Garon Whited
I'm torn, really, between Kimball and Clarissa Kinnison, of the Lensman series, and Aiken Drum and Mercy-Rosmar of the Saga of the Pliocene Exile.
The first, of course, is mostly because they are the Perfect Couple--deliberately designed to be by forces beyond human comprehension. And they are. It's an idealized, idyllic relationship and it makes every hopeless optimist feel good about them.
The second set, on the other hand, are anything but. Aiken loves Mercy, but Mercy doesn't love him. They both know it, but Mercy is in a difficult situation; she's playing her part as a good wife/lover/concubine/etc. Aiken knows this, but he's getting as much of her affection as she can muster for him--he'll never have her love--so he's settling for what he can get. It's a complicated relationship, sometimes wonderful, often troubled, and, ultimately doomed. But both participants go at it with "don't burn your bridges until you cross them" air, which makes it work.
I like these because they reflect opposites, I think. Functional relationships, both of them, but one is more fairy-tale and other more film noir. I like the contrast.
The first, of course, is mostly because they are the Perfect Couple--deliberately designed to be by forces beyond human comprehension. And they are. It's an idealized, idyllic relationship and it makes every hopeless optimist feel good about them.
The second set, on the other hand, are anything but. Aiken loves Mercy, but Mercy doesn't love him. They both know it, but Mercy is in a difficult situation; she's playing her part as a good wife/lover/concubine/etc. Aiken knows this, but he's getting as much of her affection as she can muster for him--he'll never have her love--so he's settling for what he can get. It's a complicated relationship, sometimes wonderful, often troubled, and, ultimately doomed. But both participants go at it with "don't burn your bridges until you cross them" air, which makes it work.
I like these because they reflect opposites, I think. Functional relationships, both of them, but one is more fairy-tale and other more film noir. I like the contrast.
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Did the Harue (chaos god things) destroy Rethvan because Erik effectively won the game when he nuked those cities? The whole point of them building that world was to see which race could conquer it and that what Erik effectively did when he dropped those arrows on the last few nations that weren't a part of his empire. Sure, he din't require them to swear fealty to him but like that matters anymore right?
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