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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by roseandheather   » Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:53 pm

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Do you mean "which death most reduced you to an incoherent blubbering wreck who ran through her entire Kleenex stash"?

Javier Giscard.

There are plenty of other characters we've lost that I've grieved hard - Andrew LaFollet, Amandine Corvisart, Ragnhild Pavletic, Paul Tankersley, Wesley Matthews, Miranda LaFollet, and on and on - but Javier's.... I was inconsolable after that.

And still have not forgiven RFC.
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by roseandheather   » Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:56 pm

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fallsfromtrees wrote:
WeirdlyWired wrote:.

<snip> Or can we pick only Manticorans?

Better not let rosenheather say that :mrgreen:


It's ok, Fallsfromtrees. Weirdly is new here, and I haven't been around terribly much recently. He(?) shouldn't be expected to know just how violently protective I am of Havenite characters. :mrgreen:
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by WeirdlyWired   » Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:07 am

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roseandheather wrote:It's ok, Fallsfromtrees. Weirdly is new here, and I haven't been around terribly much recently. He(?) shouldn't be expected to know just how violently protective I am of Havenite characters. :mrgreen:



HE [yes]is also very protective of lots of Havenites, Graysons, the few Smoking froggers he's met. Would love Love LOVE to see a certain tech witch at Bolthole get adopted by a treecat. Certain Sollys ha e great entertainment value as well. However, sinc e it is about Manticore, I was wondering if the thread was so limited.
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by roseandheather   » Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:08 pm

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WeirdlyWired wrote:
roseandheather wrote:It's ok, Fallsfromtrees. Weirdly is new here, and I haven't been around terribly much recently. He(?) shouldn't be expected to know just how violently protective I am of Havenite characters. :mrgreen:



HE [yes]is also very protective of lots of Havenites, Graysons, the few Smoking froggers he's met. Would love Love LOVE to see a certain tech witch at Bolthole get adopted by a treecat. Certain Sollys ha e great entertainment value as well. However, sinc e it is about Manticore, I was wondering if the thread was so limited.


Welcome aboard! I'm Rose, the forum's resident fangirl, matchmaker, Havenite advocate/patriot, Grayson girl at heart, and occasional writer of essays analyzing characters, their motivations, and (my favorite) their relationships. I'm notorious for being bad at math, yelling at people who insult my favorite characters, and wanting to snog a rather alarming number of said characters. :mrgreen:

And you can rest assured that anywhere I go, Havenites will be allowed - whether they were initially or not. :D 8-)
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by ghost   » Sat Sep 17, 2016 7:39 pm

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I didn't intend to allow only Manticorans to be picked. Heck, if you wanted to pick Joseph Byng the sollie admiral, it's ok by me.


WeirdlyWired wrote:.

Ghost


I'm going to choose the other LaFollet -- Miranda. Such a nice lady, so crucial to Honor's adaptation to Grayson society, a friend to treecats. I'd always hoped RFC would find her a dashing young officer with whom she could settle down.[/quote]


Miranda would be my second choice.

Maybe Javier Giscard. I like Eloise Pritchart. Having lost the love of my life some years back, the empathy factor is high. Or can we pick only Manticorans?[/quote]
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by roseandheather   » Sat Sep 17, 2016 9:42 pm

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ghost wrote:I didn't intend to allow only Manticorans to be picked. Heck, if you wanted to pick Joseph Byng the sollie admiral, it's ok by me.




I'm very, very sad that Josef Byng died.

It means Michelle Henke can't kill him again in an even more painful way. :twisted:
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by Fiannawolf   » Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:10 pm

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Now that I am on the re-read train....well...at this point its gonna be poor Paul T. The way he died....shooting Young and his "associates" wasn't enough.
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by Louis R   » Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:41 pm

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My regret over Byng's death is rather different: he took a lot of rather better people with him.

roseandheather wrote:
ghost wrote:I didn't intend to allow only Manticorans to be picked. Heck, if you wanted to pick Joseph Byng the sollie admiral, it's ok by me.




I'm very, very sad that Josef Byng died.

It means Michelle Henke can't kill him again in an even more painful way. :twisted:
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by Daryl   » Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:26 am

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I'm waiting for President Eloise Pritchart's death. Mainly because I want to test if I can hear Rose's scream all the way down here in Australia.

I'm actually upset at Hexapuma's destruction.
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Re: Honorverse Deaths
Post by Somtaaw   » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:41 am

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Daryl wrote:I'm waiting for President Eloise Pritchart's death. Mainly because I want to test if I can hear Rose's scream all the way down here in Australia.




Oooh, that's cold :lol: :lol: :lol: I got hypothermia just reading that :lol:


One of the deaths that hit me fairly hard was Andy Venizelos. He wasn't one of Honor's Armsmen, but he chose to die as one, to cover Honor's escape.

Another one was Sarah Flanagan, in the Tequila system, victim of the Thunderbolt sneak offensive. Busted her ass off as a butterbar to get squadron command, soaking up LAC training up in Eighth Fleet like a sponge. And her "reward" for being so hungry to be a good LAC commander, was being posted to a backwater, worthless Tequila system, and under the command of useless political appointees.

Along with Sarah Flanagan is pretty much all the rest of the RMN who were good officers, disgusted at the political appointee's, who died in Thunderbolt, she's just their leader in my mind as one of the first to die.


And [sorry rose, this is another whammy] honestly, I think Higgins needs a well-deserved (honorable) death. He's got the crap blown out of his fleet first at Grendlesbane, then later he was the poor, unfortunate sucker in charge of Home Fleet when Oyster Bay hits. If rose doesn't manage to get him shipped off with some lady, he needs an honorable death to give his broken heart some relief of having gotten something right for once.

I'm essentially picturing something along the lines of Honor's "living sidewall" trick to protect Benjamin and Elizabeth. Something that lets him die both with honor, and knowing that he Did It RIGHT before he dies, whether to injuries or a Giscard style blastwave heading towards him.



I'd run to hide, but with rose I'd only die tired and in the open for making that suggestion.
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