#julian bashir headcanons

[walkingstackofbooks]

This scene has been living rent-free in my head for a month and I have thoughts

"The word you're looking for is unnatural, meaning, not from nature... Freak, or monster, would also be acceptable." (Dr Bashir, DS9 5x16)

I'm sure it's been said before, but the FEELS of this line-

To me, it sounds like Julian's reeling off a list of things he's been told he is. In any other situation, I'd assume he'd been bullied about his enhancements with these words and internalised them; but his enhancements were secret, so that doesn't fit here.

Which then made me think these are words Julian's collected from hearing about historical enhanced figures and then bullied himself with. Whether he heard them in a lesson, or in a friend's conversation, or even took it upon himself to research views of enhanced individuals, he seems to have learnt that genetically enhanced humans are freaks and monsters, and therefore so is he.

But I also looped back to the idea of his being bullied - (and I haven't watched past this episode so there may be something later to discourage this theory) - and I don't think it's too wild a guess to make that at some point he was. He's presented in the show as someone who just can't stop talking, who doesn't get social cues, who's "annoying"...it's not exactly a stretch to imagine a kid being bullied on those grounds.

(Nor is it a stretch to take these traits, among others, and headcanon that Julian Bashir is autistic. Many have, and it makes a lot of sense. And it works its way well into my little fiction.)

So as a kid, Julian is too smart and too loud and too eager. He has special interests coming out of his ears and learns everything he can about all of them, that's just the way his brain works. (That's what the teachers tell him, anyway, when some other kids call him names. They tell him lots of children are like him.)

((I can't decide if he's told he's autistic or not. On one hand, it's a convenient excuse for his parents to hide his extraordinary smarts behind. On the other, I cannot imagine them meeting the suggestion with anything but disdain and a snide "there's nothing wrong with our Jules", seeing as they're ableist af. But I imagine at the very least - with a little research and a couple of decent teachers - he must have had his own suspicions by the time he was a teen.))

I'm digressing - I apologise, at some point these thoughts became too long and meandering to be completely coherent. Right-

Too smart and too loud, his seemingly boundless knowledge is deemed as unnatural and freakish by his classmates. (When you're 7, any knowledge greater than your own seems pretty boundless.) And of course this was upsetting, and not easily forgotten. But as you grow, you do learn that people can be mean for little reason, and that whatever others think, it's perfectly okay for your brain to work differently.

Until you learn that it's not.

And here's where Julian Bashir realises that his childhood bullies were right about him. His academic abilities are unnatural and freakish (and, he will later learn, make him a monster). Because the line between "being able to learn everything that interests you because that's how your autistic brain works" and "being able to learn everything that interests you because that's how your genetically engineered brain works" is impossible to see. (Especially if your oh-so-caring parents take away the first option because "we made your brain perfect Jules, there's nothing wrong with you".)

Boy, that was a really long way of saying imagine if Julian was bullied for being autistic but ended up believing it was because of his augments and therefore that the bullies were right.

[faerhardyn-the-raging-ethereal]

Long Lived Julian Headcanons

Due to his enhancements, I would like to think that he would live a long time. Like Cardassians are a reptilian race so I would believe that they live to 150 or 200 years or up to 250 years if they are healthy. So for Julian with his enhancements, I would like to think up to 500 years old. He would not show signs of aging until he's around 395 He ages slowly, and by the time I think he would look middle aged

If he lived a healthy lifestyle he would live over 550.

So what would he do if he lived this long? Would he stay in Starfleet and continue doing missions and whatnot? Would Starfleet allow him to stay? Would he join a resistance, a mercenary trade? Would he still be a doctor? Would he become jaded enough but still have compassion to heal, but kill those who start wars and be badass enough to fight those who come against him and what he stands for? Would he become a hero and a figure for those that would follow him?

Would he live with Garak on Cardassia for a while and get married? Would Julian just want complete peace and live in an uncharted part of the galaxy? Would Garak be willing to fight with him if there ever comes a time?

Would this man, after Garak has died, live a complete life of solitude and live within a forest, becoming one with nature? Becoming a shaman? A guru?

Would he settle down and have biological kids if he finds another love, who loves him for who he is? If he did have kids, he would never let Starfleet know, or the Federation.

If he did have biological children due to being intersex, and never remarried, he would go live off on a planet in the farthest reaches from any Romulan, Starfleet, and Klingon space. He would live in peace with his children. I would also like to think that once his children are teens, that they would love to adventure and since, just like their father, they are also enhanced. I would like to think that they would have wild stories. Would one of his kids become a superhero, and tales will be told?

