spock’s parents are the cutest couple in the world. seriously, imagine a young, full-on vulcan sarek visiting earth as ambassador and coming across this ridiculously illogical human woman and she falls in love with him and soon he’s experiencing strange, somewhat concerning physical symptoms whenever he’s around her (accelerated heart rate, excessive perspiration, a fluttery feeling in his stomach) and he doesn’t know what it is and doesn’t WANT to know what it is because he enjoys her company so much and doesn’t want to feel like he needs to get away from her in order to keep his grasp on vulcan philosophy in tact.
GUYS as a certified San Francisco Person ™ i can tell u that SF in the morning can get cold, like really really foggy and ass cold. so sarek, a vulcan used to hot dry temps, lived in SF (bc ambassador things!!) and so he probably dressed up in enough cold weather clothing in the mornings to look like a Vulcan Sweater Burrito. imagine.
enter Amanda Grayson, who is a badass and whom i would marry if she weren’t already married to Vulcan Burrito Man. she decides to learn how to knit, bc no boyfriend of hers will walk around SF freezing his pointed ears off. she knits him a Terrible Sweater. sarek begins to own more than one of them.
and he WEARS THEM. maybe even to work, where his colleagues are like :O but don’t say anything bc sarek is a Big Scary Vulcan and you can’t really call a guy out for wearing something his gf, whom he worships, made him.
basically i want you all to imagine sarek walking around SF with his gf, wearing some truly awful knitted gear bc eventually she makes him hats and gloves and socks too. it’s a beautiful sight.
(also: spock wears some interesting sweaters in the first two aos movies. perhaps….amanda made them??? idk but we all know kirk digs spock’s fashion sense)
Sarek: I cannot locate my wife…
Sarek: *uses hands as a microphone* VULCANS ARE COLD AND HEARTLESS, AND COULD NEVER COHABITATE WITH HUMANS!
Amanda: *from across the room* THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?!
Sarek: There she is.
i’ve heard a lot of pre-reform/mirrorverse headcanons that make Amanda some sort of slave/prostitute/servant who comes into sarek’s household as a damsel like HOLD UP
if anything, AMANDA is the one who swoops in on all them unsuspecting vulcans and gets the catch of the day. trophy husband in hand, Amanda continues hecking up whatever she wants with baby spock in a sling, teaching him the ways of a warrior
sarek, bless him, has not been able to turn the heart eyes off since they met