#mirror pike

[electronickingdomfox]

Sorry mirrorChapel, but priorities are priorities.

From IDW comic "Mirror Images".

[thekenobee]

Enjoy

[sha-ka-re]

do you think that as spock went inside the warp core to save his loved ones, he thought of pike? do you think he thought about how this is probably the last thing that pike would have wanted for him, because he never would have wanted spock to have to put himself in mortal peril like that? do you think he wondered if pike would have been proud of him anyway?

[simplysparrow14]

Pikelan is probably the most complex CR ship and more people need to realize that instead of branding it as the "haha funny gnomes" ship.

because the entirely of Pikelan revolves around Scanlan, a very charismatic bard who flirts with literally everyone around him but is head-over-heels in love with his cleric friend but is tragically dogshit at expressing it so he resorts to doing crude bits and gags that ultimatly mask who he truly is.

And then you have Pike, a cleric brimming with self-confidence, who absolutely loves Scanlan for who he is, but is constantly getting mixed signals, because on one hand, he's constantly doing crude jokes and flirting with every person he sets his sights on (even so far as going after his unknown daughter) but on another, he tenderly holds her while she's bleeding and he's constantly at her side during battle and even tends to her emaciated brother for her and it's beautiful to watch, but the moment, the moment she brings it up, he reverts back to his crass personality and it just leaves her reeling about who he truly is.

And then we get to Bards Lament, and Scanlan, after tip-toeing around his true emotions for so long, finally snaps and lets everything he's been feeling (all the pain, and self-loathing manifested as anger towards everyone else, because even in his darkest moment, he's still so dogshit at expressing it for what it truly is) and Pike, who's been wrestling with these mixed signals, finally gets his true feelings on what he feels, calling her magic weird, hating that the same magic that has kept him alive and safe for so long brought him back to his sad existence, hating her for doing it. In the end, Scanlan leaves, just as Pike left the first time and the second time. And Pike stays behind, watching as he heads towards somewhere where she cant follow, abandoning the team and her and grog and everything they've built for themselves. She loves him, and him leaving brings her to that point.

The two are split apart, and despite the anger and hurt, the need for connection with each other is so strong. Scanlan reveals that he dident fully leave Taldorei at first, that he was only 20 miles away in another town entirely, listening to Pike's earing conversations. And eventually, when Scanlan is on another continent, he finds a temple of the Everlight (or just simply begins talking to Everlight) and prays, prays for guidance on finding forgiveness for what he said and did. He's deeply in love with pike, and still is, going to her god for answers to his problems, the quickest connection to Pike that he has between one giant ocean and a continent.

And Pike, despite holding a very rightful disdain for what he said to her, keeps him up to date, informs him of her happenings with the people of Whitestone. She should fucking hate his guts and yet the person she wants to speak to at the end of her day is a bard who (for all she knows) threw his earing away and traveled to some far off place, forever gone from Vox Machina, from her. Yet she keeps speaking.

They switch roles, with Scanlan becoming the quiet solitary one seeking forgiveness for his actions and Pike becoming the people oriented one.

When they reunite, it's tense and sad and angry. So many things said in anger and hurt and they don't really know where to step in the case that something, anything might send them back to that angry, angry place. And suddenly their back at the same place they were before, before the fight.

Pike is, again, trying so hard to sift through the mixed signals he's giving because he's being Scanlan again! Charming bard, essential party member, more confident than he's ever been! but now he's standing near the back and holding his hands and apologizing with a soft voice that she hasn't heard in over a year and a half and rebuilding the bridges he's burned and she doesn't know what to think!

And Scanlan is giving an honest effort at trying to fix what he's broken. He's working harder than ever, he's apologizing. He tries very hard to have conversations with people and fixing what he can. But, again, he's Scanlan, who is less dogshit at expressing what he feels, but still pretty dogshit none the less, and now he's a crime boss and still a beloved bard, but he's also surrounded by the friends, some of them he loves so dearly and he's trying, he's trying so hard

Eventually, everything is forgiven and in the end, Pike and Scanlan come to term with themselves and each other. Pike comes to terms with knowing that Scanlan is a complex person, a broken person just trying to figure his way through this world, just as she had done.

in the end, Pike becomes the person Scanlan feels the most free to be around, one where he doesn't have to put on the mask of a performer, where he can just be Scanlan the gnome instead of Scanlan, bard extraordinaire. and Pike comes to terms with knowing that Scanlan is a complex person, a broken person just trying to figure his way through this world, just as she had done before.

and together, they are beautiful reflection of each other.

[pikefied]

We need #MirrorPike in SNW season 3...

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery

Character: Michael Burnham

Sample Size: 1,261 stories

Source: AO3

[inthenameofstartrek]

Hi Pike Fans!

I'm searching for a fanfic (I think there were 3 chapters) where Pike and the reader are in a relationship - I think reader was a geologist of some kind. So reader gets caught in a rockslide and saved by Mirror!Pike, but she temporarily loses her vision so she doesn't know the difference until the end - it did have a happy ending though!

If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be so so so happy!

[curator-on-ao3]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Mirror Number One | Una Chin-Riley/Mirror Christopher Pike Characters: Mirror Number One | Una Chin-Riley (Star Trek), Mirror Christopher Pike Additional Tags: Mirror Universe, Sexual Slavery, universal constants, universal divergences, cw for numerous instances of non-consensual sex, cw for a reminisce of animal death (Sir Neighs-A-Lot), Stockholm Syndrome, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, TOS-style speech patterns, SNW captain’s quarters, buddy Spock cameo, buddy Phil Boyce cameo, eventual meeting of the minds, eventual consensual sex Summary: Upon his promotion to captain of the ISS Enterprise, Christopher Pike receives the gift of an Illyrian to use for his pleasure.

[ansonmountdaily]

Anson Mount about Mirror Universe Pike

"I believe very firmly that there are no white hats or black hats. They're just grey hats. And as an actor, I'm more interested in my characters' weaknesses than I am in their strengths, usually." - Anson Mount

Source: TrekZone.de interview for Strange New Worlds, December 7 2022 (during Paramount+ Germany launch)

[ncnsocial]

my weekend in seattle

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #132

"Mirror universe had a Klingon-Cardassian alliance so I think a Klingon-Cardassian arranged marriage fic would be fun to read."

[samnotsammy12]

“[Hit it] feels weird. Let’s just fly.”

AS A PIKE GIRLIE I AM LOSING IT

[accursedvoid]

Broke: mirrorverse trek should be all bleak and everyone hates each other and constantly backstabs one another, no found family in sight.

Woke: Mirrorverse but they’re found family in a murderous evil way, they WILL kill for each other and fuck everyone else.

[spockvarietyhour]

This really ended up being shades of In a Mirror Darkly (and then Uhura gets command of it)

[tsuntsunfangirl]

me to @the-haven-of-fiction: is... captain pike someone who'd meet his mirror version and actually become friends with him?

haven:

me: he is the kind of person who'd convince his mirror!universe self to join his side, right? the type that ends up with two of them against the same enemy, right? right?

[curator-on-ao3]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Mirror Number One | Una Chin-Riley/Mirror Christopher Pike Characters: Mirror Christopher Pike, Mirror Number One | Una Chin-Riley (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Mirror Universe (Star Trek), Weapons, tone shifts, Love, Implications, Hope Summary: The facts are irrefutable: Una wronged Chris, wronged the Empire.

So why can’t he bring himself to kill her?