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[afuna]

Oh god Lavan is a much more spoiled less sympathetic Vanyek with much less reason to be so put upon (well until the school stuff). I am clearly not here for teenage angst. Also is this the whole life bonded weirdness that you all warned me about?

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[branchandroot]

That's absolutely one of the points where Lackey flat-out frames lifebonding as mystical co-dependance, yeah. I felt a bit as though she made it specifically a lifebond in order to cut off any kneejerk 'omg bestiality', too, which is really unnecessary. This is certainly the point at which I just stopped putting any particular weight on lifebonds.

[afuna]

Haha yeah. I wonder actually if that was Lackey’s intent? She’s going hard on the “no life bonds are not what you want them to be” thing

[wychwood]

TBH I like that about lifebonds - it comes up quite a lot in the books, that people think they're this giant Romantic thing, but actually mostly it's about people who can't cope on their own! And of course they're obviously hugely meaningful for the people who experience them, still, but they're not all that desirable for outsiders, or shouldn't be.

[afuna]

Yeah it feels like lackey has done a giant about face. I think as long as it’s on purpose…