“I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else–and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all.” Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters.
Little Achievements has been a delight and I’m so grateful we got such amazing content so long after the show has ended. Thank you so much to everyone who made it possible!
After listening to the play I really wanted to see Julian coming home to Garak, so here’s some art Sadly no Orchids, because they are hard to draw…
Recently I decided to rewatch some of my favourite Deep Space Nine episodes and it only made me want to rewatch the whole series, which is what I’m doing now. I like so many of the characters in the show but these two are my favourites.
(I was actually trying to decide between rewatching Star Trek and replaying Mass Effect, so apparently I’m in a bit of a Sci-Fi mood at the moment)
Icons, 200x100, slightly sharpened, from DS9 S1 HERE.
Benjamin Sisko #26,000
Ferengi (Nog, Rom, Quark & the Grand Nagus) #9,800
Garak #161
Jadzia Dax #11,300
Jake Sisko #4,000
Jean Luc Picard #700
Jennifer Sisko #1,000
Julian Bashir #11,600
Kai Opaka #1,500
Kai Winn #900
Keiko O’Brien #1,800
Kira Nerys #19,000
Lwaxan Troi #1,700
Miles O’Brien #14,400
Odo #17,000
Q #1,700
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Julian Bashir: meets new person, completely flustered, immediately accuses him of being a spy for his people. Smooth.
The thing he does with his hand when the plant gets in his face!
No but seriously these two are adorable. I remember wanting much, much more screentime for these two than they ever got, the first time I watched this series.
And then he runs straight to Ops to tell everyone! Ahaha I love you Julian.
Dax: “What do you think he might want from YOU, Julian?” *straight face* Oh, she knows…
Watching this on Netflix. Not even gonna click Skip Intro cuz I love the opening song so much.
I forgot about Kira and Sisko butting heads early on. I love how the relationships of this show evolve.
Lursa and B'Etor! The somewhat random TNG cameos continue! Bring them on, I say!
Okay Sisko gets his reputation as the Daddy because Bashir and everyone else always runs to him like, “Ah this scary thing happened what do I do!?”
Garak guiding Bashir through the first steps of spy-dom awww~
Joranian ostrich!? Haha gotta love the Star Trek trope that is “name something from Earth and put an alien word in front of it because this is THE FUTURE!!” If you do that today your audience would roll its eyes but with Classic Trek it’s just quaint and adorable. (I mean you can still roll your eyes but it’s also quaint and adorable)
But really, Kira and Odo’s relationship is laid out so perfectly in this scene. They have so much mutual respect for each other and take strength from each other’s presence and I’m so here for it for the whole ride.
Why are the character interactions so much more interesting to watch than the actual terrorist plot of the episode? Good writing that’s why!
A Ds9 episode from Garak’s perspective. The episode is him trying to finish this one big order for some dresses while also stopping an assassination attempt in secret.
We see him get some secret information that Sisko is about to be murdered but he can’t tell Sisko for secret reasons. So he has to thwart the assassination attempt himself. We see him make subspace calls to his contacts, sneak around on the station after closing and eventually follow and take out the assassin just as they’re about to murder Sisko.
We ALSO see him deal with Quark being a difficult customer, Bolian customs issue for a button delivery and also Julian Bashir being clueless about what is happening right in front of him at all times.
While Garak is dealing with this very stressful day we get hints about some regular A plot business going on. We see Kai Winn pass the shop talking to Sisko. Garak and Julian have lunch and we hear Julian say stuff like “Quark shouldn’t have bought that mango in the first place” but we never get any details.
At the end of the episode Garak closes the shop early because obviously he’s stressed OUT. Of course Julian says something like “I guess you had a slow day today”. Garak smiles and nods and say “Indeed Doctor, I was bored out of my mind” and they walk away smiling, as we pan to the shop storage room where the body of the assassin is shoved inside a box of discarded wrapping paper.
All I want is that one perfectly comedic scene where Garak is in the middle of getting the dead body into the shop when he hears Julian on the promenade outside. Garak, always thinking on his feet, passes the body off as a mannequin while Julian comes in to chat away about racquetball or whatever.
This is funny to me because of all the times Garak is walking around looking like your harmless, gay lizard uncle whose only concern is your atrocious outfit but the whole time he’s high as balls on drugs and thinking about murder.
There’s two types of favourite character: those who you love as part of their setting, whose dynamics with other characters pique your interest and keep you massively entertained, who you’d love to see in other stories to get more of them…
And then there’s the character who, as soon as you lay eyes on them, you’re consuming the story just for them, waiting for them to reappear again in a new scene because there’s something about them that’s got you hooked. Everything else about the story pales in comparison and if someone told you there was a sequel that didn’t star them, you wouldn’t even watch because their absence would make the story dull. These are the male and non-binary characters who fit that bill for me. I’m going to do another one of these for female characters as the archetype that hooks me is very different and hyper specific
Severus Snape from Harry Potter: I started reading Harry Potter when the series was only up to book 4. Snape hooked me from his first scene: why is someone so cruel, so nasty, so obviously evil, working under such a Good wizard as Dumbledore? It was obvious that Harry had read the situation RE Snape completely wrong and i wanted to know more about this clever evil man. Severus Snape was my gateway into fanfiction.net and for that I’ll never forgive him.
