#miles/keiko/julian

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

[quarkfancam]

never found a good caption for this drawing so im gonna have to ask you to just take it off my hands. Yup

[dusty-cobweb]

my favorite dynamic is a wife and husband who love each other very much and their boy toy

[hollis-art]

i saw someone spread hate to Keiko bc they were a Bashir/O'brien shipper, and i do NOT agree with that.

why would you ever say such things when this was always an option?

this is obviously what's happening in the show anyways

[orangexmachina]

made some more

[theauthoressdefiant]

Do NOT move to deep space nine they WILL ask you to join their fucked up polycule !!!

[walkingstackofbooks]

I had in mind end goal Keiko/Miles/Julian when writing this - Miles being like "stay with us", Keiko being like "... in our bed" - and so now I'm having visions of Julian being like "That sounds great and yes please I'll take every affection but first I gotta go real quickly uh... take my medication..."

And proceeding to go get absolutely nailed by Garak so he's tired enough to sleep but Garak's still at the too-paranoid-to-spend-the-night stage with him, they only ever have sex... So with this new offer in mind, when they're done, he creeps into bed with the O'Briens to get a healthy dose of cuddles in, too 😅

A 9-year-old Julian Bashir who has had nightmares about evil doctors in an alien hospital for as long as he can remember. He doesn't tell his parents though because "he's a big boy now" and nightmares are for little kids, so he knows he should deal with them alone. And even if he'd like a hug sometimes, his mum only gives him hugs for doing well, not for doing badly, so he figures there's no point bothering her

A 15-year-old Julian Bashir who realises that the nightmares he used to have were based on the apparently very real alien hospital his parents had taken him to as a kid, and spends hours trying to figure out what were real memories and what his mind had made up over the years as he slept. The nightmares come back with an intensity, but they're nothing compared with how he's feeling when he's awake, and pretty soon they become a normal background noise of his life.

A 19-year-old Julian Bashir who's finally been moved into a solitary room after his third roommate in as many weeks complained about the almost-nightly screams. His advisor asks if he wants to speak to anyone: he claims they're just night terrors and he doesn't actually remember them. Besides, even if he could talk about what was in them, he probably wouldn't, because he's fine - he's used to them by now.

A 24-year-old Julian Bashir who gets woken from his nightmares by warm hands and gentle kisses, and learns what is like to be soothed back to sleep by the soft voice of Palis Delon

A 32-year-old Julian Bashir who has a different nightmare every night. The last year's been difficult. But then, it's been difficult for everyone, and he knows he's far from the only one to be suffering from nightmares at the moment.

A 34-year-old Julian Bashir who can't stop dreaming about the torture he went through four weeks ago, who's missing Ezri and who Miles is increasingly concerned about. When the O'Briens offer him their spare room for a while, he warns them multiple times about his nightmares, and is pathetically grateful when that doesn't change their minds. "We have nightmares too, Julian," says Keiko. "We can cope with yours."

A 34-year-old Julian Bashir who is confused when, three days later, Miles remarks, "You are having a bad run of those nightmares, aren't you?"

"They've been better than usual, actually," he replies awkwardly. "It's been really nice being able to go back to sleep afterwards, for once -- you and Keiko have been so generous in coming and checking on me."

"Course we're gonna come and check on you," says Miles gruffly. "You woke up terrified. We're not letting you do that alone."

"I'd be fine, Miles," Julian reassures. "I'm hardly going to expect one of you to come in every night."

Miles pauses. "...How long are you expecting to have them 'every night' for?" he asks, with some concern. "I mean, after a thing like this, how long does it usually take them to settle down?"

Julian stares at Miles. "I... have nightmares, Miles," he replies, frowning. "Just like you. Nightmares happen every night."

"No, they don't," says Miles, equally confused. "Don't get me wrong, they can do: after something big then sure, they're like that for a few weeks - a couple of months, even. But eventually they fall down to once, twice a week..."

Julian is looking at Miles incredulously. "That might be how it works for you," he says. "I guess my brain's different to yours. Mine don't stop, they just... mix. Change. Get confused with one another, eventually. I've had more dreams about being genetically modified by Sloan in the Dominion camp than I care to remember, you know?"

