help_pakistan fic for snowishness

[chanter1944]

This is a touch overdue, but here it is. snowishness asked for DS9 fic involving Ezri as the ship's counselor in training, so that's what she gets. I really hope this suits. 306 words, by the way.


Ezri Tigan isn't envious of the Joined members of her race.

Ezri Tigan has heard stories since she could recognize words for what they were, could pick meaning out of jibberish. Ezri Tigan has always known what a symbiote is, what a host is, what a joining is. As a girl the ideas were fascinating, of course they were; lifetimes of experiences in one body would spark the imagination of almost any child. And yet she never envied where her classmates and her friends did, never has, doesn't think she ever will. To Ezri, life is best experienced moment by moment, not decades at a time.

It surprises very few people when little Ezri sets her sights on Starfleet once she's old enough. Even her mother acknowledges the intuition coupled with her daughter's idealism, never mind she won't admit that acknowledgement in front of more than a handful of people. Ezri isn't fleeing the family mining operation when she leaves for Starfleet Academy, but she's enough her own person not to deny she's looking forward to making her own way. No shadows, no tethers, no ties; just Cadet Ezri Tigan of Trill, ship's counselor in training.


She’s not the most confident officer Starfleet has ever seen, nor the most charismatic, but her brand of straightforward warmth carries through from day one to graduation, and the smile she’s wearing as she pins that single black pip to her lapel could light a cathedral and make a hundred pillar candles look feeble. Even the name of her ship assignment seems fitting, in it’s way. What better than Destiny for someone like her? It suits in spectacular fashion, and at least one tipsy friend tells her so the night before departure.

Ezri Tigan doesn’t envy the joined members of her race.

Ensign Ezri Tigan has what she wants already.


Just to update people on RL while I'm typing away here, I'm feeling *significantly* better than I was this time yesterday. Virus song off. :)

Comments

[snowishness.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Most lovely!

To Ezri, life is best experienced moment by moment, not decades at a time. - Yes, that I can see so well.

Ensign Ezri Tigan has what she wants already.

I think you did a really fantastic job here acknowledging that most Trill want to be be joined while showing that Ezri doesn't.

Thank you!

[chanter1944]

*beams* I'm glad you enjoyed this! I admit I was playing with later irony in the extreme here, but... yeah. That's plain enough as is. She really does live day to day, doesn't she? As opposed to someone like Sisko, or even Kira, it stands out the more I think about it.