#The Well of Ascension Spoilers

[itsnotmika]

"i love you," she whispered, tears warm on her cold cheeks. "elend, i love you. i love you..." love wouldn't be enough.

[kaladinsspear]

Listening to The Well of Ascension:

Vin: Oh no, Elend saw me go full mistborn rager and kill 6 people! Hes going to think I'm disgusting and realize I'm not good enough for him. I have to pull away because he can't possibly want me, he just wants a mistborn knife.

Meanwhile, Elend: Oh my god. My girlfriend is so competent and effective and powerful! How could somebody like her ever love an incompetent idiot like me. I failed to keep my throne despite my best effort. How could she not react to that monumental failure? That must be why she is pulling away from me.

Me:....🤦‍♂️

[redscrawl]

i think i took the Oreseur/Tensoon betrayal in WOA harder than anyone ever

[to-shards-you-say]

big fan of how he sets up for 780 pages of men finding vin intimidating

[butwhybother]

(It's just how I read things, but anyway)

This is how Fuzz describes Dockson's last moments:

"He cursed you as he died, Kelsier," Preservation said, voice harsh. "He blames you for all this." (Mistborn: Secret History, part 3 chapter 1)

Which is totally hurtful to Kelsier, and moreover, not entirely truthful!

When I read the scene (The Well of Ascension chapter 53), Dockson does say things like "This is all Kelsier's fault" and "He left us with this mess," and he does "[send] a final curse Kelsier's way" moments before his death. That is how it's written. So what Fuzz said is not incorrect; still, it's not truthful. Why? Because it reads differently. Because Fuzz doesn't understand or communicate Dockson's feelings.

Consider that Dockson chose to stay in the city when it fell, because "that's what Kell would expect." (chapter 46) Consider the fact that Dockson is constantly thinking about Kelsier as death approaches. Consider why Dockson is upset at Kelsier.

Dockson is upset at the mess that Kelsier left them. The mess itself is not the real reason for being upset, though. Kelsier not being with them in the mess, is.

Dockson's chief reason for being upset at Kelsier is that Kelsier is not there.

We don't know what words Dockson used in his curse, but this reads to me like the attitude behind the curse would not have been 'I am sick of you, go away' or 'I should never have believed you.' It was a 'you were supposed to be here and you're not' kind of curse. It's a cry out to the one who left, the one who should have been there, the one who is still greatly missed.

[sharaishvalda]

[thedarkspiresofkredikshaw]

the well of ascension spoilers ! AAA ! ! !

sazed , oh wonderful sazed , found a wall written entirely in terris ? ? what ! ? i 'm sitting here like , whoa . and marsh is like . . marsh : we should fr fr go , sazed . sumn don 't feel right . sazed : NO ! ! ! not yet . this is so important marsh : ok buddy

r they gonna die ? ?

[gallium-spoon]

Obsessed with the marriage scene in Well of Ascension

Vin *crying and covered in blood*: I'm sorry I killed your brother

Elend: I don't??? have a brother???

Vin *still crying* : not any more I killed him

Elend:???

Vin *bleeding out* *actively receiving medical care* *probably still crying*: wanna get married?

Elend:...

Elend: Yes!

[chamomile-tea-time]

elend: vin's not like other girls

tindwyl: no girl is like other girls it's called individuality bro

[whale-trawl]

false nirvana

[itsnotmika]

“vin and elend are dead” TO YOU. to me they are actually very much alive and happy

[kaladinsspear]

I'm listening to The Well of Ascension and Elend is having his power moment where he accepts that the council has deposed him and I'm having lots of feelings. I love Elend so much!!

Just. He has lived his whole life under the LR, he has never had any examples of leadership that isnt authoritarian. And he sees the pain it caused. He watched people get corupted or crushed under the weight of unchecked power, and so he built a government with checks on power.

Now that check is being used, and everyone around him, im sure even the council themselves, expects Elend to throw it out and take over. But he says no. Elend will not be an exception to his own rules. He will not start down that authoritarian path no matter how good his intentions are.

If you think about it, in that setting, Elends antiauthoritarian convictions are just as reckless and optimistic as Kelsier's plan to kill the LR.

uggg!! So good! And then

"'I'm...not sure what I think of this experience, mistress" a voice whispered beside her. Vin paused, looking down as she realized that she had begun idyly scratching OreSeur's ears."

I died. Dammit Brandon! These record scratch shifts always crack me up! First with Kaladin and Jasna arguing over the fate of the world while Shallan draws dreamy crush sketches, now with this. I'm still giggling!

[strangerlittlethings]

Only kelsier would punch 'god' in the face as the first thing to do when get to heaven 💀💀💀💀💀 what was that

[the-cosmerian-archivist]

Sazed on his way to Luthadel:

[dearratroi]

What

THE FUCK

DO YOU MEAN

ORESEUR

WAS THE IMPOSTOR

THE ENTIRE FUCKING TIME

[vanilla-vivillon]

They took the repopulation very seriously