I Am Not A Mcspirker But That Doesn't Mean I Don't Care About Bones Or Think He's Close To Them. He's

I am not a mcspirker but that doesn't mean I don't care about Bones or think he's close to them. He's family.

You can play a lot with the dynamics. The one I like best is where Jim and Bones are best friends, then Jim starts getting close to Spock and Bones feels jealous because he fears he's losing his best friend spot. So they hang out together with this obvious competitive air, putting each other down for the benefit of Jim, trying to prove to Jim that they are the best friend and the other isn't.

And then Bones gets it. Spock isn't after his spot. He wants to be something very different to Jim; he wants a romantic relationship. At which point Bones gradually quits with the competitive shit and wingmans each of them to the other. Complaining all the while that they're giving him gray hair with their slow burn nonsense. He's the first to congratulate them when they finally get together.

By the movie era he is genuinely like a brother to both of them, confident in his place in the family.

This is all yet another manifestation of my "romantic love isn't by definition closer than platonic" hobby horse. Kirk and Spock don't love Bones less. They love him differently.

*takes drag* but that's just, like, my opinion, man. Those of you who do ship all three together, I get where you're coming from.