So I thought, and instantly headcanoned, about Parmak reading to Garak when he’s trouble falling asleep (actually at first I thought about Parmak recording books so that Garak could always listen to him when he was on the off-Cardassia missions, maybe I’ll draw that later too)
I’ve stumbled upon some Crimson Shadow quotes and now howl at the moon, unable to put my hands on it anytime soon. I want to read more Garak-Parmak interactions :C
so garak/bashir is my otp and all and garak/parmak has, er, some problems (cough, three years in a labour camp, cough), but seriously, if you read the crimson shadow and didn’t come away thinking their relationship was absurdly cute, i may need to flail at you until you realise the error of your ways.
(cosmictuesdays): Parmak would have to have found something beyond Cardassia to cling to in the camp.
(cosmictuesdays): Contrast to Garak, who clung to Cardassia as an ideal.
(cosmictuesdays): Parmak would have found his footing on something far more insubstantial, to make it out alive. Not just stubbornness.
(cosmictuesdays): Have you ever read Maus?
(cosmictuesdays): There’s a segment in there where a woman talked about how different people came out of it differently - there’s a lot of one’s own character that comes into shaping how one survives circumstances.
(cosmictuesdays): Parmak forgave Garak of everything. Of what he’d done, of what he will do.
(cosmictuesdays): To come out of that life, and be willing to forgive - that’s very Buddhist of him.
(cosmictuesdays): “You still believe in Cardassia,” Parmak says. “You still believe in what she might yet be.”
(cosmictuesdays): “That, I can love.”
peachsynapse: parmak needs People.
peachsynapse: i never have read maus.
(cosmictuesdays): It’s intense.
peachsynapse: mmmmmmm. perhaps parmaks’ going to have to learn that.
(cosmictuesdays): You’d need a sit down.
peachsynapse: going to have to see it with his own eyes. because there are a lot of people who are just doing their duty, who don’t Believe In Cardassia.
peachsynapse: with garak, though, ti’s a flame.
peachsynapse: and it’s still burning evven in the dust and darkness.
peachsynapse: parmark, watching him, would see that.
peachsynapse: i like that.
Now I’m thinking Alanis Morissette’s “Not The Doctor” for early days Garak/Parmak angst. Sort-of-hate-but-not-quite-but-what-am-I-to-you-and-why-do-I-like-this ahoy!
(where Parmak is True Cardassia to Garak, the purity of revolution, and Parmak sees Garak as Old Cardassia… he should hate it. He should hate him. But he doesn’t…)
peachsynapse: thinking a lot about garak and parmak lately
peachsynapse: and what a complicated relationship that’s gonna be
bmouse: yeah I mean it’s a neat ship
bmouse: cardassian bits for everyone. I’m even prepared to ignore the ‘Here’s a Nice Forgiving Doctor Character Who Is the Right Species WOMP WOMP’
so garak/bashir is my otp and all and garak/parmak has, er, some problems (cough, three years in a labour camp, cough), but seriously, if you read the crimson shadow and didn’t come away thinking their relationship was absurdly cute, i may need to flail at you until you realise the error of your ways.
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