#mirror odo

“I don’t want your fear, I want your love”

It’s easy to write this off as “haha psychosexual obsession!” or narcissism but I see it as a crushing moment of vulnerability.

Who else will understand her? Who else could she possibly trust with her heart? Who else could she let down her walls around?

Who else won’t be afraid of her?

We see it in her later infatuation with Ezri Tigan. She wants someone who won’t be afraid of her. Just one person who isn’t afraid of her.

But she does it to herself. She scares them. She pushes them away. Sisko. Kira. Bareil. Ezri. She squeezes too tightly, acts out in fear of losing control. Needs to be in control.

Because if she’s out of control for just a second, the Klingons and Cardassians will seize their opportunity to do away with the uppity Bajoran who bursts in and demands their respect.

And she refuses to die.

To survive she needs power, must always chase power.

But what she wants is love. True, pure, loyal, passionate love.

But she has to be feared and in control, if she isn’t she’ll die. And it hurts the people she loves. It hurts them each and every time. And it breaks her little by little. She could kill them for their “betrayal”, but she can’t bring herself to do it. Even when she gets close, she can’t do it. Every single time, she lets them go.

She even spares the son of a man who deceived her with her lover’s face. She has no reason to, but she does it.

And she keeps trying to find love, and she keeps losing them, keeps pushing them away.

The void stays unfilled.

Even her other self, the one who should understand her the most, should be the key to everything she’s ever wanted from a lover, turns away.

Because she even scares herself. Maybe even fears herself, just as she claims Kira does.

She tells herself she has no taste for violence. As soon as her anger rises, that lie is laid bare. And if some part of that claim is true, she’s gotten very good at silencing that little voice in her head that doesn’t want to kill. At the same time, she revels in institutionalized revenge against the people who occupied her world. At the death of an “efficient overseer” who may have been her only friend, she’s even ready to kill the mirror of herself she’s fallen in love with.

But no matter how many times they encounter one another after, she never does.

Holding on to that faint hope for love.

Maybe the only thing she has left to hope for.

“When you take someone’s life, you lose a part of yourself as well.”

Bashir: Hey! Hey FUCK YOU! I'm a DOCTOR!

Rules of Obedience

Pairing: Odo/Quark, Odo/Mirror Odo

Summary: Quark stumbled and fell into the mirror universe, straight into the hands of Mirror!Odo. Luckily, he managed to escape and return to his own universe. So many questions... did HIS Odo miss him while he was gone? Can they return to being bantering frenemies, or will Quark's experiences with Odo's sadistic counterpart sour their relationship forever? Or perhaps spark something that was there all along? Quark will do his best to navigate these murky waters.

Hey Quark. Another question, just for you: what if you didn't return to DS9 alone?

Status: WIP

Rating: Explicit (eventually)

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

#101

Title: Free Advice Is...

Pairing/Characters: Odo/Quark

Rating Explicit | E

Warnings/Tags: No Warnings apply

Some lightly whumpy elements involving deteriorating physical condition due to cold, exertion, and lack of sustenance. Frottage, Huddling for Warmth, Survival, Exhaustion, Pining without Realizing it, Masturbation, Masturbating in a sonic shower, "Platonic" Sex Tutoring, Pretending sex with feelings is transactional, Blow Jobs, Lovingly detailed descriptions of blow jobs

Summary: "Maybe now is a good time for lesson two." "How can you think of sex at a time like this?!" "Are you kidding? It beats thinking about all the ways we could die on this planet."

A continuation/sequel to Free Advice detailing how the rest of "The Ascent" goes: Quark and Odo are stranded on a planet and stuck huddling for warmth. And Odo's newly humanoid body isn't making any of this easier.

A somewhat canon-divergent take on S5E09 "The Ascent" featuring Odo and Quark actually resolving some of the sexual tension between them in that episode, at various times and places. At each stage, they don't actually acknowledge the attraction between them but rather take advantage of whatever pretext they can to have sex.

#102

Title: Rules of Obedience, Rules of Rebellion

Pairing/Characters: Mirror Odo/Mirror Quark

Rating Explicit | E

Warnings/Tags: Non-con/Rape

LOTS of non-con. Stockholm & Lima Syndrome. Captivity with a lot of BDSM themes (bondage, discipline and punishment, D/s, etc.). Other tags: Sexual captivity, Bondage, Tentacles, Double Penetration, Whipping, Mirrorverse Ferengi worldbuilding, Anal Plugs, Collars, Shapeshifting, Sadism, Stealth Public Sex, Stockholm Syndrome, Lima Syndrome

Summary: This is a dark, noncon-heavy Mirrorverse story building off the first DS9 Mirrorverse episode "Crossover." It takes the characters of Mirror Odo and Mirror Quark (who only appear in this episode) and develops a dark/difficult romance between them.

An AU of S2E23 "Crossover" - The mirror versions of Quark and Odo didn't die; instead, Mirror Odo persuades Intendant Kira to let him take the rebellion-sympathetic Mirror Quark on as a personal project, hoping to reform him, discipline him, and teach him the value of obedience—by whatever means necessary. Odo starts by teaching Quark his personal Rules of Obedience. Unfortunately, little does he know that Quark already has a set of rules he lives by...