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Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 11:41 pm
by Alicorn
She's not a Galen.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 1:04 am
by Snark
Unless I miss my guess, I'm pretty sure Aunt Ghyslaine is
Spoilers
a template based off Ges Vorrutyer, an unpleasant secondary character from the early Vorkosigan books. The name similarity is subtle but present: Vor- is a culture-specific honorary prefix, take it away and you have Rutyer. (Similarly, Vorkosigan has been shorted to Koskin.) And the history with Aral/Anastasia* and stalker-ish tendencies are a solid match.

*This appears to be a universe where not only is Miles gender-swapped, all his associated templates are as well.

In Bujold's books, Ges Vorrutyer was not involved with Mark in any way, he died well before Miles was conceived. But if you're looking for someone to substitute David Galen in the role of abusive/crazy creator... yeah, that template would definitely work.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:21 am
by Kappa
Snark's got it.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 9:30 am
by AndaisQ
Ah! A different awful person entirely.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:23 pm
by MaggieoftheOwls
Avar was also previously married before Koridaar. Did he have to deal with a Ges too?

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:29 pm
by BlueSkySprite
Aral was previously married before Cordelia, so I would guess that Avar's previous marriage was to an alt of the Vorrutyer cousin Aral married, (who, I don't think is ever named?) but maybe that doesn't happen without arranged marriages being a thing?

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:39 pm
by futurevision
Avar's previous partner is probably dead, since dragons marry various species with shorter lives before settling down with a dragon at around 300. I think.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:57 pm
by Kappa
In my headcanon, Aral's first wife was Ges's sister and her name was Cinne. Where there are references to Arals who had previous partners before their Cordelias, an alt of Ges or Cinne or both is almost certainly involved.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 1:43 pm
by MaggieoftheOwls
Well, that's not exactly how I expected the king to die of Being Terrible While A Joker's Dad, but...

Up until the whole magical compulsion thing started it seems that Erian had a far better childhood than most Jokers.

Re: Sandbox Discussions

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 1:46 pm
by Kappa
He did semi-regularly encounter mobs of armed humans determined to drive him out of their vicinity, but yeah, he had it pretty good all things considered.
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