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On this mega I shall take the opportunity to rant about one of my favorite things: the Webnovel UNJUST DEPTHS!
Do you love transgenders?
Do you love communism?
Do you love queer romance?
Do you love killing fascists in a giant fucking mech?
Would a plotline with all of these things happening in a underwater retro-futuristic gundam setting intrigue you?
Especially if its actually really well written with good characters, rich worldbuilding, and a marxist leninist transfem author?
All of the answers should be: YES I DO or else I WILL BAN YOU
Since you obviously love all of those things then Unjust Depths is perfect for YOU yes YOU! It is DESTINY
The Imbrian Ocean is at a time of severe instability. The monarch of the vast Empire that spans its unjust depths (:3) is sick and nearing death, every territory of the ocean now vying to carve their own Destiny out of the chaos. From the Volk fascists , Zionists (they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The 'Anarchists' (social chauvanists) in Bosporus, and the monarchs of each vast noble domain, each vies for power and prestige no matter who they crush underfoot, but it would be a pretty depressing story without a bright light in the dark.
On the edge of the Empire sits the glorious Union! The (Soviet) Union is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain )that were formerly slave colonies under the Imbrian Empire until they broke away in a fierce liberation war. They have spent the last 20 years since then building themselves up. Whether they be Human , Shimmi (Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran (a hybrid humanoid species with characteristics of sea life ranging from sharks to cuttlefish)building socialism side by side.
First lead under the revolutionary leader Dashka Kansal, then the Idealist Ahwalia who lead the country to near ruin in pursuit of building a utopia on pillars of sand, then under the scientific socialist leadership of the Grand Marshall of the Union, Bhavani Jayanskar (I love Jayanskar so much shes basically as if Stalin, Lenin, and Zhukov were rolled into the same person but was a black lesbian badass who wore the uniform REALLY WELL)(she aint the main character at all tho shes only in very few scenes i just love her so much). Under Jayanskar, the Union has been growing their economy to both eliminate hunger and give everyone a home , but also growing their military capabilities for the inevitable return of the Empire. The Union is alone, but with the people by its side nothing, not even Destiny, can snuff out true freedoms light.
As war wages between the Empire and Republic (basically underwater USA) once more over the lands between them, the facade begins to finally crack...
And a border conflict between the Empire and Union escalate, and the dreaded reconquest begins.
Amidst this turmoil, lives our main characters (yes there are multiple and all of them are lovely). Each of whom I personally love dearly, and are very well characterized. Many are soldiers of the Union, some are scientists, some are divers (mech pilots), some are lost strands finding new meaning after joining this band of Brigands
All are Communists
All serve the Union
All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism
but even they would have little inkling of the adventure set in store for them as the lands beneath the waves erupt in fire, fury, and revolt
Can these transgender badasses kick fascist ass?
Can they kiss? (oh my god please kiss ISTG THERE IS SO MUCH SHIPPING AHHHH ITS GLORIOUS)
FIND OUT HERE: https://unjustdepths.com/
please do or else I will pout incessantly
just try it pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase i need to talk to someone about it after Cromalin went AFK
(I miss her, she was a real one)
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The Avakisser Chronicles, Book One
Waow... Ava sure is tough to talk to. I think I probably annoy her as much as I get through to her, not that I'm unsatisfied. It's going well but WAOW she is like 200% mad. I am but a smol bean smh! I have no idea where I got the flirt point with her from, but that's funny. Genuinely kind of interesting doing the dance of "will this be needling her and annoy her, or will it make her say "uwu" I wonder" about it. This kind of 'social sim' metagame is fun too, when I can engage with it at my own speed.
I wanna know what flavour of Br*tish her accent is. It's not an automatic no-go but some posh accents are kinda lame. Will always prefer scottish and irish accents of all types.
E: Oh gosh I played bottom when I looked at her in the car, sheesh!!! This is goofy fun, I like this a lot. Ditching "relationship points" was a good idea though, since I sometimes follow the compulsion to get em.
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Can anybody help, my detective is a total bottom, lmao.
