Information I'd love to know

MaxxQ wrote:

roseandheather wrote:I want to know who's going to get adopted in the future!

...okay, okay, fine, I want to know if [insert character I desperately love] is going to get adopted in the future.

Several years ago, RFC hinted that a certain Havenite might find herself 'catted. Whether plans for that have changed or not remains to be seen.

Oops! I may have hinted too much at who it was.

roseandheather wrote:

MaxxQ wrote:Several years ago, RFC hinted that a certain Havenite might find herself 'catted. Whether plans for that have changed or not remains to be seen.

Oops! I may have hinted too much at who it was.

He also, rather more recently, dropped a hint that severe emotional trauma is a sort of "refining" process that intensifies a mind-glow, and that therefore increases the potency of said human's mind-glow, increasing the chances of bonding.

Now, I don't know about you, but I am quite thoroughly familiar with every major Havenite character in this 'verse, and my mind drifts toward a particular Havenite woman who has, in fact, been rather severely traumatized in the past couple of years. Am I on the right track here? (Also I would love a link to that hint, if you can somehow manage to track it down.)

(Oh sweet Tester let me be on the right track!!)

MaxxQ wrote:

roseandheather wrote:
He also, rather more recently, dropped a hint that severe emotional trauma is a sort of "refining" process that intensifies a mind-glow, and that therefore increases the potency of said human's mind-glow, increasing the chances of bonding.

Now, I don't know about you, but I am quite thoroughly familiar with every major Havenite character in this 'verse, and my mind drifts toward a particular Havenite woman who has, in fact, been rather severely traumatized in the past couple of years. Am I on the right track here? (Also I would love a link to that hint, if you can somehow manage to track it down.)

(Oh sweet Tester let me be on the right track!!)

Well, I did a search at this forum, and couldn't find the post. TBH, I'm not even sure he made the post here or at the Bar, and I'm not even going to *try* searching there.

However, in my search here, I did find another post where I said basically the same thing, but with less hints and more obvious answers as to who it was, but I'll give you another hint: if you re-read what I wrote above, there's actually *two* hints there as to who I am referring to.

Also, as was mentioned in the thread I found in my search, RFC sometimes snerks just to tease, and what he says may not actually happen. So, you can take it with a grain of salt as to whether it actually happens or not.

IMO, it *will* happen, and probably in the next mainline book.

MaxxQ wrote:

roseandheather wrote:He also, rather more recently, dropped a hint that severe emotional trauma is a sort of "refining" process that intensifies a mind-glow, and that therefore increases the potency of said human's mind-glow, increasing the chances of bonding.

Now, I don't know about you, but I am quite thoroughly familiar with every major Havenite character in this 'verse, and my mind drifts toward a particular Havenite woman who has, in fact, been rather severely traumatized in the past couple of years. Am I on the right track here? (Also I would love a link to that hint, if you can somehow manage to track it down.)

(Oh sweet Tester let me be on the right track!!)

Well, I did a search at this forum, and couldn't find the post. TBH, I'm not even sure he made the post here or at the Bar, and I'm not even going to *try* searching there.

However, in my search here, I did find another post where I said basically the same thing, but with less hints and more obvious answers as to who it was, but I'll give you another hint: if you re-read what I wrote above, there's actually *two* hints there as to who I am referring to.

Also, as was mentioned in the thread I found in my search, RFC sometimes snerks just to tease, and what he says may not actually happen. So, you can take it with a grain of salt as to whether it actually happens or not.

IMO, it *will* happen, and probably in the next mainline book.

runsforcelery wrote:Now, it's entirely fair to say that extreme emotion certainly helps to create bonds between humans and 'cats. And the 'cats are often drawn to humans who are dealing with grief or trauma because of the way in which those situations enhance the mind-glow. But the vast majority of bondings are definitely not "trauma based."

War of Honor, Ch. 13 wrote:
<Listen before you tell,> the flashing fingers commanded. <You hurt. He hurts. Nimitz and I feel your pain. It hurts us as much as it does you, but understand. This is a two-leg pain, because all but you are mind-blind. Your People can't taste what People taste, and there are reasons you and he can't mate. But that doesn't change what you need to do, and not doing makes you hurt worse. When he came, your pain was very great. Great enough even mind-blind could taste it, and he did. And it made his pain much, much worse. Pain is a terrible thing, but can make the mind-glow even stronger, and did. For the first time, truly tasted him, not just on own, but through you, as well, and his mind-glow captured. Did not plan it. Did not want it. But now, is a wonderful thing. Am sorry it will make hard things harder, but would not—could not—change it.>

<<snip a little>>

"She says," Honor Harrington said, "that the tension you and I have been under made your mind-glow stronger. Strong enough that she really 'saw' it for the first time."

Jonathan_S wrote: I think the post roseandheather was referring to was this one from the thread Spoiler Warning for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

His post includes this excerpt

runsforcelery wrote:Now, it's entirely fair to say that extreme emotion certainly helps to create bonds between humans and 'cats. And the 'cats are often drawn to humans who are dealing with grief or trauma because of the way in which those situations enhance the mind-glow. But the vast majority of bondings are definitely not "trauma based."

arduskaine wrote:I wish I knew more about the Republic of Monica - how it is governed, population, industry, all that sort of information.