Right now (Ch. 1 & 2) he reminds me a lot of Tully, from the Chanur books, if Tully could speak hani without a machine translator.
It also really amused me to read about Bren dressing himself and braiding his own hair, when in not that many books he's going to sit and let someone do all of that even when there's a rush for time!
Also, either Bren is wrong or Cherryh changed her mind about how prevalent Assassins would be - Bren thinks that "Banichi, unlike the majority of the aiji's guards, had a license," and ISTM from later books that unless Tabini had a lot of guards (dozens), most of them would be Assassins. On the other hand, when Tabini announces his Intent, he specifically names which Assassin he will authorize to carry out the, uh, intent, so to speak, so maybe licensing is more a matter of being someone who acts publicly as an Assassin?
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It also really amused me to read about Bren dressing himself and braiding his own hair, when in not that many books he's going to sit and let someone do all of that even when there's a rush for time!
Also, either Bren is wrong or Cherryh changed her mind about how prevalent Assassins would be - Bren thinks that "Banichi, unlike the majority of the aiji's guards, had a license," and ISTM from later books that unless Tabini had a lot of guards (dozens), most of them would be Assassins. On the other hand, when Tabini announces his Intent, he specifically names which Assassin he will authorize to carry out the, uh, intent, so to speak, so maybe licensing is more a matter of being someone who acts publicly as an Assassin?