"This Be The Verse" Verse

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Series Begun:
2020-01-03
Series Updated:
2023-12-08
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
-Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse

Or, Vermin’s insane Babies Ever After Kidfic AU Extravaganza, which is not quite as cynical as the poem it’s named for.

The primary points of AU canon divergence here are that the baby Changeling from “The Begotten” (S5E12) survived, Jadzia was not killed in "Tears of the Prophets" (S6E26), Bashir and Garak managed to resolve all those years of UST sometime in the later seasons, and all this resulted in (nearly) everyone’s canon endings getting scrambled.

Notes:

This somewhat off-brand experiment started with me musing idly about kidfic as a genre (and why I often find it more interesting in theory than in practice), Star Trek canon’s various successes and failures at creating children for canon characters, and ST canon’s enduring love affair with Daddy Issues (I mean, props to Discovery for trying to even things out by giving Burnham four different mother figures to have issues with). Then I started casting an eye on DS9’s principle characters and contemplating all the ways these clearly dysfunctional people could totally fuck up their children. As you can see, things may have spiraled out of control.

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