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Wondering what a interaction between transfem Odo and Quark would be like. Just one day Odo switches up her look and walks into the bar ready to interrogate like usual, only to be mistakenly hit on by Quark from behind. They stare at each other in realization for like 30 seconds of silence. Odo continues her investigation, but she has to deal with Quark's flustered stuttering and him avoiding looking at Odo for the entire conversation.
Something I picked up on while rewatching “Little Green Men” S4:E7
When the humans go to greet the Ferengi and we see that their UT’s aren’t working and they all do the head bangy thing Rom and Nog only do it to one side of their head with one hand while Quark uses both hands and hits both sides of his head/both his ears
And when we turn and see the humans copying them all the men copy Rom and Nog and only use one hand, but the lady copy’s Quark and uses both her hands, and only later when Quark switches to use just one hand does she follow and they all use one hand.
Again later in the episode the nurse and her fiancée have a conversation about the three of them possibly being family. They correctly identify Rom and Nog as being father and son but then she points out that Quark could be the mother to which he immediately agrees, switches pronouns, and calls Quark out saying, “If she is the mother, she’s quite a shrew.”
Idk if I had a genuine point to all this aside from a shout out to this legend of a couple and specifically nurse Garland for recognizing the pure feminine energy radiating off of Quark at all times.
Side note: Love that she absolutely clocks Quark's “My hero” moment towards Odo with that look on her face, meanwhile her fiancé is just freaking out trying to wrap his mind around whatever the hell Odo is in the background
I happen to have the headcanon that Quark is actually a really good singer, but he just doesn't do it out in the open a lot. Like Rom knows about because they grew up together and heard him all the time, Ishka once told Quark that he could "earn a living worth of latinum" by actually pursuing it as a career, Nog knows cause Quark used to sing him lullaby's when he was younger, and Jadzia probably also knows about it because she caught Quark humming and singing to himself in the bar's storeroom one day.
Anyway, all this say that when Odo walks into Quarks on an extremely crowded and lively night to find a drunk Jadzia goading various members of the crew into karaoke he stays and sits down to watch only to be finds himself complete dumbstruck when an equally tipsy Quark starts singing a slow love song in an absolutely enchanting voice. Halfway through the song they lock eyes across the room right as a particularly lovey-dovey lyric comes up. Odo doesn't dare look away from the magnetic pull of Quark's hooded eyes and enlarged pupils looking straight at him. As the soft music swells all around them the room is suddenly empty, nobody but them between these walls and the vast expanse of space and stars. Odo starts to feel himself melt and finds that it's getting harder and harder to maintain his form the longer he watches Quark and the blush filling his cheeks and his tongue dash out to wet his lips and-
The moment is over as quick as it started.
The song ends, everyone claps and cheers, the night eventually ends and compliments are thrown left and right at Quark's singing abilities.
Meanwhile Odo's trying to figure out a way to simultaneously tell Quark he's never appeared more beautiful while still somehow insulting and degrading him without actually letting him know that Odo cares.
I choose to believe that S4E12 "Crossfire" was an entire episode about Odo learning to move on from Kira and fully accept his homosexual relationship with Quark. I mean that final soft scene between them....c'mon already man
Who was gonna tell me that Quark quite literally propositioned himself to Odo during their first ever meeting. I’m watching S2E8: Necessary Evil and by god that Ferengi is dickmitized
“Listen, I feel you and I…we’ve gotten off to a bad start here. Let me make it up to you. You need anything? A little Ginger tea? No, you don’t drink. Um…chocolate? Maybe, uh, companionship?”
Word for word I swear I’ve heard Quark make that same offer a million times to other women in his bar, king of using his body to get out of bad situations
Crazy how in the "Facets" episode they made Quark take on the motherly feminine host and Odo got Curzon the notoriously masc womanizer who later actually A. Grabs Quark's genitals B. Lip kisses him and C. Flusters Quark to the point he loses his balance and goes non-verbal. Wonder what they were trying to imply here. Hmmm.
So, since its canon that Odo reads shitty romance novels do you think that one day like Julian recommends him pride & prejudice and he goes and reads it. Has a realization. And then doesn't interact with Quark for like a week. shhhh leave him alone let the goo man figure out the complex enemies to lover's relationship he's in with The Worst Option Possible™
You guys ever think that Odo sometimes gets cuteness aggression with Quark? Like he's just "detaining" him one day and wraps his goo-appendage arms around Quark and squeezes him so tight that Quark literally cannot breathe. It's okay though because Quark just thinks that one of two things are happening, 1. Odo's finally killing him for real this time or 2. Odo's just really weird and bad at BDSM
One of my personal favourite quodo headcanons is that when news gets around ds9 that they’re finally together-together as in, an actual real couple, everyone assumes that they have already boned like a bajillion times
Everyone on the station is like “Those two r a couple? Oh yeah, that goo man who has so much repressed energy that it comes out as an intense obsession for a little goblin sex freak who runs the bar and said goblin sex freak? They must have the kinkiest of sex, doing all types of weird roleplays and shit in the bedroom.”
