I've reached the part of Rhythm of War where Kaladin invents group therapy but also refuses to go to group therapy
Kaladin: I think it would be helpful to get a group of people who have been through similar trauma together in a safe calm environment where they could talk to each other. They could support each other and won't feel judged because they've had similar experiences. I think this will work because I've been through some traumatic events and I would benefit from something like that
Kaladin's friends: so you'll be joining this group too right?
Kaladin: Oh. No.
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adolin half teasing kaladin while out for drinks sometime in Urithiru: you know your feats on the shattered plains aren't quite as impressive now that I've seen more of your magic glowing powers thing.
Kalidan: hm
Adolin: knew there was something weird about you. Ha. I mean i was amazed at the time, but surviving the fall from that bridge sabotage isn't really anything now that I've seen-
Kalidan: actually I didn't have my powers for that part
Adolin: what
Shallan: it's true he didn't
Kalidan: Lost syl right after prison, I got maybe a chip of stormlight while falling , just enough to not die, no powers the rest of the time
Adolin: how
Kalidan: I already explained the whole - with elhokar and moash -
Adolin: no, i mean, the highstorm -
Kaladin: yeah that was shallan
Shallan: shardblade cubby cut out part way up the wall
Adolin: and the chasm fiend? It really was already dead -
Shallan: no very much alive, very much tried to kill us
Adolin: and you-
Shallan: no that was kaladin
Adolin: what
Kaladin: I mean you did distract it, and I wouldn't have been able to do anything without your pattern blade
Adolin: you killed a chasm fiend. Without special powers.
Kaladin: I mean shallan-
Shallan: he jumped right in its mouth!
Adolin: i - you killed a chasm fiend. Without any other fighters. By yourself. Without radiant powers. You're - you're sure? No special abilities?
Kaladin: it was a pretty painful time, yes I'm sure. Did some spear katas. Noticeable difference without the bond with syl.
Adolin: you fought the chasm fiend. handicapped.
Kaladin: I guess? I dont know if it's handicapped considering, you know, most people don't ever breathe stormlight.
Adolin: you killed a chasm fiend singlehandedly. Without shardplate. And without any powers.
Kaladin: you're repeating yourself
Shallan: ...it was pretty impressive
Kaladin: you saw how messed up my leg got!
Adolin:
Adolin: I hate you so much.
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8 - Design // SPOILERS for Rhythm of War and Yumi
Well, well, well … since I do have some lineart for the scene in which we are properly introduced to Design lying around on my shelved-project-shelf, I took the opportunity to try colour some bits of it. That cryptic is such a delight. I am sure she would have been brilliant at annoying Elhokar as well. But I guess Hoid kind of deserves her, too.
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The argument that Moash was the only one in Bridge Four that didn't see Kaladin as some kind of deity or hero really falls apart once you get to the Bridge Four POV chapters in Oathbringer. They're like "yeah, Kaladin is great, but sometimes he can be an idiot, you know" and things of the sort.
Meanwhile, in Oathbringer and Rhythm of War Moash's POVs actually show that he paints Kaladin as this perfect man and soldier.
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still cant believe brandon gave kaladin a time skip, entirely off screen girlfriend to try and beat the gay allegations
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dalinar and navani, desperately looking for a nightwatcher bondsmith in time for the contest of champions: we saw you from across the tower and we really dig your vibe,
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This is different from my usual posts, but y’all, please be careful about how you talk about Moash’s blindness. I’m a blind person, and I hate that scene in RoW. It’s so easy to read Moash’s vision loss as a punishment, but we don’t know how it’ll be handled in the future
And please, for the love of Adonalsium, don’t say that Moash deserved to go blind.
Moash being the first blind character in the Cosmere is very concerning to me, mostly because of how it was left off. As I said, it’s easy to read it as a punishment, but viewing blindness that way is harmful to real blind people
Just please, be careful. I tried to phrase this more eloquently earlier, but it was only stressing me out. Moash is a divisive character, and I don’t like that he will be the first example of a blind character in the Cosmere. Just try to keep in mind that Moash’s situation is *not* a judgment of all blind people. Blindness isn’t wrong or bad. It’s just another way to exist
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Navani and Raboniel: Rhythm of War
I've heard
Since I was younger
That oil and water don't mix
They're polar opposites
With a molecular rift you can't fix
But I swear with all your burnt bridges
You could leech what's caustic and find
A rudimentary lye
Some kinda miraculous bind
Soap by: The Oh Hello's
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Vyre
He is unchained. Or is he?
I know fans are in two minds about him. Personally, I just want him to be an interesting character. So I wish, we would have gotten a bit more of him, more of the bond he had with Kaladin. I find him difficult to grasp, especially his whole reasoning about how ending his misery would be the best solution for his former friend and bridge leader in RoW.
And so I sketched them a bit more, to see what I could get from that, trying to understand him a little bit better (and how I want his face structured for my version of him; I have drawn Moash only a few times so far). The biggest conclusion was, that he should have never cut his hair, since it seems his man-bun contained all his honor.
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Everybody talks about Kaladin admiring Shallan’s self-destructive coping mechanisms, but nobody ever mentions when Venli comes across Kaladin crumpled over the corpse of one of his closest friends, immobilized due to the sheer weight of his sorrow, about to go on a murderous rampage, and goes “damn. I wish I could feel like that”
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