Yang Fan

Unicorn & Kirin

Julian was eighteen this year, fifteen years junior to Yang himself. One description of him preserved for the ages said, “His slender, proportionate form and sensitive, translucent features put one in mind of a young unicorn.” —— Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Volume 8: Desolation

Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)

Another data point for women basically not existing in the logh-universe. Considering that

Most soldiers are male

Most Politicians are male

Most background characters are male

Women are sufficiently emancipated that a university degree and a military or political career is at least a possibility

Losing men to military recruitment is enough to cause significant difficulties in the civil working sphere

Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988)

Reinhard: I am in love with my best friend

Everyone around him: yeah we noticed, can you stop letting that rule your whole life

Yang: I’m hesitant to get into a romantic relationship for a lot of reasons. For one, everyone around me keeps dying, including the last woman I had feelings for. There’s also the chance of me dying at any moment. I feel too stained with blood to live a normal life, and I’m passively suicidal half the time. I’m stuck in a military that won’t let me resign, fighting for a corrupt government that antagonizes me at every turn; in conclusion, I won’t feel free to try again until I finally settle down to be a populist scholar.

That's actually very interesting...Their relationship really have something special, of course they care about each other but it's still different from what could be expected from newly married lovers ? The whole thing also had to be precipitated because of the consequences of their "little adventure," but without that, would have their relationship stayed the same as it used to be ? Then again, Frederica and Yang also have some sort of very professional relationship as a couple.