#but Tuvok still got sent to some fuckin caves to deal with it because his family's religious /j

[bumblingbabooshka]

YOUNG TUVOK: I was sent against my will. VULCAN MASTER: Then I suggest you leave. YOUNG TUVOK: I'm not a prisoner? VULCAN MASTER: Only of your emotions, or so I have been told. YOUNG TUVOK: My emotions free me.

#haters will say he's neurotypical #Young Tuvok wishing he wasn't Vulcan can actually be something that's so powerful #the alien feels like an alien bc to him he is not an alien but he /is/ weird...he WISHES he were an alien then everything would make sense #His teacher was like 'Tuvok you need to see what's behind you' and Tuvok was like NICE try MORON I don't have any eyes behind me #'....I meant....(sighs) Tuvok I was speaking metaphorically-' YOU CAN'T TRICK ME!!! #I love teen Tuvok #I love him as a character and as a method of recontextualizing adult Tuvok #it hypothetically (not used in the show) gives a lot of depth to his character to have been a troubled teenager on the verge of becoming #without logic...literally got kicked out of school and banished by his dad. You'd never imagine that if you saw Tuvok in canon #I love how Tuvok goes from wishing he was not Vulcan as a teen to taking a stubborn pride in the fact that he's Vulcan when he's an ensign #and I mean stubborn in a good way #Tuvok is like...when you think as a teenager that you're a weirdo and you're abnormal and you're fucked up #and then you realize what exactly was causing that and you get fucking MAD when people call you weird and fucked up #and then over time you calm down into an adult canon Tuvok who's completely at peace with himself and no longer trying to prove anything #to anyone #idk I just love him #and all his implied character growth #also I love how in snw its established that there are like facilities established to help people who are struggling with their logic #but Tuvok still got sent to some fuckin caves to deal with it because his family's religious /j #also fuck Tuvok having the same haircut his whole life I'm giving him long hair #Tuvok art #st voyager art #st voyager #bea art tag #the caption is a quote from the voyager ep Gravity #neurodivergent tuvok #autistic tuvok #? perhaps