i love how kira, despite her anger isn’t a violent person by nature. i love how kira will literally explode but violence is never the first option she turns to. i think about how so much of that anger comes from the resentment with regards to the occupation and how the occupation robbed her of her tenderness... of all bajorans of their tenderness because to be tender in the occupation is tantamount to death. but kira getting to find that tenderness? seeing how it never died — only bruised, tattered, but still mendable ... it’s such a good story about healing.
and the thing is with kira’s narrative you never get that “forgive the people who hurt you” narrative with the cardassians— even when non-bajorans might try and invalidate her! she doesn’t forgive the occupation but rather, she ends up finding cardassians that abhorred it, cardassians that have done everything they could to hold their government accountable for their war crimes and realizes that it’s not the people’s fault but the fault of those in power