And then by pure accident like a full year into their relationship Quark lets it slip to Jadzia at one of their bestie sleepovers that he and Odo have never done anything beyond making out and Dax is like “😦” and then she lets it slip to a bunch of other people and their all like “😦”
I think the formula for my favourite ships are Person A whose pretty chill guy about everything and is just going about life and Person B is just an obsessive freak who has probably a list of the full names and ages of all of Person A's ex-partners
Quodo fic idea where Odo’s trying to figure out the best way to propose to Quark and he’s getting advice from everyone but ultimately he decides to just search up Ferengi proposal customs. So, in his research he finds out that Ferengi men often purchase the most valuable amount of substance they can find and offer it to the woman (Or her Father), if it’s not a high enough amount the female can reject and ridicule the male. Worried that he might be ridiculed by Quark, Odo searches for weeks to find the most expensive type of substance he can find and makes sure to find it lawfully. So eventually he finds something that seems to be highly valuable and when he actually proposes to Quark with it he gets a bit nervous because Quark's gone silent and is now just staring at the padd in front of him which shows the amount Odo’s collected and Odo’s worried that he’s messed it up and that it’s really not enough or Quark wouldn’t want to be proposed to like this and this whole idea was stupid and a mess and Quark’s just gearing up to publicly shame him or-
Meanwhile, cut to Quark who has never been more flustered in his life. His brain has short-circuited, his palms are wet, his heart is pounding, his pants are tight, and most of all he’s just stunned. Stunned that Odo - who owns almost nothing and has repeatedly stated how idiotic solids are with material possessions they hold such worth and insults Quark about his love for profit - of all people, has just proposed and offered Quark a fortune of money and profit that could rival the Grand Nagus!?
I think the reason no-one on DS9 ever tried to make Odo and Quark get along is because the sheer amount of chaos power that they would wield if they'd got along with one another would bring the station to a fiery and destructive end.
I mean you all saw that little moment at the end One Little Ship (S6E14) where Odo was messing with Bashir and O'Brien about their height and Quark just sensed his mischievous energy from across the bar and saddled up next to him to join along the fun and they giggled together about it, those two would ruin countless lives.
Can we talk about how in S3E7 Civil Defense there was literally no reason for Quark to stay with Odo. “This is the safest place on the whole station, I’m staying right here.” bitch you just wanna be with your boyfriend stfu
And omg later in another scene when Odo takes Quark’s phaser away because he might hurt himself and then they have their little heart to heart and Odo tells Quark he’s the most devious Ferengi he’s ever met, and Quark goes genuine for a moment: “Thank you Odo…. that means a lot to me.” And then immediately follows that up by leaning closer to him and asking all softly with puppy dog eyes: “Now, ...Can I have my phaser back?” BRO HE’S ALMOST WHIMPERING THAT LINE OUT ISTG-
Don't get me wrong, Odo totally loves the cat and mouse game he and Quark have, loves that he and Quark get to play around as Lawful officer and Mischievous Criminal. However, I do think that if he ever ended up in some alternate reality where Quark was a goody-two shoes who listens to Odo's rules and stays out of trouble it would for sure be Odo's personal wet-dream :)
That soft little “You’re going to leave me?” Quark whimpers after Odo says he’s giving to climb the mountain by himself, they’re so pathetic❤️❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺
Best video on this App actually
i’m So sorry Chappell Roan
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These clips are from the first six minutes of S2E12, 'The Alternate'. And I had to talk about the journey that Odo takes us on with his body language and mannerisms here.
Armchair body language analysis under the cut. Grab a snack; I am a person who is full of words.
In the beginning, Odo is rigid as usual, but he starts to change as soon as he walks into that bar. In that first moment of him looming over Quark, it's like he's eagerly anticipating the verbal spar he's about to engage in.
You quickly see him become more and more relaxed as he talks to Quark. He becomes increasingly animated, to the point of being downright playful. His tone rises and falls with his sarcasm, reaching almost cartoonish levels on occasion. There's a warmth to him even when he's expressing annoyance with Quark.
Eye contact with Quark is constant and intense. He's distinctly leaning towards Quark the whole time. He says more than he needs to, because he's having fun screwing with Quark, and it's overall just an adorable scene.
And then Dr. Mora shows up, rudely interrupting their psychosexual makeout sesh.
The change is instant. Odo's posture becomes incredibly tense and avoidant, leaning back slightly. The sassy head-swaggles are gone, replaced with frantic attempts to find anything to look at other than Dr. Mora. He seems to desperately hang on to every opportunity he has to look at Quark instead. (There's a joke somewhere here on tumblr about how Quark is Odo's 'emotional support criminal' - in this scene, he literally is!)
Odo speaks in strained, terse tones and stares downward in a heartbreakingly submissive manner as Mora treats him like a specimen instead of a person.
Odo physically drags Mora away, not wanting him to interact with Quark any more than necessary. He further reinforces this by telling Mora he doesn't want to know Quark.
I'm guessing he just doesn't want to explain the Thing he has going on with Quark. That would be difficult enough to explain even to the people who know Odo - he sure as hell doesn't want to try to explain it to the abuser who's just going to criticize and analyze it.
Then there's that beautiful little 'fuck you' affectation on the way he pulls that chair out for Mora... and then we have an absolutely withering murderglare in the shuttle.
I think this scene is amazing because it gives us a Quodo segment that is so long and playful that it borders on fanservice, then immediately follows it up with an encounter so uncomfortable that it makes us angry on Odo's behalf.
This shows us the stark difference between how Odo behaves around the person he's only pretending to hate... and how he behaves around the person he actually hates.
How much more relaxed would Odo have become if his playtime with Quark hadn't been interrupted? Dr. Mora cockblocked all of us when he showed up, and I will never forgive him for that.
AU where odo suddenly decides to just start shapeshifting a pixar mom ass every day
The way Quark launches himself at the security guard stationed in front of Odo's quarters after finding out the founder hadn't left Odo's quarters in 3 days was the gayest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life.
i’m like actually genuinely crying a bit over this gif rn and this whole scene in general……..odo is just SO happy and thankful to quark for doing something that changed his life for the better. they’re so comfortable with each other here, just talking and having a genuinely nice and heartfelt moment together. odo’s goofy smile…..quark’s goofy smile……now that’s an “i love you and i love seeing you happy” smile if i ever saw one
