garak's clothiers has erratic business hours due to whims and breakdowns

Dont forget classified codebreaking duties

a Bajoran, looking longingly into garak's empty shop: my pants :(

LOCK THE FUCK IN MUTUALS AND FOLLOWERS SPOCK CANNOT BE LOSING HERE

my partner, last night, desperately trying to cheer me up: why don’t you watch some ds9? garak? don’t you want to look at garak? you can have garak on the tv. come on, go watch garak for a while and you’ll feel better.

ziyal survives the war -> is unofficially adopted by both garak and kira separately (Very Separately.) -> asks to spend time on cardassia during the reconstruction -> kira comes along because it’s a disaster out there and she’s not letting ziyal go by herself -> comedy of errors where kira keeps getting mistaken for garak’s quite young wife (but what a lovely daughter you have together! she looks so much like you! divorced, you say? what a shame…) -> kira’s head explodes. the end

tbh bringing ziyal/jake into this makes it even funnier. imagine a family dinner and it's a bajoran ex-resistance fighter, a cardassian ex-obsidian order agent, a human ex-maquis smuggler and the Emissary. and they're having a beer and talking about baseball. because their kids got together.