Slime this. Dracky that. Can we please show some love for my boy Winky on main

i have to write down my jj carey ideas (THRESHOLD AU!!!!!!!) or ill forget them and die and when i say my ideas it broadens to my friends talking about jj carey with me and then me munching on it collaboratively

premise with ive been HUMORING a relationship with him and philippa idk if ill GOOOOOO that route but im really enjoying likeeeeee developing their friendship off of the premise that in ficcy Lesson Plans it got established that him and Philippa would be pen pals and also that philippa was very fond of Joe Carey before he died and all THAT.

age gap for them is roughlyyyyy like 9 yearsssss which is fineeeeee hahaha. *looks away*

A-ANYWAY substance ideas were like we were thinking occupationally hed be a civil engineer or whatever, not in starfleet but really equivalent experience wise to being a chief engineer. been going back and fourth on whether or not i think hed go anywhere in starfleet before leaving. like in Widow’s Walk it describes him as being EAGER to join at the age of 14 despite knowing his father had passed away. and idk conveniently the eternal tide is around the time hed be joining starfleet academy.

idk they have likeeee an interval of several years together before philippa leaves to the DQ woth her family around unmm Unworthy and he stays and probably enters fhe academy? 🤔 maybe theyd be interacting in that time period, pip’s grieving her mother, JJ’s helping?? idk hes had to get over his dad dying im sure hed wanna be there for her. whether or not shes receptive to it UUUUUUUH. probably later in life she looks back and appreciates what he did. but anyway was thinking maybe they pen pal again when she leaves in Unworthy and is in the DQ (and beyond) for several years. :)

had the thought today that maybe when theyre both older they reunite at a Voyager reunion. philippa hates it there, shes wondering why JJ even showed up considering. i think theyd kinda go hide away somewhere and maybe philippas venting about her mommy and family hehe. he just listens. shes very tightly wound around her academy age.

not really set on a look for him im letting alice dabble a little bit WINKY ;) inevitably gonna be two redheads hahaha. 😞👍 we were talking maybe hes a lil chub as a kid and thins out with age. MIGHT HAVE GLASSES.

In talking about like First Splinter timeline (beyerverse) with tardi LIKE particularly regarding phoebe and everything I was thinking about how Kathryn in our au would 5000% NOT tell Phoebe she’s pregnant while she’s on Earth during protectors, Gretchen knows but kinda out of necessity for Kathryn. But like Kathryn’s fighting with Phoebe for like the entirety of her stay and they don’t make up by the time she leaves and they don’t say goodbye to each other,,,, and with Phoebe being so anti starfleet and against kathryn going back out into the DQ when her family is on earth and everything, kathryn like SUPER WOULDNT trust Phoebe with that little secret she’s been keeping for fourth months,,,,,,,

WHICH,,,,,, new thought I’d had was that like l, when Phoebe reconciles and sends Kathryn a painting at the end of atonement, also funnily enough Liam would be born by that time, makes me wonder if she’d send kathryn a lil gift for her baby as well heehee. :3 like a lil teddy bear or something more alien and sci-fi idk!!!!

AAAAAAND in the middle of that, there’s a scene where Phoebe meets Tom at a starfleet party or something that Julia paris is putting on I FORGET HONESTLY but she asks Tom about her sister and what her life’s like. And I think by that point, phoebes feeling guilty havig left things as she did, this would be before she’d have sent kathryn her painting, and I bet she’d be like “did you know she’s pregnant” with Tom and he’d be like “omg no???” (Because he’s been on earth dealing with his OWN family squabbles.) and internally is just like MY BOY CHAKOTAY WASTIN NO TIME YEOOOWWWWW hahaha

It’d be cute if Tom kinda winky hassled it out of chakotay before they’d publicly announced it heehee