History Fanfic / Switch

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Said or thought by [=McCoy=], verbatim.

* [IHaveNoSon I Have No Grandson]: [=McCoy=]'s paternal grandfather rejects him after he [[spoiler: performs euthanasia on his dying father prior to the events of the fic.]]

** ''George Kirk had sacrificed his life to save his wife and son, but in so doing, had made himself the measure against which that son would always be judged.''

* I Have No Son: Well, I Have No Grandson. [=McCoy=]'s paternal grandfather rejects him after he [[spoiler: performs euthanasia on his dying father prior to the events of the fic.]]

->''"Evidently it is, Dr. McCoy," Uhura said blankly.''

* WhamLine: During the Battle of Vulcan, when the planet Vulcan [[spoiler: has been destroyed,]]
** ''"Evidently it is, Dr. McCoy," Uhura said blankly.''
** ''And in the instant, as his mind tried to assimilate what he'd heard -- that a planet of billions of people, and hundreds of millennia of history and culture, was simply gone -- all he could think was that Nyota Uhura had sounded just like Spock.''

* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: A major source of angsty for [=McCoy=], who [[spoiler: performed euthanasia on his dying father less than a year before the beginning of the fic.]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kirk. It's almost as if he wakes up in the morning and thinks of new ways to piss off any and every body he encounters. Reprograms an unwinnable test, which is cheating, to prove that he can win it (by thinking outside the box). Shows no remorse when caught because he doesn't feel he's in the wrong. Indeed, Kirk demonstrates the same wheeling, dealing, and conniving traits of a MagnificentBastard. The differences are--first, Kirk was never out to hurt anyone just for his own ends. Second, it is made clear he's only acting up because he lacks a challenge worthy of his smarts - once on the Enterprise, Kirk repeatedly throws himself into danger to save people, despite inevitably ending up [[ButtMonkey getting his ass kicked]]. Most importantly, he uses his cunning to save the universe.

* LastKiss: [=McCoy=] refuses to kiss Kirk goodbye.

* ShutUpKiss: Their first kiss is this.

* SpaceCadetAcademy: Starfleet Academy features prominently in the fic.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: [=McCoy=].

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Winona, Kirk's mother, wasn't around much in his childhood [[spoiler and only appears at the very end]]. [=McCoy=] notes around half a year into the fic and their close friendship that Kirk never mentions his mother, nor does he even know her first name until he looks her up on the Starfleet Database.

* BaitAndSwitch: The paragraph beginning with ''If he'd thought about it all, he would have seen that the progression from friendship to lovers was inevitable between them'' leads the reader to believe it refers to [=McCoy=] and Kirk, when in fact it refers to [=McCoy=] and [[spoiler his close friend, the OC Patty.]]

* CastFullOfGay: Kirk and McCoy, the two primary characters and the majority of the side characters are gay or bisexual.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kirk lost his father [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition just minutes after his birth]], was frequently abused by his [[AbusiveParents stepfather]] while his mother was off-planet, [[spoiler: survived [[FinalSolution Tarsus IV]] when his brother and many, many others did not]], and was already a repeat offender long before enlisting in Starfleet. [=McCoy=], also, to a lesser extent, who [[spoiler lost his mother and sister in an accident when he was eight, performed euthanasia on his dying father merely months before the cure was discovered, and went through a nasty divorce just before the events of the fic.]]

* EatingtheEyeCandy: [=McCoy=] has a healthy apprecation for Kirk's body.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Kirk and, to a lesser extent, [=McCoy=].

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Gaila, a full-on version of this trope, is a major side character.
* GymBunny: OC Harry Yu.
* IAmNotMyFather: Kirk does not enjoy constantly being compared to his deceased father.
* IntimateHealing: Kirk attempts this when [[spoiler: [=McCoy=] is hospitalised due to a deadly disease.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Kirk.

* HeartbrokenBadass: [=McCoy=] has a broken heart over Kirk for a lot of the fic yet still kicks ass when need be.
* HelloNurse: Gaila is described as such.

