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.
Favorite thing about Garak’s whole set up is that the tailor shop was absolutely NOT a front. I’m sure when Garak opened it he assumed that some shady things would wind up happening there but he was never serving in an official capacity to any government. This tailor shop really was just how he was getting his money. This man. This man spent his whole life being a spy, killing and torturing people, doing all sorts of high level espionage. And when he has to sit down at like. Age 40 and have a think on what he wants to do next. He’s just like. Tailor shop. It’s going to be a tailor shop. I will Sew Clothes until my life is back on track. Was sewing like… His way to unwind after aiding and abetting the Cardassian Occupation? It’s a hard thing to do professionally, you have to be good at it. Was this always his plan B???
If NO ONE ELSE is going to think about the entire Niners crew marching into Garak’s shop to be measured and fitted for custom made baseball uniforms then I WILL,
He knows that they’re giving him an out to focus on something other than decrypting messages for a bit, and honestly the uniforms are exceedingly ugly in his professional tailoring opinion (humans and their onesies…), but GOSH darn it the entire station is buzzing with baseball fever and it’s infectious. He even ran into Colonel Kira practicing her swing, made a joke about standing behind her being more dangerous than in front of her, and she laughed.
So he agrees, and I would’ve Loved there to be a scene where Garak’s sitting in the stands next to Rom just to politely watch how everything goes down. (“Just so I can see the fruits of my labor in the correct historical context, of course!”) And maybe he sabotages a Vulcan pitch once, it’s fine.
