a meme

[kindkit]

I am annoyed by absolutely everything today. Therefore, I meme. Grabbed from around, slightly modified.

Give me a character and I'll tell you some things:

1. How I feel about this character

2. All the people I ship romantically and/or sexually with this character

3. Favorite gen relationship(s) for this character

4. My unpopular opinion about this character

5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.

7. A song or piece of music I associate with this character.


Any characters in any fandoms I know are fair game. But a lot of my fannish thoughts currently are about The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill Gaming, and Stellar Firma.

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[aurumcalendula]

Garak?

Garak

[kindkit]

On the understanding that it has (somehow) been almost ten years since I watched DS9:

1. How I feel about this character

I love him. I like flawed (sometimes very flawed) "heroes" who may be broadly on the side of right but are not paragons of virtue, and I also like difficult, twisty, hard-to-know characters, and he is both of those things.

2. All the people I ship romantically and/or sexually with this character.

Bashir. Only.

3. Favorite gen relationship(s) for this character.

I'm trying to remember who Garak had promising friendships with, and coming up a bit blank. In my memory, at least, he really only loosened up with Bashir, and the rest of the time he was back behind about 10 walls of dubious charm, manipulation, and hidden agendas.

4. My unpopular opinion about this character

I don't know if I have one. I don't think that he's secret cuddly? I mean, I think he's softer in some ways than he wants to appear (and much, much colder and tougher in others), but I think there's a general trend in all fandoms towards making even slightly prickly characters into sweet soft cuddly lovebunnies, and Garak is Not That.

5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Garak/Bashir as a canon relationship, obviously.

6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.

I probably had one back when I was more involved with this canon, but I can't remember. Sorry!

7. A song or piece of music I associate with this character.

Haven't got one. But I'll bet that if Bashir had given him John Le Carré novels to read instead of Shakespeare, Garak would have liked them.