Ill Met By Moonlight

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[noahxgail]

Mila Garak and her son Elim, ca. 2330

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[c-rowlesdraws]

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.

[conceptadecency]

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

[c-rowlesdraws]

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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[kaelio]

damar was getting SO much sex in that basement

[ladyvean]

You’re right and you should say it.

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[conceptadecency]

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.

[conceptadecency]

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.

[conceptadecency]

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.

[conceptadecency]

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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[weyoun-five]

[conceptadecency]

Mila multitasking. (Needling her kid who never calls whilst flirting with the handsome friend he brings home.)

[ladyvean]

God, I really wish someone (not me) would write some Mila/Damar.

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[kissmeinkardasi]

Now I’m stuck imagining Mila snatching a spider from the wall and eating it, all while staring at young Enabran Tain, and that is the moment when he falls for her

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Anonymous asked:

ur mom is hot

answered:

As of this day you are now banned from Quark’s and all subsidiaries

[guljerry]

All I could think of was Dukat drunk-kanar-texting Kira at 3am

Ur mom is hot

I HATE MYSELF for my horrible sinful thought lol

[cyrelia-j]

Better yet, imagine Damar drunk texting Garak ;)

[guljerry]

This may be weird but I’m all here for Damar/Mila (as a one time thing). I absolutely love that the writer allowed flirtation between AN OLDER WOMAN AND A YOUNGER MAN GASPPPP LOOK AT THAT AN OLDER WOMAN STILL HAVING FLIRTATIOUS ROMANTIC FEELINGS. That moment makes me very happy indeed and the fact that Damar happily returned her flirting and indulged her (or maybe it wasn’t indulging her maybe he really enjoyed it too!) I just love it.

Age is respect on Cardassia after all so why should a younger man have issue with an older woman showing interest?

Mila is badass could you imagine her showing that handsome young man how it’s done? She’d be a boss and Damar would love it.

[orionlodubyal]

I gotta say I’m on board for the Mila/Damar thing too…  Seriously, it could be a sci-fi version of a Golden Girls episode.

[guljerry]

YES. I love you for being on board.

[myriadhallauglokadis]

+1

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[ladyvean]

Damar looks high AF in that first panel.

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[summerartist]

Mila meets Ziyal suggested by @subspacecommunication
Yes, they should have met

[ladyvean]

I would have loved to have witnessed this conversation.

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[weyoun-five]

[kissmeinkardasi]

I love Mila, she’s one of the best characters in the entirety of DS9

[noxfoxarts]

That scene is one of the best things of that entire arc. I love their expressions, how they’re bonding, how they all love each other in that moment, how they’re being such a family, aww…

[ladyvean]

I know I’ve reblogged this before, but I just love it so much.