#seivarden/breq

[righthandoflight]

I don't think I have to elaborate on this honestly

#I've been thinking about drawing this since 2019 so you can imagine the way im normal abt them #ancillary justice #ancillary sword #seivarden vendaai #justice of toren #seivarden/breq #im super rusty bc I quit drawing for a while but I was struck with the desire to reread emperial radch in december and #again I will not elaborate

[asaethiel]

fleet captain!! are you okay, you've been awake for an hour and you've been crying the whole time 😰

#imperial radch #breq #justice of toren #seivarden vendaai #this is a remix of 2 diff scenes (1. breq in medical post-amputation and 2. seivarden just sitting down and hugging her after #the final altercation w anaander) rather than a specific canonical moment. but u get the vibes #fanart #digital #feb24 #actual art #also love that “glove kink cinematic universe” is a phrase that exists. guess this means i need to read murderbot(?)

[friendamedes]

absolute nightmare trip

#breq #seivarden vendaai #imperial radch #quinn png #sorry i'm drawing them a ton lately #trying 2 attract an Imperial Radch friend #what can i say...

[the-anchorless-moon]

Ok ok ok coffee shop au though. Seivarden is on like month four clean and set up with a stupid job on a stupid station selling stupid bitter bean tea to stupid uncivilized hicks who wouldn't know real tea if it bit them on their stupid ungloved hands and she is this close to saying "fuck it" and spending the total savings from her minimum wage earnings on a raging bender but also she doesn't because of Mysterious Asshole Stranger. MAS is an arrogant jackass. She calls Seivarden her personal name straight off her nametag like they know each other or something but also has yet to introduce herself. MAS hums constantly in a voice like she's been gargling rocks for the last thousand years and Seivarden has a lot of time to listen to it because MAS is a regular who comes in every morning and does Amaat-knows-what on her handheld for literal hours but also Seivarden literally does not care because MAS speaks fluent Radchaai in an entirely understandable accent and Seivarden is desperate to figure out what the entire fuck her deal is. She doesn't even wear gloves. Is she Radchaai and doing the equivalent of vacationing at a topless resort? Is she just weirdly good at languages? One time MAS watched Seivarden struggle to get the stupid automated cart with the shitty-tea-bean delivery to work for twenty minutes before standing up, picking up a 40 kilogram bag under each arm like it was nothing, and walking into the back with them. She was singing a song about horses the whole time. What is her deal.

Meanwhile Breq has long since passed "why is Seivarden here and alive" and moved on to enjoying making Seivarden bring her tea while using Space Google to figure out whither next on the hunt for the Fuck Anaander Gun

#imperial radch #Seivarden vendaai #breq mianaai

[laatmaar]

"If that's what you're willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you loved?"

Again black and white version under the cut as well as some sketches I made of the characters in preperation for this piece!

#imperial radch #ancillary justice #breq #anaander mianaai #awn elming #seivarden vendaai #I like drawing seivarden like she just woke up and is not quite sure what to make of the situation #also I think it is very appropriate that the first thing breq does when becoming one esk nineteen apart from justice of toren #is drop a tea set #also breq choosing the name Ultimately-Justice-Shall-Prevail in her death handball adventures is also very fitting #anyway this and fhr have been circling around my head like two twin stars and if I start talking i won't stop so i will #stop talking #my art #i hope the colours don't show up weird

[queercoldreviews]

I remember when I was reading Ancillary Justice all I could picture whenever Seivarden and Breq were bantering was this lol

#ancillary justice #ann leckie #justice of toren #coldmemes #imperial radch trilogy #breq #seivarden

[mamoriken]

Ancillary Justice, chapter one:

#imperial radch #ancillary justice #breq #seivarden vendaai

[wordto-thewise]

Ancillary Justice, Ann Lekcie

#the only thing funnier than breq's dialogue is breq's inner monologue #and the only thing funnier than that is seivarden. like in general. #ann leckie #imperial radch #ancillary justice

[vehicularmotorcycle]

Seivarden just wanting Breq.

