#.dukat comes across as genuinely seeing himself as a hero and having that cognitive dissonance baked in. he sells it as sincere. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dreamerdrop · 2 days ago

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Dukat becomes worse the more pitiful he is. Winn becomes more pitiful the worse she gets.

Dukat has these moments where you could almost feel sorry for him, but he just doubles down on how horrible he is in a way that makes you forget that moment of pity because he genuinely and sincerely does not think he’s done anything wrong, ever.

Winn has moments where she seems to be weilding her cruelty like armor, but then has a moment of vulnerability and doubt that make you realise you can’t quite hate her, you just feel sorry for her instead, because some part of her seems to know she’s going down a bad path but she is so terrified she can’t make herself turn back.

Their character arcs look similar on a surface level but are very, very different trajectories.

#star trek #star trek ds9 #winn adami #skrain dukat #stella talks #.also winn is a really attractive women so she gets extra sympathy points from me on that basis to begin with—#.what who said that.#.i think both their actors do a wonderful job of making them feel very… human.#.dukat comes across as genuinely seeing himself as a hero and having that cognitive dissonance baked in. he sells it as sincere.#.winn… god the things i could say about her actress making her feel so very alive…#.gimme some time to rewatch all the winn episodes and i’m going to turn into a winn apologist blog.#.yeah she did all that but she was pretty and i think kira should have kissed her.#.so was she REALLY in the wrong hmmmm????#.and having been recently converted to kira/ziyal shipping and being a big fan of keiko/everyone the sapphic polycule is getting fun.#.<- the sapphic polycule has the side perk of being one which would make dukat utterly baffled.

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