-> If Leonard [=McCoy=]'s life could get any fucking weirder, it would be … Jesus, he didn't even want to think what that could possibly mean, because it'd already been too fucking weird to make any kind of rational sense. Because, really. He will not get any kind of sleep tonight '''again''', if Jim doesn't show up. And bitter experience -- does he have any other kind? -- has proven that a Leonard [=McCoy=] who hasn't slept more than an hour or two out of closing in on 96 hours is a fuckin' psychotic nightmare.

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Winona, Kirk's mother, wasn't around much in his childhoood [[spoiler and only appear at the very end]]. [=McCoy=] notes around half a year into the fic and their close friendship that Kirk never mentions his mother, nor does he even know her first name until he looks her up on the Starfleet Database.

* AmazonianBeauty: Gaila.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Winona, Kirk's mother, until the very end.
* AnythingThatMoves: Kirk.
* BaitAndSwitch:
* BoldlyComing: Kirk has a lover in the form of GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Gaila.
* BondingOverMissingParents: And dead siblings, and dead grandparents, and dead greatgrandparents.
* BrilliantButLazy: Jim Kirk

* CastFullOfGay: The two main characters and the majority of the side characters are gay or bisexual.
* CommitmentIssues: Kirk, big time.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kirk, who lost his father [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition just minutes after his birth]], was frequently abused by his [[AbusiveParents stepfather]] while his mother was off-planet, survived [[FinalSolution Tarsus IV]] when his brother did not, and was already a repeat offender long before enlisting in Starfleet. [=McCoy=], also, to a lesser extent, who lost his mother and little sister in an accident when he was eight and performed euthanasia on his dying father merely months before the cure was discovered.
* DistractedByTheSexy: [=McCoy=] during surgery gets distracted by Kirk.

** [[spoiler BloodFromEveryOrifice is how Kirk found [=McCoy=] when he is first contaminated by the disease]]
* PosthumousCharacter: McCoy's father and Kirk's father and [[spoiler: brother.]]

* NearDeathExperience: [[spoiler: [=McCoy=]almost dies from a deadly disease for which he is trying to find the cure and Kirk surived a genocide on the planet Tarsus IV when he is thirteen]]
** [[spoiler BloodFromEveryOrifice: How Kirk found [=McCoy=] when he is first contaminated by the disease]]

* NearDeathExperience: [[Spoiler: [=McCoy=]almost dies from a deadly disease for which he is trying to find the cure and Kirk surived a genocide on the planet Tarsus IV when he is thirteen.]]
** [[spoiler BloodFromEveryOrifice: How Kirk found [=McCoy=] when he is first contaminated by the disease.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Kirk's father and [[spoiler: brother, and [=McCoy=]'s father.]]

-> If Leonard McCoy's life could get any fucking weirder, it would be … Jesus, he didn't even want to think what that could possibly mean, because it'd already been too fucking weird to make any kind of rational sense. Because, really. He will not get any kind of sleep tonight '''again''', if Jim doesn't show up. And bitter experience -- does he have any other kind? -- has proven that a Leonard McCoy who hasn't slept more than an hour or two out of closing in on 96 hours is a fuckin' psychotic nightmare.

* MissingMom: As in the movie, Kirk's mother spends very little of his childhood on-world and [Spoiler: [=McCoy=]'s mother dies in an accident when he is eight years old.]]

** [[Spoiler BloodFromEveryOrifice: How Kirk found [=McCoy=] when he is first contaminated by the disease.]]

-> As time went on and it still kept happening, he'd decided that it was a sign of an incipient nervous breakdown, the rational veneer that he'd been clinging to by a freakin' thread since his father died and his life went to total shit, sliding right the fuck off under the pressure of wanting something that he was never going to get. It was sublimated desire, refracted through an oddly chaste dream, like a memory of all the good parts of monogamy, without <b>the really good parts</b>, goddamnit.

