I have mixed feelings about this because I love bad dad content and have found it useful for fic, but it also annoys me everyone in star trek is related by blood and almost important by birthright. Garak/Tain in a version where they’re not related but Garak is equally loyal would have owned. But the demented family aspect owns as well.

Also would explain why they immediately started trashing one another’s clothes and weight. However, I love unconventional looking people ships, and it’s funny if it turned out Garak was used to being the young twinky one in his relationships. whiplash lol

frick. this is exactly what I thought was happening when I first watched it. the way Garak cries ‘Enabran!’ I legit thought garak had once been the starry-eyed kept twink to some weird old murderous sugar daddy boomer.

and that would have been great. again, the family dynamic bit is excellent too and I like it a lot. but the alternative would have been freaking wild. like lmao imagine if you’re julian and your bf’s ex was the cia director. died trying to perform a genocide. (your current bf also tries to do the same thing, maybe in a nostalgic tizzy since that’s “something they used to do together”. later you find out that his ex is Still aLive and you’re in space jail with him for a MONTj). lol

i was gonna say, picture this: there’s the bedside scene and they’re discussing “the only day” and it was like their cutest date and Julian is just like ………………. why am i here

… BUT, this brings to mind the extremely funny premise no one has written, being that Julian comes to suspect Tain was Garak’s ex (remember, he doesn’t know until the confession in camp 371!) So he’s sitting there, in space jail on the crater, with who he assumes garak is still mooning over since he still hasn’t put out and garak comes, brings him into the shri’tal, julian is like the fuck is this seriously what a douchey mind fuck whatever the fuck this is , and Garak’s like “father :( “ and julian suddenly perks up like OH wait WHat ???