#miles o’briens polycule

[captainkaseykirk]

Sometimes I reblog my own posts when I follow a new person with cool content in an effort to signal “hello yes I am also very insane about this we should be friends” in case they look at my account. Like a mating call but in a platonic way.

[rhinexstone]

Here’s how it works to me:

Keiko and Kira 100% are involved. Surrogates are normally only done between those with compatible pagh and that’s why Kira’s so awkward in the beginning, Keiko (like most women) found Kira incredibly hot from day 1. Once the cultural nuance is addressed, yeah they fuck. Have tender romances. Couples date with the kids.

Kira and Miles have…really great physical chemistry actually. Not just for sex but in combat, labor, and massages in particular

Miles and Julian are complicated. Julian and Garak are in a deeply committed relationship, and while they’re not opposed to opening the relationship, every once and a while Julian will mention how much he loves it when they do sounding or breath play or argue for a week straight and Miles is reminded that maybe they wouldn’t quite work out. Keiko is always rooting for him though

Keiko and Miles: match made in Heaven. Soulmates. Twin flames. Perfectly fitting pieces.

[departmentq]

[idonotbitemythumbatyou]

Important headcanon sketching with @xpityx

[squareshapedboop]

[whats-those]

Discuss your answers in tags and reblogs! Also say what you headcanon her sexuality to be. I’m personally not very involved in fandoms in general, so I’m curious about how people actually feel about this.

[ds9-polycule-tales]

A little roundup of context and background info to help with any confusion:

So in the "present of this timeline (2375, just after the end of the DS9 series. It's an AU so there are some differences from the series timeline)

The entire polycule includes:

- Elim Garak (Cardassian, he/him)

- Julian Bashir (human, he/they)

- Miles O'Brien (human, he/him)

- Keiko Ishikawa O'Brien (human, she/her)

- Kira Nerys (Bajoran, she/they)

- Jadzia Dax of House Martok (Joined Trill, she/they)

- Worf Rozhenko of House Martok (Klingon, he/him)

The children of the polycule are currently

- Molly O'Brien (she/her, human, bio parents Keiko and Miles)

- Kirayoshi O'Brien (human/Bajoran, undefined but provisionally he/they, bio parents Kira, Miles and Keiko)

- Alexander Rozhenko of House Martok (he/him, Klingon/human, bio parents Worf and K'Ehlyr (deceased).)

(Yup, in this AU, it's just as possible for people to be biologically the child of more than two people as it is to be a hybrid of two species. They have the technology.)

The active partnerships are currently:

- Keiko, Miles and Kira (married)

- Miles and Keiko

- Keiko and Kira

- Miles and Keiko

- Julian and Miles

- Julian and Garak

- Kira and Dax

- Kira and Odo (on hold? Does "Odo" actually exist any more? Is Kira in a relationship with the entire Great Link now? Is the entire Great Link now Kira's *ex*? I'm sure we'll find out 😈)

- Dax and Worf (married)

[eldritchazure]

so i don’t think my mom ships garashir or jiles, but she DID say that she likes jiles more because she “saw more evidence for jiles”.

[tuttle-did-it]

This woman is desperate for her husband to see his husband and give her some fucking space.

Miles, I promised I wouldn't say anything but it's about Julian. STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - 4.16 ACCESSION

[lostyesterday]

I enjoy Kira/Keiko as a ship, but I wish that most of the discussion about them didn’t center on the “O’Brien polycule”. I’m interested in how their dynamic changed from vaguely adversarial in “In the Hands of the Prophets” to friendly in later seasons. I want to know how they navigated the differences in their opinions on faith and religion. I want to know if/how Keiko’s thoughts on Bajoran religion changed over time. I want to know if Kira experienced any lingering resentment toward Keiko. I want to know how long it took them to become friends – if one or both of them made a great effort to mend the divide between them. I want to know if they have disagreements after that or if they carefully try to avoid speaking about topics where their opinions differ. There’s a lot that’s potentially interesting about their dynamic outside of how it relates to Miles.

[t0ast-ghost]

“Since the Cerritos is statistically the horniest and least romantically committed crew in Starfleet, we have no married officers aboard.”

