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Re: The moments that got you
Post by roseandheather   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:10 pm

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Taurus2 wrote:There are quite a few heart-pounding, "Rah get 'em!" moments in the books of course, but I think what I appreciate more are the moments of tenderness in the middle of it all. I've been moved almost to tears several times by the Honorverse - so many it's difficult for me to recall them all specifically - but there are two that I can list: the last stand of Captain Helen Zilwicki, and Honor's reunion with her parents after her escape from Hell.


It's the tenderness that gets me every time. Javier and Eloise, Honor and Tom in A Rising Thunder, Honor and Andrew basically all the time... the battles don't mean a thing if you don't care about the people fighting them, after all.
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Re: The moments that got you
Post by PeterZ   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:27 pm

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The most poignant came recently. The prelude to and first meeting between Hamish and The Salamander. He recognized that which he lacked in his wife. He recognized the monster she could become, yet discovered also how much he loved the woman who could keep that monster leashed. And all the while he thought of her, not about how that recognition reflected on him.

Might as well rename them Buttercup and Wesley.
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Re: The moments that got you
Post by yannosh   » Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:59 pm

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Honor laying down the LAW for the presumptious investigator after she was forced to kill Tim Meres, and a bit later Hamish conforting her.

No, scratch that - this is the most poignant moment:
"Trevor System Command, this is Admiral Honor Harrington. I'm sure no-one in the Alliance expected to see me again, but I assure you that the rumours of my recent death have been exaggerated. I am accompanied by approximately one hundred and six thousand liberated inmates of the prison planet Hades, and I expect the arrival of another quarter-million or so within the next eleven days—our transports have military hyper-generators and we made a faster passage than they will. I regret any confusion or alarm we may have caused by turning up in Peep ships, but they were the only ones we could … appropriate for the voyage. We will remain where we are, with our drives, sidewalls, weapons, and active sensors down until you've had a chance to check us out and establish our bona fides, but I'd appreciate it if you could expedite. We were forced to pack these ships to the deckheads to get all our people aboard, and our life support could be in better shape. We … we're home, System Command. It took us a while, but we're home."
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Ceterum censeo Foedam solariam delendam esse.

Even the best in the world cannot measure up to a dozen highly motivated good-enoughs.
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Re: The moments that got you
Post by roseandheather   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:33 am

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Tom Theisman furiously telling Honor that she did everything she could to force a surrender, that it was not her fault that the Mesans got to Filareta's tac officer, and that she did exactly what her duty demanded of her. I'd thought for so, so long that if they only had the chance, Honor and Tom could forge a friendship for the ages, and to see them becoming so close makes me just melt.

From the same book, Elizabeth's reaction when Eloise tells her that the peace treaty was confirmed in the Havenite Senate by an overwhelming majority. There's another pair of people with so much potential for a personal relationship, and now it is finally happening.
~*~


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Javier & Eloise
"You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley..."
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Re: The moments that got you
Post by crewdude48   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:16 am

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AAC wrote:"This is my son," she repeated more softly, speaking only to LaFollet, "and I name you guardian and protector. I give his life into your keeping. Fail not in this trust."

LaFollet looked back at her, then dropped to one knee, resting his hand lightly on the blanket-wrapped baby, and met her eyes unflinchingly.

"I recognize him," he said, his voice soft yet clear as he spoke the ancient formula, "and I know him. I take his life into my keeping, flesh of your flesh, bone of your bone. Before God, Maker and Tester of us all; before His Son, Who died to intercede for us all; and before the Holy Comforter, I will stand before him in the Test of life and at his back in battle. I will protect and guard his life with my own. His honor is my honor, his heritage is mine to guard, and I will fail not in this trust, though it cost me my life."

His voice fogged on the final sentence, and his eyes were suspiciously bright as he rose from his knee. Honor smiled at him, and worked one tiny, preposterously delicate hand free of the swaddling blanket. LaFollet extended his own hand, fingers opened, and she placed her son's palm against his.

"I accept your oath in his name. You are my son's sword and his shield. His steps are yours to watch and guard, to ward and instruct."