Miles' concern has turned into abject dismay. "You're saying you've had nightmares every single night since the Dominion took you?" he exclaims.

"Well, maybe not every single night!" retorts Julian, a little unsure what Miles is getting so het up about. "I do have some days when I don't... But yeah, pretty much. I've had nightmares most nights since I was fifteen, it's just how my brain processes stuff."

"Fifteen?"

...

A 34-year-old Julian who finds out that having nightmares every night for two decades is, apparently, "not normal" and something he should be seeking help for.

If Ezri comes back alive, he supposes he might take it up with her.

[satans-trek]

Kira could have intentionally poisoned the station gossip well by telling some people it's hers and Keiko's baby, telling some people Bashir got her pregnant, and telling some people that Miles is the father. Can you imagine?

[cuterefaction]

Trektober Day 14 - Thrift Shopping. I continue to maintain that a) Keiko and Garak would be buddies and that b) a lot of Garak's designs are motivated purely by spite, since the examples of his work we see range from 'tasteful and attractive' to 'you would only wear this if you lost a bet'. Piss him off? Your next shirt is the ugliest upcycling he can think of. And the murder lizard is pissed off a lot.

The two of them are going to hunt out maybe one nice thing each and then fill a bin bag with the most rancid patterns they can find :)

[qcon-tinuum]

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

[failedgrailknight]

Some ds9 sketches from when I first started watching the show! Office comedy of the century

[searchingforserendipity25]

'julian in the apocalyptic disaster of post canon cardassia as a federation relief aid' is the whole world naturally BUT what about keiko ishikawa o'brien in the apocalyptic disaster of post canon cardassia.

terraforming taken to a whole new level in a planet that has sustained itself in a state of imperial violence during near-extinction for millennia before near annihilation.

agrobotanists as being just as morally complex and heroic and potentially dangerous as doctor or commanders. what does it mean to make anew a place you do not belong to?

what does it mean to be a japanese woman in a post-nationalism federation working in an atomic disaster zone?

keiko defended an irreligious educational path for her students, once, and got her classroom bombed for it. she was possessed by the pagh wraiths, and felt the divine and the horror beneath her skin as a thing beyond time and space.

keiko could do well there - amidst the last scholars of kardasi'or's universities and the last wisepeople of hebitians, trying not to make old mistakes again. maybe she's friends with garak already - maybe she never was, and they only grow to know each other as fellow gardeners in the wreckage.

there's very little left of the old cardassian terraforming structures. there's crop blights and radioactive rain and droughts, and not enough of anything, except for the determination to eke out some life out of the rot.

keiko can work with that. keiko can take satisfaction in her work, pride and humility in the determination to give all her efforts to make green things grow again.

(miles? he be the main parent for once back on earth. he's fine. he's alright, he's got an houseguest who is almost not at all a fugitive living in the attic).

(pay no attention to the espionage and ethical leveraging and unearthing of corruption nonsense him and his bestie are getting into in the heart of the starfleet academy san francisco headquarters, really. molly's teaching her brother to look after keiko's bonsais, and that's what matters).

(he sends keiko cutting edge terraforming technology schematics stolen and perfected from a classified starfleet engeneering folder. it's very romantic, take my word on it).

[dreamerdrop]

Garak/Bashir/Sisko does not involve Kasidy because she’s seen Garak and Bashir and while she has no interest in telling her husband who he can or cannot hook up with, she is judging him heavily for being attracted to two of the most unhinged weirdos on the station.

(She can admit Bashir is pretty to look at and she does like him well enough, but she’s been patched up by him more than once and sometimes he really does not know when to stop talking, and some of the things he says, oh boy…)

Garak/Bashir/Miles can, however, easily involve Keiko because the only person in that polycule who is even remotely hinged is Miles and unfortunately for him, he’s exclusively attracted to unhinged weirdos and Keiko is happily making the weird sex even weirder for the thrill of it.

[clensters]

It takes a station.

[saltseashark]

i play fast and loose with the station polycule (various doodles and comics)

[stargatesimp]

Me during every rewatch