-> But now that it'd been four nights without Jim Kirk sneaking into his bed to sleep, he was truly afraid that he was going to crack right the fuck up.

-> Because how the hell did it get to the point where he can't fuckin' sleep without Kirk, when all Kirk has ever fuckin' done was sleep with him?

-> If Leonard McCoy's life could get any fucking weirder, it would be … Jesus, he didn't even want to think what that could possibly mean, because it'd already been too fucking weird to make any kind of rational sense. Because, really. He will not get any kind of sleep tonight again, if Jim doesn't show up. And bitter experience -- does he have any other kind? -- has proven that a Leonard McCoy who hasn't slept more than an hour or two out of closing in on 96 hours is a fuckin' psychotic nightmare.

-> As time went on and it still kept happening, he'd decided that it was a sign of an incipient nervous breakdown, the rational veneer that he'd been clinging to by a freakin' thread since his father died and his life went to total shit, sliding right the fuck off under the pressure of wanting something that he was never going to get. It was sublimated desire, refracted through an oddly chaste dream, like a memory of all the good parts of monogamy, without <strong>the really good parts</strong>, goddamnit.

-> As time went on and it still kept happening, he'd decided that it was a sign of an incipient nervous breakdown, the rational veneer that he'd been clinging to by a freakin' thread since his father died and his life went to total shit, sliding right the fuck off under the pressure of wanting something that he was never going to get. It was sublimated desire, refracted through an oddly chaste dream, like a memory of all the good parts of monogamy, without the really good parts, goddamnit.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: Kirk and, to a lesser extent, McCoy.

* InsufferableGenius: Kirk and, to a lesser extent, McCoy.

* KinseyScaleOfTropes: Discusssed directly in universe with regards to several characters.[=McCoy=] is a 3, Kirk is a 2, and Patty, an OC close friend of [=McCoy=], is a 4.

* PosthumousCharacter: Kirk's father and brother, and McCoy's father.

* DontYouDarePity Me!: Kirk towards [=McCoy=], multiple times.

* Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Kirk towards [=McCoy=], multiple times.
* Eating the Eye Candy: [=McCoy=] has a healthy apprecation for Kirk's body.

* FriendsWithBenefits: [=McCoy=] and Patty.

* GymBunny: Harry Yu.
* IAmNotMyFather: Jim Kirk does not enjoy constantly being compared to his deceased father.
* IntimateHealing: Kirk attempts this when McCoy is hospitalised with a fever.

* HasAType: McCoy often goes for people a few years older than him, or who have names beginning with 'J'.

* I Have No Son: Well, I Have No Grandson. [=McCoy=]'s paternal grandfather rejects him after he performs euthanasia on his dying father.

* MissingMom: As in the movie, Kirk's mother spends very little of his childhood on-world and [Spoiler: [=McCoy=]'s mother dies in an accident when he is eight years old.]
* MultigenerationalHousehold: Throughout the second half of his childhood, [=McCoy=] lived in a household with his father, his father's parents, and his father's paternal grandfather.
* NearDeathExperience: [Spoiler: [=McCoy=]almost dies from a deadly disease for which he is trying to find the cure and Kirk surived a genocide on the planet Tarsus IV when he is thirteen.]
** [Spoiler BloodFromEveryOrifice: How Kirk found [=McCoy=] when he is first contaminated by the disease.]

* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: A major source of angsty for [=McCoy=], who [spoiler: performed euthanasia on his dying father less than a year before the beginning of the fic.]

* AdoptionIsNotAnOption: When McCoy is reflecting on how the final straw on his and his ex-wife's marriage was their inability to have children together, adoption is never mentioned.

