Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Dr. Bashir is a really funny character just because of how the writers seemed to juggle him around like a flaming bowling pin and everything, but one thing I appreciate about him is that Julian is one of the most compassionate characters in DS9.
I was just sitting here thinking about the way he treated Garak and Miles and those Jem'Hadar soldiers and I can’t think of any characters that had the same empathy and real genuine care for others like he did.
Like, yeah, he can be a little weird sometimes, and he doesn’t always make the right move to make the people around him happy, but the episodes where he helps Garak and Miles when they’re struggling and risks his life trying to free the Jem'Hadar….. Those are seared into my brain. No one will ever be Bashir.
Pulaski’s thoughts in Enigma Tales say it best here.
every day i wake up and gnaw at the bars of my cage bc we were ROBBED of garak and keiko being casual homies….. chatting about plants, working in the arboretum together, spilling the station tea, roasting miles and julian, etc. just thinking about what we could’ve had makes me rage!!!
