The Greatest Relationships - Platonic Edition

Hutch wrote:I would opt for Mercedes Bingham(if she doesn't end up with Tom Theisman, which is my current opinion).

*Dear Zeus, she's got me doing it....*

roseandheather wrote:

Hutch wrote:I would opt for Mercedes Bingham(if she doesn't end up with Tom Theisman, which is my current opinion).

*Dear Zeus, she's got me doing it....*

Rose, I'm surprised that you were so lenient with Hutch for pairing Theisman with someone who isn't Eloise Pritchart!

Amaroq wrote:

roseandheather wrote:

Rose, I'm surprised that you were so lenient with Hutch for pairing Theisman with someone who isn't Eloise Pritchart!

So am I!!

In all honesty, though, I go back and forth between "Of course Eloise will always love Javier but Tom would make her so happy!" and "Javier was the love of Eloise's life and it just isn't in her to be with anyone else that way, ever". Apparently today I'm in the latter camp.

And when all is said and done, if Eloise is done with the romance business because she had her great love and there can never be another, I think Mercedes makes a great deal of sense for Tom myself.

Lord Skimper wrote:Firebrand and the Neobarbs. A give and take tit for tat interactions. With oneside always three steps ahead and the other always playing catch up. Playing catch up very well, but catch up none the less. Although one could say the intelligence services are perhaps the weakest links in the Honorverse. Or perhaps that is just the naval perspective that dominates the Honorverse.

Well, I will give you this, Skimper, it is an...unusual outlook.

I would think the relationship is more tectonic that platonic, given the things Firebrand has been causing trouble (and deaths) for the SEM to clean up.

I seriously doubt that if Sir Aivars Aleksovitch Terekhov, gets his hands on Firebrand that he will be feeling very platonic...more likely volcanic.

How about Honor and Shannon? Who doesn't want to see this reunion happen at some point in the near future? It's been a long while since they've met in person. We've gotten most of the other Manticoran-Havenite long-awaited meetings...this is one of the few missing. Shannon did save Honor and Nimitz's lives after all and risked her neck before that (along with Lester) to try and keep Honor and the rest of her POWs out of SS hands. I know Honor and Nimitz want to belatedly express their gratitude.

Amaroq wrote:How about Honor and Shannon? Who doesn't want to see this reunion happen at some point in the near future? It's been a long while since they've met in person. We've gotten most of the other Manticoran-Havenite long-awaited meetings...this is one of the few missing. Shannon did save Honor and Nimitz's lives after all and risked her neck before that (along with Lester) to try and keep Honor and the rest of her POWs out of SS hands. I know Honor and Nimitz want to belatedly express their gratitude.

I'd love to see Shannon and Honor meet again. Unfortunately, it's looking like Shannon and Sonja are going to be holed up at Bolthole for quite some time. I wonder if Grand Fleet's commanding officer might need to make a trip out there???

Dafmeister wrote:

cthia wrote:One relationship that totally blind-sided me was Princess Ruth and Berry Zilwicki. I love their bond mind you, it even makes me smile, but I can't say I expected it. I also like the way Thandi took to Ruth like a sister.

Part of me will always worry about Ruth. I just don't trust the Masadans. I inquired many posts ago about the Star Kingdom's foreign policy towards negotiating with terrorists ... that may somehow manage to kidnap Ruth.

If anyone is stupid enough to kidnap Ruth, Manticore's policy on the matter is going to be of tangential concern at most. The people you want to be worried about are Thandi Palane, Victor Cachat, Anton Zilwicki, Jeremy X and the entire Audubon Ballroom. Possibly also the Biological Survey Corps.

I seriously doubt that the BSC will get involved if something like this happened. They would not want to be anywhere near Lara' Own Regiment when they started their hunt. You know, the ones Thandi compared to wolves? The ex-scrags and the people who can hang with them out on the sharp end? Anyone who gets in their way, even accidentally, is in real trouble.

KNick wrote:

Dafmeister wrote:
If anyone is stupid enough to kidnap Ruth, Manticore's policy on the matter is going to be of tangential concern at most. The people you want to be worried about are Thandi Palane, Victor Cachat, Anton Zilwicki, Jeremy X and the entire Audubon Ballroom. Possibly also the Biological Survey Corps.

I seriously doubt that the BSC will get involved if something like this happened. They would not want to be anywhere near Lara' Own Regiment when they started their hunt. You know, the ones Thandi compared to wolves? The ex-scrags and the people who can hang with them out on the sharp end? Anyone who gets in their way, even accidentally, is in real trouble.

Basically, this. The only not-dangerous response to an attempt (successful or not) to kidnap Ruth (or Berry!) is to sit back with popcorn and watch Lara's Own vaporize the perpetrator(s) into subatomic particles.

Dafmeister wrote:

cthia wrote:One relationship that totally blind-sided me was Princess Ruth and Berry Zilwicki. I love their bond mind you, it even makes me smile, but I can't say I expected it. I also like the way Thandi took to Ruth like a sister.

Part of me will always worry about Ruth. I just don't trust the Masadans. I inquired many posts ago about the Star Kingdom's foreign policy towards negotiating with terrorists ... that may somehow manage to kidnap Ruth.

If anyone is stupid enough to kidnap Ruth, Manticore's policy on the matter is going to be of tangential concern at most. The people you want to be worried about are Thandi Palane, Victor Cachat, Anton Zilwicki, Jeremy X and the entire Audubon Ballroom. Possibly also the Biological Survey Corps.

NEVER count the Righteous Anger of Elizabeth Adrienne Samantha Annette Winton as tangential!

dreamrider

PS - We both could have probably stopped at Victor Cachat.

dreamrider wrote:NEVER count the Righteous Anger of Elizabeth Adrienne Samantha Annette Winton as tangential!

Do remember what Judith Winton is capable of, too.