#also the audiobook reader is SO GOOD im honestly so impressed at her renditions of the songs

[flintandpyrite]

Has someone already written about how Breq and Mercy of Kalr are both disabled, in different directions? Mercy of Kalr without ancillaries now lacks the tools to interact with its world. It’s powerful but unable to effect change on its environment directly. It’s effectively a brain in a jar, paralyzed and almost completely reliant on its relationship with its soldiers to perform its function. And Breq/Justice of Toren One Esk who once had the parallel processing power capable of independently operating literally thousands hands now finds herself operating on one squishy fallible human brain. How could I have missed that? She asks herself about five times in the final act of Ancillary Justice. Talk about a traumatic brain injury. And they can’t fix or complete each other the way Mercy of Kalr brings up in their first meeting, no matter how much the Mercy longs for it. But they can be allies. I like that.