- Lower Decks S4 EP6

First off if this is referring to just their current time period then yes I’d probably agree BUT since it’s a show and I think the creators were making a clever nod towards other shows I’d like to point out some things

This’ll get long. (Spoilers for TOS, TNG, DS9, & SNW)

TOS:

Both Spock and McCoy are divorced (McCoy twice over)

Whatever was going on between Spock and Chapel ???

Kirk is apparently too committed to the enterprise (yeah definitely the ship… nobod-nothing else) to commit to any of the women that he has definitely fucked

Kirk didn’t commit to Carol Marcus and she had his son

The Shore Leave episode

Theodore Sturgeon’s letter about the Shore Leave episode

Episodes with “Paradise” in their name

Must I bring up Amok Time?

Half the crew is just in love with the ship and all their relationships fail. The one time someone tries to get married their spouse dies

TNG:

Jean Luc is happy as is … Q however

Q is the horniest motherfucker for that frenchman and I’m counting him

Riker

Beverly with the ghost

Oh yeah Jean Luc literally kills two spouses (Crusher and Sisko) he’s actively uncommitting the romantics

The show’s SECOND EPISODE is where everyone gets super horny and fucks each other

Even the “emotionless” android gets some (I cannot blame Tasha one bit, Godspeed)

That’s all I remember from this show

DS9:

JADZIA DAX MY QUEEN

Julian Bashir’s original name was Dr. Amoros. He is doctor dick.

Lwuxana Troi wants Odo so bad but that goop ain’t committing

Whatever is going on between Odo and Quark

Need I mention Garak?

Mirror universe (Kira is about to kiss herself)

Almost every character is dating each other in this show and they made it canon for several but they all fall apart (Except Rom and Leela cause they’re perfect)

The O’Brien polycule… I drew it out but it got more complicated than the O’Briens (basically Julian is best friends with Miles who is married to Keiko. Keiko was on a shuttle while pregnant with Julian and Kira when there was a crash and Julian had to transfer the child from Keiko into either him or Kira, so Kira volunteered. She ends up living with the O’Brien’s while carrying the child and bonds with both of them (to the point both she and Miles think it’s weird). Kira eventually gets with Odo who is Quark’s nemesis and Quark is crushing on Jadzia who is exes with Julian who is (somewhat unknowingly) courting Garak. Jadzia Dax becomes married to Worf but I think her and Sisko have definitely fucked. Sisko is married to Kasidy and enemies with Gul Dukat who reciprocates that but is also fixated on Kira who hates him. Did I miss something?)

Now, I bet they did not count DS9 in their statistics because it’s a station not a ship but also because they’d always win this contest

SNW:

Spock and T’Pring

Spock and Chapel

Spock and Kirk

Other Kirk and La’an

Kirk and Carol ???

(All of them fail that’s why I bring it up)

Pelia has been married to another woman (not canon but it’s gotta have happened, right?)

Whatever was going on between Una and Neera in the court episode

There’s no way Uhura’s in a relationship (they might set her up with Scotty next season but I’d like to see her and Chapel)

The others do not seem romantically committed to other people

Pike’s weird dinner parties

To be honest Lower Decks is maybe the most outright vulgar in its language but most of the time it’s a feel good show about a bunch of best friends. Their captain is married, their CMO and head security officer are in a (happy?) relationship, and third thing here.

I haven’t seen any of Voyager or Enterprise and I don’t think Discovery is that horny/romantically uncommitted

[pien-art]

ds9 polycule my beloved

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[thingsthatmakemefeelhappy]

This is adorable

Okay, I just saw a post about how “Chief O'Brien can’t stand Dr. Bashir, let’s stick them together in every episode,” and the thought of it just cracked me up, like:

Maybe this is how you work your way into Miles O'Brien’s heart: by repeated, daily abrasion.

Maybe when he met Keiko Ishikawa on the Enterprise–on an ill-fated double-date? Who knows?–she was abrasive as hell and rode his ass about every little thing he did throughout the whole date and finished off by beating his ass at bowling, and when he got home he just shuddered, like, Thank God that’s over, because I cannot stand that woman.

But he kept running into her. Every day. The Enterprise is only so big, after all, and they both kept ending up in Ten-Forward at the same time, or sitting next to each other at concerts, or awkwardly running into each other at the gym, and of course they had the same friends, so he just couldn’t get away from her, and every time it was the same thing:

“Oh, hi, Miles.” With disdain.

