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b-dangerous · 2 years
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"My Whole Life, I Have Never Known A Moment Without Fear."
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genevra-von-krolock · 2 years
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Hi, could you possibly write a Saru story where the two, Saru and the reader, possibly come together after ages, after it's actually obvious that they really 'like' each other and share some sweet moments?
Thank you ^~^
First, I’m so sorry that it took me so long but i have problems with my wrists. I took the liberty of writing Saru x OC instead of reader, but I hope you like it anyway and thanks so much for the ask @jokatsuya !
Crossposted to my AO3
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💙When flowers bloom💙
Saru watched as the glittery swirls of the transporter faded into nothingness and the body of a woman appeared. He may have not seen her since their academy days but she looked exactly the same as she had back then. Small, barely reaching his belly button and curvy. Kind green eyes peeked out from long red hair that hung down in soft waves around her round face. She smiled up at him and Saru reached out his hand to guide her down from the transporter pad.
“It is a pleasure to see you again after such a long time, Sarah!” She clasped his hand in her small ones and her smile was radiant. “And you are as sweet as ever, my dear Saru!” At that, he blushed (could a Kelpien actually blush?) and stammered a few unintelligible words down to her. He gathered his bearings and together, they strote out of the transporter room.
“Would you like something to eat first? You must have had a long day.” Smiling, she nodded her head. “Yes, that would be marvelous! Lead the way, sweetheart!”
Again, he blushed and looked around if somebody had heard them. Thankfully, the corridors were empty and the unlikely pair continued on to the mess hall.
The doors swooshed open to grant them access and Saru stirred them to a nearby table. Gracefully, he folded his long legs under the furniture which prompted Sarah to laugh at him. “Just like back at the academy. You always looked like Snowwhite sitting in the kitchen of the seven dwarfs!” Curiously, he tilted his head.
“Who’s Snowwhite? And who are the seven dwarfs? Isn’t it really mean to insult someone because of his bodily features?” At that, Sarah could only giggle more and more.
“That’s a human fairy tale. I’ll tell you about it sometime later, dear.” Again, she called him a term of endearment but Saru found that he didn’t mind. “That would be most appreciated. Do you want to order something? What do you want to eat? You must be famished!” His tendency to babble when being nervous only made him more endearing to her but she opted not to tell him that so as not to embarrass him further.
“I think I’ll go with some sushi.” He nodded and went to a replicator to order their food.
After a few seconds, he came back, balancing a tray on his large hands.
“Here you go.” He placed her plate full of little sushi rolls in front of her and put a cup of what appeared to be tea and a small bowl on his side of the table.
He picked up the little salt shaker he brought along and poured a generous amount of it into his tea. When he absentmindedly stirred it around with a spoon, he looked to Sarah, who had picked up a pair of chopsticks and slowly balanced a maki roll on them to her mouth. “I could never understand why raw fish wrapped in some kind of leaf is so appealing to you humans. Not when nearly every meat you consume is cooked.”
Chewing, she smirked, swallowed her food and put her chopsticks down. “Well it’s not meat, it’s fish. It has to be raw, otherwise it would not be sushi. Picking up another small roll, she contemplated him as he took a large gulp of his tea but frowned and poured more salt into it. Accusingly, she pointed one of her chopsticks at him. “But drowning your tea in salt is better? If he still had his treat ganglia, it would have been shaking and flaring at her tone but he knew that she didn’t mean it like that.
“I suppose each species has their unique preferences.” Smiling, he picked up a small blueberry out of his bowl and popped it into his mouth.
“I see that one thing also hasn’t changed. Still stuffing yourself full of berries. Do you remember when we used to have little picnics in the park and I fed them to you ?”
Embarrassed, he gazed down at the table.
“Yes of course. Those are some of my fondest memories of our Academy days together.” That was an understatement. He took great pleasure in being fed by her and she knew that. It always made him feel safe and loved when his peers always made it their mission to make him feel like an abomination, a freak.
Mischievously, she picked up some berries and held them in front of his mouth. He put down his mug of tea and instinctively opened his mouth to accept the tiny blue fruit. When Saru noticed what he had done, he blushed a deep red and hurriedly looked around if someone had seen this. Sure as hell, some crewmembers were staring at the pair curiously, some even snickered.
Sarah noticed his red face and grinned from ear to ear. “What would you say if we took this to a more private place, my dear?” Abruptly, he took her by a hand and nearly dragged her out of the mess hall. Sarah could barely snatch up the small bowl of blueberries and tried to keep up with his long strides as he hurried to a nearby turbo lift.
“Saru..-what…?” When the doors of the lift shut, she looked deep into his eyes.
“Are you alright?” Saru raised his hand to tenderly stroke one of her long curls behind her ear. Now it was her turn to blush. “Yes, of course! I was just taken aback by our quick exit.” Smirking up at him, she copied his actions and stroked his cheek.
