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wispon · 2 years

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if i had a nickel for every time there was a cosmere storyline concerning a scholar with self-esteem issues working tirelessly with a woman who would never collaborate with them under different circumstances, who brings a different but complimentary perspective and specialty to the table, to solve something that neither can crack on their own, bridging the seemingly insurmountable division between themselves, their ideals, and the forces they align themselves with, recording their work simultaneously in the same book where their contributions can be picked out by glancing at the handwriting, a process that excites the scholar, shoring up their faith in themself as they make new breakthroughs and find themself falling traitorously in love with this beautiful, intelligent, competent woman, only to lose her, cradling her corpse in their arms, knowing they'll have nothing to remember her by but the pattern of her handwriting, having been changed so fundamentally in their understanding of themself and their world by having known, loved, and lost her that they're able to take the steps necessary to accept incredible magic power and protect the people who they never formally ruled but have been involved in the stewardship of (a duty they were separated from when being made to work on their science project), i'd have one nickel because apparently it wasn't meant to be romantic the second time but dude holy fuck the parallels

#the cosmere is a lot of things but one of those things is that it's a story about stories #and even if it wasn't intentional i think there's a lot of meaning in the symmetry of sazed and navani's arcs #Intent is an important force in the cosmere but hemalurgy and hoid both hint that Destiny or Fate is a spiritual element as well #we know that the future isn't written in stone but there's nothing more Fateful than the structure of the narrative #i'm sure a lot of the parallels and repeated story beats between cosmere stories is just bc one man can only make up so many plot pts #but it's fun as a reader to experience that symmetry as part of the overarching tapestry of the thing #this is a joke and not an airtight analysis but what im trying to say is: Navaniel Real.#my posts #cosmere #actually i wonder if wax and steris fit this pattern now that i think about it. they also do research as bonding #although it's a harder parellel to draw bc the stakes and tone of era 2 is so different than era 1/stormlight #and it's a subversion bc steris didn't get to dramatically hold wax's corpse. and wax isn't a woman also #spoilers #cosmere spoilers #do i also tag uhhhh #mistborn spoilers #stormlight archive spoilers #long post

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