[ SECRET POST #5450 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5450 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 22 secrets from Secret Submission Post #779.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I know nothing about this series, but from these covers I would be very disappointed to find out that the male protagonist doesn't have a deep and long-standing romantic love affair with his horse.

[feotakahari]

The horses are reincarnated humans, and in the one I read, the guy and the horse had a “lifebond” that was basically marriage. (That was the same overarching series, but not one of these three.)

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Excellent! I might actually check the series out, just out of curiosity.

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

The Valdemar books are a lot of tropey fantasy fun and I'm very attached to them, but a lot of them have at least one scene of kinda heavy whumpage, sometimes including (always framed as bad) sexual assault, so be forewarned

Re: AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Much appreciated!

[(Anonymous)]

lol, I was just coming over here to comment about the horse, aka the one character that's emoting all over the place on these covers.

[(Anonymous)]

SA - Not that dark-haired protagonist isn't lovely, but he seems to be in the middle of a photo shoot for Calvin Klein.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, that horse is giving its all!

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, that's... kind of close, actually. The horses are Companions, and they choose and life-bond with specific humans (magic users in this universe known as heralds or in Vanyel's case, a rare herald-mage), often showing up at a really traumatic time in their lives to save them. The humans and their Companion can mindspeak, it's a whole big thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Now that I've seen the other replies I guess "His wife? A horse." really is inescapable.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm reminded of the Dauphin talking about his horse in Henry V. " It is a beast for
Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull
elements of earth and water never appear in him, but
only in patient stillness while his rider mounts
him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you
may call beasts."

That's just one of several speeches about his horse. In another he talks about his horse being his mistress.