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    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”

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      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

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        imagining a world in which there was a bunch of really good fanfic of unjust depths so i could go there for all my slice of life needs and sighing wistfully. speaking of did u see all the art dropped in the discord today? some really good stuff in there and i think none of it is spoilery other than the one that is properly tagged. also my top 5 (not in order) are sonya, murati, ulyana, elena, and a character you haven’t met yet

        yes absolutely. but also they’re just silly with it! no one else on the brigand is silly enough to be a funny little guy, you know? there are funny characters, but they aren’t funny little guys

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          Trying to manifest that world by writing fanfic with filthy disgusting headcanon pairings because I said so. Some of the background characters that’re knocking about (VAAAAAAAAALYA) are ripe for this, there’ll always be a spot in my head that’s marked “Khajida is Valya’s dommy mommy and they’re a good little enby” because that just tickles me tbh. I could write for Unjust Depths’ setting (extremely broad and detailed, but with lots of wiggle room) a lot if I could surmount the mortal terror involved.

          I did, and uncritical supoort that’s a neato Murati, but it is sort of weird (for me) to see Depths’ cast rendered in like 2010s Pixiv style, I guess. Depths only really wears its anime influences on its sleeve at certain fun key points, (screaming to nobody whilst driving ur diamond chainsword into an enemy mech) so it sorta fucks with my head, Idk. I dig this Khajida rendition however.

          Idk I think Arbitrator might be a little silly herself =) but Maryam is the foremost funny lil guy tbh. Also I adore that there are STILL high-tier characters I have not met yet.

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            sicko-yes
            rn all the fanfic is i think just porn, and while i support peoples rights to read and write smut (and i have been known to enjoy it myself at times) i would also like some non-porn fanfics! like i wanna just see murati hanging out with people and having a conversation about like economic theory or something. or like, a big au about what if some minor changes happened (like if ulyana left a note saying “i am being summoned by the commissariat, do you want to get lunch after?” or something to that effect) would be fun. i would love to read any fic you wrote! i hope you can surmount the terror, but also i relate and would have the same problem

            that’s true. in my head they are in an anime style but it kinda looks like an ova from the late 80s, early 90s. like, probably not legend of the galactic heroes but maybe patlabor? stardust memories? one of the more grounded and naturalistic in character design ones. the main difference from most of the art is they don’t look as shiny. the second majida (not khadija, she’s the anti-imperialist hero from that one intermission. fan favorite, she really made an impression) is actually pretty close to what they look like in my head tho

            oh arbitrator is 100% silly, that’s why i included her in the list of funny little guys. there’s 1 character you haven’t met who’s in the top 5 and another who’s in the tier just outside that, though for very different reasons. you’ve got almost 4 whole episodes plus an intermission before you’re caught up! there’s some good characters in that space!

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              sicko-wistful

              That doesn’t surprise me, by volume Depths is pretty chaste, I mean 2000 pages and 9.4 subchapters in, I can still count the spicy stuff on one hand. I was kind of expecting a lot more ungodly filthy smut, but by truth even the couple of scenes so far have been mostly tame… But yes, anything that fluffs out the setting or characters with bonus comfy vibes would be entirely welcome, in addition to all the porn.

              I am sincerely motivated to write things for Depths, it is the first time in my entire life I have ever been seriously motivated to write fan fiction for anything. I still have my page-and-change notes for Sonya x Murati, I haven’t thought about story progression much but I should. I feel like I have a pretty confident grasp on both characters, how they speak and react, so it shouldn’t be impossible. Mostly I need to go study shit like “What does a Strelok look like again” “what was going on in 3.5 I forgor” etc. If I ever write anything for real, this place will be the first to know.

              sharing your gay fanfiction on chapo dot chat blob-no-thoughts

              Oh shit that’s so fucking based, Unjust Depths by way of Patlabor. Uncritical support to this. That’s pretty cool. Also how dare Madiha give two mech-pilot shimii near exactly the same fuckin name and then not bring up the Khaybar Pass one for like, five episodes. Criminal shit, can we go back there pls?

              Also are they called Episodes? I’ve been going with like, an Arc(1, The Roar that Parted the Currents) is a group of “Books” (1.x-4.x) with subchapters after their decimal point. This chapter sorting is handy but complex.

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                yeah fr. or even like, plotty stuff! like a big meaty fic that has interesting divergences would rule! and it could have slice of life and smut in it!

                inshallah yeah lmao. i would definitely need that. either that or a wiki that has more detail than the current one has. obviously spoilers if you go clicking around too much, but like. look at maryam’s page. she’s an important character and she’s got nothing!

                mamoru oshii would do a great unjust depths. have you seen patlabor? i really like the ova, it’s great. better than the second movie, which is the one everyone talks about as a masterpiece and which i was watching just now. and yeah majida rules! i will say there is more majida in the future, don’t worry

                it goes anthology (1-9 and the first 2 intermissions, then 10-current, plus intermission 3 and a sidestory) arcs (1-4, 5-9, 10-current, plus intermissions for each) episodes (1, 2, 3 etc) and chapters (1.x). it’s all laid out on the table of contents on the website though that also has some future stuff listed. also the new epub copy is divided by anthology, so you’ll want to start the new epub after intermission 2 in episode 10