#seivarden vendaai #breq #justice of toren #ancillary justice #ancillary mercy #they're my otp #imperial radch #booklr #readblr #excerpts #brevarden

[scribefindegil]

Obsessed with the POV choice in Imperial Radch as well, both because Leckie does some really wild stuff with how expansive the strict first-person is able to become due to the worldbuilding and who her narrator is, and because it's SO entangled with the central thematic concepts of identity. In the first book flashbacks when the narrator is still a warship, "I" can encompass so many things, and sometimes explicitly refers to different facets in the narration--is "I" Justice of Toren, or One Esk, or a specific segment, or Breq narrating from twenty years in the future? "I" isn't simple, isn't unified, and while this is most literal and obvious with Breq/One Esk/Justice of Toren and Anaander Mianaai's split factions it's true constantly throughout the work at every level of scope. Individual characters struggle with internal conflicts and hit their breaking points--what is it that makes someone decide they have to disobey orders and make a stand or they won't be themself anymore? How do you know who you are if you've been forcibly changed (Tisarwat) or if the world you knew has moved on and become unrecognizable (Seivarden)? How does a character on a colonized world navigate the split identity that comes from the pressure to assimilate to the dominant culture? And then there's the Radch writ large, all the Radchaai so deeply invested in the idea that there is only one true concept of Radchaai society, of civilization, but of course there isn't! It changes based on location and over time, and Breq muses that the Radchaai empire would be largely unrecognizable to the isolated sphere of the Radch itself. In these books, even if you aren't the last remnant of a destroyed spaceship and its legion of bodies, "I" is such a complicated concept and the narrative never lets you forget it.

#imperial radch #i looooove it #first-person but Let's Make It Weird #and that's not even touching on the way Breq can get data from Mercy of Kalr once she's captain #so as long as Ship is watching she can see third-person-style scenes with her crew #and has access to their biometric data #so she can see what they're doing and make guesses about how they're feeling #but sometimes she's very very wrong! #('Seivarden doesn't love me.' girl please.) #and how that's ALSO tangled up in The Themes #because she's not a ship anymore! she only has one human brain so she can only pay attention to one thing at a time #can only watch one scene playing out; can't process all the data that Ship's collecting #can't swap out bodies when she's tired or regulate her own emotions or hold herself or sing with herself #and it reminds her of everything she's lost and it breaks her heart! #but it would also break her heart to give it up.

[myheartisafish]

seivarden post-Bridge Incident: even the ships who knew me are dead ):

breq, Human From The Gerentate: well have you considered that ships have feelings and they have favorites and even if you knew they had favorites you werent one of them the ships didnt even like you you werent even their favorite

seivarden: …what

#ancillary justice #ann leckie #breq #seivarden vendaai #personal #reading lb #it’s breq-o-clock again baybeeeeeee #imperial radch

[a-side-character]

I love when a woman is a Captain

#That's it that's the post #I'm a sucker for a fictional woman in uniform ig #Captain Kathryn Janeway #Captain Isabelle Lovelace #Captain Sana Tripathi #Fleet Captain Breq Mianaai #Captain Seivarden Vendaai #(Feels odd tagging her in this but she WAS a Captain so. She counts) #anyways tag your captains these are just who I could think of off the top of my head #Janeway #Lovelace #Sana #Breq #Seivarden #Star Trek #Star Trek Voyager #Wolf 359 #the strange case of starship iris #Tscosi #imperial radch #Ancillary Mercy #ancillary sword

[asaethiel]

1/2 of the messiest polycule in the queer housing facebook group AKA i just finished imperial radch

#ancillary justice #imperial radch #breq #justice of toren #seivarden vendaai #it is my personal belief that when breq shaves her head in AS thats the first time her hair has been cut in 20 years #fanart #digital #feb24 #actual art #anyway im deeply obsessed w these two. psychosexually so. crawling around inside their weird little dynamic #tfw ur autistic+asexual+a bitch and u trauma bond with this girl who u don't even LIKE & then she keeps asking u to dom her w/o a safeword #(i joke but fr the way they care for+care about each other makes me rlly emotional. and when u add ship into the mix. weeps)

[friendamedes]

seivarden is living a much messier romance novel that breq has no idea exists. I’m convinced her inner monologue is 99% uncontrollable screaming.

#seivarden vendaai #imperial radch #breq #quinn png #brevarden

[guccigarantine]

breq agonizing silently over “taking advantage” of mercy of kalr when in reality it had been metaphorically doodling hearts around “captain breq + mercy of kalr” in its notebook for weeks

#the book literally starts with mercy of kalr using seivarden (arguably breq’s favorite person) to make tea for breq #COME ON #imperial radch

[gideonisms]

I was about to make fun of seivarden for how hard this awakened something in her but let's be honest it awakened something in us all

#no one got out of ancillary justice without realizing something about themselves not even the readers #imperial radch #early brevarden is WILD #breq was out there taking out thousand year old grudges on seivarden (just woke up) (hungover)(not sure where she is) (inexplicably horny)