Heee! So many Thoughts. His relationship with Alys is such a fabulous coda to his arc in Memory - because, yaay, he gets a happy ending! Alys is clearly the best thing that ever happens to him.

Oh, Illya! He's this adorable and immensely acerbic blond Russian spy and he's also sort of puppyish while being determinedly hard as nails. It makes me so happy that Bujold is as much a fic writer as the rest of us.