When it comes to it, when it comes down to a discussion of how long Bashir's lifespan is when it gets to the point that he has, but hasn't aged a day. Hasn't grown old, he begins to wonder if his enhancements made him immortal, and Julian just wonders, to the point where Garak starts to notice, and they have this conversation, and it makes Garak hate his parents more, and he hates to see his love in anguish over something he can't control.

[tomcruiseisshortandsoami]

DS9 fic idea:

Main crew goes on a beach trip lalala, they bring Garak along because he’s their adopted war criminal and while everyone is swimming, making sand castles, and chatting, Garak is just like:

Edit: now featuring crude art by me

[warpfive]

WHEN YOU'RE GETTING HIT ON

how the ds9 crew reacts to their lover being flirted with

CW: gn! reader

CREW: ben sisko, kira nerys, odo, julian bashir, jadzia dax

BENJAMIN - he doesn’t notice until jadzia points it out. of course she’s the one to notice, the trill would sniff out drama on a vulcan ship. she points you out through the throngs of people on the promenade, waiting for the lift with some kind of furry alien standing awfully close. benjamin’s first reaction is protectiveness, of course, but he sees quickly that the alien isn’t threatening you. quite the opposite, actually - his hand settles on your shoulder, flashes you a wide, toothy grin. head nods off in the other direction, hoping you’d follow him toward the vendors. jadzia doesn’t even mind when he leaves her in his wake, reaching you and subtly, forcefully, puts himself between you and the too-friendly alien. he’s still commander of the station, the alien hasn’t technically done anything wrong, so benjamin uses his best diplomatically-pissed-off voice to scare off him. and you seemed to enjoy the show - when ben looks down at you, the way you grin at him does make him a little embarrassed. still, he walks you all the way back to your quarters with his arm over your shoulders.

KIRA - she knows, logically, as a liaison for all of Bajor on Deep Space Nine, she really needs to keep her mouth shut - some things aren’t worth breaking hands over. and as much as she thinks you’re very high on the list of things that are worth it, kira doesn’t need words to know what you’re telling her. a stern look, a subtle shake of your head, clearing your throat very pointedly - you’re telling her not to lose her shit on the Gamma Quadrant ambassador that’s getting way too friendly with you. and to kira’s credit, she’s done an amazing job so far. but what crosses the line is the not-so-subtle invitation to his quarters for “off the record” negotiations. kira just can’t contain her temper any longer and she lets the ambassador knows what he can do with his negotiations. when he scurries off, you pull her aside and scold her a little for doing that - sisko will have to clean up the mess. at the moment, kira doesn’t care. she hates the idea of someone disrespecting you like that, and okay, was she a little jealous? maybe, but that’s not important. the ambassador spends the rest of his trip stony and polite, and kira starts standing just a little closer to you than usual.

ODO - flirting between the solids was always something odo had little interest in, unless it related to a case or station security. but seeing you sat at quark’s bar, chatting with one of your friends but continually interrupted by some drunkard, odo suddenly paid much more attention. he didn’t want to jump to the rescue just yet - you may not appreciate his intentions, and there’s also quark’s gossip to consider. you can handle yourself, odo knows that. but then he started getting touchy, uncomfortably close, odo catches the wrinkle of your nose under the interloper’s breath and rushes to intervene before he even realizes it. odo grips the man’s arm hard, removes it from your spine, and threatens to arrest him for disturbing the peace before suggesting he go and sober up somewhere else. the drunkard leaves with a couple low grumbles, and that’s that, right? no, you’re taking odo’s arm and lightly pulling him closer, smiling at him and thanking him for rescuing you. turns out, you didn’t want to be impolite and tell him off, even though it was within your rights to do so. odo makes a note to stop by the bar more often when he knows you’re here.

JULIAN - was he being foolish? no, no, never - julian was just getting into character, is all. though the hologram was fake, the unpleasant tug in his gut was very real and he couldn’t truly shake off the aggravation of watching you flirt back with the holosuite character. a character - julian was definitely spending too much time in the holosuites. he tries to play his role as intended - a spy undercover as the taxi driver, subtly driving their target out of the city while you distract him with your charms. from the looks of things, it was definitely working. julian couldn’t stop glancing up into the rear view mirror, and every time he did, the hologram was closer than he was last time. the doctor notices a hand on your leg, a finger pushing back the hair from your face, and julian instantly spouts out that he’s rather warm before rolling down every window in the car. this, of course, tips the target off to the spy’s schemes, and you pause the program. julian’s quiet, part-embarrassed, part-annoyed. he hears you shift on the leather, feels your arms drape over the front seat, and is rather shocked to feel your lips press against his cheek. though, julian deflates a little when you tell him to warn you before making changes to the program.

