Hi cthia,
First, Torch doesn't have an official constitution yet, whatever the initial or interim compact they came up with in CoS, and while Helen was named as Berry's successor in SoS, I also doubt Berry is opposed to having children soon.
Berry's DNA is rather precious, she's such a emotionally balanced mature person, that it should be conserved as in RAH's "Beyond This Horizon", even with clones, besides children with Arai; even though cloning has never been part of RFC's Harrington story, ie only mentioned in passing, albeit mainly in the MAlign.
Regarding Helen, the fact that Berry chose her is impressive; Helen may have more empathy or ability to love the Torches than even she realizes, and Berry's choice would carry an awful lot of weight with her subjects, while Lars has never shown much empathy or caring for others aside from getting all the girls he can, though that might change if and when he matures, although that will be quite a story in itself.
The main problem with Jeremy X now that I think of it is that he doesn't have prolong, which is a real problem for treecats bonding with him.
Jeremy has been so remarkably perspicacious with the people around him, that I wonder whether he can have children, and if not is helping people realise who they're in love with faster than they will admit even to themselves, to grow his family by choice now, while he's still alive; or because he couldn't afford to be the father he'd want to be or insist upon, when his life expectancy was so poor as the Ballroom's leader.
Between Samantha and some very tough women including some ex-scrags, who really like what they see in Jeremy, I wonder how long his bachelor days are numbered.
Maybe 'X'.
While I'm no Rose, should we suggest possible bondings such as Sorrow Singer and Jeremy?
Or just one of her now even more dangerous guards, since memory singers are never allowed to travel alone.
His name might be 'The fastest four arms of death ever', and that was long before he got pistols his size.
Keep smilin'
L
cthia wrote:Question.
If the assassination attempt on Berry would have been successful, Helen would have succeeded her.
Helen is Crown Princess, but she has military responsibilities within the RMN. I'm sure Elizabeth wouldn't see her ascension as a problem but I wonder if Helen would want to be Queen. I suppose internally she accepts the possibility since she
is the Crown Princess -- yet does she actually expect to be foisted upon the throne? I'm wondering if she would be willing to abdicate at this point, Lars being much older now. And whether Torch's Constitution would permit it.
Also, who else would be in the order of precedence? There hasn't been enough time to "seed" the batters box.
drunken wiki informant wrote:As of 1919 PD, it was not known what official standing Lars had in the order of precedence of the Kingdom of Torch. He began studies at the New University of Landing that year.