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There's a post going around tumblr from

prokopetz about the three types of protagonists, as follows:

1. Pursues reasonable goals with unreasonable methods

2. Has sensible plans, but tremendously fucks up the execution

3. Relentlessly competent in pursuit of goals that are objectively deranged

and every time it goes by I want to do it as "Tag your OT3". So, here (feel free to fight me on these):

Eliot is 1. Hardison is 2. Parker is 3.

Luke is 1. Han is 2. Leia is 3.
Rey is 1. Finn is 2. Poe is 3.

McCoy is 1. Kirk is 2. Spock is 3.

Joe is 1. Methos is 2. MacLeod is 3.

Sybil is 1. Vimes is 2. Vetinari is 3.

Cable is 1. Vanessa is 2. Deadpool is 3.

Mercy of Kalr is 1. Seivarden is 2. Breq is 3.

Ray is 1. Ray is 2. Ben is 3.

Thomas is 1. Peter is 2. Bev is 3.

Harrow is 1. Gideon is 2. Ianthe is 3.

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"Miles," Ivan said, "The news from home is reporting that your wife is having an affair with your clone."

"I'd heard," said Miles.

"Not Mark, mind you. That might almost make a tiny bit of sense. The other clone. The one who is, actually, you. Not a clone of you, just the real you without any of the safeguards that normally keep you from going entirely of the rails."

"They do say it's important to keep variety in one's marriage," Miles told him.

"Yes, SPEAKING of that," said Ivan, "The next batch of news had the interview where you said you knew your wife was stepping out on you, and you didn't mind."

"Well, I could hardly object, could I?" Miles asked. "After all, I've been using my old ImpSec cover idea to go about with a married woman, myself."

"Miles," Ivan said.

"Yes?"

"Miles. Miles. What is going on back home that you needed to create a distraction this badly?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about," Miles said.

What IS going on back home that needs this level of distraction? I suspect it has something to do with the Imperial Succession, which is enough to get all of Gregor's cousins to sensibly run away off-planet and out of the Barrayaran sphere of influence.

It's either something to do with Gregor, or it's whatever Cordelia and Jole are up to on Sergyar, or it's Ivan's imminent younger half-siblings by Simon that his mother hasn't been brave enough to tell him about yet, or it's the teenaged minor Cetagandan Imperial Heir who ran away from home and claimed legal sanctuary with Mark because, as a quick test determined, his genes are nearly a half-match to Mark's (via Miles) and therefore by certain caselaw he's legally Mark's son - or it really is just that things were quiet enough that Miles and Ekaterin let Naismith talk them into things, and all of the others above deciding to independently use the existing distraction for their own purposes...

I think it would have started as things being quiet enough...

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