claws? but scales tho?

and so we get, like, kitten climbing Garak’s calf with tiny piton claws and Garak just kind of idly reaching down and scratching its head, “stop that, you’re tickling.”

and cat curled up on Julian (because of course Julian) because he’s warm and Garak doing much the same and Julian just being like fml

and Garak and cat making slow blinks at each other because affection and cat and Cardassian

and also, also cat sharpening its claws on Garak’s scales, like, on his elbow, and Julian looking over in bemusement.

“Doesn’t that hurt?”

“It’s a trifle ticklish.”

“God. Ooh, that looks like it’s got to hurt just a little…?”

“I assure you it doesn’t.”

Rrrr, the cat corroborates.

“If she did that to me I’d jump a meter.”

“I honestly do not understand how cats and Humans have managed to peaceably co-exist. There must have been some mistake… yes, my dear, you agree,” and the cat rubs her head against his finger and redoubles her pleasant skritching. “Clearly the Progenitors made an error… you were supposed to be Cardassian, weren’t you… mmm, well, we shall pretend…”

“She’s not a reptile, Garak.”

“Oh, she very nearly is… look at you, yes, you are a heartless little killing machine, aren’t you…”

Brrrrrrrrt, says the cat.

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Garak is submissive to his core. He wants to be good for someone else, wants to live up to their expectations and make them proud of him.

Garak would be willing to do things like tying Julian up, spanking him, dominating him, edging him for hours on end and engaging in any number of rough kinks, but it would be very specifically at Julian’s behest. It would be done with Garak holding a constant awareness of Julian’s wants and needs and where his boundaries are, catalouging every action and whether or not Julian finds it pleasurable or not.

Garak would treat being a dominant in a scene as an act of service, of worship. He would do it in service of pleasuring his partner and being good for them. He might well derive plenty of enjoyment from it himself, specifically in the baffling level of trust Julian would have to place in him to let him do those things to begin with.

But Garak is not a pushy aggressive dominant. He isn’t very dominant at all in his relationships. He is simply a loyal and dedicated man who will do whatever he can to make his partner happy.

For Garak, dominanting someone in bed would just be an extension of his natural inclinations torwards submission.

This is exactly how the conversation went

doesn't matter if it's f or m garashir. garak likes the bush.