[LMB] Re: Slash (was OT) now Bujold Romance/Slash Meta

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 7:50 AM -0800 1/4/07, Azalais Aranxta wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Rachel Ganz wrote:
>> I've wondered how well Nicky would actually cope with his
>> mother's remarriage - to someone who might have murdered his
>> father, no matter what Gregor says. Maybe there's a later plot,
>> where he turns against Miles, and possibly even attempts to do
>> nasty things to the twins.
>
>It really all depends upon how he felt about Tien.  Not all
>children are as intensely loyal to both parents in every case as
>the world would have you believe.  

Amen. My sire was (and may still be) very Tien-like. I **CHEERED**
when they got a divorce. (I'd just married, and was in college 2000
miles away.) Since my paternal grandfather has died, I've been
happily not speaking with my sire save when it's unavoidable.

I don't think Nikki was a Daddy's Boy, even as much as I was once
a Daddy's Girl. (Bribery works on small kids. I don't think it's
the best parenting tactic, when taken to extremes.) And as he grows 
older, realizing that he needed to have his genes fixed and his father 
had not only not gotten this done -- but had actively done things that 
would prevent getting this done?

My irritation at my sire's spending money on his boyfriend, instead
of getting me good dental care and the like, might well pale in
comparison.

>It is entirely possible that Nikki prefers Miles to his memories of
>Tien.

Especially as he gets older. And sees his mom happier. And thinks about
what would have happened if Tien had gotten his way.

I swear, every day that I'm married, I become more and more coldly 
furious at my sire for trying to break up the relationship when I
was 18.

I think that Nikki might well, as an adult, be sorry that his father
was killed, but glad that he's gone. If not with anger... Then possibly
with relief, or blankness, or a vague pitying sigh.
-- 
--Beth, arcangel at io.com     http://www.io.com/~arcangel/