My collection is growing~~~
Quark is the best to drink out of, due to his sheer capacity. Hurrah for Ferengi brains!
I was told six months before the series began that Odo was going to be a Clint Eastwood type… And then I was told Rene Auberjonois. And I said, ‘Clint Eastwood, Rene Auberjonois. Clint Eastwood, Rene Auberjonois. Does not compute.’
Title: Research Notes
Rating: G
Characters: Odo, Garak, Bashir
Prompt: Cultural Exchange
Word count: 1107
Author’s notes: Written for the DS9 Tumblrzine week 2 prompt. Crossposted at: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1535753
Odo wasn’t quite sure how Garak had found out. All that really mattered was that somehow, he knew. He supposed that if anyone on the station were going to uncover his secret, it was going to be the exiled Obsidian Order agent who liked to pretend he was a simple tailor.
Lwaxana: I’ll miss you, too.
Odo: Then why leave?
Lwaxana: You’ve gotten used to having me around haven’t you? Oh, you dear, sweet man.
Don’t you see? What you want is company, someone to take care of.
Odo: Is that so wrong?
Lwaxana: No, of course not.
The problem is, I want much more than that from you.
You see, I can’t help it.
I’m still in love with you.
And as much as I wish that you were in love with me I know you’re not.
I could stay.
I could try to make you fall in love with me but we both know that won’t happen.
Then I’d end up resenting you and our friendship is far too important for me to let that happen.
There was something rather splendid about the way those two claimed one another, as though nothing and nobody else mattered or even existed; he was the only bridegroom I have ever seen who looked as though he knew exactly what he was doing and meant it.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon (via magidthomasina)
I have this headcanon that Odo is in ecstasy over the events of “Gaudy Night”
(via bmouse)Oh my god Garak and Odo squealing over Sayers at breakfast, I simply can’t at all with this~~~~~
I had to do a slow motion GIF of this most adorable scene in all of Star Trek history. (Okay to ME it is!)
THE BABY CHANGELING COPIES ODO WHEN HE TILTS HIS HEAD!
Cutest thing ever.
I’ve drawn a few creepy twisty Odos before, but I really wanted to explore what it might’ve been like in the show aand I wanted to draw more Odo being twisty. So this little comic sprung out of that!
This was a fun exercise and I learned a lot while putting it together. Like how much I love drawing Quark.
Here’s my speculation. Don’t take it as canon. Let’s have some fun.
People who watch DS9 wrote speculations of Odo being hollow inside, but that just doesn’t make sense to me. If he was hollow inside, he’d dent in and regain his shape like memory foam if you squeezed his arm hard enough or punched him in the stomach. I didn’t see his skin or hair get shoved inward when he got smacked in the head by rocks in Vortex. I do recall the statement “you’re heavier than you look!” This is because things that are full of fluid tend to be heavy. :)
I think Odo is “solid” on the surface as much as necessary to mimic skin, eyes, fingernails, clothes, etc. But I think on the inside he’s more like gelatin.
What I imagine Odo’s interior is like…
He’s got a very basic esophagus(according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia) which is why he can’t eat or drink. Maybe food falls right through him. Maybe the fluids he tries to drink just circulate right back out as foreign material. Maybe Odo can’t swallow at all, period, so he ends up spitting stuff back out. Swallowing takes muscles and reflexes, both of which he lacks. He is only humanoid on the surface. Inside, he has no heart, lungs, spleen, liver, kidneys, intestines, bones, etc. (Yes folks, that means he doesn’t pee or poop!)
Now, we get to the episode Facets. I believe Curzon!Odo bypassed Odo’s lack of internal organs because having Curzon in his head let Odo form organs he didn’t normally have(this happened when his physical appearance changed), and Curzon’s consciousness gave him a sense of taste and the ability to eat and drink. This all went away once Curzon left, but Odo remembered tasting everything Curzon ate and drank. (I’d hate to imagine the mess after Curzon left. All that undigested matter! Eww! Poor Odo.)
I think Odo does have a rudimentary airway leading to air sacs that let him take in air for speech. There is no gas exchange. They’re basically balloons, nothing more. Odo can’t die from a lack of oxygen because his species doesn’t need it to survive.
It’s been shown in closeups that Odo’s chest rises and falls like ours. (Mostly due to Rene needing to breathe, but let’s have fun with it!) Maybe Odo “breathes” to keep his internal temperature closer to what’s optimal for shape shifting in warmer environments. In cooler environments, he can circulate his inner substance at high speeds to keep himself warm since he can’t shiver like humanoids if he’s cold. (It IS stated in canon that there is an optimal temperature for shape shifting!) Since he doesn’t have a diaphragm, I imagine he has just one low-density hollow in his chest to house the air sacs. The density of his chest wall decreases to suck air in and increases to push it back out. He has complete control of this, there is no reflex. But while he consciously breathes, he doesn’t think about it much, just like we don’t think about our own breathing unless attention is called to it. (And while he can stop if he wants and not feel any urgent desire to breathe, our bodies will force us to take in air eventually!)
Another question people ask is if Odo has private parts. He shape shifted what he needs well enough if Arissa couldn’t tell it was his first time in A Simple Investigation. I imagine his brief time stuck as a humanoid let him “explore” a little… >_>;;
Now for the jello part!
Every time a Changeling takes humanoid form, they build themselves into a gelatinous, vaguely humanoid shape before the skin and such appears. If this surface is disturbed enough, it reveals the gooey stuff underneath. These pictures are what tells me the skin is only a surface facsimile covering a jelly-like interior.
Here’s the female Founder taking humanoid form. Her shape is female by her choice and not because of specific gender identity. Maybe she thought a female body would be less threatening. (Oh but she’s one of the Big Bads in the series. Her delicate appearance hides a LOT of badness!)
Odo “gets naked” for Kira by literally letting his surface disappear to show his liquid interior before he turns into glowing fog.
More instances of gelatinous material being visible. The first image is a prime example showing us he’s a jello mold behind his imitated skin!
So, as you can see, I think Odo and the Founders are walking, talking, intelligent jello molds while in humanoid form. :)
A humanoid form is pretty complicated. We’ve got all those folds and dimples and hairs and pimples and…JUST SO MUCH STUFF!
Objects are probably easier to shape shift into more precisely, but I’ll be here all night trying to write that down.
tl;dr version: ODO IS JELLO.
chequerootlurks
I’m an apprentice tattoo artist. An artist who owns a few shops invited me to their team.
I’ve got a long way to go. I’m still learning basic shading techniques. Working with a tattoo pen adds depth to the traditional flat plane I’m used to working on.
One is never too old to learn a new skill.
At times I feel like a complete newb.
So, here is a meme that I love. I’m sharing it for everyone who is learning something new.
