cthia wrote: Tester knows that Young deserved Honor putting her foot so far up his arse that a brain surgeon was needed to get it out. Indeed it was wrong what Young did. But those last few blows was wrong that Honor delivered, she hurt Young unnecessarily.* She had a human right to protect herself even against an officer, but the last few blows were unwarranted and were done for the wrong human emotion of vengeance -- regardless of how much an onlooker with all of the facts agree with her. For Honor to withhold the confrontation from Commandant Hartley made her a hypocrite on some level and tarnished her 'Little Miss Right' self-made image of herself. Made her somewhat as guilty as bending the rules as Hauptman's freighters. Didn't she break some regs exacting vengeance with the last few blows? Isn't it against the regs to purposefully injure a fellow officer? If Young hadn't been such a wussy and afraid of embarrassment he could have went to an "improper authority" other than Hartley -- someone in the good ole boy network and told a completely different story. One which included a spurned woman because he didn't return her affections and that he simply wanted sex and she went berserk and used undue force.** Which is probably what he would have cried if Honor had reported it.
zizarvexis wrote:That story of she wanted to have sex, but Honor freaked out and attacked me for turning her down has the small problem of it was happening in the gym's shower, which I would expect was the women's shower as she was surprised to see him there. That shoots up a big flare, for what was Young doing in the shower for him to turn her down and her to attack him over it. Young didn't remember anything after the beat down, his friends had to help him to the infirmary and they came up with the fell down story.
The gym's showers would not have raised any flags at all if Young was the kind of man I think he was. The claim that Harrington was surprised to see him there was simply hearsay. Her word against his - odds which even she didn't think she could win.
One thing we must not forget regarding Young—one thing in which he demands respect, even earns it. Though he constantly labeled Honor as such, Young himself was anything but a lowly baseborn entity. He was accustomed to all of the privileges that such a lordly birth entails and was an affluent ladies man possessing benefit of certain files. Young moved in lofty social circles. As such, he was accustomed to having all sorts of women in all sorts of circumstances up to and including showers - showers of country clubs, college dorms, businesses, etc.
However, the fact that that sort of thing goes on in showers would not have been a fact and/or experience exclusive only to Young, but to everyone in his social circle. Or even to he who is simply a ladies man.
When I was a college student, it was an acceptable and fashionable thing to shower in the open coed-showers on coed floors of coed dorms. Thing is, it went on in most all of the other "exclusively female" showers as well. Lots of sex happens and will continue to happen in communal showers. Is happening now. Will happen tomorrow.And why not? Showers are a place that affords an opportunity to get dirty while getting clean. Or getting clean while getting dirty. Half-full... half-empty?...
'sigh.'I am absolutely certain that Saganami Island is no different.
Young's likely version after once again reaching equilibrium -
after a few stiches to his ass and ego...
"Harrington and I became intimate. We hid our ... torrid affair amidst an entertaining display of taunts and jeers at each other solely for the benefit of onlookers. In reality we were having mutual and beneficial... torrid sex. Harrington ultimately became enamored in the end, completely at odds with our - how shall I say, little arrangement and mutual agreement.
I suppose I should have known the frayed stitching in that particular plan would hinge on something as simple as the integrity of such a baseborn birth.
And to think I was simply throwing the poor dog a bone.
It is obvious after the fact that she fell in love and thought she'd hitch her post on the coattail of a Young. Only after I sorted out such an appalling notion did she become belligerent and went as ballistic as a scorned ninny. As if a Young could be in any way socially interested in such a baseborn vagrant of life.
My concern for the navy and its regs prevented me from engaging her and possibly doing harm to another officer. Because of my selfless motives -- and I admit a moment of weakness amidst echoes of intimacy -- caused me to let down my guard and underestimate the provoked Spinxian strength of a scorned and spurned baseborn bitch!
I mean to have her flogged!," really laying it on thick.
Please note that this speech would have been delivered in dramatic fashion to someone in the good ole boy network known to be supportive, and even worse... just as jaded an aristocrat as a Pavel Young.
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