sometimes i think about how blatantly queer garak is and get really happy about it. anyway everyone say thank you andrew robinson
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Garak really is so funny because he insists on talking like a 1940s gay coded villain but is a spy?? Sir how can you sneak into anywhere?? You sound SO devious. like if this guy was my gardener I’d def be like “oh- he’s gonna kill me”
it’s actually fun to think about how he presents himself when he’s actually trying to appear innocent. he obviously doesn’t do it on DS9 bc he knows his best bet w/ starfleet is to emphasize his connection to cardassia bc it makes him useful to them. how does he act when he’s actually trying to fly under the radar? i think we kinda see a bit of one of his normalsonas when he’s first talking to keevan in rocks and shoals, bc the code switching when keevan pulls out his combadge is noticeable. it’s not his best one, but he is notably playing a specific role here - a company man, because that’s fundamentally what vorta are, so it’s something they understand. i don’t think he’s really putting his back into it, so to speak, but it’s an example of him deploying his natural demeanor in a way that makes him seem more obsequious than devious. i suspect when he was younger he was probably really good at it.
Sneak into Doctor Bashir’s quarters at night, just to remind him that you can.
Thinking about what growing up believing that your ability to labor for others being the highest expression of love does to your brain and Elim Garak
fucking the station’s tailor to get free custom holosuite costumes… truly Julian Bashir is an inspiration to us all
I need to go to the farmer’s market and buy a jar of jam or perhaps a bar of handmade soap. It’s the only thing that will curb my bloodlust.
elim “sentiment is the greatest weakness of all” garak. elim “see, i pretend to be their friend, and then, i shoot you” garak. elim “you need to know who you’re trying to save” garak. elim garak, who trusts no one, risks his life on an exploding ship in a confrontation with dominion forces to try and save enabran tain. odo has to knock him out to get him to safety. garak knows tain is an awful person and the reason garak is an awful person and the reason he is doomed to live in exile and the reason the ship he’s on is about to explode and not worth his time and yet he won’t leave him behind. just think how disappointed tain would be if he were conscious. garak thinks of himself as having risen above silly things like morality and sentiment and conscience and blind obediance and yet. and yet. on cardassia, family is everything. if garak cannot be loyal to his father, he is nothing. all he has left is his nationality as an identity. he may not love enabran tain (or maybe he does, just a little, because if he doesn’t, what is he?), but he loves cardassia. and so he blindly accepts tain’s offer of a job, ignoring all his own rules. what am i going to do.
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Proficiency in both ranged and deranged combat
good day everyone. thinking about garak asking keiko o'brien for gardening tips
garak has been hanging around the o'brien family quarters Looking Sneaky a bit too often lately. miles gets suspicious and enlists julian to help him catch garak in the act. mission impossible shenanigans ensue. eventually they both tumble out of the ceiling of the quarters while conducting “covert surveillance” or something, only to find garak and keiko calmly discussing how to cultivate cardassian irises over afternoon tea
miles asks why garak was sneaking around. turns out he’s been illegally smuggling keiko a bunch of poisonous romulan orchids in exchange for advice on grafting trees, and he didn’t want odo to confiscate his stock. keiko is so happy about being able to study the orchids that miles doesn’t have the heart to report garak for bringing deadly poisons aboard the station