#a sort of adjacent flavor to this is Q like assuming Bond - despite being an international superspy etc - is still. like. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

tonyglowheart · 2 months ago

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one of my favorite but also again alas relatively rare flavor of fic is where actually, it turns out Q is the well-adjusted one (well, as well-adjusted as anyone working at MI6 can be), and Bond is the manic pixie disaster nightmare

#00q #it's more rare because Q tends to be the one written as the manic pixie or manic pixie-esque one #but. I like it when he has like normal people problems. and you realize. oh Bond is the one who has something profoundly wrong with him #a sort of adjacent flavor to this is Q like assuming Bond - despite being an international superspy etc - is still. like.#you know... a functioning adult?#and acts accordingly?#but then he slowly realizes... oh actually this man is very Not Normal and incredibly out of touch with like. normal people things and #is coasting on his spy skills of adaptability and like social mimicry. but actually he has no idea what a normal people relationship is lik #and like. what a normal people meeting the friends and family situation is like. cuz he's never done that really #Bond's whole job and persona hinges on him projecting that he is very With It but I like it when you realize oh actually no #there is something profoundly wrong with this dude <3 but like not in a 'way youd expect' way wrong with him in a completely normal way #Q is like let's go to a carnival! and Bond is like let's what (has no concept of normal ppl dates like let's kiss on a ferris wheel)

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