Garashir is also so good because like.

Garak knows about the kind of kill for you, defy everything for you love. The one choice in his life he seems to fully own as his and his alone (in large part because it was made of defiance and not service) is to have that kind of love, and to kill for it. To be exiled for it.

Julian on the other hand, has such a gentle love. Not a foolish love, but one that I think knows the absence of certain elements, certain kindnesses. The kind of love that says you're tired, I'll get the dishes just as much as it holds the dying hand. It's a love that takes your outbursts and still expects you to make recompense for them. It is not unconditional, but it is something.

And I really don't think either of them really have experienced either and both find the other's way of loving strange and a little frightening and a little intoxicating