Relationships...

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30 Day Book Meme: – Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship

Foremost and favourite: Miles Vorkosigan's relationship with his father in the Lois McMaster Bujold novels, especially in The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game. They are a delight; and some of the scenes in which they are together just break my heart. We never see Miles from Aral's point of view, but we never really have to. I love the image of Aral, as Regent of Barrayar, making time each day to play on the floor with his fragile four year old, who can't want. The scene in The Vor Game, for instance, when Miles meets Aral after his harrowing adventures with Gregor:

They entered officers' country. Lieutenant Yegorov led them through an antechamber and into a spartanly-appointed flag office twice the size of anything Miles had seen on a Barrayaran ship before. Admiral Count Aral Vorkosigan looked up from his comconsole desk as the doors slid silently back.

Miles stepped through, his belly suddenly shaking inside. To conceal and control his emotion he tossed off, "Hey, you Imperial snails are going to go all fat and soft, lolling around in this kind of luxury, y'know?"

"Ha!" Admiral Vorkosigan stumbled out of his chair and banged around the corner of his desk in his haste. Well, no wonder, how can he see with all that water standing in his eyes? He enfolded Miles in a hard embrace. Miles grinned and blinked and swallowed, face smashed against that cool green sleeve, and almost had control of his features again when Count Vorkosigan held him out at arm's length for an anxious, searching inspection. "You all right, boy?"

"Just fine. How'd you like your wormhole jump?"

Other choices:

• Lymond's friendship with Kate Somerville in the Dunnett novels
  
• Lymond's friendship with Will Scott
  
• Lymond's fraught relationship with his mother
  
• The relationship between Wolverine and his son Daken in Marvel comics
  
• The relationship between Wolverine and Jubilee in Marvel comics
  
• The friendship between Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four
  
• Cairo Azarcon and his son Ryan in the Karin Lowachee novels, particularly Burndive
  
• Batman and Nightwing in DC comics; or for that matter, Dick Grayson and Damian. To my surprise and joy, they are delightful together.
  
• The relationships between Andrej Koscuisko and just about anyone in the Jurisdiction Universe novels by Susan R. Matthews
  
• Aragorn and Legolas in The Lord of the Rings