#and whose mindbody betray him
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benjamin sisko autism
benjamin sisko as a man with mental health issues of some kind
the visions of joan of arc the trials of moses, you will bleed into the story until you are more mythology than man, more dream than dreamer
mythologies and religion is the same as science and travelling you will die if you keep having these visions
sports creating narrative structures you cannot know until you have reached the end
despite the feeling that the end will bring sorrow, you must continue
benjamin sisko as larger than life and as a relatable man who is struggling with how his mind works
#benjamin sisko#ds9#st: ds9#star trek#this is very rough but there's jsut something ive been feeling a lot with certain characters#when they become Very Mythological it's like they loop around and I relate to them from a certain experience#and ds9 does support this read of him as highly obsessive in ways that sometimes harm him#and someone who feels emotions in very powerful ways#and of course someone who's going through grief and ptsd#the prophets as religion and as science affecting his mind and his body#and all along he's really *just* (affectionately) a guy who's trying to get his people through something#and wants to make his dad proud and be there for his son#and whose mindbody betray him#there's also this thing (the episode where he gets stuck out of time and only sees jake a few times before he dies#but then it does get reversed)#where there is such a palpable sense of fighting the inevitable#and that feels relatable in terms of struggling with mental health issues or degenerative illnesses/having family members who#struggle with these things -- jake maybe having to prepare to say some kind of goodbye#i say all of this delicately because i firmly am in the camp that avery brooks is that sisko would never just *leave* those he loves#and I want him to return I imagine that he does (although idk when exactly in my head)#but the pain of that leaving is still real -- and I don't think it works as an absent father metaphor#for it being a cheap stereotype and because sisko simply isn't like that and because there are all these signs#like having a parent whose mindbody you see deteriorating for some reason and trying to continue for as long as you can#it's very vague right now but it is there in my head
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