Humming quietly, Saru turned his cheek into her warm hand.
“I must apologise, it was not my intention to frighten you.”
“What was your intention, then?”, she asked rather playfully and put her other hand also on his cheek so that her hands now framed his face.
Embarrassed, he lowered his gaze but she turned it up again with one of her fingers.
“I..I just wanted to be somewhere more private with you where my crewmates wouldn’t be able to spy on us. There’s something I need to tell you, something I was meaning to talk to you about for a long time. “Ohh, well if that’s the case then you will hear no complaint from me!” Suddenly, as if by command, the doors opened with a swoosh and Saru took her by her hand and lead her along the corridors. They turned left and walked almost to the end of the hall when Saru stopped in front of a silvery door.
He keyed in his code and gestured to her to enter his quarters. When she stepped into his rooms, she immediately noticed the humid air that seemed to emanate from the ceiling. Nervously, he stepped around her and tried not to let his nerves get the best of him. “Oh my…! Saru, this is magnificent! What..how??” Sarah was at a loss for words as she marvelled at all the different flowers, seedlings and blossoms around her. She felt as if she had stepped into a forest straight out of a fairytale.
“I like to keep my quarters like this. It reminds me of my homeworld and the Captain was kind enough to grant me this freedom. Do you like it?” “Like it? It’s breathtaking!”
She smiled from ear to ear as she carefully brushed her hand over a small blue flower. The petals were soft as silk on her skin and when she smelled it, a very heavy aroma, not unlike lavender, wafted to her. A small smile took its place on Sarus face as he guided her to his with grass covered bed.
“So, what was it that you wanted to tell me so urgently that you kidnapped me into your own, privat forest?”, she giggled as she noticed his look of embarrassment.
“Please, stop looking at me like that. I was only messing with you. You know that, right?” “Of course! I’m sorry, I just can’t help it.” He took her small hands in his bigger ones and tenderly stroked her skin there. After taking a deep breath, he looked into her eyes.
“I..I…When we first met on the campus back at the academy, I was simply mesmerised by your sheer happinesses and love for life. You accepted me for who I am and didn’t make me feel like the tall, uneasy alien that everyone else saw in me. You were genuinely interested in my being. You made me feel safe, like I could talk to you about anything at any time, and you still make me feel that.
Over the course of the next few years, these feelings only got deeper and I came to cherish every single moment with you. Just before our graduation, I noticed that these feelings run deeper than normal friendship but I was too afraid to tell you.” At that, he shamefully lowered his gaze down and picked at the grass that covered his bed.
Sarah had been silent during his speech but was now looking with all the love she could convey into his eyes. “Why were you so afraid to tell me, love?”, were the only words she could utter. “I..I didn’t want to ruin everything in case you didn’t feel the same. Our friendship was simply too precious to me.” She smiled tenderly at him.
“You could never ruin what we have! You are my Saru! My precious, tall, kind and sometimes utterly adorable Saru!” With that, she leant up into his face and kissed him square on the lips. Surprised, Saru fell down on the mossy bed and took her with him.
They exchanged some tender kisses and just basked in each other and their newfound love. When Sarah laid her head on his chest, he tenderly stroked her back and held her to him. Together, they lay there till both of them dozed off.
The bowl of blueberries stood forgotten on the small table in the entryway.
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sourirenoire · 2 years
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30 Days/30 Stories: Star Trek Drabbles
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Day Twenty-Five: Revenge
His hands were shaking. But not from fear. 
From rage.
His fists clenched and his teeth gritted together. His breathing was fast and shallow - not from a desire to flee, but from a desire to harm - to maim, to kill, to have his revenge - Saru forced himself to take a deep, steadying breath. He didn’t recognize himself with this white hot aggression coursing through his veins. This was new and disturbing. Yet, Saru found he didn’t wholly dislike this side of himself - for he truly did want to make the Ba’ul pay for what they had done to his people. 
References to Star Trek DIS S2E4: An Obol for Charon and S2E6: The Sound of Thunder
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bearb0i · 2 years
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Su’Kal is the sweetest baby and if anything ever happens to him I’ll kill everyone in this room and then myself
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diver5ion · 1 year
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defendglobe · 9 months
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the only thing stopping me from coming up with a pmd future trio star trek AU is that i can't decide what species celebi would be.
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raurquiz · 8 months
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#happybirthday @davbentom #davidbenjamintomlinson #actor #Linus #Klingons #Kelpiens #sukal #Betelgeusian #StarTrekDiscovery #tellarite #strangenewworlds #GrandArmy #BaronessVonSketchShow #TheWritersBlock #OrphanBlack #BeautifulPeople #escape #aghoststory #startrek56 @TrekCore
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leolaroot · 1 year
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guys if I was in star trek I would be either a betazoid OR a kelpien. but if I was a farscape alien I don't know what I would be what do YOU think. don't say Sebacean or I kill you that's too boring.
