#morse.

garak is worse for it, I would say, because it's never 100% clear whether he's being genuine or not. he might be dramatic on purpose about a particular thing to achieve some goal he won't ever tell anyone about. but also, he might take offense and get up and go and sleep on the sofa because his partner wouldn't let him sleep in the exact position he wanted to be in, entirely seriously ( when I say this I don't mean he's about to break up with them, I mean he's going to sulk for a few hours ) and it's times like that when he really needs snapping out of it. that's where he needs the sunshine half of the pairing. because if he's snapped out of it, it'll be fine. he'll enjoy the very Cardassian approach of his partner directly opposing and battling his mood, and if they come out on top, then his sulking will subside. the problem is when the other person decides to engage with his bad mood, and talks softly and carefully to him while he sulks silently and crosses his arms and refuses to say anything on the matter. what he actually needs is for the mood to be completely subverted, not sustained.

morse is less of the taking offense and storming off sort, but more of the turning everything into a sad poem in his mind sort. he loves his poetry, and that's all well and good, but he can and will think himself into a depressive spiral just from sitting and looking out of the window mournfully. he's very, very prone to that. he's an if left unattended, may generate reasons to be sad sort. he needs his partner to snap him out of that.

I think for morse though, this takes less sunshine vibes than garak would need, because he can sort of be snapped out of it just by not allowing him to just sit there with his thoughts? he'd respond to being distracted and invited somewhere, whereas garak will just sit and ignore, or go and hide in his shop and refuse to engage. he sort of needs his dramatic spiral of misery to be interrupted without warning, so he has no opportunity to choose not to engage.