Anikira

[CourtneyLee]

I love Anikira. She's a wonderful wife to Kudorin and a fantastic sister to the rest of the Siblings. And as a female reader, it's great to have a fellow woman among the testosterone overload. Not that I don't adore testosterone overload. You know what I mean. 

One of the things I like most is that we get constant reminders that she and Kudorin are in love with each other, not just together to create the next generation. I also love that, while we have seen Kudorin and Anikira interact sexually, we haven't actually seen them have sex, which is even better. In this manlovefest, girl cooties are . I adore that Anikira is more his best friend than his wife when he talks to her about his relationship with Xio Voe. She's all-around cool.

I'm really looking forward to seeing her and Xio Voe interact more and I want them to be friends. Xio Voe doens't really know what it's like to have a sister, a real sister, and I hope that Anikira can give him that and that it influences his relationship with his siblings. 

[LilacMajesty]

I love Anikira's sense of humor, its so close to Anosukinom's.  Although its not really fair when they gang up on poor Remin.

[SilverMoon28]

I adore Anikira!

Her relationship with Kudorin is flawless,and I love how the two of them complete each other.  I wish we could see more of how she and Kudorin courted, because that'd be awesome.

Vani

[LilacMajesty]

You never know what backstories lurk in the recesses of Matthew's mind.

[Mountie]

I am looking forward to learning more.  It is interesting that with Ankira it was more of a natually developing relatinship; childhood freinds then deciding to be with each other as life partners and raising 7 children together.  Ankira is Bi too with a preference for women so that had to be a factor as well.

I see the opposite sex marraige as being more of a partnership between the Pharoh and thier spouse.  I wonder if there is much difference between Pharoh's.  Do they always marry their same sex spouse solely for love?  Are they created by their Gods to be Bi with a same sex leaning?  Has their ever been a Pharoh that was completely Heterosexual and just married their same sex spouse to further poitical alliances, run the palace and help rear the children?

[CourtneyLee]

I'd imagine that all pharaohs are bisexual because the gods would never make Mutotanosa have to be with someone he/she couldn't love. I think that the same-sex marriage is always primarily for love because the pharaoh needs a great deal of companionship while their opposite-sex spouse and one or more of their children are gone for weeks at a time, representing the throne around Orina Anoris.

Can you imagine Kudorin without a spouse by his side for that long, able to interact intimately only with his belas? All Anorians love him because he is their Pharaoh and their god, one of the Seven Siblings. His belas are like that, too, as evidenced by the fact that most of them trained as priests before entering bela training. But the purpose of Anosukinom is having a ruler who is both man and god and the needs of the man are just as important as the needs of the god. He needs a constant stream of affection, sex, love, and companionship from someone who loves him for him, not because he's a god. Also, his spouses remain his spouses after his divinity leaves him and goes to their eldest child, so they need to be cool with him not being divine anymore. We saw how Anorik was affectionate with Manosuta as well as with Eleita. I'd imagine that Anorik's marriages grew stronger as many long-term exceptional marriages tend to do regardless of whether she was Anosukinom or Anorik.

Anikira fell in love with Kudorin as a man, continues to love him as a god, and will love him just the same when he is no longer Anosukinom. Xio Voe, I think, was awed by the god and loves Anosukinom as he loves the Soracic gods, albeit more directly, but he kind of accidentally fell in love with Kudorin in the process. I love that part.     

[CourtneyLee]

Reason #47 to love Anikira:

“He’s infuriating!” Kudorin shouted.  “He’s defensive and confrontational and arrogant and impossible and frustrating and maddening and smug!  He’s controlling and demanding and argumentative!  He has to know everything but he won’t tell me anything!  He’s brilliant and beautiful and new and oh, gods above,” he laughed, falling on his back across the grass, “I love him.”  Feeling fresh peals of love swirl through him, he released them, gazing in happiness up at the bright moon above.  Xio Voe was so much more than he’d ever expected to receive from the world.

            His swiftly assembled family stared at him, waiting for more.  He’d snatched most of them out of a partner’s arms, taking care to cover them first.  Bade and Vade remained disoriented the longest, of course, the others being swifter to recover.

            “He is all of those things,” Remin acknowledged, pushing his hair back and crossing his arms over his chest.  “I’m compelled to mention that only someone as perverse as you would delight in that.”

            “Kudorin isn’t perverse,” Rini objected.

            “He certainly is,” Anikira said.  “It’s about time one of you called him on it.”

            “And why couldn’t you have done it?” Remin asked her.

            “I would never do such a thing,” Anikira said, tossing her hair.  “I’m his loving wife.”

[Mountie]

Anikira is really starting to come into her own now.  With the immenent marriage of Kudorin and Xoe Voe she will be able to step into the role she has been looking forward too since she was a child, being the Anorian opposite sex spouse of the Pharoh.  Travelling throughout Orina Anoris bringing the Pharoh to their people.

I am hoping that we get to see just a bit more of Anikira as time goes on, she is a wonderful counterpoint to all the brothers and their male partners.  It will also be interesting to see how sh hands over the reins of the palace to Xoe Voe.