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I'm a mcspirk enjoyer with a particular enjoyment for the spones of things, like you, n i was just curious on if you've shared your thoughts on how the relationships develop? like, in my mind, after maybe a week of panic after bones arrives at the understanding he wants to be with spock, and after trying to flirt with him n getting nowhere comes clean bc he's an old man and doesn't really have the time nor emotional energy to go dancing around with things, while i think kirk would take absolute years to come to terms with any of his feelings. i don't think people give bones enough credit in his relationships, he's been married twice n got at least one crew member to date him so like . i dunno. don't see him spending months pining, he might not be logical like Spock but he's not inefficient either.

but most people seem to think spirk would develop first n i personally don't see it. I dunno, I feel like kirk would feel too conflicted in his role as a captain to really persue anything til years later, very possibly after the third st movie. and spones r a package deal so now he's with both of them and they have a three member Vulcan wedding or whatever.

anyway those r just my thoughts n i wanted to hear yours too!

Okay, I wanna preface this with the fact that we have super different perceptions of Spones even though we both ship it. I just want you to like, mentally and emotionally prepare for that before I get into it. Also sidenote, Bones isn’t an old man he’s just crotchety lmao. He’s only a couple years older than Spock and 3-4 years older than Jim, he’s just Like That, an old man in spirit I suppose.

Bones may have been married twice before but hey, Jim was married once, and Spock was almost married and hooooo BOY those marriages all failed. And I really don’t think it’s because they’re all gay or that they’re all soulmates, but rather because they definitely got some personal issues to work out!! Issues they’re each uniquely suited for each other to stabilize.

The short answer is this

Spones (and McKirk, and even Spirk) Cannot Exist Outside of The Triumvirate Dynamic Until Post TMP (and even then, they refuse to separate)

The fundamental thing from which the entirety of TOS is built upon is that Jim and Bones and Spock all each need each other, and destabilize when they’re apart. When Spock breaks the Triumvirate to leave for Kohlinar in the time between TAS & TMP, Jim becomes emotionally unstable and bitter, and Bones retires, he can’t help Jim on his own. McKirk cannot exist without Spock’s logic to stabilize their individual emotional volatility. Although of the three pairings, its l the easiest for them to stay on good terms because they were friends before Spock and at the very least don’t hate each other after he parts ways with them.

Bones is a primary driving force that keeps Jim & Spock’s relationship stable because he’s incredibly emotionally intelligent. He’s the one who encourages (or in Spock’s case, goads) them to be honest with their feelings. He knows that they need each other, even if he probably highly underestimates how much Jim and Spock need him because Spirk is the one that gets all the soulmate clout. He is the quietest, strongest proponent of the two of them staying together of all. Spirk almost completely falls apart when Spock finally chooses logic so vehemently, that Bones cannot stop him.

Then Bones and Spock… oof, talk about volatile. They are some incredibly acrid, petty, vindictive bitches (affectionate) without Jim to stabilize them. They’re like, two flavors that taste nasty together without the main ingredient, their relationship curdles without Jim’s influence. Although they’re AMAZING for each other when he’s there as an intermediate. They are the absolute worst to each other when Jim’s not around, and both (especially Spock) would be too stubborn to apologize without their mutual affection for Kirk to heal them. Even if they’d still care about each other, there’s too much contrast and resentment for a stable friendship. Jim helps Spock & Bones “kiss and makeup” just purely with the love he has for them both, and the affection they both have for him. It saves their relationship time and time and time again in TOS.

None of these relationships are sustainable in a romantic sense without the third person involved in the relationship, whether you only ship one of these, or all of them individually, or McSpirk wholesale. McKirk wouldn’t get and stay together without Spock, Spirk wouldn’t get and stay together without Bones, and Spones would be totally unsustainable without Jim. At least until they figure out this one, simple truth. Something they only really discover through their getting back together as a trio in The Motion Picture.

They all need each other.

I don’t think, of the three ships that compose it, Spones could happen first, McKirk probably, Spirk maybe, but not Spones. Even then, if McSpirk is the endgame, I don’t think the other confessions would be too far behind the first pair if you get what I mean.

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