Back to if Jen Sar Kiladi were actually Jen Sar Kiladi...
Miri had an identification item from her lineage, even though her grandmother, was it, had left the clan to bear a child the Delm had demanded be aborted, and then had gotten stuck permanently never getting back to Erob's clan house. Miri's mother married Miri's father and was stuck on Surebleak and died there, on a planet with a flattened economy. Miri managed to get away by signing on with a mercenary outfit and soldiering. Miri was raised Terran, but she had no aspirations to deal with Liadens/be a pilot, either, when first met in Agent of Change. She had worse problems--recovering drug addict, and stiffed financially and on marginal funds.
Jen Sar Kiladi would have come from a background which effected him winding up at a Terran educational institution studying Cultural Genetics and then teaching it at a Terran university on a Terran planet. Was her perhaps inspired by Anne Davis, or someone who was an influence upon her?
I expect that a Jen Sar Kiladi born and raised Jen Sar Kiladi, would likely have wound up matriculating at a Terran institution out of interest and curiosity in/about things Terran, and explained some of his fascination to his mistress and his mistress' daughter about it and how and why he had come to be so far from Liad and Liaden space... and would have done some compare and contrasts between Liadens culture and Terran. Also, he would have explained the less savory things about Liaden culture and that perhaps he was happy to be away from it (think about Kara and her describing to Theo how she reacted to Liad, and how happy she was to be out of there and back to Eylot which though it had unstable politics, didn;t get homicidal over bowing ineptly).
In my own family history, my maternal grandfather left England at the age of 16, presumably at least in part to get away from his mother, and never saw his mother again. He was apparently in contact with his full sister and perhaps some of his older half-siblings, however. From all accounts his mother was an Aunt Kareen sort, labeled "a dragon lady."
Getting back, though...
In the event that Jen Sar had been declanned, he would have said so--the woman in the story who took up with the bipolar artist, explained the situation she was in to him I think. Ren Zel freely admitted to Shan what his situation was of being legally dead. Priscilla was hurting still over what had happened a decade prior being declared dead on her birth planet and having had to leave it but admitted what had happened to Lina and to Shan.
But again, getting back to Jen Sar Kiladi if Jen Sar Kiladi had been born Jen Sar Kiladi--I expect that he would have provided information about Liad and Liadens, both the complimentary and the uncomplimentary, to Theo as information she needed to know, before she went out off the planet of Delgado.
And if he didn't, he would have been shortchanging Theo and acting badly, and failing a major test as a parent--that is, failing to attempt as best he could, to properly apprise Theo of critical informatin, and what to do in what situation. Even such information as "stay away from Liaden and Liaden contracts" would have been more information that "Jen Sar Kilady" gaven Theo...
Re: Thought experiment
Back to if Jen Sar Kiladi were actually Jen Sar Kiladi...
Miri had an identification item from her lineage, even though her grandmother, was it, had left the clan to bear a child the Delm had demanded be aborted, and then had gotten stuck permanently never getting back to Erob's clan house. Miri's mother married Miri's father and was stuck on Surebleak and died there, on a planet with a flattened economy. Miri managed to get away by signing on with a mercenary outfit and soldiering. Miri was raised Terran, but she had no aspirations to deal with Liadens/be a pilot, either, when first met in Agent of Change. She had worse problems--recovering drug addict, and stiffed financially and on marginal funds.
Jen Sar Kiladi would have come from a background which effected him winding up at a Terran educational institution studying Cultural Genetics and then teaching it at a Terran university on a Terran planet. Was her perhaps inspired by Anne Davis, or someone who was an influence upon her?
I expect that a Jen Sar Kiladi born and raised Jen Sar Kiladi, would likely have wound up matriculating at a Terran institution out of interest and curiosity in/about things Terran, and explained some of his fascination to his mistress and his mistress' daughter about it and how and why he had come to be so far from Liad and Liaden space... and would have done some compare and contrasts between Liadens culture and Terran. Also, he would have explained the less savory things about Liaden culture and that perhaps he was happy to be away from it (think about Kara and her describing to Theo how she reacted to Liad, and how happy she was to be out of there and back to Eylot which though it had unstable politics, didn;t get homicidal over bowing ineptly).
In my own family history, my maternal grandfather left England at the age of 16, presumably at least in part to get away from his mother, and never saw his mother again. He was apparently in contact with his full sister and perhaps some of his older half-siblings, however. From all accounts his mother was an Aunt Kareen sort, labeled "a dragon lady."
Getting back, though...
In the event that Jen Sar had been declanned, he would have said so--the woman in the story who took up with the bipolar artist, explained the situation she was in to him I think. Ren Zel freely admitted to Shan what his situation was of being legally dead. Priscilla was hurting still over what had happened a decade prior being declared dead on her birth planet and having had to leave it but admitted what had happened to Lina and to Shan.
But again, getting back to Jen Sar Kiladi if Jen Sar Kiladi had been born Jen Sar Kiladi--I expect that he would have provided information about Liad and Liadens, both the complimentary and the uncomplimentary, to Theo as information she needed to know, before she went out off the planet of Delgado.
And if he didn't, he would have been shortchanging Theo and acting badly, and failing a major test as a parent--that is, failing to attempt as best he could, to properly apprise Theo of critical informatin, and what to do in what situation. Even such information as "stay away from Liaden and Liaden contracts" would have been more information that "Jen Sar Kilady" gaven Theo...