#Moash stormlight

[cosmereclysmic]

[bloodyfesteringcraphole]

The selection of quotes on Moash’s wiki page really do a hilariously good job of summing him up succinctly

[chronicpainstevetruther]

Wait... people think Moash is irredeemable? In the everyone is redeemable books?

[hay-bails]

mostly unchained / cry for judas

[blogfromthehill]

I can finally show off my illustration for @cosmere-mini-bang! I've been working alongside the wonderful author, Rose, to bring their fic, The Fibonacci Sequence, to life. I mostly do character portraits so it was a fun challenge to figure out how to create a full composition with backgrounds and all. It took a little over a month to finish the illustration. 33 hours in total. Illustration progression below! Please read Rose's The Fibonacci Sequence and the rest of the Cosmere Mini Bang entries at the Mini Bang Gallery.

[chumsterfire]

Miracle Moash

fresh moash meme, right from the oven, get it while its hot.

[duckngk]

oash in arcane style

[karlathewitch]

Stormlight characters when it comes to the question: Who is the biggest criminal amongst you? (Spoilers for every Stormlight book)

Kaladin: "Well, there was that time I planned to kill Elokhar, despite being his bodyguard."

Adolin: "But you didn't. Whereas I straight up murdered Sadeas. And would do it again."

Shallan: "True, but he had it coming. Meanwhile I killed my parents. Like I legit poisoned and strangled my own father, soo.."

Jasnah: "Are you forgeting the time I killed a bunch of thugs just to teach you philosophy?"

Moash: "Those were criminals. I killed innocent people, one of my friends, and don't get me started what I planned for Kaladin."

Szeth: "Those are cruel deeds indeed, but half of it happened due to Odium's influence on you. I killed monarchs, highprinces, civilians, just because I was ordered to. And I had the choice to say no."

Taravangian: "Did you forget who gave you those orders? I got thousands killed for my goals, not even mentioning what I did in my hospitals"

Dalinar: "Amateurs."

[kandra-chameleon]

moash.jpeg

[emys-123]

I wish I could haunt someone’s pov like Kaladin haunts a Moash pov.

[asteroidfieldgame]

I see a lot of discussion arguing about whether Moash or other characters are redeemable, or complaining about the ways that characters like Amaram became less ambiguous and more evil, and I think this misses the themes of the series.

A big theme of the series is that a good person is one who is simply trying to do better - improving themselves and trying to be better each day than they were the last day. A lot of the series seems to support this reading: the progression of oaths, Kaladin's decision at the Honor Chasm, Dalinar's "Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing". Dalinar's "You will not have my pain!" speech basically spells this out, with him discussing the need to accept his past actions so that he can do better.

Throughout the story, characters like Kaladin, who attempt to improve themselves are the heroes. Even characters who've done horrifying things, like Dalinar and Szeth, are redeemable if they choose redemption. According to the morality of the Stormlight Archive, these are the heroes. Even Elhokar becomes a hero once he begins to try to improve himself, though this journey is cut short.

But this has a converse. Characters like Sadeas and Amaram, who are repeatedly given chances to do the right thing, but always choose the wrong thing. This, more than anything else, is what makes them the villains in the morality of the Stormlight Archives. These choices stack up worse and worse, and so, eventually, you end up the way they did, where there is nothing morally grey or defensible about either of them. That's why, by the end, Amaram is a monster bonding an Unmade and Sadeas is a mustache twirling villain. The morality of the Stormlight Archive will not allow them to stick around like the people we met early on.

Moash, right now, is headed down that path. He has had plenty of chances to choose to be less evil, but whenever given the option, seems to choose the worst option.

This does not mean he is irredeemable. No character in Stormlight is irredeemable, but they have to choose redemption. Whether or not he is redeemable does not depend on his past, or his motivations, merely whether he chooses redemption or not.

[thekinglemingle]

In many ways, Gaz is the anti-Moash

[fangirl-nadir]

There's something about not being a huge fan of a character yet somehow becoming an ally to them solely because you don't despise them like the rest of the fandom

[taravangians-storming-balls]

a moash trait I don't really hear people talk about is how much the guy will just. ask questions.

he's confused on why kaladin picked him to be a subsquad leader when he had been most vocally resistant to kaladin? he stops and asks him immediately. rock's story doesn't make sense to him? he interrupts to ask about it. fused are acting weird? he just walks up and asks to see a supervisor. dude will always stop to ask questions if something is confusing to him

[thedarkeyedcaptain]

POV your best friend and love of your life approaches you with a plot to assassinate the king since he has indirectly killed a bunch of his subjects through sheer incompetence alone (even though he's really trying. he just sucks. it's just in his nature or something.) - NOTE: it is technically your job to protect the king from any assassination attempts

[emrystheedgedancer]

“Moash is just as redeemable as Dalinar”

Yes. He is. Of course he is.

But so far the whole point of his character is that he refuses to hold himself accountable for his actions. Like that’s the WHOLE POINT. Moash and Dalinar are opposites for a reason! Dalinar refused to give his pain to Odium, Moash was eager to.

Can Moash be redeemed? Sure. But I don’t think he will be. In order to do that he’d have to do what Dalinar did and really feel the extent of the suffering he’s caused and the harm he’s done.

And that just doesn’t seem like a very Moash thing to do. He has always blamed everything and everyone else for his problems. In some cases (his family being killed) that was justified but in most it was just him ducking responsibility.

My prediction- I think Kaladin and the others will offer him redemption in WAT and I think Moash will refuse it once and for all. And then I think he and Kaladin will fight to the death tbh.