#character: kira nerys

[lucy-moderatz]

[artsiedogthing]

My rotten soldiers!! <3

Singles are down below :P

[1960z]

ds9 characters as onion/reductress articles

[dreamerdrop]

I don’t talk about my love for Kira Nerys too often because. Look. I think if DS9 handles anything well, it’s Kira, hands down.

Her character development is a work of art. She is so traumatised, so angry, so beaten down and STILL FIGHTING at the start. She struggles so much with her PTSD, with the idea that she is ever allowed to be in anything but attack mode…

And then, slowly, gradually, she becomes a whole new person. She laughs, she smiles, she makes corny jokes, she does dumb fun things for the sake of enjoying herself. She has friends, she has a family, she is surrounded by love and joy and HOPE.

Even in the middle of second war, she’s DIFFERENT now. She’s not the same miserable angry person she was, afraid to let go of the vigilant surivival instincts that kept her alive for so long. She’s come back to life as a person who has something to live for.

She has done terrible things. Her hands are stained with blood. She is never going to be able to forget her trauma or the suffering, both her own and that of her people, nor the suffering she inflicted while fighting for her freedom. But she recovers. She heals. She carves out an existence where she is truly, genuinely happy to be alive.

I don’t need to talk about Kira as much as some other characters because this all happens on screen. It’s right there, and it’s beautiful and perfect.

Kira Nerys goes from a person who cannot conceive of herself outside of the horrors she has suffered, inflicted, and fought against, to someone for whom her trauma is just one part of the larger picture, a piece of a rich and vibrant tapestry that is now filled, overwhelmingly, with joy.

Kira Nerys is like, hands down, bar none, one of, if not THE best characters Star Trek has ever created. I love her so much. She is just, completely and utterly perfect, especially in her flaws.

[thatonegaytrekfan]

[liquidatorbruntfca]

i love you nyota uhura i love you christine chapel i love you deanna troi i love you beverly crusher i love you tasha yar i love you lwaxana troi i love you kate pulaski i love you ro laren i love you keiko o’brien i love you jadzia dax i love you kira nerys i love you leeta i love you moogie i love you ezri dax i love you kathryn janeway i love you b’elanna torres i love you seven of nine i love you t’pol i love you hoshi sato

[magpieandpossum]

it's been a minute! anyways have Bashir and kira drawing with crayons <3

[snippit-crickit]

lizard-cardassians saga continues ZIYAAAL

im angy at how the writers handled her, i wish she hung out with the ds9 teens more and did teen/adolescent stuff ⁽ᵃˡˢᵒ ʷʰᵃᵗ ʷᵃˢ ʷᶦᵗʰ ᵗʰᵉ ᶻᶦʸᵃˡ/ᵍᵃʳᵃᵏ ʷʰᵃᵗ. ᶦ ᵐᵉᵃⁿ ᶦ ᶜᵃⁿ ˢᵉᵉ ʰᵉʳ ʰᵃᵛᶦⁿᵍ ᵃⁿ ᵃᵈᵒˡᵉˢᶜᵉⁿᵗ ᶜʳᵘˢʰ ᵒⁿ ʰᶦᵐ ᵇᵘᵗ ᵃᵇˢᵒˡᵘᵗᵉ��ʸ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵇᵉᶦⁿᵍ ʳᵉᶜᶦᵖʳᵒᶜᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᶦⁿ ᵃⁿʸ ʷᵃʸ⁾ also my headcanons about tailed cardassians

they could also use it for fighting

+ quick color key of garaks shop, id love for it to have more colors

[mokutone]

thank you eulalie for the kofi tip!!!!! here's a kira nerys for you 🥳

[affixjoy]

Couldn’t help myself, made a DS9 version of this.

[idonotbitemythumbatyou]

I've read a lot of fics where Bashir gains enough self awareness to realize that his little "frontier medicine" spiel was a fucked up thing to say to Kira.

I understand the wish fulfillment. However. Let us be for real for just one moment:

Julian said that and immediately forgot about it.

Kira has logged it in her memory and weighed every new piece of information about the good doctor against that fucked up thing he said about her homeland. But Julian was already three thoughts past it as soon as the words were out of his mouth. He will never think about that sentence again. He will never realize why he made a terrible first impression. Unless someone sits him down and explains point by point why it was a messed up thing to say, he will never understand. And no one is going to do that.

[satans-trek]

Plot: Deep Space Nine Characters with more than 500 lines with their respective line counts. An additional row was added that summed Jadzia Dax's lines and Ezri Dax's lines: "DAX+EZRI"

[best-star-trek-character]

Round Three

[lostyesterday]

I’ve seen a lot of joke posts about how Kira is a lesbian because she has short hair but, like, Kira’s appearance is the last reason why I generally read her as a lesbian. DS9 clearly intends to show that Kira is attracted to men, but I have always found this attraction to feel forced and artificial.

As one example, when Kira gets together with Shakaar in Crossfire or Odo in His Way, both episodes focus solely on Odo’s and Shakaar’s feelings toward Kira. Their perspectives are explored extensively, and their romantic feelings toward Kira are very explicitly depicted. Neither episode does anything whatsoever to explore Kira’s perspective on either of them. In fact, before Shakaar and Odo confess their love to Kira, there is absolutely no indication whatsoever that Kira has romantic feelings for either of them. Obviously there are Doylist explanations for this (namely, sexism), but what comes across from a narrative perspective is the implication that Kira suddenly and spontaneously developed feelings for both men after they said they were in love with her. Which is obviously possible – I know some people do experience attraction this way. But it also could read as extremely lesbian. I did the same thing several times when I was younger and thought I was straight. If someone tells you they have romantic feelings for you, and you genuinely like them and enjoy their company, it can be very easy to convince yourself that what you feel is romantic love. And you want to convince yourself, because you want deeply to be connected to other people.

When Kira breaks up with Shakaar because the Prophets let her know they weren’t meant to be together, part of me can’t help but imagine that she might feel relieved deep down. There’s no need, now, to wonder if she truly feels the same way toward him that he feels toward her. There’s an excuse, now, to go back to the way it was before when she didn’t have to interrogate all of her emotions in search of the ones she was supposed to feel.

When Kira tells Odo she loves him enough to let him go in Chimera, and when she truly lets him go in the finale, I imagine what part of her she feels she is losing. Odo is one of her closest friends – one that survived one war and then the next and in the end she lost him anyway. And she has lost so much, and so there can be no relief in this, but maybe in some small way it is still easier to pretend you loved someone the way they loved you once you’ve lost them.

And I compare Kira’s interactions with these men the show describes her as being in love with to her interactions with Jadzia or Keiko or Cretak, and I just find her chemistry with women so much more convincing. There’s no effort behind it – just connection. I don’t think what I’m saying here is the “correct” way of interpreting Kira as a character – it is simply my own interpretation based partially on my personal experiences. But I do think that it is a valid interpretation.

[peachviz]

idk why studio producers told Nana Visitor that she walked like John Wayne so to get them off her back she told them to put her in heels if they wanted it to stop

Bc u could have fooled me Kira still walks like John Wayne but like John Wayne in heels I fail to see how this is a bad thing

[thatonegaytrekfan]