* BrokenBird: McCoy sees Kirk as one.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kirk, who lost his father [[BirthDeathJuxtaposition just minutes after his birth]], was frequently abused by his [[AbusiveParents stepfather]] while his mother was off-planet, survived [[FinalSolution Tarsus IV]] when his brother did not, and was already a repeat offender long before enlisting in Starfleet. McCoy, also, to a lesser extent, who lost his mother and little sister in an accident when he was eight and performed euthanasia on his dying father merely months before the cure was discovered.
* Determinator: Both Kirk and McCoy.
* DistractedByTheSexy: McCoy during surgery gets distracted by Kirk.
* Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Kirk towards McCoy, multiple times.
* Eating the Eye Candy: McCoy has a healthy apprecation for Kirk's body.

* FriendsWithBenefits: McCoy and Patty.

* HeartbrokenBadass: McCoy.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Kirk accuses McCoy of this.

* I Have No Son: Well, I Have No Grandson.

* InterspeciesRomance: Both main characters have had relations with aliens.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: McCoy stubbornness and Kirk heroicness.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kirk, Captain James T. At first, it's almost as if he wakes up in the morning and thinks of new ways to piss off any and every body he encounters. Wrecks his stepdad's car and stands up to the cop who tried to pull him over. Participates in a bar fight that some cadets start (they punched him first) because he kept hitting on Uhura (who's completely uninterested in him). Reprograms an unwinnable test, which is cheating, to prove that he can win it (by thinking outside the box). Shows no remorse when caught because he doesn't feel he's in the wrong. Indeed, Kirk demonstrates the same wheeling, dealing, and conniving traits of a MagnificentBastard. The differences are--first, Kirk was never out to hurt anyone just for his own ends. Second, it is made clear he's only acting up because he lacks a challenge worthy of his smarts--once the adventure kicks off, Kirk repeatedly throws himself into danger to save people, despite inevitably ending up [[ButtMonkey getting his ass kicked]]. Most importantly, he uses his cunning to save the universe. This movie states overtly what the series were more subtle about: Kirk's Jerk tendencies are also the qualities that make him TheCaptain we all know and love.
* KinseyScaleOfTropes: Discusssed directly in universe with regards to several characters.
* LastKiss: McCoy refuses to kiss Kirk goodbye.
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Discussed in universe. Kirk's parents are named him for his maternal grandfather, and his middle name is his paternal grandfather's. His parental grandfather hated his name.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kirk and McCoy spend a lot of time bickering like this.
* LonelyTogether: McCoy and Patty, referenced in-universe.
* LoveHurts: McCoy spends most of the fic trying to prevent his heart from being broken.
* OneHourWorkWeek: Averted. It goes into great detail just how busy McCoy and Kirk are at Starfleet.
* MarriedToTheJob: McCoy, especially during his first marriage which led to it's downfall.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Kirk. McCoy spends most of the first two-thirds of the fic trying to figure out how he feels.
* MissingMom: McCoy's mother [[spoiler:dies in an accident when he is eight years old.]]
* MultigenerationalHousehold: Throughout the second half of his childhood, McCoy lived in a household with his father, his father's parents, and his father's paternal grandfather.
* NearDeathExperience: McCoy almost dies due to a disease for which he is trying to find the cure.
** BloodFromEveryOrifice: How Kirk found him.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Ted and Gram outlive both their sons.
* RomanticFalseLead: Patty, McCoy's good friend.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: McCoy as the Savvy Guy, Kirk as the Energetic Girl.
* ShipperOnDeck: Pretty much every single one of McCoy's friends and relatives is trying to push him and Kirk together.

* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: McCoy takes Kirk's willingness to shag everyone under the sun but him as a cue that Kirk doesn't like him that way.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: McCoy down to a t.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: McCoy and Patty.
* ToAbsentFriends: McCoy and Kirk make several toasts to dead friends and family throughout the fic.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Bones is constantly bitching and Kirk is constantly giving him reasons to, but they definitely have each other's backs.
* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: A major source of angsty for McCoy, who performed euthanasia on his dying father.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: From the very first page.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple

Switch is a novel-length "Film/StarTrek2009" Fanfic written by Ceres_Libera set in the Academy Era.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: