not letting a little thing like not having finished DS9 yet stop me from making up a post-canon OC! Live free, chase your dreams.
Ghezal Chagak is a professional baker born and raised on Cardassia Prime. After the bombardment of her homeworld destroys her workplace along with the economy, she moves to Deep Space 9 to open a new little bakery of her own and send money back to her family. The mix of cultures and flavor preferences on the station (how could she have known shellfish and fresh fruit breakfast pastries wouldn’t take off?) are daunting at first, along with lingering anti-Cardassian sentiment among the locals, but she’s determined to make things work.
This is great! I have a headcanon that Cardassians eat steamed tova dumplings stuffed with shredded paka foul meat on Pledge Day - the biggest holiday of their year - so I am going to pretend she is making those, if it’s all the same to you.
I mean, none of that is from canon; I just made it up for a fic!
