#julian bashir headcanons

[walkingstackofbooks]

The trauma of Inquisition leading to Julian starting to dissociate at times when he's alone... He realises he's losing time and starts to wonder how real everything actually is, and if Sloan has done something more to him, or if Sloan had a point and maybe he really was reprogrammed by the Dominion...

Alternatively, Julian having experienced periods of dissociation fairly often *before* Inquisition, and when Sloan asks him "have you ever found periods of time unaccounted for?" Julian has to answer "yes" and finds he really can't be certain that the Dominion didn't get to him... Especially since his answer means that *Sloan* is even more convinced his hypothesis is correct.

[antagonistic-sunsetgirl]

Cardassians are a very protective people

My favourite idea is that Garak is so scared of bringing Julian to Cardassia. Terrified. Surely she will eat him alive. The sun will fry his doctor and are ration bars even designed with humans in mind?? And oh, his people! Julian's part of one of the most dominant species in the Federation. He's probably never experienced Xenophobia in his life. If Cardassia hates him, how can Garak expect him to love it enough to stay, stay with him enough to start a life, a family-?

And then. I haven't decided how yet. Maybe someone at the hospital realizes Julian takes patient-doctor confidentiality UBER seriously. Cardassian doctors won't gossip about their patients, certainly not, but if someone with enough authority asks? Of course they'll share information. It's the state. Not Julian. He will go to war over your privacy. Some political adversery of Garak's is emergency-treated for PTSD by Julian and goes into the next debate fully expecting Garak to know every detail of that weakness, to exploit it. And he just. Had no idea. This man, a heavily rumoured, ah, intelligence expert, lives with this doctor. And he obviously has no clue about this thing.

News spreads. Julian starts getting the hardest-hit cases, the most vulnerable people. Cardassians that would never have sought treatment because they feel exposed, and an exposed Cardassian backs up into a corner and bites your fingers off. No matter what internal injuries are festering at their minds. But Julian has experience with luring Garak out of corners.

Gently, reliably, this man coaxes and heals until he becomes someone Cardassians trust with their deepest, darkest wounds. An old Gul shows up. As soon as he's shown into Bashir's office he bursts into sobs, full-blown panic attack. Cardassians never have panic attacks, certainly not in front of others, and certainly not Guls. But this man travelled four hours on foot because he heard this stranger listens and doesn't tell and understands, he accepts. Doesn't he know he did terrible things? But he soothes with Cardassian words on a foreign tongue and doesn't try to touch him until he asks to be held.

Soldiers whose minds can't tell if they're in space battle or on a reconstruction site. An old woman comes in and silently bares her flank. There's an old knife wound that was never treated and is gnarly on her skin, pulling it apart. This is not the first torture wound someone has silently asked to be healed, for the very first time, by Julian. A surgeon he doesn't know opens his door. He can't operate. His hands shake and all he smells is burnt flesh. Cardassia needs him so much and he just can't. Julian lets him watch his operations. See wins, watch people wake up again. Then there's the children. They say he doesn't even ask where your parents are. He just lets you sit with him. If you sob and tell him you're scared, so scared, does he even know what an orphan is worth on Cardassia, he'll hold you tightly like he wants to physically prove to you how valuable you are. He will say, clear and sure, that Cardassia would be lost without you. So foreign. If you tell him the memories are too much, he'll give you a sleeping pill that's not like the stuff you get on the street. It won't get you addicted.

He's odd, and a stranger. He has no scales but moves like that doesn't matter. He faints a lot in the sun. Garak knows Julian overworks himself and forgets how much more water he needs. He lives in constant terror that he won't be there the next time it happens, can't drag his doctor to the nearest house and pour water over his neck. And then it does happen. Garak measuredly leaves a very important meeting before breaking out into a sprint because his secretary informed him someone found Julian unconscious at midday. Garak finds him sitting in the shade. An old woman is frowning over him and insistently pouring small sips of saltwater down his throat. How does she know the right ratio? A young man is eagerly checking his pulse, pressing a little too hard from what Garak can tell, and has to listen to Julian's smiling intructions on what a normal human pulse rate is. A teen is standing at the side, not looking at Julian. Her gaze instantly snaps to Garak approaching. Like a vigil, she doesn't move from Julian's side and tracks Garak's movements until she determines who he is. Then he's levelled with a badly hidden reproachful glare, reprimanding him for leaving their doctor in peril for even a minute.

Garak takes Julian home with less words of anger than usual after these episodes. Most of it comes from fear, they both know. But he has realized that Cardassia apparently won't kill his doctor. And if she tries, her inhabitants will forcefully remind her that this Federation doctor with kind eyes and callused hands stands under the protection of a very, very loyal people.

Oh I am so writing this fic

[fonthoura]

Julian Bashir's favorite book is Flowers For Algernon. That's it, send tweet.

[martianbugsbunny]

My TNG poll is over (Data won and I should not be surprised lmao; proud of dealer's choice Will Riker for pulling a solid third) so let's do another one!

