Y'all tired of these Unjust Depths postings yet? 9.3 discussion.
Not much to say about 9.3, kind of a slight chapter. I adore how Khajida feels equally:
Deeply disappointed/anticlimaxed that her rival, the Red Baron, is just a pathetic, sad, lacking, exhausted dumb bitch who sucks, and won’t give her the satisfying victory of killing her
Gutted to see that Sieglinde is very much like her: middle aged and feeling the passage of time, slowing down, borderline sympathetic, and totally understandable
Hateful that Sieglinde is sad and self-pitying and feeling remorse after causing so much suffering and fighting for horrendous causes, killing her comrades
It’s such a complicated tangle of emotions, it’s kind of a huge mess after that lifelong rivarly. Hearing Khajida silently goad Sieglinde to do something about what a heartless, evil person she’s been, it’s great. But also though HOW DARE U KHAJIDA 42 YEARS IS NOT “OLD” >:|
The interrogations with Marina and Arbitrator are all absolutely hilarious though. When Ulyana asks why Marina wasn’t honest about Elena being royalty, she yaps:
“You’re fucking communists! one of your things is ‘eat the rich’ isn’t it?”
You see Marina, The Romanovs Deserved it, we have a brick wall and some rifles down in the brig,
I was less pleased when Ulyana asked about uh, Elena’s parentage. ULYANA!!! DO NOT FUCKING REFER TO HER AS A “FATHER” I am so pleased that Aaliyah glares at her for this, good stuff. Beloved commissar.
Afterword we get Zachikova and Arbitrator I at the desk, and when Arbitrator describes the bomb collar Zachikova put on her as “a form of play”, and declares her intent to breed with Zachikova, I lost it. Zachikova is furious and deeply flustered throughout the whole thing, so Arbitrator will call her “master” and Zachikova will threaten to blow her fucking head off, and then Aaliyah goes “This is an interrogation not some raunchy kink thread on a BBS!” I love her, ngl.
I am glad that Ulyana is asking the same what-are-her-motives questions I am about Arbitrator tho, and fwiw it does seem like Abritrator is just kinda vibing, like she probably actually just wants to kiss Zachikova a bunch?
khadija’s whole mess of feelings around sieglinde is so good. love her so much. any time 2 old rivals are in a scenario like that i cheer, and the ideological angle just makes it even better. the drama! sieglinde is so sad about everything and i’m sympathetic but also like “hey! you did very much kill a lot of people for an evil empire!” it rules
marina is so funny. ulyana shouldn’t have made the comment but like, i’m not that unsympathetic to someone not thinking it through when talking about who provided sperm? it feels like one of those things where the language is complex and i’m not really gonna judge after she apologizes, you know? thank god for aaliyah tho, yeah
zachikova and arbitrator i are so funny!!! i love them so much, this whole scene rules. aaliyah just saying the quiet part out loud, it’s really good. ulyana asking the correct questions, arbitrator is vibing and clearly has goals outside of kissing zachikova (and a history with the other omenseers) but that’s the most important one, and enough to probably trust her
Top shelf indeed, I guess Sienglinde is like Gertrude if she weren’t Garbage von Lichtenberg So she’s pathetic in a sympathetic way which makes it nail-biting and thrilling to watch them both be furious about eachothers’ pasts until they kiss. Tbh by this point I wasn’t expecting anybody over 40 to get paired off so uncritical support, I am overjoyed ✨
I don’t hold it against Ulyana no, I did for a split second wonder if something beautiful had happened and Elena was the lovechild of Marina and Leda, that might have been kinda funny actually. It’s a very slight mark against the “normalisation” argument for Karuniya I think, because certainly a society where trans people are completely normalised would have eradicated cisnormative language? But Ulyana is probably (maybe) (presumably?) (can we please have a 30+ hot trans lady somewhere on this boat, Ya Allah PLEASE) just a cis nerd and it’s a great little moment for everyone’s favourite covert intelligence cat and her dorky captain.
Yes yes! To me Abritrator I seemed really sus when she showed up in the hangar and started being filthy, but I suppose it is simply a cultural difference between psionic fishy lesbians and monotone robot lesbians I am glad we can more or less trust her, the folkloric aspect of the Omerseers’ plot shenanigans is a superb new flavour for the series, and also tells us that in this setting everyone, even the eldritch sea creatures, has been gay for at least a millenium
yeah exactly! exactly! khadija is great, love that she’s getting her enemies to lovers story in her middle age. she deserves it. and sieglinde deserves a chance to try and redeem herself, and also get her OWN enemies to lovers story! love these middle aged women getting a chance to shine!
hadn’t elena already been born when marina first met leda? but what a beautiful thing to imagine, why not have hope? also in general idk what the correct way to refer to a trans woman as ‘the one whose sperm led to the child’ is, though obviously father is cisnormative and not correct. and ulyana and aaliyah are great, 100%
she can be gay and way too forward, as a treat. i do love all the omenseer lore, extremely fun
I have 0 social energy like 90 percent of the time but my stamina for discussing Unjust Depths is endless basically
She is and yeah same, again the intergenerational vibes come through strong and wonderful. I desire to see her hang out with the young’uns due to this, every time she says about “the new generation of warriors meant to take her place” and shit. We love to see it!!!