My detective rn:
damn this sounds cool
It's more fun than anyone else so far, like she's mean or whatever but not really. Like it takes maybe two seconds of being an uwu smol detective at her before she starts making fuckin' tsundere noises, very funny.
oh my god the real tsundere route ... oh god i should call in sick all week and play wayhaven again ... except i need to make A a girl
I wonder how the author decided the gender split if you pick Into Both? But yes do it, do it
i will!! ... uh, when i can haha
are you replaying book two?
I am replaying the whole darn series, I wasn't happy with my route.
ahh makes sense, did the same but I saved right before the love choices so I could go back
I must play book 3 when I have the time, I was generic and went with the Nat route lol though I want to try all of them, but I'm not that good at replaying because I either get bored or speedrun through it
I did that too but I wanted the early game tbh, playing a tiny bit different. Idk what the harsh is on Nat, she seems nice, like smh she is tall and a bookworm. Total dweeb but you could do so much?
I like Nat tbh, I also want to do an Ava route, she's great too when not closed off, the Ava+Nat route was enlightening related to Ava even if sad as fuck lmao
Idk about Morgan and Farah not too much interaction though in my current route I get along very well with Farah. I also like Nat cause she doesnt try to force you into bed compared to other routed from what I heard lol
Shame about Farah but I found her to be a nothing. She's fun as a person but atrocious to try to flirt with...
bok wun
that scene with the scarf in book 1 is one of my favourite ones, shame I like to piss Ava off more than try to.. get her off
I lile the range you have available to play your detective in this, I figure being annoying must be pretty darn funny. My detective is turning out even dorkier this time though tbh.
it is arguably the easiest way to gain friend points with Farah, you two team up on Ava a lot
I'm just inept at Farah, rip
the best run in the opinion of a filthy allosexual is to be a Morgan kisser, Farah friender and Ava puncher, Nat is always pleasant to be around so she's there with her books to be tall
allos have all the fun...
I was really not into most of the scenes that happen immediately post shotgun-wedding-choice. Like the Nat and Morgan ones suuuuuuck.
i remember that Morgan is horny like usual, but what happens with Nat?....uuuh wait she comes right next to you and you almost kiss or some such?
The thing is the text forces you to try to kiss her near enough, lmao. That was so offputting, my detective would literally never.
found the code spoilers for the Nat(e) shotgun wedding in book 1
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*if (gender = "female") I'm no longer sure if I'm breathing or not when ${n_his} hand moves up to cup my cheek. $!{n_his} long fingers curl around the side of my face as though it is made to fit ${n_his} touch. *goto chap15_nate4 *elseif ((gender = "male")and(n_man = "woman")) Moving without thinking, I raise my hand to cup her face. Her skin is soft against my fingers, and I curl my hand around her cheek as though it is made to fit my touch. *goto chap15_nate4 *elseif ((gender = "male")and(n_man = "man")) I'm no longer sure if I'm breathing or not when ${n_his} hand moves up to cup my cheek. $!{n_his} long fingers curl around the side of my face as though it were made to fit ${n_his} touch. *goto chap15_nate4 *else Moving without thinking, I raise my hand to cup her face. $!{n_his} skin is soft against my fingers, and I curl my hand around ${n_his} cheek as though it is made to fit my touch. *goto chap15_nate4
being a themperor fucked you in this i'm sorry to say, i'm guessing this is why they added the shy / bold flirt meter in Bok tvu
HEY WAIT A SEC
The Themperor option matches the Straight Male one!!! Woooooow that's REALLY fucking bad. So straight man is proactive, women and gay guys are always submissive, and an enby just follows the straight man... oh wow, when I saw the code was just storing "enby, likes women" as "straight" I snorted, but maybe it goes deeper. Makes me wonder.
sometimes the enby option is different but a lot of the time it does just default to either male or female, the enby option was definitely just dropped in at the last second
I fucking knew it, didn't I.
Fwiw I doubt there's a need to write something bespoke every single time but the overlapping factors for this scene in particular, yeesh. Fwiw also I think this is the only time I went "WAOW THAT AINT ME" about the narration so, this probably got better in later books?
