IMO it’s very important that Gideon the Ninth is a corruption arc…. Gideon starts out stuck and indentured and abused, but also more free than she will ever be again. And she loses that!!! She gives it away, piece by piece—on the shuttle, in the labs, in that goddamn pool—her entire self chipped away and replaced until she’s throwing herself on a spike yelling “For the Ninth!”, a place she holds no affection for and that she spent her entire childhood trying to escape. like:
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