#duv galeni

[vorkosigankinkmeme]

Byerly Vorrutyer/Duv Galeni

Byerly tries to honeypot Duv.

don't think I've ever seen this pairing before, cool, thanks! I'll add it to ao3 as well.

[elena1701a]

It is the kind of thing that Miles would do, isn’t it? All in good intentions…

I love how Miles in Memory is doing his best to wingman for his buddy Duv, but accidentally instead introduced the woman Duv is interested in to the emperor instead.

[child-of-hurin]

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Found myself, out of the blue and all of a sudden, missing my dear brother Mark Pierre Vorkosigan so I decided to reread Brothers in Arms. Whereupon I found my other beloved brother, Duv Galeni

[litcityblues]

'Captain Vorpatril's Alliance' --A Review

After reading so much of the Vorkosigan Saga, I should have had a little more faith in Lois McMaster Bujold, but I have to be honest: this one took awhile to really click for me and I'm not entirely sure why. Initially, I thought it was due to the lack of Miles in it-- but then the character of Ivan Vorpatril, here moving to center stage for his very own book, has always been present in the other books. Sometimes it's just a mention in passing, sometimes Miles has to rescue him from the clutches of the bad guys, but one way or another he always seems to be around.

The novel opens on Komarr, where Ivan is recruited by Byerly Vorrutyer who is undercover for ImpSec to find out the identity of a young woman named Tej who is connected- somehow to his investigation and whom Bylerly thinks may be in danger. Not wanting to compromise his cover, he drags Ivan into doing what Ivan is normally pretty good at flirting with women. But, Ivan might have met his match, because initially, she rejects him outright.

He is persistent though-- and that might be what kept this book from clicking at first, because despite the fact that Ivan's doing his best on behalf of Byerly, you as the reader, kind of squirm a little at the fact that he's following a random woman back to her apartment. Tej, however, invites him in-- not because she's taken leave of her senses or has succumbed to his charms, but to allow her and her companion to ambush Ivan, take him captive, and tie him to a chair.

Ivan spends the night tied to a chair but alerts the women to two men breaking into their apartment, after they stun the intruders, Ivan offers his own flat as a safe house for them and reluctantly, they agree. Ivan soon finds out that Tej and her friend (who is blue and named) Rish are refugees from Jackson's Whole, believed to be the last survivors of House Cordonah who had recently fallen to a hostile takeover from a rival house. (Emphasis on hostile.)

Unfortunately, this means that their enemies have placed a lucrative amount of money out on the market to retrieve any survivors. The men that broke into their apartment work the legal system on Komarr to accuse Ivan of kidnapping the two women and accuse Tej and Rish of illegally entering the planet and using local authorities show up at Ivan's door and start to break in. As the police force their way into the house, Ivan does the one thing he can think of to resolve the situation: he marries Tej and hires Rish as her employee.

After disentangling them from their local legal troubles and realizing that Barrayar would be more secure for both women and provide a greater degree of protection from bounty hunters, being further away from the galactic core, they all head back to Barrayar. Back in Barrayar, Ivan and Tej decide that their marriage is one of convenience and soon as she and Rish figure out their next move (possibly to the planet Escobar where her brother might be), they'll get a divorce. Ivan introduces Tej to his family-- stopping by to meet Miles and Ekaterin, Duv Galeni and Delia, even the Emperor himself before the biggest test of all, Lady Alys and Simon Illyan.

Everyone is.. amused. Ivan has finally gotten married and even though he insists that it's only temporary, everyone seems to be in on some kind of inner joke, except Count Falco Vorpatril, who is not at all amused at Ivan for treating the idea of marriage and it's associated vows so lightly and refuses to grant them a divorce.

That wrinkle in their plans is further complicated by the arrival of Tej's entire family, who managed to escape. While Tej is happy to see her family, it turns out that they have other motives for their arrival. Tej's grandmother, a former haut lady from Cetaganda, knows of an underground bunker forgotten after the Cetagandans had been driven off Barrayar a century before-- the family hopes to find it and use the funds to launch an attempt to restore their house.

As the plotting begins, Tej begins to resent the overbearing presence of her family and starts wondering if life with Ivan might not be so bad after all, because at least, it would be hers. Ivan begins to develop feelings for her as well but manages to get drawn into the heist which goes awry, leaving them trapped in the bunker awaiting rescue. There, they confess their feelings for each other and after being rescued, Tej's family agrees to be Barrayar's covert friend in Jackson's Whole and heads home to start their reclamation process. Ivan is posted to the distant planet of Ylla and Tej goes with him and they both end the book reading letters from home on a glorious, tropical afternoon, planning their future together.

Once this novel got going-- I think probably around the point when Ivan decided to marry Tej on the fly, this one completely flipped for me. It was sort of rough going at first. We were seeing Tej's POV, then Ivan's and it just wasn't clicking the way other books in the series had (though to be fair, Komarr introduces shifting POVs between Miles and Ekaterin, so it's not a radical departure for the series.) In the end, though, much like Ivan with a variety of women over the course of the series, it charms you. It's charming because it works. The relationship between Tej and Ivan never feels forced. There's an undercurrent of 'boy wonder finally meets the right person and grows up' to all of this that really showcases Ivan not being dragged kicking and screaming into growing up and having a serious relationship for the first time, but choosing too.

