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Garak's Ancestry - a question of skin color...
Elim Garak has one of the more hard to describe skintones of any Cardassian on DS9. It’s highly subject to look much different depending on the lighting of the room he is in.
His father, Enabran Tain, hails from the northern provinces of Cardassia as indicated by his grayer skintone and more ovoid eye ridges that let in more light from the periphery of his vision. Damar hails from this region as well.
His mother, Mila Garak hails from the poorer central provinces along the equator and has the more beige-y skintone to blend in with the sand and the more circular eye ridges to shade from the harsh desert light. Dukat also comes from this region.
These two phenotypes mix to produce a rather seafoam-y skintone seen on Garak. Tain’s blue undertones and Mila’s underlying yellow combine to form a more pure grey-green. Garak was lucky enough to inherit his mother’s eye ridge shape rather than his father’s.
Cardassian blood is a much darker red and thicker than that of humans (see ‘Our Man Bashir’ and ‘Way of the Warrior’) but their flesh is lighter in color - almost white in some places. the darker red combined with the lighter flesh makes for a pinkish flush around the lips and eyes where the skin is thinnest.
The blue seen in his chufa ridge during a few of the episodes is an opaque creme makeup that is more commonly used by females. Garak doesn’t have much of it, and therefore only uses the smallest amount for a subtle blue flush which he thinks is classier than just filling in the whole area with pigment. In a sense, he’s being cheeky about it - using just enough to make a visible difference, yet blending it out so one questions whether it’s there at all.
I love his outfit omfg look at him !!!
just jungkook fixing his belt~
rereading Mary's death scene in Plaidy and Bowen to torture myself (and William) on purpose 👍👍
oh and after reading all the Plaidy books with M&W in them (except for Courting Her Highness, if they appear) I deem Royal Sisters the most well written imo because obv PLAIDY UNFUCKEFIED (tumblr counts that as a word ashfdaugh) WILLIAM and the conflicting views between the two sisters is very interesting! And the thing is she wrote well of William in this book but in The Queen's Devotion, which was published many years later, she fucked him up again (and I deem William the coldest in Queens Devotion out of all her books) but wehh i enjoy reading her stuff most of the time anyway
I also gotta say Plaidy probably took many liberties and threw in some most likely fictional characters//misnamed actual people//used people who had nothing to do with what she made them do.
For example she gave Shrewsbury a mistress by the name of Ms. Lundy who was supposedly Robert Lundy(an infamous traitor)'s daughter, but I can scarcely find info on her(if she exists, i could only find a daughter named Aramintha who was not associated with Shrewsbury at all). Oh and she said Mary had some sorta-maybe-romantic feelings for Shrewsbury. WHich im pretty sure she made up because she wanted to add more drama and romance into the story. Kinda like what she maybe did to Danby in The Loves of Charles II and some others I have noticed throughout her books so yeah I don't think she intended to make these books as historically accurate as possible BUUUT she keeps most of the peeps in character so she could've at least done the same for william and a few others!!
oops these books are keeping me up at night sorry for dumping my thoughts here
SPARKLE BRUSH SUPREMACY
redraw of that AI miku art on twitter, which sadly looked stunning so everyone who saw it picked up the pencil to do it even better than the original. i just, ironically, chose to draw an AI myself rather than miku :3
not crediting the original 'creator' bc fuck that shit. hans william bentinck you will always be famous
Sweet darling, pretty, brown-eyed boi, I'll do anything you ask
he’s so breathtakingly pretty
