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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by kzt   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:45 am

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NortonIDaughter wrote:... I hated, HATED how their relationship started. Like, between that and Javier, I took about a year-long break from the books, and if MoH's cover copy hadn't explicitly mentioned Honor as being sent to Haven in person to secure peace, I might not have picked them back up. I just couldn't believe Honor Harrington would stoop to falling for a married guy.

Let's just say that David made the right choice when he decided to not be a romance writer. :roll:
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by NortonIDaughter   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:14 am

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In his defense, Honor's relationship with Paul was genuine sweet and butterfly-in-tummy inducing.

But yeah, things that go boom is definitely his strong suit. :D
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by Crown Loyalist   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 12:23 pm

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To be fair, Honor was always going to fall for a married man. You can't have a story about a Horatio Nelson facsimile without a notorious affair. The way Honor and Hamish (and Emily)'s relationship has gone is basically a rendition of Nelson's love-life, except with fewer obvious moral failings on Honor's part.
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by cthia   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:51 pm

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Crown Loyalist wrote:To be fair, Honor was always going to fall for a married man. You can't have a story about a Horatio Nelson facsimile without a notorious affair. The way Honor and Hamish (and Emily)'s relationship has gone is basically a rendition of Nelson's love-life, except with fewer obvious moral failings on Honor's part.


I couldn't believe that Honor had fallen for a married man either. But then I considered that oftentimes we do not choose with whom we fall in love, sometimes it just happens.

One scenario in which it happens is when one is the object of another's intense emotions. In my own experiences it is often difficult not to become enamored with someone with whom total immersion of the soul is seen in their eyes.

When you see in someone's eyes the level of their feelings, that lost puppy dog look, and then you see that they see that you see...well...then you both see. See?

How many times have we all thought to ourselves "If he/she could only get inside of my heart for a moment, could see into my soul, could feel what I feel for them, they would fall in love with me.

Consider that Honor could feel what Hamish felt. I am sure it rocked her.
Also, marrying a married man wasn't anything that Honor thought was wrong.

1. it wasn't her idea...never even entered her mind.
2. It, or rather she was proposed to by Emily.
3. It was perfectly legal and in this sense did not interfere with Honor's morals, scruples and values.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by John M Lyle   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:31 pm

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Anton Zwiliki

He's short and extremely nasty and dangerous
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by roseandheather   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:36 pm

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You know who needs more love?

Judah Yanakov.

That man needs so much more love.

...no, I'm not volunteering!

...fine. Dammit. I am absolutely volunteering.
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by Michael Everett   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:41 pm

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Regarding Honor/Hamish/Emily, this comic has several parallels...
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by cthia   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:23 pm

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Susan Hibson and Sally McBride.

My heart to them both.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by Yow   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:56 pm

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Every card board cutout no name Marine character :lol:

"That looks like your snotty, Senior Chief." The Marine sentry's low-pitched voice exuded an oddly gleeful sympathy. It was the sort of voice in which a Marine traditionally informed one of the Navy's "vacuum-suckers" that his trousers had just caught fire or something equally exhilarating, and Senior Chief Petty Officer Roland Shelton ignored the jarhead's tone with lofty disdain of any superior life form for an evolutionary inferior. Yet it was a bit harder than usual this time as his eyes followed the corporal's almost invisible nod and picked the indicated target out of the crowded space dock gallery. She was certainly someone's snotty, he acknowledged without apparently so much as looking in her direction.

Cthia's father ~ "Son, do not cater to the common belief that a person has to earn respect. That is not true. You should give every person respect right from the start. What a person has to earn is your continued respect!"
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Re: Most loved characters!
Post by tampaeagle   » Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:31 am

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I can't believe that no one has mentioned the most awesome amazon in the entire series. The one & only Great Kaja, Thandi Palane.
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