cthia wrote:Do you notice that there is no mention of a significant other in Shannon's life? Or Sonja's for that matter. Even Honor had a date in college, didn't she?
We all want to see Shannon get bonded, but it seems she isn't even "bonding" with a significant other. Could her social skills be a side effect from getting her heart broken by a previous lover?
If she prefers women, that's okay by me too. It could certainly develop into an interesting relationship with Sonja, an older woman, who may prefer women as well; and who can teach her a thing or two about "taking a load off."
Or could there be daddy issues? It would be sad if either of them were abused or neglected or had a bad life as kids. At any rate, who in their family did they inherit their strong will from? The mother, the father, the uncle, an aunt, some other relative, or an acquaintance of the family.
Was either an orphan? Is either of them a genie in the bottle? Do either of them have / had any siblings?
I headcanoned that
- Shannon had a boyfriend who cheated on her, so she hacked him. Given her low political reliability because of many factors, she was too busy until post-PRH to find anyone, and didn't want to after getting her heart broken.
- Under the Republic of Haven, she's CO of Bolthole, and can't find anyone there because of Chain of Command issues. She's also too busy to bother.
- She never had great social skills, as she's been busy hacking things to stay alive (like her PN BuPers file to change some elements of her past to up her political reliability score).
- She and Sonja will end up together, after slowly becoming closer while working on tech. Publicly, they claim their date nights are Sonja or Shannon running a tech briefing for the other. Eventually, people figure things out, and in a repeat of everyone knowing about Honor/Paul, everyone knows about them, and lets those date nights happen.