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queerlybelovdd · 1 year
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o0anapher0o · 1 year
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One pet peeve I have with Discovery going forward from season 3 (haven’t seen S4 yet) that has very little to do with the plot, the characters or the overall quality of the show, is how they have put next to no effort into the world building of their future. They have sent their crew 900 years into the future and almost nothing changes? Sure the political landscape shifted a little (but not to a point of being unrecognisable), the technology is a bit more advanced (barely) and everything is a little more lawless and more threatening than before, but all in all there are more differences between TOS and TNG than between Disco season two and three. They might just as well have gone fifty years into the future.
It just feels like the writers have absolutely no concept of how long 900 years are in cultural and social terms. It is very, very long. Like, nine hundred years ago we had a completely different perception of what a person was, and I’m not even talking medically. A child would have been considered a small adult and a person’s character was seen as an unchangeable fixture you were born with (character development was literally invented by the Enlightenmet) . The way society worked was fundamentally different, humanity’s place in the universe was fundamentally different, hell, even what people ate was fundamentally different.
The fact that apparently 900 years in the future Starfleet still exists is hardly less than a miracle, but it also seems to have changed so little that the crew of the Discovery can seamlessly be integrated after a mere months of welcome-to-the-future workshops and a minor technical overhaul of the ship. Fucking Marvel did a better job showing Steve Rogers’ having to integrate into the future and he was only seventy years out of his own time and none of the films really cared about that. The Disco crew even keep their old uniforms and no one ever even remarks on it. Imagine a medieval knight coming to the present and joining the police, but they keep wearing their chain mail and armour, and no one thinks it’s weird. (Yes I know they get the new ones by the end of S3, but there is no in universe reason given as to why exactly then and not earlier.)
And Starfleet is a secular institution that has apparently survived without any major changes at all for nearly a millennium. Even the world’s major religions, the most change-resistant institutions humanity has ever created, have undergone massive changes over the centuries in regards to doctrines, organisation structure, their socio-political role, how they operate, etc. None-religious organisations don’t even usually last that long. The only ones that do tend to be monarchies, which are more often then not closely interwoven with religion; and they too have changed drastically in what they mean, how they work and what they can/should do. Try and put William the Bastard on the English throne today and see what happens.
And that’s not even touching on cultural and social stuff. Like the fact that Kelpiens apparently still sing the same lullabies and eat the same food Saru remembers. Name one song that people still sing that is provably older than even just 500 years. Just one. I’ll wait. Music doesn’t last that long. The idea of what music is, how it’s made, how it’s preserved doesn’t last that long. (They get a pass for the dish because Su’Kal has never had it before so he wouldn’t know if it was weird.) It’s especially annoying that they do this with Kelpien culture with probably underwent a massive revolution after everything they knew about themselves was changed in season 2. We’re talking fall of the Roman empire levels of cultural and social change here. Kaminar should be entirely unrecognisable to Saru.
They do their best job with Ni’Var, and even there it feels superficial. They’re not one culture, they’re two that barely hold together, even after what has to be eight hundred years, if we assume the reunification happened reasonably shortly after the destruction of Romulus. (That’s not even getting into me thinking Ni’Var as a concept is a stupid idea and they should have realised that at some point on those eight hundred years. Sometimes breaking up is simply the better option if your core ideals are fundamentally different.)
Nine hundred years is an insanely long time and all they do is basically pretend this is the same world we already know, just slightly different and with everyone we know conveniently removed.
I know all of this is pretty irrelevant to pretty much everything in the show (which is probably why they didn’t bother), but it bugs me so much every time I watch it it’s not even funny anymore.
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roguetelepaths · 2 years
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have y’all ever thought about the cinematic parallels between the Ba’ul and the Founders bECAUSE I HAVE
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undyinglantern · 1 year
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forget every other criticism star trek discovery has ever gotten, the biggest flaw is that they kept describing kelpiens going through "evolution" when really theyre going though puberty or whatever
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quasi-normalcy · 6 months
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evviejo · 4 months
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY // S2E6 The Sound of Thunder I am Commander Saru, the first and only Kelpien to join Starfleet, and I know the truth about Vahar'ai.
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yourplayersaidwhat · 1 year
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"The finest-tuned machine is most sensitive to the grain of sand."
-The Kelpien diplomat in our FASA Star Wars campaign, when our security officer suggested the culture we were visiting was too regimented for us to get in much trouble on the surface.
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burningtrashnightmare · 5 months
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Can I just yell into the void the appreciation I have for Saru. He big he toll he SAFE. Shepherded his crew safely through time and LOVES so fiercely. Terrified 70% of the time but still there for his crew and captain. Fucking love him. Big toll monster man going where no other Kelpien even dreamed of going before. I would trust that man with my life.
I love this character so deeply. He's been through so much and still chooses to believe in the good of others. Even when terrified he does his best.
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