LaFollet said nothing more, only bent his head in a slight yet profound bow, and then stepped back.


Honestly, I teared up a little just reading that enough to post it. When I first read it, I literally had to stop and wipe my eyes because I couldn't see.
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Re: The moments that got you
Post by Dafmeister   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:02 am

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I know the scene is melodramatic as hell, but Stephanie Harrington getting between Climbs Quickly and the hexapuma makes me tear up every time.
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Re: The moments that got you
Post by cthia   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:29 am

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“Bring the division ninety degrees to starboard. I want broadside fire on Saladin right now.”

“But-” Edwards began in shock, and Alexander cut him off harshly.

“Do it, Captain!”

“At once, My Lord!” Byron Hunter looked sidelong at his admiral and cleared his throat.

“Sir, the range is over a hundred million klicks. There‟s no way we can score at-”

“I know the range, Byron,” Alexander never turned away from his own display, “but it's all we've got. Maybe Harrington will pick them up on radar—if she still has radar—as they close. Or maybe Saladin's suffered sensor damage of her own. If she isn't trying to break off because she doesnt know we're here, either, maybe she will if we let her know we are. Hell, maybe we'll actually score on her if she holds her course!”

He looked up at last, and his chief of staff saw the despair in his eyes.

“It's all we've got,” he repeated very, very softly as Battlecruiser Division 17 turned to open its broadsides and went to rapid fire.

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: The moments that got you
Post by cthia   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:34 am

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yannosh wrote:Honor laying down the LAW for the presumptious investigator after she was forced to kill Tim Meres, and a bit later Hamish conforting her.

No, scratch that - this is the most poignant moment:
"Trevor System Command, this is Admiral Honor Harrington. I'm sure no-one in the Alliance expected to see me again, but I assure you that the rumours of my recent death have been exaggerated. I am accompanied by approximately one hundred and six thousand liberated inmates of the prison planet Hades, and I expect the arrival of another quarter-million or so within the next eleven days—our transports have military hyper-generators and we made a faster passage than they will. I regret any confusion or alarm we may have caused by turning up in Peep ships, but they were the only ones we could … appropriate for the voyage. We will remain where we are, with our drives, sidewalls, weapons, and active sensors down until you've had a chance to check us out and establish our bona fides, but I'd appreciate it if you could expedite. We were forced to pack these ships to the deckheads to get all our people aboard, and our life support could be in better shape. We … we're home, System Command. It took us a while, but we're home."


Damn Yannosh,

This just made me cry again.

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: The moments that got you
Post by cthia   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:37 am

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roseandheather.

You pulled this post right outta' your heart didn't ya?

And its gonna' cost me, gonna cost me alot...o' tears.

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: The moments that got you
Post by cthia   » Tue Feb 11, 2014 8:04 am

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"Sar'major Babcock, would you mind telling me just what the hell you think you're doing here?" His tone was more resigned than his words might have suggested, and Iris Babcock snapped to attention.

"Sir! The Sergeant-Major respectfully reports that she seems to have become confused, Sir! I was under the impression this was one of Prince Adrian's pinnaces, Colonel." Ramirez shook his head again.

"Won't wash, Gunny. Prince Adrian doesn't even have the Mark Thirty yet."

"Sir, I—"

"Hold it right there." The colonel turned to glare at Francois Ivashko, his own battalion sergeant-major. "I don't suppose you happened to log Sar'major Babcock as an observer supernumerary, did you, Gunny?"

"Uh, no, Sir," Ivashko said. "But—"

"Well, in that case, get her logged now. I'm surprised at you, Gunny! You know how important the proper paperwork is. Now I'm going to have to clear this retroactively with Major Yestachenko and Captain McKeon!"

"Yes, Sir. Sorry, Sir. I guess I just dropped the ball, Sir," Ivashko said with a sudden, huge grin.

"Don't let it happen again," Ramirez growled, then shook a finger under Babcock's nose. "As for you, Sar'major, get back in your seat. And stay where I can keep an eye on you to make sure you behave dirt-side. Understood?"

"Aye, aye, Sir!"

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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