JADZIA - honestly? it kind of impossible to tell when jadzia gets jealous. it will depend on the person doing the flirting and i’ll give you two examples. the first time you were hit on while shaking up with jadzia was during a birthday party for miles. this young ensign, fresh out of the academy with a fire under his ass, decided it was a good idea to chat you up. it was harmless, he was kinda drunk - jadzia found it more amusing than anything, especially when you kept giving her those “rescue me” eyes from across the room and you both laughed about it later that night. the second time, however, was not nearly as friendly. some glinn, one of dukat’s men, getting way too friendly and making you way too uncomfortable and didn’t let up until jadzia had come over and not-so-subtly threatened to shoot him out an airlock. jadzia doesn’t really mind light flirting, and thinks it’s rather funny to see you get hit on while knowing she’s the one you’re going home with. her mood really depends on the person doing the flirting - she won’t tolerate you feeling super uncomfortable or demeaned, but some harmless flirtations never hurt anybody.

[phiatheox]

okay so I understand that "if wishes were horses" could be a difficult episode for #bashirnation because if you take fake! Jadzia at face value then he becomes insufferable. but as someone who is unable to take off my queer-tinted glasses at any time I would like to put forward the interpretation that it serves as a strong case study for Julian suffering from comphet.

now, it's been a while since I've watched the episode so I cannot provide an extremely detailed analysis, but I remember that in the scene where fake! Jadzia is first introduced Julian's initial reaction was to reject her (yes this can be seen as just responding to context clues and being polite but we're having a gay time here), and it's only after she asks him why he's fighting this that he thinks *you're right, society says I SHOULD want this*, and starts kissing her back.

afterwards, when he learns that she's just a manifestation of his thoughts, he responds to her propositions with embarrassment at best and outright repulsion at worst, as if the idea of a version of Jadzia that reciprocates his feelings fills Julian with discomfort. at one point, the alien even says something along the lines of "why would mine create a woman to reject her?" and that's the thing, because to me this episode confirms that Julian doesn't actually like Jadzia: he's just chosen her as the one to safely project his desire to fit into cishetero patriarchal norms onto because she's never actually going to like him back, which is why when faced with a version of her that does, he completely loses interest.

[2063april5]

Julian should give Garak some modernist novels to read. That's as similar to cardassian literature as we've ever gotten, I think he'd appreciate those more than that straight-forward and kinda vulgar so-called poet William Shakespeare. Garak would think Ulysses was a bit brief and straightforward but distinctly delightful, although I'm still debating whether he'd think the lack of punctuation creative or atrocious

[shittystartrekheadcanons]

Julian is the unofficial emergency hairdresser of ds9 because, even if he might not understand style as much as some other people on the station, as a doctor/surgeon, he at least knows his way around a pair of scissors

[the-last-dillpickle]

Headcanon that the reason Julian is flirty with all his friends and seems to advertise a willingness to get in bed with them is that’s the only way he really knows how to get people to like him and keep them around.

Julian grew up as the awkward, too smart, possibly autistic child who also moved around a lot, and so he never really learned how to make friends. By the time he made it to Starfleet Academy (horndog central where everyone’s looking to experiment), it was his looks that drew people to him, and he learned that if he was receptive to advances and kept things fun and flirty, people tended to like him more and were more forgiving to his social faux pas. And so once he graduated, he just kept up the social patterns he’d learned in college, even after he’d moved on to his posting on DS9.

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Star Trek DS9 Headcanons

Because I love making these type of posts.

Julian is autistic. That’s what his parents tried to ‘cure’ with the augmentation. But since the augmentation was only focused on making him more intelligent and improving his physical capabilities it didn’t change the fact that he has autism.

Julian and Kira both lack hunger cues and frequently forget to eat.

Kira knows Bajoran sign language. Everyone in the Shakaar resistance cell learned it as a way to silently communicate with each other. It became extra useful when some people in the resistance lost part of their hearing due to bombs.

Julian and Dax both know Federation standard sign language. Dax is fluent in it, while Julian only knows a limited amount.

Jadzia and Julian host karaoke nights in Quark’s.

