Somtaaw wrote: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
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.
My God, it's like you all think I'm some sort of vengeful serial killer or something!
...I wish I could say you were wrong.
