ponte-vanima replied to your photo “autistic julian bashir: exhibit b “scripting”
pls yell about it some more? i like to read this
oh golly talk about my autistic bean julian subatoi bashir??? WHAT A HARDSHIP
okay so sometime between my initial watch of ds9 and the rewatch that cause my spiral into 24/7 deep space madness, I read this post which Opened My Eyes so a lot of it is explained there BUT:
- julian does not grok social cues. like. at all. see: “can someone please explain this conversation to me” in the circle. see: the way he honestly did not know that miles didn’t like him. see: that bit at the beginning of crossover when he’s ‘meditating’ extremely loudly and kira has to explicitly be like ‘dude shut the fuck up’ for him to understand that she wants him to shut the fuck up dude. see: when garak introduces himself and anyone with eyes can see garak is definitely hitting on him and julian is just like “he’s a spy and I’m gonna learn spy stuff!!!!!!”
- scripting!!! like julian + holosuites in general (and especially in our man bashir like wow) but also how he tells the story about the preganglionic fiber with the exact same words/pacing/stresses every time, how he hits on women in the exact same way.
- THE BEETS. he is not putting those beets in his mouth. it is a Sensory Issue. (I would also argue that the reason his civvies are Objectively Terrible re: color sense is because he (like me tbh) prefers loud colors for Sensory Reasons)
- SPECIAL INTEREST TOWN. See: the beginning of nor the battle to the strong where he’s talking about his research to jake and jake is like “……..sure doc” but julian is damn well gonna tell him anyway because medicine is his special interest and he is going to tell u all about it. he does this a lot actually, start lecturing someone about medicine and ignoring/failing to notice when their eyes glaze over.
- mirroring! julian picks up speech cues from whomever he’s talking to. it’s especially obvious with garak (”my dear mister garak” did not come from nowhere) but see also this scene with some klingons, the scene with miles in the bar in homefront, etc.
and that’s just all the canon stuff. when you factor in the ret con, there’s a lot more carefully calculated facade that comes into play.
ourflagmeansbts
