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selenakLike last year, the fandom I shared with my recipient was one of my two beloved space stations, DS9. Her prompt was either Garak & Bashir or Odo & Quark, slash or gen at my convenience. Now I had already said all I wanted to say on the Garak/Bashir relationship in Five Things Which Never Happened Between Garak And Bashir, and much as I love the characters, I didn't think I had anything new in me, or an aspect to explore regarding the two of them.
On the other hand, it occured to me that though Quark is my favourite character and of course the relationship with Odo is very important, I had never written a story focused on said relationship. (Quark's Day and The one who got away deal with aspects of it, but it's not the central focus.) I had also never written an Odo pov - a short canon AU drabble aside - let alone explored Odo from his own perspective. (In the stories he turns up in, he's described from someone else's pov.) Moreover, despite being fascinated by the Terok Nor flasbhacks I had never written a Terok Nor story, two sections of Five things which never happened between Kira and Dukat aside.
You can see where this was going.
As I rewatched the second season episode Necessary Evil, aka the one with the flashbacks to Dukat hiring Odo to solve a murder mystery in the past and Odo dealing with the same issue in the present, it occured to me we have a convenient (for me) plot hole in canon, to wit: considering that Odo in the past isn't able to solve the murder (he doesn't figure out who actually killed Vatrick until the present day action of the show), it's a bit bemusing why Dukat still gave him the job. And voilà, I had a plot in addition to my planned Quark and Odo: How They Became Frenemies character exploration. Throw in my speculation as to why Odo did work for the Cardassians (something canon or Kira skirts around occasionally) and his Dr. Mora/ I Was A Teenage Science Project issues to boot, and I had a story, which I now present under my own name for your convenience:
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On the other hand, it occured to me that though Quark is my favourite character and of course the relationship with Odo is very important, I had never written a story focused on said relationship. (Quark's Day and The one who got away deal with aspects of it, but it's not the central focus.) I had also never written an Odo pov - a short canon AU drabble aside - let alone explored Odo from his own perspective. (In the stories he turns up in, he's described from someone else's pov.) Moreover, despite being fascinated by the Terok Nor flasbhacks I had never written a Terok Nor story, two sections of Five things which never happened between Kira and Dukat aside.
You can see where this was going.
As I rewatched the second season episode Necessary Evil, aka the one with the flashbacks to Dukat hiring Odo to solve a murder mystery in the past and Odo dealing with the same issue in the present, it occured to me we have a convenient (for me) plot hole in canon, to wit: considering that Odo in the past isn't able to solve the murder (he doesn't figure out who actually killed Vatrick until the present day action of the show), it's a bit bemusing why Dukat still gave him the job. And voilà, I had a plot in addition to my planned Quark and Odo: How They Became Frenemies character exploration. Throw in my speculation as to why Odo did work for the Cardassians (something canon or Kira skirts around occasionally) and his Dr. Mora/ I Was A Teenage Science Project issues to boot, and I had a story, which I now present under my own name for your convenience:
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