Lwaxana x Ishka and Garashir in Paris?
For the ask me about my WIPs meme.
Lwaxana/Ishka:
They're a ship I've always wanted to explore, just because they seem like they'd hit it off really well if they ever met, and the fic involves them meeting, getting together, planning their wedding but also being meddling mom + future step-mom about Quodo. (Lwaxana has figured out Odo doesn't return her feelings by this point and besides, she's in love with Ishka, so she's happy to nudge him toward the person he really likes, like she sorta does with him and Kira in the actual show.) For this fic, it's a Betazoid wedding tradition for the marrying couple to set up another couple during the wedding planning process/wedding ceremony -- not required, but if you can make it happen it's an especially auspicious sign for the marriage + the couple who got matched. Anyway, they quickly figure out there is a lot of unresolved sexual tension on this station and start also trying to match up Garashir, Kiradax, maybe Jake/Ziyal, maybe some others... it goes into crazy zany comedy town very quickly, but also romantic because they're not wrong about the couples they're matching either! This will be fun and I really need to get around to it.
Garashir in Paris:
This is an AU where Garak ends up spending his exile on Earth (for Reasons that I have yet to come up with) and he meets Julian by chance when he's still living in Paris and engaged to Palis Delon, and still figuring out whether he's going to take the cushy hospital job on Earth or go with Starfleet. They will probably meet-cute in a little café and it's similarly touchy-feely to "Past Prologue," and then they will also get into a groove of discussing books together ….but it will also be very romantic and French and cliché. But of course there's angst potential in terms of first, Julian grappling with his feelings transferring from his fiancée to this strange, suspicious, but also intelligent and alluring Cardassian man who seems to respect and Get him in a way nobody else does, as well as the wrench this throws in the question of his future... since if he wants the position in Paris that's pretty contingent on his marrying Palis, but if he joins Starfleet and leaves Earth can he take Garak with him? Does he still go out for the posting on DS9 and if so, is there some reason that Garak can't be there -- some reason he wasn't living there in the first place? I still need to work out the actual answer to that last question, haha. I'm actually kind of surprised I haven't seen something like this in the fandom before (though please nobody get the jump on me now). It’ll probably be titled, ofc, “We’ll Always Have Paris”















