and i've read every fic with a sirella mention in it front to back and sideways btw

but really truly in my heart of hearts i wish we got to see what their relationship looks like when the world isn't shattering around them. rare in the klingon empire i hear but i would like to see it

my goal is literally to write something with a plot one time before i die

what i love about sirella's characterization in that book too is like she thinks soo big picture like nothing is more important than the empire not her family not martok not her own life

also probably she was mad that she had been. imprisoned. doesn't put one in a talking mood does it

and what gets me about the gothmara and morjod reveal in the left hand of destiny is the scene right after that where sirella's (understandably) deathly silent and martok goes why aren't you talking are you mad that i touched another woman before you? like... obviously yes she is but also sirella virgin bride implication? obvi she was only 21 and i guess worf says the honorable thing to do is mate and take the oath immediately but the klingons we see in the show don't really follow that rule usually... maybe the children of great houses like mogh and linkasa are expected to

that scene from the john m ford book of the klingon officers flirting by trying to remember where and when they got certain scars on their bodies and teasing eachother about the other forgetting. romance is alive and well