Dax and Odo don't get to be in it because that feels like cheating. they're actually trans.

[holly-ilex-artworks]

Staff at the Castellan’s home find it curious that he voluntarily rises hours before his alarm to see honorable Doctor Husband off for his shift at the clinic, but only if Doctor Husband is wearing the Federaji “Skant”…

✨🦎🧸✨

(Also, how wholesome of them to support each other’s kinks… Garak prances around barefoot to nurture Julian’s raging foot fetish and Julian wears the fucking skant because (it’s fucking BOILING on Cardassia prime, but also bc) Garak really likes a good leg day) 🫠

[hyperlexichypatia]

This is the kind of thing I do instead of sleeping.

Also tag yourself I'm Sarek I guess?

[idonotbitemythumbatyou]

Whenever a fic has Bashir going “what? A man? I’ve never been attracted to a man before! I’ve never had sex with a man before!” I’m always just like you fucking liar. Like As though you and Jadzia don’t have weekly drinks competing to see who was more bisexual this week.

As though Julian Bashir the guy is lying to me and not just, you know, that the author has a different headcanon than I do.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Julian Bashir from Star Trek is an intersex trans man!

Intersex flag-only and popular transmasc flag edits under the cut!

[dusty-cobweb]

julian bashir stutters !!!

which yknow he was kinda upset about because he felt so dumb to people. he knew he was intelligent, but he just couldn’t articulate it in a way that other people could understand. he always paused during his sentences, letting his words catch up to his thoughts. tripped over words, tongue going to the next syllable before he even got to the first.

and when people hear those pauses and breaks, it’s like they forget about everything else. screw theoretical hyperbolic geometry applications to worldly development, it wouldn’t fucking matter if he mixed the words up.

but, it does hide him. hides him well. because no matter how smart you are, how enhanced or augmented, it doesn’t matter if you have a stutter.

[walkingstackofbooks]

During away missions, Julian makes a point of recording his logs frequently, sometimes almost to the point of noting every small detail as he goes along. He says it's because he doesn't want to forget anything, and it definitely adds to his reputation of being more than a little obsessive over his work - but really it's too avoid the guilt of having to intentionally leave details out if he were recording them from memory at the end of the day, so as to avoid suspicion.

[skymallnine]

As much as I adore all the tentative, slow-building Cardassia headcanons, I know deep down in my heart of hearts that this man did not even make it to the end of Past Prologue before engaging in some, ah, frontier medicine.

[ds9jack]

Why does it seem that so many people think Julian Bashir is cis on here? Your cisgender king canonically has a womb and a deadname

[honeybadger-who-gives-a-shit]

My headcanon is that Bashir is not autistic but has an intellectual disability. This read is more interesting, imo, because it goes to the roots of both the diagnosis itself and the ideology of meritocracy in starfleet and the Federation.

Obviously, he could be both, but when we hear his mother explaining how he had difficulties as a child, it reads to me to be a more accurate explanation.

Also, we often times see autistic characters as geniuses, and maybe it's more interesting for me to see this character in a different light, beacuse we don't get to see a lot of characters with a learning disability as more than a cute sidekick or the butt of the joke.

[holly-ilex-artworks]

Takes place post enigma tales. My little fix-it headcanon 😩 There’s no way Julian’s never regaining higher brain function and some mobility, NOT ON MY WATCH 🥹 Guest starring everyone’s favorite skinny legend old lizard doctor, Kelas Parmak (and his unnamed but very dedicated apprentice) 💕

[antagonistic-sunsetgirl]

"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I think to myself, 'Will I ever find someone that wonderful again?'"

I didn't want to hijack this great post about Julian maybe never having been engaged but I feel like we don't talk about Palis enough. She must have been an amazing person. I haven't seen anyone villianize her yet (thank gods), but she must've been so cool. Julian was (I interpret) a jumpy, bubbly, all over the place cadet. An upcoming medical star with a bright future. A thousands paths ahead of him, a thousand voices clamoring for his attention.

And he almost, almost chose a calm, easy one?? For this person! He came so close! He looked at all these options and then looked at her and saw happiness. It wasn't enough, and that's tragic and maybe it was for the best, because he obviously couldn't imagine ever being completely honest with her. But to be fair, I don't think he could've imagined that with anybody. Hell even on DS9 it had to be dragged from him, and that was after considerable character development.

But Palis must've been amazing. She must've been smart and fast and driven and delighted by life and maybe she was none of these things and actually super introverted and gave Julian a place to pause, to stop running. But we don't know, because Palis is a footnote in the glamorous life of one Julian Bashir, powerful doctor and influential figure on Cardassia (or something).

Well maybe he's a footnote in HER'S and she's revolutionizing modern ballet or a fancy second career and we don't know because no one on DS9 is cultured--

[ferengii]

Leeta and Ezri bonding over having dated Julian