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Both Tain and Dukat are OBSESSED with their illegitimate offspring. Dukat claims to love Ziyal and her death mentally breaks him. He also nearly killed her twice, first when they were reunited and then when he was involved in that plot to blow up Bajor's sun.

I see both Garak and Ziyal's obsession with their parents despite being illegitimate children and often treated horribly as a metaphor for how Cardassians often view their state/government. Their government that is supposed to protect them is often filled with corruption, directly puts them in harms way, and generally treats them like shit, but they continue to have this unwavering patriotism and loyalty because of how intensely it's drilled into them from a young age. To give up their family/ties to their people and that validation would be giving up a large part of who they are, and they would need to go against all of the intense programming they're put through. They are trained from birth to be loyal to those in power, especially those who would kill them. No matter how many times they get hurt, they believe that somehow it's because the authority is doing it for their greater good, or the greater good of other people. The state is the most important entity just like the family honour is. It's a way of showing how this cultural and political ideology bleeds into their everyday lives.

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acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm «Lighthouse of the Northern Sunset» 2025

Did I mention that I love Garashir??

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Here's the artist's website.

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