- Anaander Mianaai: How many layers of treason are you on?
- Breq: I don't know, like five or six my dude.
- Anaander Mianaai: You are like a little baby. Watch this.
the best part of ancillary sword is how breq has access & insight (through ship) to, like, all of seivarden’s actions and physical responses and can basically read her mind and even heard her talking about how she’d be happy to have a (sexual) relationship w breq if breq wanted to, but still, somehow, breq is fucking clueless?
“for some reason seivarden seemed really nervous talking to me about love and what real love looks like” FOR SOME REASON “when talking to me about sex and whether ancillaries have sex, seivarden became inexplicably embarrassed” NO I ASSURE YOU IT’S QUITE EXPLICABLE “when i was in mortal danger seivarden was like freaking out and having severe anxiety, i don’t get why”
like istg seivarden could say “breq, i’m in love with you and want to spend my life with you forever and ever if only you said you wanted that too but i know you’ve only ever loved lieutenant awn” and breq would be like “seivarden crossed and uncrossed her arms in that nervous way she does, she was probably sad about her past or something”
- Breq: Seivarden, you need to do what Medic tells you.
- *five seconds later*
- Breq: *crawling out of hospital bed, covered in correctives and having only one leg* I defy you, Medic
- Seivarden: You teach Tisarwat how to shoot and stuff, and I’m in charge of her emotional crap. We agreed that’s how we’d raise our kids.
- Breq: ‘Our kids’? Seivarden, it’s not like you’re my client or something.
- Mercy of Kalr: She’s a little bit your client.
- Seivarden: I know, I love it.
- Breq: [to Seivarden and Tisarwat] I have total faith in you.
- Breq: [to Ship] There's, like, a 30% chance they'll both die.
- Anaander Mianaai: You can't bludgeon your way through propriety!
- Breq: I can bludgeon pretty hard.
oh wow, I did not process before that when Breq comes to bail Seivarden out of the space drunk tank and Seivarden sees her in her new clothes… it’s Seivarden’s first “oh no she’s hot” moment and oh my god, honey
‘ “you look…” she took a ragged breath, “different” ‘ honey
- Breq: You need them to think you're stronger than you actually are.
- Tisarwat: That's what you do.
- Breq: Me? Oh, no. My power is no illusion. I can fucking demolish you.
- Breq: Admit it. You think all AIs are just machines built by humans to make their lives easier.
- Seivarden: Well, aren’t they?
- Breq: I’ve never made anyone’s life easier, and you know it.
character aesthetic: justice of toren/one esk nineteen/fleet captain breq mianaai
I haven’t been crazed with grief for at least ten years.
