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for the ask game, kira and julian?

Kira:

How I feel about this character: She’s one of my favorite characters ever, and definitely my favorite DS9 character. I think she has the best arc in the show and I find her to be such an admirable, moral character, while still having flaws and being a complex person. I’ve been really enjoying writing fic about her recently.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: My three favorite Kira ships are with Jadzia, Keiko, and Winn. These three ships are really different from each other, obviously, but I love all of them. I’ve written fic for Kira/Keiko and Kira/Winn and I’m currently attempting to write Kira/Jadzia for Star Trek femslash week. I also think Kira/Ezri has a lot of potential, and I’m interested in the idea of Kira/Kasidy as well. Ooh, and I like Kira/Cretak. In general, if a woman exists in DS9 (or sometimes just in any Star Trek show), there’s a good chance I’ve at least considered shipping her with Kira. I have complicated feelings on Kira/Odo but have at various points shipped them to a certain extent.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Sisko. I love their dynamic so much, and the way it changes over the course of the show. The idea of figuring out how to navigate being close friends with a major figure in your religion who is also your boss is so interesting.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I really dislike her pregnancy storyline, and the surrounding fanon. The “O’Brien polycule” is really not something I’m a fan of. I like Kira/Keiko a lot, but not with Miles involved. It feels like the O’Brien polycule is something most people in the tumblr DS9 fandom have just accepted into their own personal canon, so I assume this is an unpopular opinion.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I have very complicated feelings about the DS9 finale on the whole and I think a lot of things about it should have been different, but if the storyline had to go approximately the way it did in canon, I do feel like Kira should have played a part in the storyline with Sisko and Winn and Dukat. Her relationships with each of them are just as narratively important as their relationships with each other and that storyline feels incomplete without her presence in some way.  

Julian:

How I feel about this character: I like him a lot, though he isn’t one of the DS9 characters I think about most. I wrote him as a side character in a fic recently and I enjoyed writing him more than I expected to.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: I do like Garashir. Like I said in the ask about Garak, the ship is so omnipresent that it’s easy to get tired of, but I do still like their canon dynamic a lot. I have complicated feelings on Bashir/O’Brien but overall would say I ship them to a certain extent. I quite like Bashir/Martok. That’s probably the Bashir ship I have the least complicated feelings on. I just think it’s fun.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I like his relationship with Kira a lot. The way their dynamic gradually shifts over time is fun. I also overall like his dynamic with Jadzia when they weren’t making him be in love with her.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I think a lot of the fandom has the tendency to sort of… infantilize him, I guess I would say? Like, people talk about how he’s just a silly guy who’s bumbling around or whatever. This is so far from my perception of the character that it’s confusing to me. Julian is an incredibly competent character with an iron clad moral compass who's a bit of an arrogant asshole in the early seasons (I still like him then!). There are different ways you can read his character arc given that the writers clearly didn’t entirely know what to do with him, but seeing him as some sort of innocent baby doesn't make sense to me.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish there’d been actual planning around the idea of him being genetically engineered, with that being worked into his character earlier on. Like, it kind of works in hindsight, accidentally, but having foreshadowing of it would have been nice. I know TV shows simply didn’t work like that, but still. I especially wish more had been done in terms of relating this storyline to disability. There’s a bit of that with the Jack Pack episodes, but I really dislike those episodes so that doesn’t really count for me.

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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION // S4E2 Family You don't know, Robert, you don't know. They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy, and I couldn't stop them! I should have been able to stop them! I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough! I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should, I should.

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Murderbot 1x07 "Complementary Species"

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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE – 5.19 "Ties of Blood and Water"

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wanted to ask for a couple more characters for the game! philippa georgiou and garak?

Philippa Georgiou (I’ll talk about both the Mirror and Prime versions):

