Re point one: I think that for some people, social interaction is a lot easier when everyone has a specific role to fill. Cordelia seems to do really well under military discipline, where she knows everyone's assignments and relative ranks (even loose discipline, like Beta's) but not so well in the murkier, shiftier places of a personal life. She was lucky enough that in marrying High Vor she basically married her personal life into military service - even the women's command that Alys runs is no less regimented. If there's a system to work, she can work the system, and blossom. She just needs the system.
(Aral, on the other hand, doesn't do all that well under a system - it wasn't until after he had Cordelia to teach him that he really learned the trick of owning a role instead of letting it own you, so he had to keep rebelling in order to let *himself* out. They're really each others' best-case scenario.)
Also, Cordelia's ex-fiance was a horrible, horrible little troll.
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Date: 2009-05-15 05:04 pm (UTC)(Aral, on the other hand, doesn't do all that well under a system - it wasn't until after he had Cordelia to teach him that he really learned the trick of owning a role instead of letting it own you, so he had to keep rebelling in order to let *himself* out. They're really each others' best-case scenario.)
Also, Cordelia's ex-fiance was a horrible, horrible little troll.