It's simple: this isn't Spock POV; it's omniscient. I could have made it 2nd person to establish that difference, but that seemed like a cheap trick.
If you're unsatisfied with the "it's omniscient" explanation, then I could tell you that the narrator is time, or nostalgia; the narrator is that awareness within each of us that all things pass. I didn't want to write a piece from inside Spock's head. I wanted to write a story on the outside looking in at Spock--all we humans looking in on this soldier learning to trudge on.
I've been writing Trek fic for the past 7 months, and have neither finished or published much of it. Part of the problem has been POV. Most of the things I write center around Spock (e.g. the massive, MASSIVE gen adventure fic which seems to have every POV except Spock), because I identify with him and always feel as if I know exactly what he's thinking. But writing what he's thinking seems problematic. I mean, how disappointing, to find out a Vulcan brain processes the world exactly the way a human's does.
There is actually a list of "Kirk/Spock fic cliches" written by someone who I guess is well known in the K/S community. One cliche is titling a thing after a song by Lorena McKinnett. I think if you get fannish--maybe I should use the word passionate--about something, every song that makes you feel feels as though it applies to what you're thinking about, or is aimed at you. Happens to me all the time. So I was listening to this McKinnett song and couldn't stop thinking it was about Spock, when of course it's about the waves of Ireland calling her home. And I told myself, "this is so stupid! For Spock, oceans are the exact opposite of home!" And then I lightbulbed.
I'm off to read your Rosetti fic, which I found and bookmarked last night. I hope you had a good new year.
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If you're unsatisfied with the "it's omniscient" explanation, then I could tell you that the narrator is time, or nostalgia; the narrator is that awareness within each of us that all things pass. I didn't want to write a piece from inside Spock's head. I wanted to write a story on the outside looking in at Spock--all we humans looking in on this soldier learning to trudge on.
I've been writing Trek fic for the past 7 months, and have neither finished or published much of it. Part of the problem has been POV. Most of the things I write center around Spock (e.g. the massive, MASSIVE gen adventure fic which seems to have every POV except Spock), because I identify with him and always feel as if I know exactly what he's thinking. But writing what he's thinking seems problematic. I mean, how disappointing, to find out a Vulcan brain processes the world exactly the way a human's does.
There is actually a list of "Kirk/Spock fic cliches" written by someone who I guess is well known in the K/S community. One cliche is titling a thing after a song by Lorena McKinnett. I think if you get fannish--maybe I should use the word passionate--about something, every song that makes you feel feels as though it applies to what you're thinking about, or is aimed at you. Happens to me all the time. So I was listening to this McKinnett song and couldn't stop thinking it was about Spock, when of course it's about the waves of Ireland calling her home. And I told myself, "this is so stupid! For Spock, oceans are the exact opposite of home!" And then I lightbulbed.
I'm off to read your Rosetti fic, which I found and bookmarked last night. I hope you had a good new year.