I sure hope so, I only played the first book as a themperor
Smh smh
here's some code from book two, it should be spoiler free
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#Chuckle and say, "I hope you haven't been waiting long." *if (gender = "male") I let out a chuckle, running a hand over the back of my neck. "I hope you haven't been waiting long." *goto *REMOVED* *else I let out a chuckle, running a hand over my arm. "I hope you haven't been waiting long."
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"May I?" *if (*removed* = "man") My gaze flicks between ${his} outstretched hands and ${his} face before I finally place my fingers into ${his}. $!{he} grasps my fingers in ${his} strong ones, holding them and bringing them closer to ${his} lips as though $!{he} intends to kiss them like in some old-fashioned romance movie. $!{he} keeps my gaze the entire time as $!{he} pulls them closer and closer. But then $!{he} stops, holding them a little away instead and opening ${his} lips to huff ${his} hot breath onto my fingers. At first a knot of disappointment forms inside me, but that feeling is completely drowned out by a sudden wave of excitement which courses through me. *goto *REMOVED* *elseif ((removed = "woman")and(gender = "female")) My gaze flicks between ${her} outstretched hands and ${her} face before I finally place my fingers into hers. $!{she} grasps my fingers in ${her} elegant ones, holding them and bringing them closer to ${her}lips as though ${she} intends to kiss them like in some old-fashioned romance movie. $!{she} keeps my gaze the entire time as ${she} pulls them closer and closer. But then ${she} stops, holding them a little away instead and opening ${her} pink-tinged lips to huff ${her} hot breath onto my fingers. At first, a knot of disappointment forms inside me, but that feeling is completely drowned out by a sudden wave of excitement which courses through me. *goto chap4_nate4 *else My gaze flicks between ${her} outstretched hands and ${her} face before I finally give a nod. $!{she} reaches out, attempting to wrap ${her}} long fingers all the way around my own hands before pulling them closer towards ${her} face. $!{she} keeps my gaze the entire time as ${she} pulls them closer and closer. But then ${she} stops, holding them a little away instead and opening ${her} pink-tinged lips to huff ${{her} hot breath onto my fingers. At first, a knot of uncertainty forms inside me, but that feeling is completely drowned out by a sudden wave of excitement which courses through me.
This is so fuckin cool, so the vampires are the same person between genders but the detective can vary pretty wildly. This is rad.
and that was the simplest one, there's a lot of "35>Team player" and stuff like that that changes small things in the dialogue
also there's atleast one point if you come in with a bold flirt while usually being the bottomiest bottom to ever bottom and Farah and Morgan are both like " Well why doesnt she just do THAT all the TIME??"
there's a lot to love with this silly little romance chooce your adventure -slop
I love that, I'm a huge fan. The big replayable, you could do funny stuff.
I think I got one of these in my original run because I seem to remember somebody going "waow..." I love all the variables in this, it fucks.
like a proud mom she finally learned how to flirt and not just blush
Uh
I mostly just flit between "uwu smol bean" and "weirdly emotionally open dork" I think. I flirt weird in life...
Is your detective also a dork?
good question ... i definitely played shy on first playthrough and i remember choosing dorky options, or wishing there were dorky options and being stuck with some very normal ass ones, but the stats make me look positively NT lol (end of book 3, personal stats)
but, i think tbh i did do a bit of roleplaying too
Lol these are my Book Three stats for my first run:
And here are my current Book One stats, lol
I think I like my new detective better. Look at that Optimist Heart.
oof that's good Optimist Heart i like i like
book one key decisions
my character cut her hair around when i cut mine irl from long to medium lol
book two key decisions
i noticed this too when i was peeking at the code, the mystery stats are fascinating, sometimes i wish the game would say "this is why this happened"
whoa, how did I miss this? i was always nice to A, maybe?
not literally....i don't think mostly you can just have constant bickering with her and start making fun of her with Farah
oh ok i see
that's definitely a way to hurt your wrist though
i saw the reply in my inbox and was wondering which of my immediate two interpretations was correct lol - uh it was a third thing! because he's so stacked, i got you