#also yeah i never read odo as asexual in the early seasons i always just saw it as both repression and like

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oh yeah. kira’s love interests were always just. insanely blandly written. 0 chemistry. it’s no wonder they wrote them out of the show both times💀

i don’t headcanon kira as a lesbian (my personal hc is male leaning bi :3) though because i think it’s sweet thinking of her as just… genuinely wanting these fuckass cardboard cutout dudes. her taste in men is just so bad and honestly yeah. she deserves some boring slice of life romance with 0 drama or interesting aspects whatsoever. it’s stable and it’s nice. but then of course bareil dies because kira, like o’brien, must suffer i guess

her relationship with shakaar is somehow even less interesting despite the possibility of a more unique dynamic with them having history together in the resistance. we just straight up never see him? he’s mostly just a plot device for odo to be sad over. and he was an absolute tool when kira was pregnant. no wonder they broke them up so off-handedly, they had 0 chemistry and unlike bareil 0 actual time spent together on screen. shakaar they could never make me gaf about you

and then of course kiraodo was written almost entirely from odo’s perspective which bugs the shit out of me but honestly their actual dynamic IS sweet to me. it’s not always written well but it does have a good basis as best friends to lovers. kira and odo have a very strong bond as friends and i really wish we’d properly seen kira falling for him, too, not just the other way round. she already loves him! kick down the boundaries between platonic and romantic and get weird with it! and for the love of god don’t consult a hologram!!!!

ALSO… CONSIDER… kira bi awakening with transfem odo. the scene where odo transforms into shimmering light for kira is already so insanely trans coded it’s barely even a step past that. kira’s so repressed i think she might actually pass out

anyways yeah there are a lot of valid reasons to dislike kiraodo but this is just my take

some people say that odo’s feelings for kira are forced but personally i get him. all she has to do is smile and i, too, am happy beyond reason