I haven’t read the series in a very long time because it went downhill so badly in those last books. I was so bitterly disappointed when it was revealed that Snape didn’t betray Voldemort until after Lily’s death warrant was signed. That completely killed his character for me; a nasty man with still just enough integrity to act as double agent playing both sides for years is an amazing character, an fascist incel is not.
Dilandau Albatou from The Vision of Escaflowne: This little shit is the reason I’ve been calling myself Dilly in fandom spaces since 2008. Spoiler: he likes to start fires. It was his voice that hooked me the first moment he spoke: Minami Takayama was forcing her voice down to a sly contralto, I couldn’t tell from his character design if he was a boy or a girl, and I was caught. He’s a delight, a vicious flamboyant unbalanced delight of a horrible little person who’s got some massive tragedies in his backstory.
The quality of Dilandau’s voice in the show is my sole determinor for whether I like an Escaflowne dub. Japanese original? Godly. 90′s English dub that everyone on this site seems to be fond off? Terrible Dilandau, terrible dub. Recent English dub everyone on this site seems to hate for replacing their favourite? Decent Dilandau, decent dub.
Lelouch vi Brittania from Code Geass: The only main character on this list. Code Geass is a flawed show, I won’t lie about that, but it’s also an over the top dramafest that goes full throttle and Lelouch is in the middle being the flamboyant dramatic manipulative hero of the people. Personally I love his costume best when he’s emperor, it’s his most flamboyant final form and you know the lad made it all himself.
TenSoon from the Mistborn series: These books are fairly standard fantasy with a good plothook: what if the Dark Lord had won? I enjoyed them! But it wasn’t until book two when TenSoon the kandra made his appearance that I was properly hooked. Who doesn’t love an ancient slime creature who eats corpses and uses their bones to puppet itself along?
The Buckkeep Fool from The Farseer Trilogy: My forever blorbo! My love! The character against whom all other favourite characters are measured. This trilogy is amazing, absolutely gripping and heartbreaking, but it’s the Fool I live for. They’re a stranger in a strange land, driven by visions that have wracked them since childhood, wearing a mask of frivolity and hiding depths beneath their jester’s smile that our main character spends a lifetime trying to comprehend. Again, I think the subsequent trilogies went way downhill, but the Farseer Trilogy and its followup the Liveship Trilogy, set in the south and featuring The Fool wearing a new face, are some of the best and most unique fantasy you’ll ever read
Gabriel from Constantine: yes, that movie version of Hellblazer starring Keanu Reeves looking handsome and acting like a plank of wood. This movie introduced me to both Hellblazer (far superior) and to Tilda Swinton (androgynous goddess). Gabriel’s just what I like - ambiguous gender, inhuman, powerful and clever and not at all nice.
Komui Lee from D.Gray-man: He’s a side character, older brother of The Girl of the shounen gang. He comes across as a scatty terrible boss, too distracted by his own inventions to do the basic tasks his role requires, but as the series goes on he reveals hidden depths of seriousness to him. This is a man who gave up his home, his dream, his language, his culture, to chase after his sister who’d been kidnapped, and ended up becoming one of the people working for that sinister organisation that took her because there was no way to rescue her from something so powerful.
Fujimoto from Ponyo: Ponyo is such a cute cartoon, so lovely, but the second I saw Fujimoto walking about with his little pump spritzing water on the lawn I was taken by him. He just wants to live with his giant wife and his thousands of tiny fish-daughters, making sea-magic!
Elim Garak from Deep Space Nine: Sly and flamboyant lizard-alien spy? The lone member of the Evil Alien race that’s left on the station after his people were driven out? A man who claims to be a simple tailor, an exile, but surely must be more than that? He’s everything for me.
Elim Garak had a very good sense of smell and the constant one wafting past his nostrils was that of pizza. It invaded his little clothier from the pizzeria across the street. It assailed him when he crossed said street to Deep Dish Nine for lunch. It clung stubbornly to the young medical student who worked there, who had caught Garak’s eye a few months ago. He brought it home at the end of the day, because it inevitably attached itself to him during lunch. The smell of pizza permeated his life now. But if it meant seeing Julian, he wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Elim Garak had been watching him closely for some time before he’d made his first move. The Federation doctor was very pretty. Garak was instantly attracted. He’d learned what he could about him and studied his habits. It didn’t take much to “accidently” run into him at the replimat. Garak was a Cardassian and as such, generally not shy by nature. He probably came on a bit strong that first time, but it was the way he’d been used to. Anyway, the good doctor, while he’d appeared nervous and uncomfortable during the exchange, had appeared quite oblivious to Garak’s rather open and pointed flirtation. He would have to explore other methods of getting his point across. “Until our next meeting, Doctor…”
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