#breq

[bunnieswithknives]

Just finished the audio book for Ancillary Justice, here are my favorite moments from memory.

Its about a grief crazed war ship on a suicide mission to kill the God Emperor after being forced to kill its own captain and being stranded in a 'human' body :)

[esmeblaze]

“It’s all right.” Lieutenant Awn shifted her grip, put her arms around the new segment, pulled me closer. It was shivering, still cold from suspension, and from terror. “It’s all right. It’ll be all right.”

[nebulations]

Seivarden Vendaai: a compilation

[ID: A collection of Tumblr text posts, mostly focusing on knights and themed on devotion and self-sacrifice; there are also mentions of bleeding out in the snow and wanting to be someone's dog. Some are edited to specifically be about lieutenants and captains or ships. Transcripts in alt. End ID]

Guess who just finished the series and feels insane 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Shoutout @thewrongshop for EVERYTHING!!!!

Bonus: Breq, circa Ancillary Justice

[ID: Text post by behold-a-knave that says, "They keep stroking my armour lasciviously and asking to see my 'other' alien guns. I don't have TIME I'm literally on a QUEST". ("Alien guns" is edited in). End ID]

[arianwells]

My heart is a fish Hiding in the water-grass In the green, in the green.

[fromankyra]

tbh I don't want a tv show version of imperial radch, i want a three act musical or perhaps an opera

Just like. Imagine the ancillaries and the mercy of Kalr soldiers as a chorus (but mercy of Kalr a slightly less coordinated one)

anaander miaannai always represented by multiple actors as well

tisarwat portrayed by a character who has previously played a background annaander. Audience assumed through the first song that this is a simple recast (mercy of kalr soldiers are non-1 Esk ancillaries and the actress for Awn plays Basnaiad so it's not a massive stretch)

when the communication between ancillaries is cut off on Ors, the previously in sync ancillaries start singing on top of each other. Even once they've organised each other a bit, they still miss their cues a bit or come in a tiny bit too early

throughout the flashback scenes the ancillaries always hum in the background, even during crisis situations, so when JoT is destroyed and there's suddenly only one voice singing you feel the same whiplash as Breq

Speaking of which, the actor who plays Breq is introduced late in the flashbacks, so the only way you know they're the same character is that they have the same leitmotif (One Var has a similar but distinct one, as do the other decades, and of course Justice of Toren as a whole is a combination of them)

during the conversation between one Var/anaander; one esk and lieutenant Dariat, and JoT and hundred captain Rubren, each interlocuter sungs a couplet, and then they all finish the verse with "Ship, what do you think" - and then the three "faces" of JoT do the same and end their verse with "I think something is very wrong"

one esk 19's flight from JoT is a patter song, but with each verse sung by a different one esk ancillary with the rest of the decade giving backing vocals - until the ship explodes

do you see the vision

[refurbishedconstruct]

Seivarden is like, “Everyone I know is dead so I’m gonna do Space Ketamine about it,” and honestly that’s a more reasonable reaction than Breq’s, “Everyone I love is dead so I’m going to spend two decades searching for a McGuffin so I can shoot a Space Dictator about it.”

[wigglybunfish]

breq playing that stringed instrument at strigan's!! picturing it as something alike to the himalayan dramyin. (not pictured: seivarden half dead in the bg)

“A wooden box sat on a table in a corner, a long oval with a carved, pierced lid and three strings stretched tight across. The wood was pale gold, with a waving, curling grain. The holes cut in the flat top were as uneven and intricate as the grain of the wood. It was a beautiful thing. I plucked a string and it rang softly.”

[nasty-little-guy]

Just mainlined the first three imperial radch books and a new thing I noticed this time round is that every time Breq needs to load visible_disdain.exe she simply does her best Seivarden impression and honestly what a beautiful friendship. If I taught my 3k year old warship bestie how to be a condescending dick, purely on accident, just by being myself, I would die of joy.