ok im rereading Gideon the Ninth (again!!!!!) and thinking abt the interactions between Coronabeth and Judith with the added context of As Yet Unsent………. in ch 21, p. 237, Judith gets really upset that Coronabeth is trying to bride Palamedes to give her access to the Facility, because Coronabeth does not have her own key. and initially I just dismissed Judith as Being Annoying Because She Loves Rules but on reread im realizing. Coronabeth is offering Palamedes money and prizes but she’s also acting SUPER suggestive twoards him. she’s propositioning him to try and bribe him to take her into the Facility. Coronabeth says “the third house will go down on its knees for the sixth house” while she “enroaches on his personal space”. Gideon, watching, notes that if Coronabeth had been treating her the same way, Gideon would have fainted.

Anyway. Judith is jealous!!! Judith Deuteros has been deeply repressed and also in love with Coronabeth for 12 whole years and she is upset because she is JEALOUS