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ronsenburg · 4 months ago

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tangentially related to that bajoran earring art I just reblogged.

you ever sometimes make a decision for your story based entirely on aesthetics and then realize the implication of what you’ve done and have to bend over backwards to justify it all? that’s me, making sylvain bajoran four years ago because nose ridges are hot and also earring. then realizing that I have to fit a canon elite square peg into a subjugated species round hole. then waste time wonder if you’re being insensitive and if you have any right to bring that element into your story at all. but then realize you’ve spent four years with this character in this role and you can’t change it now and. yeah.

to the people who started following me after I posted that tactility prologue: i’m working on it.

#for anyone who cares: i made him half bajoran in the end #matthias lost his first wife during the cardassian wars #took it a little personally that the federation was conceding so much in the treaty to end the conflicts #met a bajoran freedom fighter who came to the federation to beg for assistance in ending the occupation #bonded over their hatred for cardassians and their disgust for the way the federation was handling the negotiations #got married in a calculated political ploy #gave birth to the first recorded bajoran-human (which was a feat in and of itself)#used their marriage and the little half bajoran federation citizen to lobby for the including the end of cardassian presence on bajor #in the treaty (which required them to concede additional territory to the cardassians)#(which in turn bolstered the cause of the marquis)#matthias was a pilot and a venerated war hero #bajoran mom’s family were in the pilot caste on bajor before the occupation #little sylvain is pressured to become a pilot in Starfleet and raised to be a perfect little soldier in the event of another war #his parents live on different planets and have little interaction and no real love for each other #miklan hates him for a bunch of reasons but tends to linger on the racist element #so yeah all of the faerghus four have some sort of genetic ‘othering’ element along with being legacy cadets #except for Ingrid who is just othered because she’s really fucking talented #idk man #tactility: a primer

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