11: "This Life Flattened Against the Wall"
11: What do you like best about this fic?
This Life Flattened Against the Wall
Ooh, sorry for taking a few days to reply, icykali! Sometimes I just get a little frozen when I have to think too much about my own nonsense and need time to think. Thanks for the ask!
It’s difficult because I am very pleased about a lot things with that fic, but I think the thing I like best is the way the reader sees Garak through Kira’s eyes. Partly as just a Cardassian; partly as a male Cardassian who is a threat to Ziyal and who might have been a threat to Kira in the past; partly as Garak, a sort of annoyance to her today whom she just doesn’t have time to deal with. But then we see how her perception of him changes and she immediately becomes sympathetic when she learns what we as readers already know about his sexuality. I’m happy with the way I balanced all of these different views of Garak and with the way Kira's opinion changes just a little by the end.
I also need to give credit to Author376 for their fic Perception, which originated the term ‘Reflector’ that I use in my fic, and is a really great exploration of notions of masculinity and queerness in different cultures (Bajoran and other). It’s clever and hilarious and features Kira and Jadzia.