Yes I think she had but counterpoint: I forgor :) the idea that Konstantin was fuming and buttmad because he got cucked by a transbian covert agent is so fucking rad, y’know? Would also explain why Erich seems to disdain Elana, uh okay new headcanon! I’m not sure either, I was kinda hoping Unjust Depths would tell me :)
Omenseers deserve little treats!!! I like how there is one aphotic sea horror per plot-relevant ship currently, this is going really well & the Brigand’s crew just expanded in very fascinating ways.
yeah! i wanna see more scenes like the one where she mentored shalikova! lots of potential, she’s not in my top 5 characters but is one i always love to see more of
hmmm yeah. i agree, it’s much more fun to imagine this and marina just not believing it to be true. and yeah idk. if the union hasn’t figured it out i really have no idea what one might blurt out when theorizing there
yeah it’s fun! the brigand keeps taking on new passengers it didn’t really mean to, but it’s great to see. i hope they end up needing to somehow build more rooms to house all the people they pick up
I think broadly as well, I just wanna see more inter-crew interaction on the Brigand, such a fascinating collection of gays to chat!!! Aw don’t make me choose a top 5 characters though, I will not choose a favourite child
Yep you cannot remove my headcanon, Marina is just a chad and can’t handle it beloved. There has to be an answer to this but Idk either yaw.
SHIP MAINTENANCE AND EXPANSION, BRIGAND GETS A NEW DECK The blueprint originally had a third floor, so it’s actually plausible that they could add a Dedicated Gay Housing level.
absolutely! wanna see more interpersonal interactions forever, but it’s probably for the best the plot keeps moving. i wasn’t gonna, but since you brought it up who are your top 5? don’t need to be in order
misread as Dedicated Guy Housing and was like “well i would describe some of these characters as funny little guys (maryam mostly, but i could be convinced of arabella) but i don’t think any of them are guys”
Yeah but my slices of life :c Ffffffff uhhhh… Sonya, Norn, Murati, Ulyana, Zachikova, if pressed at gunpoint. I’m fond of Marina, Aaliyah and Khajida as honourable mentions as well. It’s honestly easier to carve out characters I dislike though, that list is two, maybe three long tops.
Funny Little Guys like how newfound oceangoing wildlife is Funny Little Guys :) lol
Y'all tired of these Unjust Depths postings yet? 9.3 discussion.
Not much to say about 9.3, kind of a slight chapter. I adore how Khajida feels equally:
Deeply disappointed/anticlimaxed that her rival, the Red Baron, is just a pathetic, sad, lacking, exhausted dumb bitch who sucks, and won’t give her the satisfying victory of killing her
Gutted to see that Sieglinde is very much like her: middle aged and feeling the passage of time, slowing down, borderline sympathetic, and totally understandable
Hateful that Sieglinde is sad and self-pitying and feeling remorse after causing so much suffering and fighting for horrendous causes, killing her comrades
It’s such a complicated tangle of emotions, it’s kind of a huge mess after that lifelong rivarly. Hearing Khajida silently goad Sieglinde to do something about what a heartless, evil person she’s been, it’s great. But also though HOW DARE U KHAJIDA 42 YEARS IS NOT “OLD” >:|
The interrogations with Marina and Arbitrator are all absolutely hilarious though. When Ulyana asks why Marina wasn’t honest about Elena being royalty, she yaps:
I was less pleased when Ulyana asked about uh, Elena’s parentage. ULYANA!!! DO NOT FUCKING REFER TO HER AS A “FATHER”
I am so pleased that Aaliyah glares at her for this, good stuff. Beloved commissar.
Afterword we get Zachikova and Arbitrator I at the desk, and when Arbitrator describes the bomb collar Zachikova put on her as “a form of play”, and declares her intent to breed with Zachikova, I lost it. Zachikova is furious and deeply flustered throughout the whole thing, so Arbitrator will call her “master” and Zachikova will threaten to blow her fucking head off, and then Aaliyah goes “This is an interrogation not some raunchy kink thread on a BBS!” I love her, ngl.
I am glad that Ulyana is asking the same what-are-her-motives questions I am about Arbitrator tho, and fwiw it does seem like Abritrator is just kinda vibing, like she probably actually just wants to kiss Zachikova a bunch?
