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Blue

With every appointment, Parmak made a conscious effort to look at the image of Elim Garak, after the child had left the room.  He was trying to integrate what he had learned from Marritza about reinforcement, and connecting positive images to negative experiences, with the hope of overwriting them, like thinking of bright blue pastry frosting instead of soulless eyes, or a public and sacrificial trial instead of being frozen and conditioned into inactivity at Gallitep.

Black

Tawny knots of hair were greatly outnumbered by black, slick styles, and she could see a range of grey skin-tones when each child reached out to take their lunch bowl.  They did not look strange to her, dressed up in tattered Bajoran clothing, saying ‘thank you, Madam’ in acceptable Bajoran dialects, then promptly sitting and eating the rations the Cardassians had engineered to be most nutritious for Bajorans.  There was so much dreadful irony in the scene that Beyat did not know which piece to pick away at first. 

Silence 

Salt in an Open Wound

Parmak leaves Camp Batal

Thanks!!  I’m gonna just do a few for more of my Salt in an Open Wound folks, because I’m afraid they aren’t vibrant enough on their own.  A resource/possible spoilers/sorry.

Beya

Can make a fire naturally, and attempted to burn down Gul Taryx’s tent several times.  

What, there was an extracurricular sparring team at her academy?  And she was in it?  She was second best and personally does not live this down. 

Has had three corrective surgeries on her tongue to make her speech more clear.  These have backfired, somewhat, and now she struggles with both of her ‘native’ languages. 

Nadyn

Was a respected engineer on Terok Nor, especially by her supervisor, Glinn Boheeka (I love him okay.)  But he realized he could not keep promoting her without it looking like favoritism.  And favoritism of Bajoran workers, especially female, does not reflect well on a soldier’s service. 

Wanted to introduce her baby to his father, but slashed all plans of this after the Withdrawal.  

Like Parmak, she had her hair cut when she was demoted to Camp Batal.  It was shaved off completely, and has only grown back in thin clumps since.  Nutrition, you know.  It’s a struggle. 

Glinn Ramet

At first glance you’d think ‘Wow he must’ve been given his position because he’s related to someone important!’ but it was all entirely by coincidence.  Like he’s always second in line behind the guy who messed up and is getting fired, lucky him!

He’s decent at manipulating circumstances and never takes blame when his plans go wrong.  They go wrong often. 

Does not have a family.  Sort of romanticized the idea while working for the CC, but dismissed it immediately when the OO made him an offer.  Literally wrote up and signed his own contract saying he had no personal commitments. 

Doctor Herin

Has six siblings, all from the same parents, who are still together.  This is the basis for her conviction and, surprisingly, her detachment.  They all get along because they don’t really get personal with each other.  And if that works, she’s gonna keep it up. 

Has no discernible sense of humor until you get really close to her (which is difficult and not always worthwhile, but anyway.)  She doesn’t think anything that might threaten procedures is funny - typos, repeated numbers in instructions, etc. - but really likes wordplay in other contexts.  Like when someone’s name is really similar to the prescription they need - she laughs for about a week when Parmak starts writing himself prescriptions for pekarrem. (if it were for anything more serious, she wouldn’t laugh, but this is to correct his sleep-cycle and is a fairly standard regiment for returning soldiers.)

Constantly does math in her head, like it comforts her.  Counts steps when she walks up or down them, taps her nails in specific rhythms, likes things best when they are odd-numbered.  Oh, that wonderful Cardassian Contradiction.