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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by Hutch   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 9:53 am

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saber964 wrote:Another probable on the Do Not Kill list is Nimitz.


Well, only if he doesn't kill Honor off (remember, that was the original plan; and the MWW can be stubborn at times...)
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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by Somtaaw   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:59 am

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munroburton wrote:Andrew LaFollet's death was the first one to bring tears out of my eyes. It just hit me that he'd been with Honor for so long and that right to the end, he had done his duty unswervingly.

And that Raoul would grow up never knowing who he was.



Andrew LaFollet's death struck me as a little heart wrenching, especially when the timing of the pod capsules being fired off was bare heartbeats. Raoul was safe, the nurse was a little banged around, and Andrew was just plain dead?

But aside from that, when I was still interested in the Wheel of Time series by R.Jordan, and belonged to a text RPG site of fellow fans... my primary character was basically an Andrew LaFollet, and I had based him off myself. And I'd created him back in the early 2000s, before I'd ever started reading Honorverse, so I always felt a strong affinity for Andrew because we'd both shared that undying devotion and loyalty to our sworn ladies, right down to love being one of the reasons.

Seeing that he'd died, when the nurse/maid he'd shot out of the aircar only heartbeats before made it out without a scratch, twisted the dagger.


And like the OP, the only other Weber death that truly stung me, was Rastar.
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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by 19chickens   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:41 pm

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The only one that actually made me put a book down and think was Ragnhild Pavletic's death.
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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by n7axw   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:16 pm

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Gwlymm Manthyr- Charisian Admiral Sagehold dies in enemy hands after extensive Medieval era style torture
Bryhan Lock Island- Safehold Charis' High Admiral dies in battle.

Regnald Pavletic- Honorverse
Alistair McKeon- Honorverse

Janaki chan Calirath, Ternethian Crown Prince. Multiverse dies in battle after seeing his own death in a glimpse

Kostas- Prince Roger's valet in Empire of Man to wildlife on Marduk
Ima Hooker- Bronze barbarian (Roger's bodyguard regiment) in Empire of Man to wildlife on Marduk

Tamman- Duhak. Commander of battle asteroid dies in battle against Achtultanni

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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by Spitfire80   » Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:10 am

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While i readily agree that losing Andrew and Miranda and Farragut was heart wrenching, i too had to take a moment there, I and this is going to sound bad, found it a little suspicious...So to speak anyway.

Honor's entire, extended but not well known (to the reader) family is killed off, for dramatic purposes. Of those close to her (and the reader), however she only loses the ones without Prolong. Miranda is musing about her aging only days/ hours before.

To me once i thought on it, it felt like the Bossman, wanted to save them the rigors of old age.

Still heart wrenching though, as was Black Rock clan, and then the intro of Sorrow Singer, now that was heart wrenching.
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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by roseandheather   » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:06 pm

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George J. Smith wrote:I'm surprised RoseandHeather hasn't piped up with Javier Giscard yet.


Rose has spent the last week beating her browser into submission so she can actually log the hell in. :mrgreen:

But yes. Javier. Ever and always Javier.

I wept for Andrew and Andreas and Jamie and Carolyn and Ragnhild and Black Rock Clan and Miranda and Dominica Santos and Courvoisier and Bernard Yanakov and Chatterjee's destroyers and all the others, but...

Javier. Ever and always Javier.
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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by saber964   » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:18 pm

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roseandheather wrote:
George J. Smith wrote:I'm surprised RoseandHeather hasn't piped up with Javier Giscard yet.


Rose has spent the last week beating her browser into submission so she can actually log the hell in. :mrgreen:

But yes. Javier. Ever and always Javier.

I wept for Andrew and Andreas and Jamie and Carolyn and Ragnhild and Black Rock Clan and Miranda and Dominica Santos and Courvoisier and Bernard Yanakov and Chatterjee's destroyers and all the others, but...

Javier. Ever and always Javier.



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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by cthia   » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:10 pm

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roseandheather wrote:
George J. Smith wrote:I'm surprised RoseandHeather hasn't piped up with Javier Giscard yet.


Rose has spent the last week beating her browser into submission so she can actually log the hell in. :mrgreen:

But yes. Javier. Ever and always Javier.

I wept for Andrew and Andreas and Jamie and Carolyn and Ragnhild and Black Rock Clan and Miranda and Dominica Santos and Courvoisier and Bernard Yanakov and Chatterjee's destroyers and all the others, but...

Javier. Ever and always Javier.

I almost posted that you were probably succumbing to the exigencies of study. Close enough. :lol:

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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by boballab   » Sat Oct 03, 2015 6:57 pm

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For me the death of Pavlectic was a gut churner because we have seen that basic scene of a boarding party going over to a ship since On Basilisk Station and nothing has ever happened then...

The deaths of Andrew and Miranda as they came as a one two punch hit below the belt, however the number one gut wrenching death was Ahmand Pahner, that death effected Roger even more than Kostas death did. It turned him from a competent soldier/leader to one cold blooded bastard that wasn't about to let anything waste the death of his psuedo father in getting him home.
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Re: Most heart wrenching death
Post by George J. Smith   » Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:56 am

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19chickens wrote:The only one that actually made me put a book down and think was Ragnhild Pavletic's death.


It wasn't the actual death that got to me, it was afterwards when Helen was sorting Ragnhild's locker and she broke down and wept on Paulo's shoulder.
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