Nonny, this is all so, so interesting. I'm so excited to meet these two! I started these books expecting super scifi space opera soapiness, but have found myself totally absorbed by the politics and world-building, so just your description of Tej and Kareen's outsider perspectives on/positions in Barrayaran society, WITH BONUS CULTURE CLASH BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM, has my ears perking up like an excited puppy. Veryyy interested to get to read more about the business side of things as I go deeper into the books, too!
NGL I'm still stuck on the "Betan sex therapists with totally different backgrounds" thing, most of all, though. Like, the potential. Holy shit.
Ahhhhhh, your thoughts on Drou/Princess Kareen are making me so yearny. I haven't looked at AO3 much yet, out of spoiler avoidance, but now I'm going to be gutted if there's no loyalty kink fic for them. With furtive affairs and hurt/comfort during (or in the recovery after) Serg and god. Princess Kareen's whole story makes me so sad but her and Drou co-parenting Gregor and having this special bond where saving her is the only thing Drou would ask of Cordelia before going renegade with her is the best. It killed me how Cordelia could read the studiously unreadable princess better than Drou, who has known her so long, could, and could see through her "selling out" to Vidal when Drou could not, expected perfection instead of survival from her admired princess... but Drou is still the one who wanted to save her no matter what.
Now this just became a novel, haha, but seriously. Good stuff. And !!! I kind of assumed I'd seen all of Cordelia/Alys I would in Barrayar, so the idea that there actually is going to be more of them to come has made me beam so hugely! Thank you nonny, you've made my night!
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Re: Ships that pass in the night
Date: 2018-08-10 05:44 am (UTC)NGL I'm still stuck on the "Betan sex therapists with totally different backgrounds" thing, most of all, though. Like, the potential. Holy shit.
Ahhhhhh, your thoughts on Drou/Princess Kareen are making me so yearny. I haven't looked at AO3 much yet, out of spoiler avoidance, but now I'm going to be gutted if there's no loyalty kink fic for them. With furtive affairs and hurt/comfort during (or in the recovery after) Serg and god. Princess Kareen's whole story makes me so sad but her and Drou co-parenting Gregor and having this special bond where saving her is the only thing Drou would ask of Cordelia before going renegade with her is the best. It killed me how Cordelia could read the studiously unreadable princess better than Drou, who has known her so long, could, and could see through her "selling out" to Vidal when Drou could not, expected perfection instead of survival from her admired princess... but Drou is still the one who wanted to save her no matter what.
Now this just became a novel, haha, but seriously. Good stuff. And !!! I kind of assumed I'd seen all of Cordelia/Alys I would in Barrayar, so the idea that there actually is going to be more of them to come has made me beam so hugely! Thank you nonny, you've made my night!