section-69:

Pretty sure it’s standard to imagine Julian as a very lax parent and Garak as strict as the state, but I think it’d be the other way round.

Because Julian absolutely reads every possible parenting book he can find, has All The Research, freaks himself out about early childhood diseases and injuries and is altogether so Intense™ about everything he needs to be physically removed from an argument about safety and forcibly calmed down.

Garak, on the other hand? Garak’s child comes home from school after a meeting with the head teacher, eyes to the ground, and gets a quiet lecture about how not to get caught next time.

rayne-the-neutrois-nerd:

Ppl say that after our man bashir is when garak and julian drifted apart and ye kinda?

But those guys are also kinda forgetting in purgatorys shadow and by infernos light, bc garak brought julian along to witness him 1) revealing that tain is his father 2) also witnessing tains death when its taboo to have non-cardassians view such a thing.

But then immediately after they get back, julian is outed as an augment. And i believe THAT (at least narratively) is when they drifted apart and tbfh i think it was julian who pulled away. How can you admit to someone that you’ve trusted against all odds that you were essentially lying to him this entire time.

And I think garak knew something was up beforehand, probably ever since they started hanging out, but respected julian enough to not dig into his past.

I think julian pulled himself away because he was ashamed? Feeling guilty? That he never let garak know the “true” him all these years.

And I keep fucking saying this, but /julian was never as vulnerable with garak as garak was around julian/. Not on the same level anyways. I don’t think julian knew how to be as revealingly vulnerable around him.

garaks-padded-bra:

In the Pale Moonlight (1998)

inlovewithwarnette:

i didn’t ask to be this much in love with a fictional character but there he is and here i am

peraequoralikesthings:

Garak can have a little genocide, if his heart is in the right place

This scene from Firefly of Mal trapping Jayne in the airlock, but it’s Garak with Richard Bashir (maybe Amsha too) and/or Zimmerman. Just bc I think Garak would enjoy torturing them into admitting what awful people they are. And it would be highly satisfying to watch.

starbashir:

the way garak begs for tain to call him son, when tain says he shouldve killed his mother before he was born and the way garaks voice wavers when he says “as you have told me”

.. im not okay fellas

lady-sci-fi:

In regard to the end of “DS9: Broken Link,” I always thought it was obvious that Garak does NOT spend six months in jail, but I’ve seen some people talk as though he does. I find it far more interesting that he doesn’t.

Without touching the stardates, which the writers didn’t keep perfect track of, the timeline still makes it a fact Garak doesn’t.

It’s stated in “Rapture” that it’s been about 6 months since Kasidy was arrested in “For the Cause” and that she’s returning from her 6 month sentence. We can probably add a couple weeks to that to allow for the judicial process.

Garak gets arrested at the end of “Broken Link,” a few episodes after Kasidy. But he’s not only out of the holding cells by “Things Past”, he’s so out of jail that no one has a problem with him going to Bajor for some random political conference that he doesn’t need to be at. They even do some friendly teasing with him. No hard feelings.

There’s also a couple of references to Garak doing tailor work between those two episodes. I remember one in “The Ship”. I don’t think he’s out by “The Ship,” but at the least, he’s allowed to do his business while serving time.

For my headcanon, I say that he was in jail 3.5 months. People in real life get let out of jail early for various reasons, so why not him?

It’s stated that Sisko made the decision on Garak’s sentence. Sisko is in charge of the station and its inhabitants. But wouldn’t trying to hijack the Defiant and start war/commit genocide involve more than just Sisko’s input on what happens to Garak? Even with Garak’s exile situation where he officially isn’t a citizen of anywhere, surely Starfleet would have some say-so in this incident. But it’s treated as solely Sisko’s decision.(Did Sisko report it to Starfleet?)

This also means Sisko can decide when Garak’s sentence is over. He has enough reasons to.

• You know damn well Garak would’ve been the perfect model prisoner and get some good behavior points.
• Garak’s actions are the result of a direct threat of genocide against his people and it makes sense he’d react badly.
  
• It can be medically argued that he suffered a sort of mental break because of it. (He makes dumb mistakes that get him caught and he’s outright panicking by the time Worf finds him, unlike his usual behavior).
  
• It was an attempt made only because of the mental break and the rare opportunity he had. He can’t try it again, because that mental state and opportunity won’t come again.
  

It’s not like Sisko needs to let Garak out early for some help or whatever, but he does it anyway. What point would it truly serve to keep him in jail the whole 6 months?

This incident also reinforces an interesting aspect of Sisko and Garak’s relationship. Sisko has been protecting Garak since Day One, with many instances.

Sisko couldn’t do anything to protect Kasidy in “For the Cause”. She’s a Federation citizen who committed a Federation crime. But Garak? Garak is essentially a citizen of only DS9, and Starfleet seems to mostly not care about how Sisko runs it, as long as it doesn’t cause too much trouble for them. He can punish Garak however he wants to. If that means letting Garak out to do his job during the day and then cutting the original sentence in half, then that’s what happens.

jonphaedrus:

folieadeuxsday:

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talesoftherotarran:

Love how within roughly one season Odo and Garak’s relationship went from “I tortured you into admitting your darkest secret as my only chance at ending my exile” to “heeeey ;) there’s a security emergency ;) in my shop ;) there’s a pretty girl ;) in a pretty dress ;) unattended ;) ;) ;) ;)”