#tain

I know people are only sort of into a stitch in time but I NEED to talk more about the lokar/palandine/garak dynamic bc. it's fascinating and insane and such a look into garaks character. like lokar as a representation of ideal cardassian Heterosexual Male whom garak cannot help but be in love with and palandine showing him the slightest flash of kindness which immediately makes garak ride or die for her. she gave him his love of poetry. they both gave him a few nights of feeling at peace and loved. they planned their seduction of him together. they were two older students who sought out a lonely younger student to guide him into a relationship with them, build him up, take advantage of him, and betray him.