Details of Barrayar I have forgotten

[beatrice_otter]

Do we know what Padma's Da's name was?  We can presume his father's name was Ivan, as Ivan would have been named after him.  Do we know what Aral's older brother's name was, or Aral's middle name?

What are the Vorbarra colors?  Are they red-and blue like the colors of the imperium, so that Barrayaran soldiers in parade dress are in fact wearing Vorbarra livery?  Would there then be a difference between livery and a military uniform?  I'm pretty sure we only see Gregor wearing nice suits and military uniforms, we don't see him ever wear his House uniform.  Of course military uniform usually trumps House uniform, but it doesn't always seem to.

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[lannamichaels]

It's probably not surprising that I have Thoughts on what happened to her body. (I have been trying to write Petya Introduces Guy To His Mother for how long now?) I don't think she went back to the Vorrutyers for a few reasons, the first being Hello Patriarchy. There are several possible murderers involved here, and Aral's concerns aside, I don't think Piotr should be more suspicious than Count Vorrutyer is. Her behavior wasn't looking good for the Vorrutyers either, and Piotr and Count Vorrutyer weren't just in-laws, they were first cousins. The Vorrutyers were mainstays of the conservatives, Piotr definitely was, so they were close relatives, probably good friends and war allies (they married their children off less than a decade after a civil war; they were probably on the same side), and they'd made an arranged marriage for their children. All very happy and peaceful, and then Pierre Vorrutyer's daughter starts being Sexual Freedom, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Aral's a possible murderer, so is Ges, but I think Piotr and Count Vorrutyer have equal weight when it comes to possibly being the murderer.

Also, considering the Maien: it's the close relatives. The brother. It being the father isn't too far off. It might even be the fathers *duty*, the way they see it: the mother kills the muties, the fathers kill the dishonorable women. And so the patriarchy is maintained.

And now we come to Lady Vorrutyer Vorkosigan. Even if it was suicide, no one is going to be eager to claim her as their relative. Both sides are equally as guilty of the cover-up, but who has to have her in their family graveyard? They can't put her somewhere else, that would be just making the scandal bigger. So, which one, Vorkosigan or Vorrutyer? They weren't divorced. They weren't seperated. She was married to Aral. Olivia is in the Vorkosigan family graveyard, even though she was murdered for being a Vorbarra. It seems that wives are buried with their husbands. If they were divorced, there would be a much better case for the Vorrutyers having to take her, but I think they were probably playing not-it and Piotr lost and had to bury her as Aral's wife, which she was, instead of as Count Vorrutyer's unmarried-or-divorced daughter.

Even Ges, her brother, thinks of her as Aral's wife. The patriarchy is enjoying itself when it comes to destroying this woman completely.