Starfleet-xenobotanist - Plain And Simple Xeno

Self-portrait of Louis XIII, painted by him at the age of 6.France, 1607

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.

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Also Garak wears lifts along with his padded bra (did you see his chest on L?)

tbh, my only question about the lwd au garashir is why Garak is taller. like I ain't mad and I don't mind, but like, is one of them just a different height to the prime counterparts?? did someone deliberately make the hologram shorter than the man he's based of off?? was Garak well fed in his timeline and had the nutrients for a growth spurt?? is there a reason or am I over thinking??

Trektober Day 2 - Monsters & Magic. I think Worf would enjoy D&D but be a bit of a nightmare player.

Well would you look at that!!

I cannot over-emphasize the degree to which ive been preparing my entire life for this moment @jone-slugger

lol look at the shape of this mirror in garak's shop. fuckin. cardassian union themed???

elim 'Federation GMO pussy has got me acting unwise' garak

I'm learning about the "Type B" Cardassian uniform, and-

and I just-

Why

Why are they trying so hard to be sexy and covering themselves in Cardussys?

... Oh

I see