#DANKY OC WUESTIONS!!! 🥺🥺🥺❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[fauvester]

do any of the adoption kids dance? what's their taste in music? also is there a story behind the splash on iskra's right forehead temple?

OMG i have so many silly little thoughts about postcanon Cardassian youth music

I love my post-WWII cultural timeline for cardassia, which puts 20 years post-Fire sort of in the mainstream jazz/swing era. Out from the dignified waltzing of Garak's youth and into furtive lindy hopping in basements and bombed-out factories after government curfew.

Iskra definitely sneaks out to go to parties with the rest of the disillusioned youth of Prime. Garak knows. She knows he knows. He desperately yearns for a Cardassia filled with dancing and music and so he will condone youthful rule-breaking.

Mels suggested Romulan pop (rpop you might say) becoming a chief cardassian cultural import and I think that that's hilarious so I'm claiming it. Garak hates it but it's ubiquitous. Electropop cover of the Anthem of the Cardassian Union. Iskra Idan and Jocasta love it and play it constantly.

Young Elim listens to Terran music that he's picked up from Julian. They do sing-alongs on long drives. It's very sweet because neither of them can sing for shit. Jo listens to Cardassian classics and the occasional classical Vulcan or Andorian piece while she works.

Idan plays the Romulan harp (vulcan harp, but Romulan style [e.g. violin vs fiddle]). The harp itself was a gift from Bashir's parents. He mostly just toodles around on it for fun and appalls his Vulcan classmates with his banjo riffs.

As for Iskra's scar, it's the usual thing you'd see with being a child victim of annihilative mondicide.

#dee s 9 #garashir adoption au #ive been watching LOTS of swingdance on youtube #i also grew up doing english country dance and ballroom dancing #iskras the bitch in the ballroom that treats every dance as a test of physical endurance #she will run you to the ground #idan is not a good dancer but he is 100% ok with looking like an idiot and having fun #its his lack of embarrassment that makes him so bad hes good. a big man full of joy waggling around #young elim mr darcy ass i do not care to dance. #pre-Fire garak would have put all the kids in dance lessons. ANY good cardassian should know how to dance. #anyways iskra got shot in the head by a jemhadar or something like that :'( boooo #DANKY OC WUESTIONS!!! 🥺🥺🥺❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