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I'm not dead. Really! I am hip deep in full-time grad school with full-time employment on top of it. But I am still around, trust me!

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Just imagine Six and Ezri going on dates to Niners games. Wearing matching uniforms! Sharing popcorn! She narrates the game for him because he can't see that well, even when he's sitting as close as possible and wearing his corrective lenses (his eyes don't track fast enough to follow the ball d/t neurological damage), but he loves the excitement anyway

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I also find them really appealing as an ace pairing because of many reasons. Like you said, both of them struggle with a lot of identity issues, and the issue of sexuality is very complicated for them-- Six is programmed to be incapable of perceiving desirable sensations and Ezri's self-perception is incredibly muddy thanks to all of the Daxes' lives and experiences and memories.

I think what differentiates them from her other friendships is that while other people in their lives can only sympathize with them, only they know what it means to have been many people and to have to cope with the decisions that these earlier selves made. When other people inevitably fail to appreciate the complexity of that (because this is a life-long challenge), their safe place will be each other, and there's something really gratifying about that, I think.

Weyoun/ezri or a ship from the last show u watched?

I’m really sorry that it’s taken me so long to answer this. I’ve been super groggy these past couple of days and I don’t like answering ask when I’m groggy, because I feel like I’m rushing them. Anyway, thank you for this, I have not talked about these two in so long and it is criminal. 

What made you ship it?: I believe it was @vortaesthetic and @aceweyoun who made me ship these two! I was already loosely aware of the pairing, but the only fics I had read were about Ezri and Weyoun 7, and were usually based on his sleazy comment about “interspecies mating rituals”. So, the dynamic didn’t really sit well with me, as it didn’t fit my view of either of the characters. It wasn’t until I stumbled on the writings of Aesthetic and Ace, that I discovered the very different dynamic of Ezri and Weyoun 6, which I immediately fell in love with. 

What are your favourite things about the ship?: Oh, that’s a loaded question. I shall try to be brief. I think the most intriguing aspect of their relationship, would be that they are both beings who remember having lived many lives, and while the circumstances that led to this being the case is different for each of them, they both experience similar difficulties, because of it. Both Ezri and Six both feel like they are living in the shadows of their previous selves, and the people around them, intentionally or unintentionally, make them feel as though they can never fill the shoes of those who came before. They both feel conflicted and confused about the state they are it (For Ezri a bond with a symbionts that she was completely unprepared for, and for Six, being born “defective”). Yet, for all this, they both wish to stand apart as individuals and be known for who they are, rather than who they were. It’s safe to say that they are both in need of support from someone who understands, and I think they could both provide some real comfort for each other. I am fond of the idea that, while Ezri would be Six’s therapist, he also manages to give her advice and help her through her own emotional struggles. 

Quite apart from this, I think they would just be so adorable together. They are both withdrawn, anxious people, but they have an underlying intelligence and fire that shines through when you get to know them. I think they would really appreciate that in each other. Their getting together would definitely be unexpected to the rest of the DS9 crew, but they would balance each other out so well. 

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on this ship?: Hm, nothing especially unpopular I don’t think, as it is rather a rare pairing anyway. I guess I have the headcanon that they are both asexual. The only reason this might be unpopular is because I do see people headcanoning Weyoun as asexual (he seems to essentially be so in canon), but rarely Ezri. 

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He's in the middle, cos he brought all three

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This is really threatening.

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it is weyoun wednesday my dudes

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Perhaps one of the reasons that The Founder is so cruel and scornful of Eight is because the war is going south in spectacular fashion, everything's caving in around them, and the one solid she trusts, the closest thing she has to a confidante, is artificial.

Eight loves her because he is compelled to, he's loyal because it's written into his genetic code. But when he was able to realize free will as Six, Weyoun turned against her. He ran from her. Acted against her. I think she took that as evidence of what the "real Weyoun" would do, and she can't forgive him for the fact that he wouldn't choose her if he were free. Where in the past she would have occasional moments of guidance with him, those are markedly absent. She no longer wants to hear what he thinks. How he feels. He is now only a weapon of war.

She does not return Weyoun's feelings, obviously. He is a tool to be used, but that does not mean that she doesn't want his honest devotion. That she can't look upon this twisted, bruised, beaten* Vorta she is standing next to at the end and be disturbed by the fact that he still looks upon her with equal parts terror and devotion. It must be disturbing knowing that if he were a free man, he wouldn't be there at all.

Idk what this was, but thank y'all for reading it anyway

*in the What We Left Behind novelization

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~~~~💜Weyoun...more like bae-youn💜~~~~

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Imagine Weyoun during a Zanthi fever breakout-- everybody's running around being desperately horny for each other and Weyoun's just hanging out, having the time of his life watching this dumb circus. He's just here sipping on his vacation juice and he's absolutely convinced that someone's spiked the punchbowl.

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Imagine Weyoun Nine being the ranger to his warrior partner Rotan'talag, fighting together as they take over the ship. Fighting for their freedom! For destiny!

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This is meant to be Eris (from the s2 finale/s3 premiere) but dang it came out pretty V O R T A W A V E

(to be fair, fruitbat/space witch is a hell of an aesthetic)

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We all know our pets have their official name, but we mostly use total different pet names for them. Reblog and tag your pets name vs. what you call them.

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I'm watching the Healing Times makeup-destroying compilation and you know Vorta would be totally into destroying makeup to satisfy their curiosity and obsess over the textures and the sounds

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Weyoun 6 was just a sweet cold boy that loved pizza, he deserved the world and I will never change my mind

Gave myself 6 characters

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One of the nastiest scowls a Vorta has ever worn!

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I need a gif of Lwaxana spinning Uncomfortable Odo around ad infinitum. I think it will be a brilliant illustration of our collective 2020 experience