[ SECRET POST #4153 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4153 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This. I feel like once you start taking a character too far away from the canon circumstances that shaped their life, they stop being that character and start being just an OC with a familiar face. In which case... why not just write an OC? Why try to pretend that this OC with Spock's face has anything to do with the actual canon Spock? Because it doesn't, not when you strip him of all of the elements from his canon that make him who he is.

[(Anonymous)]

But, again, the same could be said of all AUs

[(Anonymous)]

Not especially, no. I mean, if you have a terrible, terrible writer then sure, all scenarios are equally OOC and tenuous. But otherwise, Spock's characterization should be less affected by, say, a Star Trek wingfic AU than in the "It's the crew of the Enterprise except it's 2018 and there's no federation and no one's an alien and they all work at a coffee shop and Chekov goes to my highschool!" dreck that's being discussed in this secret. However, if that dreck's your thing, then go for it. There's obviously a market and we all like our fair share of trash. You don't need my or OP's approval to read or write whatever you want, and I'll take a tag full of ridiculous modern-day coffee shop fluff over one more a/b/o-verse.

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For me, the big fun of AUs is 1) trying to create really appropriate parallels. Biracial spock is sort of obvious, but you can have him wrestle with feeling trapped between two worlds. What kind of human life would create a person who was actually a version of Spock, and not a spockface OC? For some people that's a really interesting question.

(For a more involved example...I always kind of wanted to write a humanstuck AU where Karkat had AIDS in maybe the 90s. None of the tragic backstory elements I ever read in AUs seemed like they really matched what it meant for him to have candy red blood on Alternia: the living under a death sentence, the betrayal by his body, the way (he imagines) it would make him a social pariah if it were ever discovered, the need to hide illness/injury, and so on. I never wrote it because I didn't have time to do enough research to do it right/respectfully, but the idea still intrigues me.)

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2) trying to hold some things exactly the same, but letting him become a genuinely completely different person in other circumstances. And this is completely uninteresting to me as an OC, because this alternate Spock explores the nature/nurture question. The differences are interesting because the canon version exists to compare it to metatextually.

Best of all are the AUs that do both. What's Spock like if Sarek is strict traditional confucian chinese, and the emphasis on logic is replaced with an emphasis on propriety? You still have the spock's need for outward emotional control, certainly still his selflessness and dedication to duty. Is his rebellion against Vulcan by going to Starfleet instead of the VSA more or less pointed when part of the dual identity he wrestles with revolves heavily around respect for the father? There's no obvious answer. But any thoughtful answer would make a good story, and it's a much more interesting one in the *context* of this new person being explicitly framed as someone Spock *could* be.