Elim Garak Personal Information

I had to see what Tain looked like with Kingpin shape. Tain the unit. Oh! When he died did anyone think he look he was melting?

julian bashir stutters !!!

which yknow he was kinda upset about because he felt so dumb to people. he knew he was intelligent, but he just couldn’t articulate it in a way that other people could understand. he always paused during his sentences, letting his words catch up to his thoughts. tripped over words, tongue going to the next syllable before he even got to the first.

and when people hear those pauses and breaks, it’s like they forget about everything else. screw theoretical hyperbolic geometry applications to worldly development, it wouldn’t fucking matter if he mixed the words up.

but, it does hide him. hides him well. because no matter how smart you are, how enhanced or augmented, it doesn’t matter if you have a stutter.

2x18 - Profit and Loss

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I imagine when Julian gets bored he'll go track down Miles in the Jefferies tubes and bother him. this has absolutely led to several incidents where Miles is up to his elbows in circuitry and Julian suddenly pops in upside down from an access above him like "hi Miles :)" and Miles jumps so hard he hits his head on the tube's ceiling

LMAOOOOO IM LISTING TO THE GARAK BOOK RIGHT NOW AND IT'S JUST HIM TRAMA DUMPING TO BASHIR FOR 20 HOURS STRAIGHT... I can't stop picturing Bashir listening to all of Garaks messages like:

Pick up what I'm putting down, maybe? AU where Kira is Dukat's illegitimate daughter.

What if Meru fell pregnant while under Dukat's """care""" and Kira was born into that gilded cage. She was raised by her mother, and Dukat to some extent, until she was 2 or 3; too young to really remember anything. Hand-wavey attack by the Bajoran resistance happens, and while Meru is killed in the skirmish, Kira is rescued and eventually ends up with Taban and her brothers, Reon and Pohl. When she's old enough, Taban tells her a lie about who her actual sire is to keep her safe. He raises her as his own daughter, basically following along with canon, except now she's half-Cardassian.

And that comes with all the internalized hatred, and micro/macro aggressions from everyone around you and interpersonal trauma that you can imagine :))) As she gets older she learns to support inwards, vent outwards and use that resentment as a weapon. But she comes out of her youth a much harder and more guarded person than in canon. Kira was raised 100% culturally a Bajoran, and refuses to have anything to do with her Cardassian heritage. btw Dukat knows she's (ONE OF) his fuckin long-lost illegitimate half-Bajoran daughter immediately bc of the family name, Kira. He keeps it to himself ofc, and does not let it slow his roll with being a massive pest towards her. If anything he desires her respect and admiration even more bc that's his. Also I have to add from @destroyersopera: "given all that she's been through and her experience with cardassians that she reads dukats interest in her as creepy lust when in this case it's just that he knows she's his daughter so naturally wants her approval" something something the way that would color so many episodes, "Cardassian", "Indiscretion", "Return to Grace", "Covenant" !!!! just of the top of my head. Dukat being So Pleased when Kira wants him to leave Ziyal on the station for her safety etc etc. The FALLOut when Kira realizes Ziyal is her sister!! I still think Kira fully finds out the truth for "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night", uses The Orb, and sees him being an Actual Doting father to her and she just I think about Kira Nerys, Dukat's illegitimate half-Bajoran daughter a lot.