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Today’s sketch dump – A Stitch in Time gets all my dramatic feels.
I love this book so much. I love how the clues really lay between the lies – I mean the lines (for all the difference it makes). And now I need to watch Second Skin again to watch that handsome smug bastard of Entek being a handsome smug bastard and getting the fate he made himself deserving of (I do like Entek).
So @jubrunaikovics and I have been discussing what I’m going to call our Everyone Lives (Together) Post-Canon Cardassia AU.
So far we have Mila, Garak&Julian, Gilora Regal (who we have decided is Garak’s cousin bc she looks so much like a young Mila), and Ziyal all living together happily on Cardassia. Also we decided Damar visits on Sundays.
Having read ASIT, I have additions:
Obviously Kelas Parmak lives there too and is happily in a throuple with Garak and Julian.
Ghemor visits on Sundays too and they all discuss politics and have splendid friendly arguments.
Pythas and Dejar visit on Saturdays, because I don’t think Pythas would get along with Damar.
Natima Lang comes around with less regularity, but she always has updates on Kel Lokar.
finished reading asit, pondering whether or not i should go on and read crimson shadow and enigma tales.
there was that one moment in asit that i especially loved, when garak realised in a single moment of clarity just how tired he is of all the backdoor politics, double agent bullshit, so he just laughed, got up and left the underground meeting he was attending. i think it was a tipping point for him.
i see post-asit garak leading a quiet domestic life, tending his garden, mending clothes, helping his people rebuild in whatever small way he can, backing parmak and ghemor in their political endeavors.
the children playing near his memorial/garden call it “the tailor’s grounds”, and he is delighted by this fact.
i saw that one quote from enigma tales, i think, where garak assumes a prominent political role, and parmak is described as someone “behind (garak), slightly tucked in the shadows”. well, i think it should be the other way around. garak did say that cardassia needs men like parmak to rise from the ashes.
give me castellan parmak, coming home from a long day of exhausting administrative and political dealings to his very supportive, if snarky, husband garak.
I have a head cannon that Parmak’s glasses are technologically advanced and overlaying helpful read-outs onto whatever he’s looking at like telling him a patient’s blood pressure and heart rate and other useful data. Also they adjust in thickness, turning into reading glasses when he looks at something close - kind of like how a camera automatically knows how to focus.
