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“Daddy—!”

:,)

(The more one discovers, the more it raises questions. For Fuller, Berg, Harberts first and foremost, I suppose. Which has long been the case actually, but now even more so).

Personally, Korie feels such potentially revelatory addition to character influences; early on I've been intrigued by Stamets' conception: this devoted mushroom scientist - as obviously inspired by the namesake; decidedly not an engineer, but in charge of a huge starship Engineering operation. With a personality from who knows where.

However actual or not, it's exciting to see possible traces of that etymology here.

"Korie’s wife and two sons had been on Shaleen when the Morthans attacked. They were presumed dead. Afterward, Korie had received a delayed-in-transit message from Carol indicating that they were trying to evacuate to Taalamar — but Taalamar had been destroyed... there was no evidence of the arrival of his wife and children. Emotionally, Korie had lost them, been given a nugget of hope, then lost them again."

Re: familiar from Disco: not to forget the 1st thing to stand out! Korie's certain familiar character/personality traits AND history of family tragedies; which one can't help but to postulate quite resemble both Stamets' quirks and the losses and threats on loved ones he's put to endure throughout the three seasons, most recently in the very latest episodes; the whole "dead or not" trauma and one's inability to help.

“Dan, shut up and listen to me. I’m only dead. I’m not gone. Everything that we ever had together, it’s still right here—inside of us. Don’t piss it away on him. He’s not worth it.”
“Let me kill him for you—”
“Don’t kill anyone for me, Danny. That’s not the legacy I want.” And then he added, “And if you do that ... I’m not sure I can come back again—” 2/2

Culmets head canon feeds on it.

In which the dead medic comes to appeal to his man's humanity. As one does:

“Is this what Paul would have done? Do you think he would have wanted you to kill in his name? If he were here, what do you think he would say?”
Easton wavered, undecided. And then—he blinked. And blinked again.
Standing in front of him was Paul Berryman. Alive. Healthy. Sparkling. “Honey, I’m home,” he said.
“Paul—” 1/2

"“Fuck you very much,” he told his mind. “Leave me alone.”
“Phlug-yoo-too,” said HARLIE."

Entirely too adorable.

"Korie climbed into the Intelligence Bay... because he didn’t want to talk. And this was one of the places where he was least likely to be found... It was a place where he didn’t have to be an officer, a place where he didn’t have to think according to the rules. He felt freer here than anywhere else on the vessel, because here was a place dedicated entirely to thinking."

Stametsian, I find.

“I want to talk to that security officer. Easton. As soon as he’s able.”
“He’s still in shock. They were very close.”
“Damn shame. They were the only stable relationship on the [starship] ...”
“You noticed that too?”

Yes, we did!! This is noticeable Disco canon! Don't even try to tell me anymore, that the Disco couple wasn't based on this material!