#lokar is everything garak tries to live up to in looks social status and palandine’s affection he’s an ideal

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thinking of a stitch in time and how barkan lokar is described as literally the ideal of a cardassian male and the inherent symbolism of garak killing him and that being the last assignment he carries out before he’s exiled.

also thinking about the inherent homoeroticism in passages like garak saying that he’d never been in a “manlier, more attractive presence” and garak being on the wire during lokar’s interrogation meaning anytime lokar assaulted him all garak felt was blinding pleasure-

#elim garak #barkan lokar #a stitch in time #beta canon #ds9 #star trek #their relationship is just so fascinating to me #the garak/palandine/lokar stuff could’ve been a stereotypical love triangle but it wasn’t #lokar is everything garak tries to live up to in looks social status and palandine’s affection he’s an ideal #but instead of purely being jealous of that ideal garak often sexualises it in fact he only begins actively being jealous of lokar once #lokar betrays him up until that point he’s simply content to bask in lokar’s glory #and even after no matter how much garak begins to hate him there’s a small part of him that still finds him attractive as well it’s mwah #ty andy #shut up abe