Overall: I love this series. I love these books. I have yet to read one that I haven't liked. I love these characters. I feel like The Vorkosigan Saga seems to be fly under the radar a little bit, but it probably shouldn't. My Grade: **** out of ****

[runawayballista]

god i love duv galeni

[pearls-gone-wild]

Ok, but Galeni gets his own back in "A Civil Campaign":

"Now you had that doctorate in Barrayaran history. Do any really interesting District succession squabbles spring to your memory?"

"Lord Midnight the horse," Galeni replied at once. "Who always voted 'neigh'."

Are you kidding me

[vorkosigankinkmeme]

F!Duv Galeni/Gregor Vorbarra.

As a woman, Duv can't join the Barrayan Imperial Service to lauch a political career so what other paths are available to her?

Become a civilian employee for Impsec? Work for Alys Vorpatril? Become Empress?

thanks! I'll add it to the ao3 collection.

[ao3feed-vorkosigansaga]

An Adamant Light

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/OJVbLYq

by curious_cat

Miles, Gregor, and their peers--fellow magical children on Barrayar and beyond--have been preparing for years to enter the Scholomance, the fantastic and fantastically dangerous magical school that is the best chance of survival for teenage mages all over the Nexus. What they find inside is a challenge even greater than they had imagined. Worse, Barrayar's entire future rests on Gregor surviving his four years and graduating triumphant to take his place as Emperor.

Words: 645, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Miles Vorkosigan, Gregor Vorbarra, Ivan Vorpatril, Elena Bothari-Jesek, Delia Koudelka, Elli Quinn, Dag Benin, Duv Galeni, Original Characters

Relationships: Gregor Vorbarra & Miles Vorkosigan

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Scholomance (Novik) Setting, the setting is a warning, Violence, canon ages of characters have been compressed for story reasons, Politics

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/OJVbLYq

[proto-language]

literally every time duv galeni shows up in a vorkosigan saga novel he is just Going The Fuck Through It

[krakenartificer]

I have always imagined that the turning point in their relationship was when Miles took in Duv going berserk and was utterly unfazed by it. Duv’s like “oh god what kind of monster do I have within?!” And Miles is just like

Miles: look, it happens. Sometimes you kinda lose control of your actions, and when you come to yourself it turns out you’ve done something “illegal” or “treasonous” or smth. The trick is, the thing you have to do is, you have to make sure that whatever you do, you turn it to be used for the good of Barrayar.

Galeni: An interesting philosophy. Do you share it, Captain Quinn?

Elli: Oh yes. Well, not the good of Barrayar, but the concept, sure.

Duv: fascinating

(he doesn’t really break until he spends enough time as head of Komarran Affairs to realize that Gregor shares this philosophy. Then he has to go hide under his desk and gibber for a bit)

“Miles was not even to the end of Act I when the two guardsdragged him back down the lift tube and threw him roughly back into his prison room.”

… You know, the fact that Duv Galeni is like, genuine friends with Miles after this is all the more stunning remembering he didn’t just have to deal with Miles Naismith Vorkosigan as a subordinate, he also had to deal with Miles having an idiosyncratic truth serum reaction that caused him to perform most of Richard III as a high-speed one-man show at Duv.

Poor dude. At least it works out for him long-term, but. Man.

[curious-kat]

okay so new Vorkosigan headcanon:  on Barrayar they sell special Vor address books with an extra long “V” section that has alphabetic subheadings, to properly organize your Vor contacts. These are mostly catered towards Vor who have to keep track of their family members, but some lucky (or unlucky) proles who become involved enough in Vorbarr Sultana politics to have lots of Vor friends and acquaintances buy them too.

Cue poor Duv Galeni, half a year into his capitol posting, standing miserably in a stationary store and having a quiet breakdown over the fact that there is an entire market of address books just for the upper class. He calls Laisa about it, but she’s unsympathetic. “It makes sense, because their names all start with the same letter. Don’t overthink it,” she says. Laisa is perhaps the wrong person to talk to about this, having also come from hereditary wealth.

[aquitainequeen]

"Yes. Now, you had that doctorate in Barrayaran history. Do any really interesting District succession squabbles spring to your memory?" "Lord Midnight the horse,” Galeni replied at once. “Who always voted ‘neigh."

A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold

[outshinethestars]

I’ve just been reading Brothers in Arms again (yes I did just marathon every Vorkosigan book I could get my hands on and have started reading them over again, what of it?) and I came to Duv’s introduction again, and like.

I really, really want to see the alternate universe where Miles gives in to temptation and asks Duv “Who are you the son of?” Because wow.  Wow would that be an interesting way for them to have begun their acquaintance.

