Biggest Green Flags of Cosmere Villains
Last week I talked about the biggest red flags of various Cosmere characters. And while doing so, I realized that the Cosmere sure does have some walking red-flag factories! So let's take those characters whose red flags number in the hundreds and give them a chance: what are the biggest green flags of characters who don't have many to their name?
Note: I'm using "villain" loosely here--sure, some of these guys had heel face turns or may be more antihero than villain, but listen. They're all morally gray at least.
Szeth: Keeps his promises.
Denth: Good sense of humor.
Aesudan: Knows how to party.
Tarvangian: Only considered eugenics--no implementation!
Crow: Did NOT (successfully) sell a woman into slavery.
Lezian: Very goal-oriented.
Raboniel: Promotes women in science.
Iyatil: Can commit to the bit.
Mraize: Seems to care about his bird, I guess?
Moash: Anti-slavery. Anti-unlawful imprisonment. Gently moves aside a child before killing his father.
Miles: Wants to help the downtrodden. Should be friends with Moash.
Lord Ruler: Really good at naming things (@cosmere-cosmeme)
Hrathen: Sharp dresser.
Dilaf: Good public speaker.
Amaram: Good wages and benefits for any of his men that he's not murdering.
Ialai: Lots of spies friends.
Sadeas: Knows his wife's favorite place to have her back scratched.
Straff: Helpfully manages to be SO terrible that you can enjoy his death guilt-free. So generous!
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Actually, I'm not pointing any fingers at the Heralds for not stepping in with the Lord Ruler situation. I wouldn't put that responsibility on broken heroes from another planet.
That said, I'd bet money that one of them knew about him and had interplanetary deals going on with him in secret.
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Cosmere Characters Versus A Printer
[Previously: Cosmere Characters Versus A Toaster]
Once again, Cosmere characters are up against modern technology. In a world where they encountered printers, how would these characters handle it?
Kaladin: Knows that the printer can sense fear. Knows that it will exploit weaknesses. Maintains eye contact with the printer throughout the printing process, sweating nervously. It jams.
Adolin: Chats with his printer every day, of course, but has an in-depth conversation before each and every printing job. It always works slightly faster for him than for anyone else.
Shallan: Innately senses the printer's passion--and pain. Draws an idealized version of the printer, where it heroically prints sharp images with smooth efficiency. It works much better after that--but only for her.
Yumi: Performs an elaborate ritual before each printing job in order to gain the printer's trust and cooperation. It works...amazingly well.
Painter: Swears that the wrinkled, ink-stained pages he dragged out of the jam are his artistic vision. (It kinda works.)
Elhokar: Is sure that the printer has it out for him, specifically.
Tress: Must use one of those giant, jam-prone combination printers/copiers/faxes you find in offices. It's large and frightening. Tress is the only person who can consistently diagnose and fix the jams.
Dalinar: Was not aware that printers could jam.
Jasnah: Has an innate understanding of printers due to her Inkspren. I think that's how that works.
Sibling: Is pretty sure that is a spren trapped in that printer and does NOT approve.
Stump: Always claims the printer is faking when it says it's "out of ink." You just have to shake the cartridges!
Lord Ruler: Was late for a meeting ten thousand years ago when a printer had to do maintenance and has been working to suppress printer technology ever since.
Vasher: Percussive maintenance.
Renarin: Experimented with printing out ominous, red-ink signs that said things like IT'S COMING. 10 DAYS. But scrawling on the walls was just better somehow.
Nomad: Is constantly living on the edge (prints when he only has exactly the number of sheets of paper required)
Autonomy: Always has two printers facing each other printing at the same time. Whichever one prints slower she smashes with a hammer. She swears this makes them faster.
Steris: Has actually mastered double-sided printing--knows how to re-feed the pages into the printer so that everything comes out facing the right way up. Even writing this I am filled with intense awe.
Nale: Has one of those printers with proprietary ink where it, like, automatically stops working if you try to use another company's ink. He thinks this is fine. I feel sick writing this.
Elend: Once said aloud, "Yum yum printer is hungry feed it paper" and now Vin will NOT let him live it down.
Wax: Honestly misses those old dot matrix printers whose pages had sprocket holes on the side and you had to, like, tear them off along the perforated edges
MeLaan: Doesn't use printers. Can eat a stapled, collated report and produce 15 identical copies from her butt. Nobody likes this.
(Well, except for Wayne.)
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“We’ll still be pretty short handed,” Ham said, rubbing his chin. “Spook isn’t supposed to be back for another week, and the Lord Ruler only knows where Breeze went. We haven’t had a message from him in months.”
This makes me sad; reminds me of when Dox used the Lord Ruler colloquially and how deep it stung at Kelsier to see that even his friend had it so ingrained in him.
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