Which becomes a problem, as you well know.

      Harrowing stuff, coming next chapter 😈

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