#because ig that Kirk also has a Tarsus IV thing?

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Okay I finally wrote another part for Trektober! I really wanted to do this body mod prompt, and especially wanted to write it as a sort of healing and grounding thing for the body. I’m really personally fascinated by Kirk’s time on Tarsus IV (see my first fill for Trektober) and I wanted to explore like trauma healing from that through acts of decorating and personal ownership of someone’s body. So I present this fic about Kirk’s journey with piercings.

Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek) Summary:

Part of Trektober 2024. Day 15: Body Mods (Gen)

When Kirk was a teenager he hadn’t had the language for what he’d been through. Everyone around him talked of course. Talked in detail about Tarsus IV, but they hadn’t been there, hadn’t seen what he’d seen. Hadn’t watched everyone he knew die, hadn’t known Kodos the way he’d known Kodos. It was too surreal, to have everyone seemingly know everything and look at him with pity. He sometimes wondered if he’d actually survived, if the world he was experiencing was actually real.

Sometimes he wasn’t sure he wasn’t actually one of the many dead, and this was all a dream.