How I feel about this character: Mirror Georgiou is a character I really enjoy watching onscreen and who I overall like a lot even if I think some of the writing decisions surrounding her were questionable. She was my second favorite character after Burnham in the first couple seasons before Book came along. Prime Georgiou is a character I have generally positive feelings about but almost never think of, mostly because she was only in two episodes and I feel like we never really got to know much about her.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: For Mirror Georgiou, I do really enjoy shipping her with Prime Burnham, although I wouldn’t be interested in an actual relationship between them, I just think reading their relationship with romantic tension is interesting. I don’t ship Mirror Georgiou with Mirror Burnham because their relationship is just too explicitly parent/child. I sort of like Prime Burnham/Prime Georgiou, but again, there was so little of their dynamic that I don’t think about it much. Other than Burnham… I guess I kind of like the idea of Mirror Georgiou/Nhan, but I’m not super invested.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Mirror Georgiou’s dynamic with Tilly is pretty funny. To be honest though, I mostly just care about Georgiou’s dynamic with Burnham, so my real answer is still Burnham.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I am actually kind of glad she left Discovery in season 3 in hindsight. I was unhappy about it at the time, but I feel like she wouldn’t have fit super well into the tone of seasons 4-5. There’s always kind of been an uncomfortable tension to her character, because she’s done such incredibly horrible things, but the narrative doesn’t really focus on it much with any sort of weight after the first season. I’ve seen some people say they think she’s too “unredeemable” to just be integrated into the main cast, and while I don’t really agree that there’s such a thing as a character who categorically can’t be redeemed, I do get being uncomfortable with her character being treated as a protagonist in a similar way to being uncomfortable with, say, Dukat. I think Discovery had mixed results in handling this tension of her character, and having her leave before the last two seasons eliminated a lot of potential problems that might have risen from that. I’m not 100% set on this opinion, though – someone could easily convince me she should have stayed with a good argument for how she’d have fit into the last two seasons.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: For Mirror Georgiou, I wish she hadn’t been written to fall into quite so many stereotypes, especially in season 1 (I really don’t think I’m the right person to talk about this in any depth). For Prime Georgiou, I do think it might have been interesting to see more of her at some point, maybe in some kind of time travel storyline.

Garak:

How I feel about this character: It’s complicated, because I really enjoy his character in canon, but am frustrated with the extent to which the fandom focuses on him at the exclusion of basically the rest of the cast. I enjoy him in a similar way to how I enjoy Mirror Georgiou in seasons 2-3 actually – as a morally ambiguous but very charismatic character whose conversations and antics are really fun to watch. Just based on canon, he’d probably be in my top five favorite DS9 characters, but I don’t talk about him much because of how oversaturated the fandom is with him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Bashir, I guess. Like, I understand why people ship them. I really enjoyed their scenes in canon. I think I have an incredibly different idea of what their relationship is like than most of the people who ship them, but that always seems to be the case with really popular ships for me. Garashir is just so overwhelmingly huge in the DS9 fandom that it’s really, really easy to get tired of it. I also think Garak/Sisko has some interesting potential.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I really like his dynamic with Odo. His interactions with Kira in season 7 are really interesting too.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I think I see him as a much more morally ambiguous character than a lot of people seem to. If the circumstances were just ever so slightly shifted, he would have been a villain in the show. He’s only allied with the protagonists out of necessity. He’s a very opaque character, of course, and while I do think that he becomes a better person over the course of the show, I think his genuine ideological beliefs under all his obfuscation are not ones that much of the fandom would find particularly palatable.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I would have liked to see him interact significantly with Jadzia. I don’t remember them having any significant interactions (maybe I’m forgetting something), which seems like missed potential.

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Michael Burnham for the ask game?

How I feel about this character: I love her so much!! <3 <3 <3 My favorite Star Trek captain and one of my favorite characters in general.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Book first and foremost. Michael/Book is my favorite canon ship in Star Trek by far and I love their arc so much. I also like tons of other Michael ships, though for the majority of them I more like the idea of there being some sort of romantic tension between them, not of them ever having an actual relationship. This is especially true for Michael/Mirror Philippa. I go back and forth on whether I ship Michael/Tilly, but I tend to prefer their relationship as platonic. Michael/Rillak is an interesting ship that I like in theory but haven’t really engaged with much. My biggest Michael rarepair is Michael/Owosekun (the prime versions, not the mirror versions) specifically because of what they had going on in All In.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Other than Tilly, I like her dynamics with Hugh and Adira. Honestly, I like her dynamics with most of the cast, though I have extremely complicated feelings on Michael & Saru.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Just thinking she’s a great character is an unpopular opinion, lol. But more specifically, not only is she my favorite Star Trek captain, I also just think she’s the best one, in terms of leadership style, communication, strategizing, and basically everything else. If I had to pick a Starfleet captain to serve under it would be her no question.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: There’s… a lot I wish was different about Discovery despite overall loving the show. In terms of Michael, I wish the show hadn’t constantly questioned her ability to be a leader up until the very end in a way that’s never really been done so extensively with other Star Trek captains. And this is the same answer I gave to another ask about Korra, but I wish the show hadn’t tortured her so much on screen. Seems to be a guarantee if the protagonist is a woman of color, though.

