The thing about AOS Bones is that him sneaking Jim onto the Enterprise in the first movie is such a balls out insane move I immediately became obsessed with him. What even was going on in his head is a mystery for the ages, lol. Cause like, at that point obviously they knew something was up or they wouldn’t all be warping off at the drop of a hat, but they had no reason to suspect it was literally world-ending shit, nor that they’d all be fucked without the kid on academic suspension.
So you know, he’s a doctor, he’s a cadet, he’s got no idea about time-traveling Romulans or red matter or whatever, he’s got a lot to lose and really nothing to gain. But Jim was sad so he, unprompted, decided to risk serious academic and possibly legal consequences because???
He folds like wet paper when Jim has a genuine emotion? Or he genuinely does live for the chaos, so that he can complain about the chaos. The crazier the better, because he can really vent his spleen. He wants to play the beleaguered straight man in the midst of wacky circumstances so bad that he decides to go to beloathed outer space and hitch his wagon to a wild card. 🩵 Kermit energy. I love him. I want to study him like a bug.
Alternatively, if this were the other big Star Something property, he’d fr be force-sensitive.
