Ill Met By Moonlight

[Ill Met By Moonlight]

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gently shakes these sketches out onto tumblr at 2 AM like a ramen flavor packet

1) Agent Enabran Tain and a mistake! The mistake’s name is Elim. Look at him! So cheerful, so full of crushable innocence.

2) Director Tain, some years later, doing paperwork. Being at the pinnacle of his career is nice and all, but sometimes being stuck behind a desk can be so dull compared to the excitement and variety of fieldwork. He hasn’t gotten to stab anyone in ages.

since PADDs are supposed to be fun futuristic advanced tablet computer things, it cracks me up whenever Trek shows a desk just littered with them. How much data can one of those things hold? Is it like one thing each, like Hit Clips? Amazing.

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OMG. Was Mila hot too? Were they, like, OO power couple? Love to know your headcanon on that.

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the answer to both questions is 100% yes

but what do you mean “were”?? They’re still absolutely a power couple:

(I have your fic The Family Bond to thank for how I imagine their relationship; I’m so glad these two terrible people found each other, love is real)

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current favorite AU idea: Tain holds on long enough to be rescued from Internment Camp 371, Bashir helps give him lifesaving medical treatment on DS9, and now everyone is stuck with Grandpa War Crimes forever. Garak and Bashir are already having misgivings about this situation.

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I mean……………………………

(reply from this post. It says a lot about DS9′s quality writing that one of its most unsettling villains is an elderly lizard man in a cozy cardigan.)

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Some Cardassians - I think they’re fascinating

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This was how improbable cause / the die is cast went right

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Headcanon

Elim Garak is Enabran Tain’s youngest and favourite child. He had five or six other children with his wife, but none of them showed the promise in the ‘family business’ that the late-in-life mistake with the housekeeper did.

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And he absolutely should have killed Mila before Elim was born. Not because he’s Enabran Tain, head of the Obsidian Order, but because it was disrespectful to his wife and children not to. That’s just Cardassian society, and any powerful man would do the same.

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But he didn’t because he had a sentimental attachment to Mila. He felt a great deal of guilt about not killing her when he should have (it was detrimental to Cardassia because if the scandal had got out it might have shaken the very foundations of power and put Cardassia at risk).

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He saw the spark of sentimentality in Elim and did his best to extinguish it. As well as the sentiment he himself felt for his son.

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His wife was a political match, high-ranking, well-connected, a good woman, but quite dull. Their children all take after her. They have good jobs in the military or the civil service. They all know about their half-brother but it has never been acknowledged that he’s anything other than the housekeeper’s son.

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Mila, on the other hand, was a love match. She was as bright and devious as he was, and despite her lack of education bested him many times. It was a shame she was born into the service class, because she would have been excellent in a leadership role in the Obsidian Order.

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Elim showed promise early on, when he demonstrated the ability to lie at the age of three, and lie well by three and a half. He is Tain’s favourite child by far.

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Headcanon

Elim Garak is Enabran Tain’s youngest and favourite child. He had five or six other children with his wife, but none of them showed the promise in the ‘family business’ that the late-in-life mistake with the housekeeper did.

[conceptadecency]

And he absolutely should have killed Mila before Elim was born. Not because he’s Enabran Tain, head of the Obsidian Order, but because it was disrespectful to his wife and children not to. That’s just Cardassian society, and any powerful man would do the same.

[conceptadecency]

But he didn’t because he had a sentimental attachment to Mila. He felt a great deal of guilt about not killing her when he should have (it was detrimental to Cardassia because if the scandal had got out it might have shaken the very foundations of power and put Cardassia at risk).

[conceptadecency]

He saw the spark of sentimentality in Elim and did his best to extinguish it. As well as the sentiment he himself felt for his son.

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[kaelio]

Bear with me here:

- Cardassia values family & kids and the whole traditional shebang.

- but you know who's not as given to get married (legal evidence of a commitment towards another entity!) or have children? Yeah that's right. agents of the obsidian order. Would be a mega exploitable weakness 'cause Family Is Everything

- who would be the most logical contingent then, as per their conservative society, for such a role? I tell you:🦎🏳️‍🌈🦎

- maybe that's like considered a big plus in getting recruited or promoted or w/e

⚡️🧠⚡️: mila and garak had to be secret not because they're proud of infidelity or a liability but because they're proof Enabran tain lied about being a homosexual on his resume

[conceptadecency]

That makes so much sense.

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Headcanon

Elim Garak is Enabran Tain’s youngest and favourite child. He had five or six other children with his wife, but none of them showed the promise in the ‘family business’ that the late-in-life mistake with the housekeeper did.