I have only written Jen Kirk a couple times before, and wanted to write a character sketch of her relationship with Leonard McCoy as preparation for writing her relationship with Leah McCoy (yep, still working on that story). Then Mitchell hoverboarded in on that picture, and this story became something almost entirely different.
I'm not entirely satisfied with this story, mostly for Doylist reasons. Put bluntly, Jen spends a lot of it crying, and I'm poking myself interrogatively over that characterization choice. And yet, it seems to fit. I rejiggered a lot of it in my head with Jim Kirk, and the bleak blue eyes are the same, despite/because of the tears.
Further Author's Note
I have only written Jen Kirk a couple times before, and wanted to write a character sketch of her relationship with Leonard McCoy as preparation for writing her relationship with Leah McCoy (yep, still working on that story). Then Mitchell hoverboarded in on that picture, and this story became something almost entirely different.
I'm not entirely satisfied with this story, mostly for Doylist reasons. Put bluntly, Jen spends a lot of it crying, and I'm poking myself interrogatively over that characterization choice. And yet, it seems to fit. I rejiggered a lot of it in my head with Jim Kirk, and the bleak blue eyes are the same, despite/because of the tears.