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So last night as I was going to sleep I was thinking about the similarities between Tuuri Hotakainen and Miles Vorkosigan, as one does

And I realized that if Tuuri=Miles then Ensi=Piotr

And then there was nothing for it but to work out an entire Vorkosigan Saga AU for SSSS

Ensi, of course, like Piotr, was involved in every major conflict of the previous century, terror of the Cetagandans, that’s her. Naturally she can’t have been a count, but in this AU I figure first Juha and then Onni inherited the countship pretty young. So Dowager Countess Ensi was the one in charge, everyone just accepted it, desperate times and anyway if you didn’t like it you kept quiet about it or Ensi’s Vorfemme knife would be the last thing you saw.

The only person known to defy Ensi and live is Anne-Mari, when she refused to slit Tuuri’s throat when she was born. Not sure what sort of mutation Tuuri has in this scenario.

Anyway, that’s the Vorhotakainens, but what about the rest of the main cast? I figure in this AU they should each be from a different planet in keeping with the whole international nature of canon.

So you’ve got Haut Lady Reynir, you can’t get much more sheltered than that. Plus, look at his hair. In your heart you know it to be true.

Emil should come from somewhere sophisticated, technologically advanced though maybe not quite as technologically advanced as Cetaganda, smugly convinced of their superiority to everywhere else …. so, Beta Colony. And as long as we’re introducing gender changes into this AU, I could totally get behind Honorable Herm Emil. Either way, I just want art of Emil in a sarong with Betan earrings. Breasts optional.

Now, ideally I would want to make Sigrun Barrayaran, but I can’t, because Vorhotakainens. So I was thinking, Marilcan? Escobarran? But then it occurred to me–who wouldn’t want to see Sigrun with a plasma arc in one hand, a nerve disrupter in the other, and a knife in each of the other two? So yeah. Quaddie Sigrun.

And Mikkel was such a troll that they kicked him of off Athos for the sake of peace and quiet. “Go …. find us some immigrants or something,” they said. “Don’t come back till you’ve got lots. Bye!” And then the entire planet breathed a sigh of relief.