ext_114627 ([identity profile] anisosynchronic.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rolanni 2008-12-02 05:51 am (UTC)

Re: Thought experiment

Rock 3

Jen Sar Kiladi as lived by Daav yos'Phelium, is comfortable with his Liadeness--there is no sign of him displayed as having been booted off Liaden or out of Liaden space, no rancor or bitterness of the sort a Liaden sold into slavery or less severely under clan disapproval and sanction might have (compare Jen Sar Kiladi a construct of Daav yos'Phelium, with Ren Zel after Ren Zel's birth clan disowned him and declared dead, or the misfortunate Liaden whose mother and brother treated him vilely and sold him into slavery in Balance of Trade, or the Liaden woman on a decade of probation by her clan who took up with the bipolar Terran artist in one of the shorter Liaden stories).

Jen Sar Kiladi as played by Daav doesn't say anything that the reader has seen, about clan affiliation or why he's on Delgado (at least not explicitly). The surmises might be assumption that he's on Delgado because of the opportunity and perhaps prestige of beign a scholar there

But back to "what would someone born and raised Jen Sar Kiladi be like?"

I doubt that he would be on the outs with his clan--he might be detached in the sense of semi=-permanently locating/having relocated himself to Delgado, but he would have done so with the allowance of his Delm and Head of Line to have done so.

He probably would have told his daughter stories of him as a boy and young fellow and why he had come to Delgado and the differences between Delgado and Liad--again, there's no sign of trauma regarding Jen Sar Kiladi's being in Terran space on a Terran planet teaching at a Terran university. He might have had a relative or two show up, or gone off to visit family, and have correspondence with them.

He'd probably be unlikely to be a pilot, but if he were, he'd probably have told his mistress' daughter about it, particularly if he had pilot reflexes and suspected the daughter might have them, too. If he had possession of a ship, he wouldn't have kept it a secret from his mistress and mistress' daughter.

Jen Sar Kiladi the construct, however, has secrets, and is guarding them--hiding his true identity, concealing information that he is a pilot from the woman he is onagata to, and from the young woman he engendered half of whose geneset is from him.

Jen Sar Kiladi the construct has failed to provide the young woman with critical information about Liad and Liadens despite her going off offplanet on a ship where there are likely to be Liadens and with Korval pilot gene reflexes/neural network. When she returns to Delgado asks if he is a pilot and says she wants to be a pilot, he does admit to being a pilot--but doesn't admit to having a ship or provide any hint that he has a ship, has ever owned a ship, etc.

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