#retroactive intentional implication would have been perfectly adequate

[elainemorisi]

does the Kira/Odo crowd (or Kira crowd generally, but I'm assuming Kira/Odo people are most invested) have fanon for wtf they talked about in that closet?

#I am writing something set starting at Jadzia's wedding #and it is not About Odo but like anything set then has (imo) to be at least a strong degree About Odo #god I am so intensely annoyed at canon for so egregiously lazily handwaving that #which also means I refuse to totally handwave it! #but since I actually do not have really the first headcanon for this because I fundamentally do not buy it as a character arc... aaaarg #(it being the TOTAL LACK OF ONGOING IMPACT of early S6 to be clear #assuming a much less lazily-written followup I'm not that skeptical of Kira/Odo itself) #urg the more I think about that handwave the more annoyed I become :) #we've even SEEN them have an actual conversation about interpersonal betrayal #it lasted two sentences #felt right! felt true to characters + dynamic! #but oh no they talked for hours and hours ABOUT WHAT. WITHOUT ROMANTIC ENGAGEMENT. LIKE. #I mean obviously I'm going to end up coming up with something but aaaaaaaaarg #lazy lazy lazy bastards #there are many good Chasms Of Implication in this show #two leads. being set up for a romance. talking about. the central fucking plot. are not. a good place. to leave a giant fucking gap #you see if His Way had ALSO been anything other than lazy dogshit we could have gone with the handwave initially that would have been fine #retroactive intentional implication would have been perfectly adequate #however. #anyway I am well beyond useful tags but for filters anyway #ds9 tag