#rusot

[vulcanlovetriangles]

Small handful of minor characters I'm either writing or want to write fanfiction about:

[satans-trek]

It's so funny how much of a Kira fan Garak is.

[trillscienceofficer]

oh man, DS9 7x22 “Tacking Into The Wind”. I forgot that this scene

and this scene

are in the same episode. Kira & Ezri being like 'actually the state you're so loyal to has always been a sham' and Damar and Worf being forced to confront the reality of their situations. And then Damar kills Rusot and Worf kills Gowron, as well as killing the part of themselves that clung to a past that never really existed

[captaincrusher]

Thinking about how Damar killed Ziyal and then ended up the hero of the Cardassian people by the end of Ds9. The murder of Ziyal is not shrouded in any ambiguity. She was innocent and he murdered her.

So how can he end up being a hero? How can we reconcile this view of the Damar that commits a brutal, unforgivable act with the Damar that leads a rebellion and saves his people?

That's a hard question. It certainly comes down to character development. The Damar that shoots Ziyal is shaped by the same values and ideas that created Dukat. Cardassian military man, convinced about Cardassian superiority. But when Damar reaches the height of power under the Dominion, he's wrecked by guilt and the eventual realisation his people are not the rightful, imperial oppressor, but are being subjugated.

He changes and realize, very reluctantly, that Cardassia has to change to. His turning points are all centered around killing people: Killing Ziyal leads to his induction to leadership, killing Weyoun leads to his role as rebellion leader, killing Rusot leads to him finally accepting the new Cardassian reality. So does Kira "forgive" him? Is the audience to forgive him?

I think Ds9 tells us that people sometimes do horrible things and then we all have to live with it. Garak did horrible things, Kira did horrible things, even Sisko did horrible things. Justice isn't easy or smooth and certainly not swift. Maybe Ds9 tells us that there's no dichotomy where we either forgive and forget or we seek absolute justice.

We learn early in episodes like "Duet" that seeing things in black and white, where everyone is either Good or Bad, is not constructive. We learn in "Darkness and the light" that Kira killed civilians working with the occupying forces during her time in the resistance when she had to and also that being consumed by revenge will lead you down a dark path. All those things teaches us that in war, sometimes you don't have the luxury of absolutes. Kira chose to put her personal feelings about Damar aside and work at his side, not because she forgot Ziyal but because that's what she had to do.

It's also interesting to consider Dukat killing Jadzia vs. Damar killing Ziyal and how these horrid acts lead two people on very different paths, but that's best saved for another post.

[boreal-sea]

Damar had a cooling unit waiting for Kira and Odo when they came to join the rebellion because he knew they wouldn't be able to tolerate the warmer temperatures 😭

The way he speaks about Kira, specifically to his own friend Gul Rusot, and the way he prepared a cooling unit for her shows so much respect. He really changes after the Dominion takes control. What's ironic is that while Dukat is part of the reason Damar decides to form the rebellion, Damar ends up actually gaining the respect of Kira, something Dukat was never able to do. That's because Damar respects Kira first, and shows that respect to her, gaining her trust and respect in return. Damar ends up becoming so much more than Dukat ever was - an actual real hero of Cardassia.

Also. He's got cute lips. He's a very handsome Cardassian.

[suh01]

ok tacking into the wind is one epic slay after the other... worf killing gowron?? damar killing rusot??? both of them killing their own people, for their own people?? garak fucking shooting everyone dead in like 5 seconds on that ship while his pussy pops loud enough to break the sound barrier?? just crazy. also odo is like 3 minutes from dying during all this

[ur-friendly-nbhd-cardassian]

Let's see...:

abandoned Dukat ✅️

punched Rusot ✅️

murdered Weyoun ✅️

Doing well so far. Yay, fictional crime! 😂

And that's only TC...

I think Self Shippers need to kick it up a notch and have Fictional Enemies, make a self insert whose life goal is to beat the shit out of a canon character

[supersecretsombraboop]

Garak vs Damar murder face

[vulcanlovetriangles]

Rusot putting the ass in Cardassian.

[kaelio]

Chapter 38: WISE ARE THE BOUGHS

Kira meditates and thinks about Bajoran politics. these are everyones favorite chapters.

[funnywormz]

i love it when kira defends odo and gets so mad on his behalf it has the energy of those like. 2011 high school couple roleplay posts. idk if this makes sense it's like

rusot: haha odo is just a DIRTY COLLABORATOR

kira: *growls* *eyes turn red* how dare you say that about her........... take it back RIGHT NOW or ELSE

odo: *holds her back* babe no it's ok he's not worth it...............

[autistic-bashir]

look i know this is a niche post but are you gonna tell me these aren’t the same character

[darkiecat]

Love Garak for the background support though, he would have shot Rusot for Kira! ผ(•̀_•́ผ)

[mythomagically-delicious]

I’m glad they gave us Duet as an early episode. It exposed us to another side of the Cardassians we didn’t think existed. Those who regretted the Occupation. Those who could not stand what was happening. And even though Marritza did nothing back then, it exposed us to the terrible reality of the Occupation.

So far all we’ve seen is Garak’s evasiveness and some guile, and Gul Dukat’s self-important posturing. We see Cardassians as arrogant and ruthless monsters. 

And there were those. There are those. But Duet gave us a chance to see that reconciliation and forgiveness aren’t impossible. And that not all Cardassians wanted what happened. We got to see the file clerk, the desk job man who was exposed to the harsh realities of the other side and couldn’t handle it.

I’m glad Duet was an early episode so we could get an overall, more rounded view of Cardassians.

[boreal-sea]

Hm wow I need some nasty hate sex between Garak and Gul Rusot.

(From S7E20 "When It Rains..." and the two subsequent episodes)

And if Damar walked in, you know. That would be fine too.