#founders (ds9)

[lt-kaollumn]

odo art for today

and heres just the lineart because i love nice crisp weighted lines.

rene had such a great way with body language which he leaned on during his performance as odo- i assume because his face was covered by a creepy skin-mask the whole time, limiting his facial expressions. very fun to see how he portrays this really gruff grumpy dude in his posture. he’s always skulking around with his head low and his nose high.

so i’ve finally got a good grasp on how to draw odo with stylistic flair. drawing goo is both meditatively fun and horribly tedious, 7/10.

i like his eyes. look at em. what a freak.

[babblingbear09]

Let the DS9 villain dance party commence!

The big question is who does it better.

[walkingstackofbooks]

OKAY OKAY OKAY

So to shapeshift, right, is to become that thing, isn't it? I'm sure that's how the Founder, and later Odo explains it. The changelings aren't just pretending to be that thing, in a way they're being that thing?

Okay so I'm a little unsure now that I'm actually writing this out so the rest of this maybe isn't as much sense as I thought it was....

BUT. If the above is correct it suddenly occurred to me another reason other than 'lack of practice' that Odo could struggle to imitate humanoid faces...

Could it be that he has too much of his own, distinct personality? Becoming a humanoid is to become them, to understand them entirely as a person (which is why Founders are the perfect infiltrators, and also why they hate being solids: their changelinghood is eclipsed by their target's personhood, even if they do of course hang onto their objective and knowledge from being a changeling).

But Odo developed as his completely own person, first. Changelings in the link don't seem to have a sense of "self", they are a communal species, but Odo is utterly himself. And so could it be that he is unable to put aside everything that makes him him in order to become and truly understand another person?

Or, in other words, the changelings who don't see humanoids as being proper 'people' can treat becoming them much the same as becoming a bird - they are understanding a different sort of lesser life form, and the fact that a humanoid has its own thoughts and feelings is non-consequential because they are on such a different order to a changling's.

But the thoughts and feelings of a humanoid are so similar to Odo's that -- in a way, because he understands them more -- he has more of an awareness of their individuality and difference to himself, and therefore cannot imagine them the same way he does a bird. He is distinct, and they are distinct, and shapeshifting isn't about copying, it's about becoming, and Odo could never become someone else because it would mean becoming less than himself.

This is a ramble and I don't know if it makes any sense but it's lit up my brain and I'm definitely feeling like

[videoworm]

here the! the!! the vorta + founder family foto! uwu

[greykolla-art]

In the middle of drawing something else, I had to stop to draw Weyoun again!

He’s so addictive!

[star-trek-smash-or-pass]

The Great Link

No propaganda submitted.

[cuterefaction]

#Trektober Day 31, "Trapped Together". Not sure how you'd find a shirt capable of fitting both your evil middle management cult lemur AND your buff alcoholic himbo army crocodile so I guess that's just more evidence that the Founders are gods after all.

[writergeekrhw]

Mr. RHW,

In DS9 season 4 episode “To The Death,” Weyoun infects Odo with the virus (per the script notes):

Was this a punishment for Weyoun for some past transgression or did the Founders not realize (or not care) that it would be an emotionally distressing task for him?

Thanks!

Honestly, I don't think the Founders gave a damn about how doing that might make Weyoun feel. He loves them and they don't really care about him.

[palaemonfire]

bad bitch female founder and her pursedog weyoun

[slippery-domjot-balls]

[roguetelepaths]

As a person who writes a lot of fic about Vorta who are working and living within the Dominion, I've decided to apply a Vorta Bechdel Test to my future writing. A scene passes the Vorta Bechdel Test if it contains two Vorta who have a conversation about something other than the Founders.

[galacticleechart]

I'm shifting into soup mode

I finally drew my changeling OC, Cordi! This meme came across my dashboard and I thought, "Alright, this is my sign. I need to draw Cordi with this."

I headcanon that they get goopy whenever they get flustered.

Also two tidbits of information about Cordi! Their pronouns are mirror pronouns (so they will use the pronouns of whoever they're talking to, this extends to neo and xeno pronouns of course) and their humanoid solid appearance they chose by picking different features they love from various species! This includes andorian antennae, trill spots, vulcanoid ears/eyebrows, and klingon head ridges that transition to a bajoran nose/nose ridges.

[bensiskos]

(ID in alt)

Redraw of this <3 everyone needs to see my Borg Queen/Founder vision….

[dutchesscapybara]

Odo is such a unique character with such an interesting personality so I wanted to try drawing him for the first time

[vasquez-rocks]

sisko is a human but he's also a prophet. the prophets don't understand time but they also planned everything. they're gods but they're just aliens. sisko was born a chosen one but he became a chosen one through his own actions. jadzia is curzon but she's not curzon. she dies but she also survives. the founders are a collective but also individuals. time is linear but you exist here.

[lightningarmour]

Who wins in an all-out conflict

The Borg enter the Gamma Quadrant and are met with resistance from the Dominion, but is it so futile? What happens when the two greatest threats to the federation in the TNG-Era of Star Trek face off? Discussion encouraged.