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Ezri Dax & Korra for the character ask game?

Ezri:

How I feel about this character: She’s great and one of the best parts of season 7. I don’t talk about her much because I’ve rewatched season 7 a lot less than other parts of DS9 so I feel like I don’t know her as well as some other characters, but at some point I need to do a season 7 rewatch specifically focusing on the episodes where she plays a big role.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: I don’t have any ships with her I feel strongly about, but I do like the idea of Kira/Ezri. Ezri/Jake is a ship I’ve thought about too and I think it has potential. Jadzia/Ezri is also pretty interesting (though I’d lose interest if they were both Dax at the same time – only one of them could have the symbiont for me to ship this, I think).

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I really wish she and Sisko had more scenes together. What little of their dynamic was there was super interesting, and I would have loved to see more development of how it differed from Sisko’s relationships with Curzon and Jadzia.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Probably just that I like her a lot, and I think she was a great addition to DS9. I think the way Jadzia’s death was written was bad, but I actually like the idea of seeing a new Dax host in the show, and Ezri was perfect for showing a different side of the Trill and being such an interesting contrast to Jadzia.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish she hadn’t gotten together with Julian :(

Korra:

How I feel about this character: Love her!!! She’s like 90% of the reason I love Legend of Korra. The show didn’t always treat her super well, but I love her arc overall, particularly in how it connects with disability.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Mostly Asami. Korrasami was one of my first ships as a teenager so I still have a lot of nostalgia for it, even if I do think at this point that it’s a tiny bit bland for my current tastes. I remember thinking Korra/Kuvira was kind of interesting too.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I liked her dynamic with Lin.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I think she’s a more interesting character than Aang. I do like Aang too, but Korra will always be my favorite.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I feel like I haven’t watched the show recently enough to have a really good answer for this, but I wish the show hadn’t tortured her so much directly onscreen. Like, the exploration of her trauma meant a lot to me, but I remember the way it was done sometimes feeling a bit uncomfortable.

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i really like how this directly compares uhura's manifesting grief to the real presence of intelligent alien beings trying to communicate with her by interacting materially with parts of brain. it reminds me a bit of how sisko and his relationship with his grief is reframed by outside-causality beings. connecting disparate events through the in-between translation space between two beings in different dimensions--a space which uhura is able to occupy and understand and connect ideas to necessary particularity in order to figure out what is being said to her.

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for the ask game: i literally want to ask like all the characters but for now i'll stick with janeway?

Thank you! <3 Feel free to ask about any characters you want, lol

How I feel about this character: I love Janeway! She’s super fun to watch and I love the sound of her voice (weirdly specific, I know, but it’s true). She’s such a nuanced and interesting character and I find her just as intriguing in canon as my other favorite Voyager characters, but I do have a lot of trouble writing her in fanfiction, for some reason. I’ve made some brief attempts to write from her POV and failed, so I’ve only ever written short scenes with her not from her perspective. Maybe some day I’ll feel like I understand her deeply enough to get inside her head.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: My favorite Janeway ship is probably Janeway/Tuvok/Chakotay, but I do ship her with both characters individually as well (though it’s a bit complicated with Chakotay – I very much don’t want them to ever be in an actual relationship). I also find Janeway/Seven and Janeway/B’Elanna really interesting. In general with Janeway ships, I’m more interested in feelings of unresolved longing than I am in her actually having a relationship with any other character. Oh, I also find her relationship with Kashyk in the episode Counterpoint super fun and interesting, but I wouldn’t exactly say I ship them.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I know I just said I ship them, and I do, but Tuvok. I love their long-lasting friendship. I also think Janeway’s relationship with Harry is really interesting too. There are compelling elements to Janeway’s dynamic with every single one of the other main characters in Voyager.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I mean, I guess the fact that I like that she stayed single over the course of Voyager and especially that she and Chakotay never got together. I think that was a really good decision actually, but many people seem to disagree.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I’m fairly satisfied with the way her character was written on the whole, especially in comparison with a lot of other Voyager characters, but I really would have liked to see more development of her relationship with B’Elanna in later seasons.

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Star Trek Strap Tournament Round Four (Match 1)

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GIVE ME A CHARACTER;

and I’ll break their ass down:

How I feel about this character

All the people I ship romantically with this character

My non-romantic OTP for this character

My unpopular opinion about this character

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

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