[elena1701a]

I was going to say that this isn’t true, but…

Then I was going to say that it’s just Miles, but… there’s Aral’s proposal to Cordelia, Drou and Kou needing Cordelia to play matchmaker, Miles with Elena, then Elli, then Ekaterin, Ivan’s hasty proposal to Tej, and I get the feeling that Delia may have steered Duv in the direction…

But, Gregor’s proposal to Laisa seemed to go smoothly! As far as we know.

Really, if you think about it, The Vorkosigan Saga is just the story of a series of marriage proposals increasing exponentially in awkwardness each time until one of them finally works.

[litcityblues]

"Memory" --A Review

I went to the library a while back because the Eldest Spawn is getting tutored in math once a week and I wasn't planning on checking out any books- as my dance card is pretty full when it comes to reading, but naturally, that meant I went home with three books I hadn't planned on reading- one of which was Memory, the next installment of the Vorkosigan Saga.

This is the first Vorkosigan Novel I haven't snagged off Audible, so it was kind of a different experience at first-- but incredibly enjoyable just the same. I don't know why I've listened to them all on Audiobook-- I just started and kept going that way, so it was nice to mix it up with this one and get an actual book in my hands to enjoy the next installment.

Memory opens with Miles waking up on a hospital bed in a Dendarii Medbay after he has a seizure during a mission and accidentally (but thankfully not fatally) cuts the hostage's legs off. He's been having seizures periodically ever since he was resuscitated during Mirror Dance and, in typical Miles fashion, he's been keeping them secret, desperately hoping they would go away on their own.

However, cutting a hostage's legs off tends to be something that gets noticed and his lover and second in command Eli Quinn calls him out on his condition and grounds him, sending him back to Barrayar to report to his boss, Simon Illyan, the head of ImpSec. Unfortunately for Miles, the temptation to keep his double life as Admiral Naismith, commander of the Dendarii Mercenaries going proves too great, so he falsifies his report- but Illyan finds out and he's forced to accept a medical discharge out of ImpSec.

Out of a job, bounced out of the service, and unwilling to flee into permanent exile and go back to the Dendarii (there's a Barryaran law that prevents members of the Vor class from running their own private armies and it's a capital offense-- Miles has been getting around that by having his fleet work for the government, but now that's gone.) he falls into a deep depression, but his cousin Ivan and ImpSec Captain Duv Galeni (from Brothers In Arms) get him out of his funk.

Galeni is enamored and to the point of proposing to a wealthy Komarran heiress, Laisa Toscane, but when they go to a party thrown by the Emperor, Gregor impresses her, and the two falls in love before Galeni can propose. He blames Miles and it sort of ends there, because suddenly, Simon Illyan is suffering a crippling mental breakdown- his eidetic memory chip is malfunctioning and badly- dumping random sets of memories into his mind faster and faster. Miles attempts to investigate himself but gets immediately stonewalled by the new Impsec Boss- so he goes to Gregor and asks him to make him an Imperial Auditor, a troubleshooter answerable only to the Emperor himself.

This breaks the logjam with impressive speed. They soon discover that a synthetic biological agent is responsible for the breakdown in Illyan's implant and Miles orders it removed. Illyan survives the operation and moves into Vorkosigan House to recover but Miles is no closer to an explanation until he finds a false record claiming that he, Miles entered the ImpSec storeroom. Then, they find a weapon commissioned by Ser Galen, Duv Galeni's father and then just as quickly Duv Galeni is arrested and Miles, convinced it's a frame-up has to move fast to unearth the real culprit.

(Which, of course, he does) Despite a tempting offer to go back to the Dendarii, he declines and Gregor (after consulting with the other Imperial Auditors) makes his appointment permanent. Miles makes one last attempt to get Eli to marry him, but she declines and more or less, everything ends happily.

Overall: What an incredible book this is... this might be my favorite of the series so far because it feels like such a turning point in the overall saga. There's so much character development in this book, so much growth for Miles- who goes from depressed and unmoored when he loses Admiral Naismith and the Dendarii to figuring out who he is- including a return visit to the backcountry of the district that we saw in The Mountains of Mourning which was probably my favorite part of the book. Bujold doesn't usually get the room all the dusty for me-- there have been a few points where it's been like, 'damn, it's dusty in here' one of which was the original Mountains of Mourning and the end of The Warrior's Apprentice where Aral has to plead for his life- but that return to the backcountry- ugh. Such a beautiful moment for the character as well as such an important moment for the series itself.

This really does feel like Miles finally growing up and getting down to the business of learning who he actually is, instead of hiding behind Naismith and the Dendarii. It's a welcome shift in direction for the character and the series and I can't wait to see what's next. I loved every page of this book. I'm glad I got the book version so I could read it and not just listen to it like I usually do. I remain incredibly frustrated it took me until adulthood to find these books but I am so glad that I did. My Grade: **** out of ****

[runawayballista]

god i love duv galeni. he doesn’t deserve ANYTHING that happens to him in brothers in arms. which is what makes it funny