“Nice shirt, Miles. Did you not know this was a formal event?” With a brow raised.

And he just grits his teeth and smiles. “Hello, Keiko.”

And it’s every day, every day, until one day he doesn’t see her, and that night he’s putting on his pyjamas and cleaning his teeth and climbing into bed and he can’t quite fall asleep, something’s wrong, something’s missing…

But the next day he sees her as he passes the botany lab. He leans in to wave a hello. She looks up at him and smiles for half a second before frowning. “Aren’t you going to be late for your shift?”

And he falls in love, right there. By slow, repeated, scraping abrasion, Keiko Ishikawa has tunnelled right into his heart.

And who knows. Maybe it’s the same with Julian. Maybe it’s I hate that guy, I hate that guy, over and over he sees him, God damn it, paired on another mission, and then one day Dr. Bashir’s gone off to do something and Miles says to Keiko, “Thank God, at least there’s one day I won’t have to put up with Dr. God’s Gift To Humanity.”

Keiko just smiles. She knows.

And then she gives him shit about something.

[kiranerysskincareroutine]

anyone at DS9 not in the O’Brien polycule:

[ds9-polycule-tales]

11 - 2375

Nerys put her head down on the desk for a moment, pushing the padd out of her way. It was an actual desk; a prefab, quick-to-replicate-and-assemble version of her own desk on DS9.

After nearly two months of hard, daily physical labour, sitting at an actual desk in an actual office again felt…weird. There were good reasons for it, of course, as both Miles and Keiko had quite bluntly told her when she questioned why assigning her the space had come to the top of the priority list – it wasn’t her space, it was the Project’s space. The Project would require her to meet with people from the local area and further afield to take information from them, which wouldn’t be appropriate in the crowded family living space, and even if her “bedroom” would be appropriate for that, you couldn’t physically fit two or three adults in it unless they were lying on the bed together. It would require her to call people on subspace and convince them to get involved with helping to locate missing people or their remains, and doing that in cramped domestic chaos or outside with dust storms whistling past probably wouldn’t help anyone.

It made perfect sense. It still felt weird.

And then there was the Project itself. She had been briefly involved with some of this after the end of the Occupation at home on Bajor. And she had hated it then. Even though she had always been capable of channelling all her energy into certain, very necessary particular tasks without rest or sometimes even bathroom breaks til they were solved – coaxing a crumbling Rider engine back to life, creating careful forgeries of ID documents, planning infiltration of a food plant or a mine – the patient, painstaking work of assembling and matching and interpreting mass amounts of data had made her want to scream. And at the time, with so, so much reconstruction work to do, listening to people pour out all-too-familiar stories of missing loved ones without being able to offer any guarantees or practical aid had been like someone dragging their nails repeatedly across her pagh.

She actually wasn’t bad at data wrangling by now – all Jadzia’s patient, passionate lessons in making numbers dance had made up some of the years that she had missed out of actual formal education while she was crawling through swamps being hunted by Cardassian soldiers – and she had gained some experience in what being listened to and reaching out in the hope of answers of some kind could actually mean to people. But it didn’t stop the feeling that she was somehow shirking in here playing with numbers when there was more immediate, practical work to be done. Or make the painstaking task of extracting and entering data from interview transcriptions any less brain-numbing or frustrating when she was already so exhausted from the long day’s work.

She missed Jadzia and Yoshi terribly. Even while having Miles, Keiko and Molly with her was wonderful. Yoshi was changing so much right now. She was missing so much she was afraid he might not recognise her when she saw him again. Whenever that could be.

She lifted her head from the desk, took the little display holo from one of the drawers and set it to a scene of Worf stolidly holding Yoshi while Jadzia was playing peekaboo with him. She gazed at the three faces – muted but undeniable joy, sheer mischief and delighted surprise – for a long moment, and put her hand gently out to them without quite touching the little figures.

She swallowed, wiping her eyes with her sleeve, shook herself, and turned back to her task. Even if some of her family wasn’t here with her right now, she knew they were safe, and well, and happy. Others deserved at least that much too

[hereforthelizardsex]

“It would have been nice”

“In another life”

“Let’s not even think about it”

It has been three years since I watched this episode and I am still chewing glass over it.