he’s so … I dunno, BOROMIR-ish in that particular, anyway
*blinks* Whoa, I kind of missed this parallel but it's blidningly obvious now that you've brought it up. A large part of what appealed to me SO MUCH about him just fell into place. XD (I think it's more than just in that particular, btw -- the brother dynamic between him and Illvin feels similar to me in some ways, at least to some of my Boromir & Faramir head canon.
I really liked the mutual absolution scene! I just somehow emerged from Curse of Chalion as a dy Lutez fangirl, so I was a tad irrationally defensive of him when we got Ista's post-madness POV. (He kind of hits my kink for capable Grand Viziers, much like Tywin does... :P)
there’s no real sense of dread or jeopardy for me, so there’s less suspense (although I did hold out a foolish hope that Arhys might, perhaps, survive or revivify or something!)
I had that foolish hope, too! :( I think, in the Vorkosigan books, while there's really no fear for significant character "good" death (other than Bothari and Count Piotr, although I'm not sure he counts), I do feel in suspense of other horrible things potentially happening -- Miles may not die permanently, but plenty of horrible things happen in Mirror Dance, and Memory follows through with sufficiently horrible things, too, which leave effects which linger past the end of the novel. I felt the Chalion books, maybe because they are, in effect, all stand-alone, had less of that, in that I felt like all the good guys would come out more or less all right.
Arhys was like an amalgamation of Jaime and Ivan (IMO)
Interesting! I can see some of that, definitely (but the Boromir connection more, now that you've opened my eyes to it:). And, actually, this conversation really makes me want to re-read the book, purely for him. Or at least him and Illvin.
*blinks* Whoa, I kind of missed this parallel but it's blidningly obvious now that you've brought it up. A large part of what appealed to me SO MUCH about him just fell into place. XD (I think it's more than just in that particular, btw -- the brother dynamic between him and Illvin feels similar to me in some ways, at least to some of my Boromir & Faramir head canon.
I really liked the mutual absolution scene! I just somehow emerged from Curse of Chalion as a dy Lutez fangirl, so I was a tad irrationally defensive of him when we got Ista's post-madness POV. (He kind of hits my kink for capable Grand Viziers, much like Tywin does... :P)
there’s no real sense of dread or jeopardy for me, so there’s less suspense (although I did hold out a foolish hope that Arhys might, perhaps, survive or revivify or something!)
I had that foolish hope, too! :( I think, in the Vorkosigan books, while there's really no fear for significant character "good" death (other than Bothari and Count Piotr, although I'm not sure he counts), I do feel in suspense of other horrible things potentially happening -- Miles may not die permanently, but plenty of horrible things happen in Mirror Dance, and Memory follows through with sufficiently horrible things, too, which leave effects which linger past the end of the novel. I felt the Chalion books, maybe because they are, in effect, all stand-alone, had less of that, in that I felt like all the good guys would come out more or less all right.
Arhys was like an amalgamation of Jaime and Ivan (IMO)
Interesting! I can see some of that, definitely (but the Boromir connection more, now that you've opened my eyes to it:). And, actually, this conversation really makes me want to re-read the book, purely for him. Or at least him and Illvin.
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