Wonderful chapter. If you were going for the parental whammy, you absolutely hit it.
If you can, I'd love to know more about the head-canon regarding succession in the Houses. I think I'm starting to see the edges of it, but it's more complicated than that. Obviously, marriages as regarded as nothing (much) more than business processes, which isn't really that dissimilar to the typical Royal succession, come to think of it. So, how does it work?
It's obviously not primogeniture, but can be based on birth (depending on talent). But what happens if the "birth heirs" aren't suitable. Do you always marry someone in, as with Morgan and Meryl? Find another connection within the House who's suitable? And what if the Director of a House dies and there's no obvious sucessor? Smashballs at twenty paces? Civil war in the streets? Yes, even poison?
Oh, and what's the deal with Morgan and the Director? He obviously realises her value, if he can see that empires would be built on her talents. More than that, others can obviously also see it if Linch has been offered a fortune for her. So why doesn't she see it herself? Has the Director deliberately 'undermined' her to keep her in her place? Or is it nothing more than an extension of the Asperger's, that she cannot see it herself?
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If you can, I'd love to know more about the head-canon regarding succession in the Houses. I think I'm starting to see the edges of it, but it's more complicated than that. Obviously, marriages as regarded as nothing (much) more than business processes, which isn't really that dissimilar to the typical Royal succession, come to think of it. So, how does it work?
It's obviously not primogeniture, but can be based on birth (depending on talent). But what happens if the "birth heirs" aren't suitable. Do you always marry someone in, as with Morgan and Meryl? Find another connection within the House who's suitable? And what if the Director of a House dies and there's no obvious sucessor? Smashballs at twenty paces? Civil war in the streets? Yes, even poison?
Oh, and what's the deal with Morgan and the Director? He obviously realises her value, if he can see that empires would be built on her talents. More than that, others can obviously also see it if Linch has been offered a fortune for her. So why doesn't she see it herself? Has the Director deliberately 'undermined' her to keep her in her place? Or is it nothing more than an extension of the Asperger's, that she cannot see it herself?