1) Cordelia is very difficult to shock, and very difficult to offend. Unless it's blatantly obvious that somebody is trying to insult her personally -- and sometimes even then -- she will take what's said at face value and consider it, and respond to it in good faith.
2) On the other hand, some behaviors will earn her disapproval, sometimes vehemently so. If I had to categorize them, they'd probably all fall under some variation of violating the integrity of others' minds, bodies, or spirits.
3) Even after Aral's death, Barrayar and (slightly less so) Sergyar are home to her in a way she never expected to happen and didn't realize had happened for years.
4) She has a strong tendency to jump from the specific to the abstract in conversation, and from the individual to the more universal. Less often the other way around.
5) This may be a restatement of #4, but: Cordelia is still a scientist.
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1) Cordelia is very difficult to shock, and very difficult to offend. Unless it's blatantly obvious that somebody is trying to insult her personally -- and sometimes even then -- she will take what's said at face value and consider it, and respond to it in good faith.
2) On the other hand, some behaviors will earn her disapproval, sometimes vehemently so. If I had to categorize them, they'd probably all fall under some variation of violating the integrity of others' minds, bodies, or spirits.
3) Even after Aral's death, Barrayar and (slightly less so) Sergyar are home to her in a way she never expected to happen and didn't realize had happened for years.
4) She has a strong tendency to jump from the specific to the abstract in conversation, and from the individual to the more universal. Less often the other way around.
5) This may be a restatement of #4, but: Cordelia is still a scientist.