No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

ladyyatexel

Some O rphan Time to balance out all this pizza, maybe? Since last time was Mira, and I still don’t have a name for half the twins, this time it’s Tolan. It’s small, but it’s a sketchy thing all around that I thought people might enjoy. Assuming my orphan crew survived Pizzageddon.

Unfortunately, it’s not super involved on Tolan’s part, since he’s kind of still in trama-baby mode, but it’s something.

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“Does he look strange to you?”

Garak squints at Tolan. “Strange how? Has he been coughing again?”

“Not ‘ill’ strange, but just in general.”

“He looks the way you’d expect a hybrid of his type to look.”

“But he looks strange for a Cardassian.”

Garak shrugs. “Of course he does. So do you.”

Julian laughs a little and Tolan flails and tries to kick him in response to the sound and sudden movement. “It’s just – no, stop, stop, it’s okay, we’re done with the laughing now, we-“

“Do you want help with that?”

“I’ve got him, thank you.” Julian spends a few more seconds trying to hush and restrain Tolan until he calms down and returns to being quietly wary. “I just wondered if he looked different to you than he does to me. I think the pointed ears are adorable, but Mira…” He frowns thinking about Mira’s candid expression of her disapproval. “She said she thinks he looks broken.”

“Mira is a child. As we’ve discussed frequently, an overly dramatic and opinionated one, but a child regardless. You don’t need to worry about her. In the end, more years of her life will include Tolan than not, and they’ll be fine.”

Julian frowns. “So she’ll just ‘get used to him.’”

“Yes.”

“And what about you?”

“What about me?”

“Does he look broken to you?”

“No. He looks like him.” When Julian takes a breath to say something else, Garak stops him. “My dear, I live with a human, was quite good friends with a Bajoran hybrid, frequently had breakfast with a changeling, have conversed with Klingons, done business with more than a few Ferengi, and have had passing familiarity with the waist measurements of more species than I can recall the names of. I see nothing wrong with Tolan, just that he is what he is.”

teroknortailor

Awwwwwwwwww <3

feathereddinosaur

Jake and Nog are looking for action - in all the wrong places. They’ve played all the family holosuite games - and the adult games are strictly off-limits. So when Garak, the only Cardassian on Deep Space Nine, suggests a trip to the unknown depths of Level 45, they’re ready to go. When they arrive on the musty, abandoned deck, they find a funny Cardassian toy that says “Moop” when activated. And then they discover the replicator button on the toy. Perfect! They can replicate enough “Moops” for a baseball game. But suddenly the figures that stand before them are as tall as Nog - and they’re replicating themselves!

Yes, this book IS exactly as wonderful as you think it is.

ladyyatexel

There is a whole book essentially about Garak pranking children on DS9. This warms my heart.