fatima | In which we find out why Garak is a jerk to Julian in our AU plot bunnies.

renata: Garak. Uh, I am not sure how did I manage to make him out to be such a bastard. I never did that with Spock.
ligeia: Garak knows he can get away with it, it's cool XD
renata: hahah probably
ligeia: maybe because Garak is such a mystery...
renata: yeah...and how Garak refuses to put the personal ahead of the greater goal, while Spock just goes berserk whereas Jim is concerned. (He does. it's canon.)
ligeia: And Spock is sooo devoted to Jim canonically that it's hard to imagine him anything but sometimes. XD
renata: OMG I JUST REALIZED—GARAK IS TOTALLY COPYING HIS DAD
HE DOES NOT WANT JULIAN TO BECOME HIS WEAKNESS
Hence him being all emotionally distant and....doing bad things.
ligeia: OMG WHAAT
GARAK YOU JERK
This is so great XD
I can totally see this happening
renata: IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
But he can't quit Julian either....