#pythas lok

[master-of-the-game]

Pythas Lok

Oil on canvas, 40x60

[codenameregnar]

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[who-do-i-know-this-man]

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[cardassi-art]

I’m absolutely obsessed with A Stitch in Time by Andy Robinson, and by extension the wonderful world building on Cardassia Prime and it’s culture.

I present my interpretation of Pythas Lok!

I am doing a gentle series of Cardassian portraits (we’ll see how long that lasts though) but it’s been a very fun exercise thus far.

[spocks-kaathyra]

eight lubak

[vaguely-concerned]

pythas lok during the bamarren chapters, or: your crush texts you 'wanna come over and look at my lizard' and when you do get there there is in fact a lizard. (to be fair it's a pretty cool lizard)

[captainjimothy]

in my head there's a garak/pythas lok fic set like..... maybe a few months after tain's death? where garak is suddenly hit with the realization that tain isn't watching him anymore. now it's really truly only lok who'd ever monitor a live feed of garak's quarters. and that's hot.

[ladyylavenderrr]

This has always been a big source of mystery for me when reading A Stitch In Time and there’s tons of contradictory information. In some parts, Garak describes himself as a grown man, in other parts he’s described as a kid. Some students in his group have not gone through the brunt of puberty yet (developing their ridges) which implies a younger age, and Garak is old enough to have developed a semblance of sexual interest, but he also does come off as naive regarding that topic in some ways (that comment about not understanding what his teacher meant by female students being a distraction didn’t read as a joke to me, though maybe you interpreted it differently) I’m just curious what age range everyone was envisioning when reading this book.

Reblog for a bigger sample size and maybe tell me why you picked your answer in the notes or replies. Thank you :-)

[bijoumikhawal]

bamarren posting again. It's interesting that like, Pythas was Garak's closest friend, and also more... socially aware than him? Garak remarks on himself as grown and a man and all that at the time but there are quite a few ways where he comes off as childish, or at least severely inexperienced with the social environment of Bamarren, such as the first time he got a beating. Which, spitballing, is probably a result of him primarily being socialized as an upper class servant or spending time with Tolan, who really had no interest in toughening him up the way an all male military academy-adjacent environment would expect.

But Pythas is also 1) service class 2) visibly effeminate. In his case, maybe his sponsor prepared him for the environment he'd be in, or noticed his aptitude for it. But notably, Pythas is the one who notices Garak after the beating, empathizes with him, and helps him get revenge without getting caught.

And they're certainly not attached at the hip, but after Garak is severely injured in the competition, Pythas is the one keeping an eye on him and his health, reminding him to breathe, making sure he can stand up with his cane properly, etc. And when Barkan initally approaches Garak about the competition, the two of them are practicing after school (specifically something Garak isn't good at and Pythas is) and Barkan waits until Pythas leaves and Garak is alone.

If you think about it, there's not just solidarity but a sense that Pythas is protecting Garak- which makes the fact that he reported Garak's affair with Palandine and his Oralian Way visits to Tain so bitter, and Garak also never seems to blame him over it. It doesn't turn Garak's feelings towards him to a combination of hate and love, he never indicates dislike at all- which, I could be misremebering but I part of that is probably that Garak doesn't find out until after he's returned to Cardassia I think. Even in The Calling, we don't get hate, even after Pythas advocates putting him in a permanent coma (which, okay, everyone else was considering killing him).

[ds9mug]

one of a kind is such a pythas lok song ✊✊✊✊😔😔

[nullphysics]

[master-of-the-game]

Freezing lizards. So, dr. Parmak, Garak, Damar, Pythas and Dukat for some reason went to Earth in winter. Or in late autumn, maybe. In case of low temperatures they have to stay together, and this certainly concerns them.

[codenameregnar]

So we all agree that Garak and Pythas fucked nasty style in that jungle right?

[randomgeeknamedbrent]

My favorite part is how many people know Pythas Lok (The Star Trek: Deep Space 9 A Stitch in Time) but don't know Pythas Lok (The Star Trek: Deep Space 9 A Stitch in Time)

I think you may have messed up that last one

WHY DID IT NIT QUEUE THAT??

[saintjudasi]

rereading a stitch in time

[spocks-kaathyra]

Pythas is shaped exactly like me actually bc I said so. 5'0 and everything

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