Deep Dish Nine headcanon discussion incoming! Forgive me for not doing this long ago:
Yay more DD9 stuff!
Now I feel this weird pressure to be funny again. Please forgive me if I’m just kind of rambly instead; it’ll be more honest, I think.
LOL, the good ship CCT/MBFTD~
I wonder if DD9 Miles has any issues? What’s his history? Was he a soldier, once? Is he back from somewhere kind of snaky with a little bit of PTSD and a yen to work somewhere relaxing, with friends, maybe tinker with machinery, and never have to deal with any of that horrible death shit ever again? Maybe Keiko’s the main breadwinner; does she have a defined gig? Plants, yes, and I think I remember someone suggesting she was an instructor at the university. I can kind of see that – Dr. O’Brien, very influential in the biology department. And the kids – wait, the kid? What timeline are we in again? Okay, so they only have Molly, and she’s really little, and so maybe she tags along with Miles sometimes, but usually she stays with a neighbour lady during Miles’s shifts, and he usually brings her home a little tiny personal pizza. With olives. Because she likes those.
Where did I go, there?
I don’t think you’re in danger of anybody thinking you hate Miles. Does he even get demonized very often in the G/B fic? It’s hard to demonize Miles. He just means so well. And he is level-headed. And Julian is getting involved in shady shit, whether he knows it or not.
Awwwww, wait, Awkward Adventures Julian has children, plural? Which means maybe the orphans are kinda AA-canon? Hmmmmmmm? /inclines head
I like the idea of Garak strolling by in the background with a basket of laundry, or being aggressively domestic on the couch, knitting or something, really fucking putting it on, to the point that Julian pauses the recording and tells him to get out of there, he’s being irritating. “But you said you wanted to show him how normal we are.” “You are knitting. This is not normal.”
And the idea of Julian burying who he’s becoming to avoid making Miles uncomfortable makes me wistful, which means it’s probably something you should write someday.
I’m very curious about the 5000% Done With Cardassians day – done with Cardassians in general? Or one sometimes-irritating Cardassian in particular? And what on earth could Miles do about it? No, stop, don’t tell – I’m intrigued – and that means it’s another good story!
You know, I’ve read some fics that were “Julian accidentally *insert anything here*” but they didn’t mean it quite the way you do, I think. /ba dump tshh
Hmm. You make an interesting point with Dukat being really fucking terrifying in DS9 as soon as he has any kind of actual power. He’s funny when he’s blustery and loud and irritating. As soon as he could potentially get up to dickens, he’s horrible. (and watchable and marvelous but that’s beside the point) It makes sense that we’re all a bit afraid to imitate anything like that… Maybe there will be silly DD9 and darker DD9. I guess it’s all one big AU. There’s room for all to play, yes?
I’m imagining how DD9 would handle his deciding to go Bajoran. Like, does he just come in one day with his hair cut and dyed and wearing an earring? Is everyone like, dude, we totally know it’s you~~
baaaahaha it’s his mid life crisis ziyal is so fucking embarrassed
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