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.
This is still totally Fanart Friday and not already Sunday. Anyway my dislike of sci-fi is a thing that some people know and more truly correct answer of my favorite sci-fi thing would have been Robocop, but you know… I like Odo and Garak. And I swear Odo is totally like a nosy, disapproving sphynx.
i mourn the limitations of 90s trek shows sfx. and yet, trek movie/show makers nowadays just don’t get it! no, i never wanted shinier spaceships… if you let me remaster ds9, i would leave pretty much everything as it is, you see. however i would sink my hypothetical infinite budget into absolutely perfecting the minutiae of odo’s movements - him walking, his gestures, etc. i want that man to properly look like slime, so he stretches ever so slightly whenever he strides and oozes slightly in slightly inhuman manners. and it will still look like shit. but by god, it’ll be my fucking shit!
nobody asked - and honestly, they probably do go into more detail with this in the show. but besties i dont listen AND i’m only on s2 …. but like? okay the above might sound silly: after all, he can identically shapeshift into most objects, so why should he be a lil slimey when moving? WELL, my headcanon here is tht like… inanimate objects are one thing. but when he’s humanoid he’s actually moving about. and he’s already said that he doesn’t have, like, internal organs and bits- so exactly how is he moving about? i guess it just makes more sense to me if he… kind of isnt and if instead his movements are literally kinda like claymation, and he’s shapeshifting every time he moves an arm or leg and in actuality in each instance he’s like. a static frame of humanoid but he does it sooo fast and the differences arent as drastic as when we usually see him shift bc theyre just movements of the ssame frame … and so thats why i think he should look goopy whenever he walks. just a lil goopy mind you. round the edges. like a flan, not rice pudding kinda goopy. 😁
Odo and Quark surely have a tally scoreboard thing they keep right?
Like every time Odo catches Quark he draws a little line on a whiteboard in the brig.
But Quark also has one in the bar above the replicator that he also draws lines on.
Odo keeps track in his head and every time he sees a new line appear Quark grins devilishly over the bar and says “can I help you constable?”
Odo runs off and starts an investigation immediately and finds nothing but smirks to himself quietly in his office, impressed: “I’ll get you next time…”
Do you think Rom knows that this brother and their archenemies are in love
Rom strikes me as typically the oblivious/clueless type but maybe, just maaaaaybe, he can pick up on that.
So new theory- we know Rom changes and developes in DS9. We know at his heart of hearts he’s a kind and caring soul. So, what if all those times he helped Quark with his schemes it wasn’t because he actually thought they’d work or that he had an obligation to his brother. What if it was because he secretly hoped that the criminal activity would lead to Quark and Odo getting together because it meant they’d be thrown together more often. What IF Rom’s plan all along was to help his brother admit/discover his hidden feelings for Odo thus leading him to put more time, effort and energy into that relationship and less into his life of crime. What IF Rom was constantly working to put Quark in Odo’e path in order to convert his brother to keep him on the straight and narrow!?!?!
This is now canon 100 percent and undeniably canon
Tired: Rom is oblivious to Quark and Odo being in love.
Wired: Rom is a manipulative, caring genius that has schemed for years to get them together with the sole purpose of improving his brother’s life.