Wish I had read enough to read them without spoilers yet but I read a bunch a while ago and then stopped so I’m way behind you I think
Rip, if you pick it up again I’ll find your posts and reply to them. =)
i will never be tired of unjust depths discussion
khadija’s whole mess of feelings around sieglinde is so good. love her so much. any time 2 old rivals are in a scenario like that i cheer, and the ideological angle just makes it even better. the drama! sieglinde is so sad about everything and i’m sympathetic but also like “hey! you did very much kill a lot of people for an evil empire!” it rules
marina is so funny. ulyana shouldn’t have made the comment but like, i’m not that unsympathetic to someone not thinking it through when talking about who provided sperm? it feels like one of those things where the language is complex and i’m not really gonna judge after she apologizes, you know? thank god for aaliyah tho, yeah
zachikova and arbitrator i are so funny!!! i love them so much, this whole scene rules. aaliyah just saying the quiet part out loud, it’s really good. ulyana asking the correct questions, arbitrator is vibing and clearly has goals outside of kissing zachikova (and a history with the other omenseers) but that’s the most important one, and enough to probably trust her
SUPERB, NOR SHALL I
Top shelf indeed, I guess Sienglinde is like Gertrude if she weren’t Garbage von Lichtenberg
So she’s pathetic in a sympathetic way which makes it nail-biting and thrilling to watch them both be furious about eachothers’ pasts until they kiss. Tbh by this point I wasn’t expecting anybody over 40 to get paired off so uncritical support, I am overjoyed ✨
I don’t hold it against Ulyana no, I did for a split second wonder if something beautiful had happened and Elena was the lovechild of Marina and Leda, that might have been kinda funny actually. It’s a very slight mark against the “normalisation” argument for Karuniya I think, because certainly a society where trans people are completely normalised would have eradicated cisnormative language? But Ulyana is probably (maybe) (presumably?) (can we please have a 30+ hot trans lady somewhere on this boat, Ya Allah PLEASE) just a cis nerd and it’s a great little moment for everyone’s favourite covert intelligence cat
and her dorky captain.
Yes yes! To me Abritrator I seemed really sus when she showed up in the hangar and started being filthy, but I suppose it is simply a cultural difference between psionic fishy lesbians and monotone robot lesbians
I am glad we can more or less trust her, the folkloric aspect of the Omerseers’ plot shenanigans is a superb new flavour for the series, and also tells us that in this setting everyone, even the eldritch sea creatures, has been gay for at least a millenium 
love to hear it
yeah exactly! exactly! khadija is great, love that she’s getting her enemies to lovers story in her middle age. she deserves it. and sieglinde deserves a chance to try and redeem herself, and also get her OWN enemies to lovers story! love these middle aged women getting a chance to shine!
hadn’t elena already been born when marina first met leda? but what a beautiful thing to imagine, why not have hope? also in general idk what the correct way to refer to a trans woman as ‘the one whose sperm led to the child’ is, though obviously father is cisnormative and not correct. and ulyana and aaliyah are great, 100%
she can be gay and way too forward, as a treat. i do love all the omenseer lore, extremely fun
I have 0 social energy like 90 percent of the time but my stamina for discussing Unjust Depths is endless basically
She is and yeah same, again the intergenerational vibes come through strong and wonderful. I desire to see her hang out with the young’uns due to this, every time she says about “the new generation of warriors meant to take her place” and shit. We love to see it!!!
Yes I think she had but counterpoint: I forgor :) the idea that Konstantin was fuming and buttmad because he got cucked by a transbian covert agent is so fucking rad, y’know? Would also explain why Erich seems to disdain Elana, uh okay new headcanon!
I’m not sure either, I was kinda hoping Unjust Depths would tell me :)
Omenseers deserve little treats!!! I like how there is one aphotic sea horror per plot-relevant ship currently, this is going really well & the Brigand’s crew just expanded in very fascinating ways.
hell yeah me too
yeah! i wanna see more scenes like the one where she mentored shalikova! lots of potential, she’s not in my top 5 characters but is one i always love to see more of
hmmm yeah. i agree, it’s much more fun to imagine this and marina just not believing it to be true. and yeah idk. if the union hasn’t figured it out i really have no idea what one might blurt out when theorizing there
yeah it’s fun! the brigand keeps taking on new passengers it didn’t really mean to, but it’s great to see. i hope they end up needing to somehow build more rooms to house all the people they pick up
Love to see it!!
I think broadly as well, I just wanna see more inter-crew interaction on the Brigand, such a fascinating collection of gays to chat!!! Aw don’t make me choose a top 5 characters though, I will not choose a favourite child
Yep you cannot remove my headcanon, Marina is just a chad and can’t handle it
beloved. There has to be an answer to this but Idk either yaw.
SHIP MAINTENANCE AND EXPANSION, BRIGAND GETS A NEW DECK
The blueprint originally had a third floor, so it’s actually plausible that they could add a Dedicated Gay Housing level.
you do indeed love to see it
absolutely! wanna see more interpersonal interactions forever, but it’s probably for the best the plot keeps moving. i wasn’t gonna, but since you brought it up who are your top 5? don’t need to be in order
misread as Dedicated Guy Housing and was like “well i would describe some of these characters as funny little guys (maryam mostly, but i could be convinced of arabella) but i don’t think any of them are guys”
spoiler
Yeah but my slices of life :c Ffffffff uhhhh… Sonya, Norn, Murati, Ulyana, Zachikova, if pressed at gunpoint. I’m fond of Marina, Aaliyah and Khajida as honourable mentions as well. It’s honestly easier to carve out characters I dislike though, that list is two, maybe three long tops.
Funny Little Guys like how newfound oceangoing wildlife is Funny Little Guys :) lol