They also tried to host a D&D oneshot with the senior crew. It went about as well as you’d expect.

Sisko has a great singing voice.

[metaknighto]

since my last drawing ive watched all of season 1, a chunk of season 2 and read some fanfic.... im... in for the long haul i think

[make-me-imagine]

Headcanons: Being in a relationship with Julian Bashir 

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-Julian would probably be pretty upfront about his feelings towards you before you started dating

-He would flirt with you a lot, and tease you because he thought you where cute when you were embarrassed

-He would probably ask you to be his girl/boyfriend at dinner

-When you started dating he would still openly flirt with you

-Julian would be the type of person to bring you up in conversation a lot

-He’s not afraid of PDA but he doesn’t go overboard

-Hand holding, kisses (lips, forehead, hand, etc), hugs, etc.

-I feel like he would get jealous easily but he wouldn’t show it

-Whenever you would talk and laugh with someone else it would irk him but he wouldn’t say anything because he trusted you

-It was the person you were talking too that he didn’t trust

-Julian would be protective

-Volunteering to go with you on away missions, “just in case”

-Jadzia would love you two together, thinking you were perfect for each other

-Double dates with Jadzia and Worf or Ziyal and Garak

-Julian would also be pretty romantic

-Buying you flowers and setting up candle lit dinners in your quarters

-He would love you so much and would never let anyone hurt you or take you away from him

[shitinnspace]

whoa ur transgener.... thats so cool!! Us too!! (Also bisexual pride version cause I can)

[wisteria-lodge]

Mirrorverse!Keiko would 1) have a katana 2) be dating mirror!julian and 3) be a Posion-Ivy style eco terrorist. *Tell* me I'm wrong

[subatoism]

So I usually write/headcanon Julian as a patrilineal Jew since Brian George (who plays Richard Bashir) is of Baghdadi Jewish descent, and I have this little potential fic scene in my head where Julian asks Garak for help with something (presumably medicine-related? idk) and automatically adds “it would be a mitzvah” at the end, y’know, like you do. Unfortunately the UT translates this literally as “commandment” which, of course, has a very different connotation in Kardasi and therefore evokes a much stronger reaction from Garak than Julian had anticipated. Miscommunication shenanigans ensue, etc etc.

[proffyaffle]

"Ex-spy reviews old spy films" and "sewing tips for beginners" are Garak's two types of videos on YouTube

[udaberriwrites]

Hm, how about Julian Bashir for the character ask game?

Julian Bashir

1: sexuality headcanon

Disaster bi, emphasis on the disaster. Most likely xenosexual too, and proud of it.

2: otp

Being completely unoriginal, my otp is with the tinker, tailor, soldier, spy himself, Elim Garak. They have so many little, flirty moments, seriously, plus there's the other ways they fit together. They both know the value of secrets, they can let their guard down around each other, they understand the other on a deeper level, and it just works, idk.

I'm also unreasonably attached to my little Julian/Leeta/Rom rareship, even if it has pretty much no basis from canon. It's still cute and mutually supportive and I love ir.

3: brotp

A tie with both O'Brien and Dax! They fit different niches in his life, but they are trustworthy and dependable but also willing to get drawn into the stupidest contests and petty debates with him.

In other words, O'Brien is the "our braincells cancel each other out when in close proximity friend". Dax is the bi "let's rank how hot everyone on the station is" bestie.

4: notp

None really? Ummm... maybe Kai Winn? On the basis of her being Kai Winn and thus opposed to fun? Though talk about crack pairings xD

5: first headcanon that pops into my head

I really like the idea that he's on the autistic spectrum, because the genetic treatments certainly weren't a "cure". He just learned to hide and create very convincing masks while he was under his parent's thumb.

On a lighter note... that he also has slept with Captain Boday, and like Dax he doesn't understand why the transparent skull would be a problem.

6: favorite line from this character

"It makes you wonder, doesn't it? Are we so different from the Romulans or the Cardassians? If push comes to shove, if we become... angry enough or desperate enough, would we stay true to our ideals? Or would we just... return here? Right back were we started?"

Oh Julian... the show is going to take that question and beat you and Sisko both over the head with the answer ☹️

7: one way in which I relate to this character

I mean, fanfic writer here, I admire his and O'Brien's dedication to LARPing xD

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

The 'crush on Jadzia' subplot from the beginning of S1. I was thankful when he outgrew it and I don't buy the "it was true love" pitch the show tries to sell me. It was a crush, and their friendship was beautiful, shut up.

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

Cinnamon roll.