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markantonys · 5 months ago

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girl help people are misunderstanding mat’s entire character again

anyone else remember how perrin fucked off to pursue his own interests for several books straight while mat was constantly intending to go back to rand to help him and could only be prevented from doing so by authorial obstacles such as a literal wall being dropped on him? no? just me? the amount of people who fully, uncritically believe all mat’s thoughts & statements about rand and do not realize he’s doing his usual thing of lying to himself makes me insane. some of you first read WOT when you were 12 and hadn’t yet developed reading comprehension and critical thinking skills that are strong enough to see through mat’s unreliable narration, And It Shows.

#also the recency bias #AMOL is THE ONLY BOOK when mat genuinely does run away from rand #and perrin is suddenly the bestest loyalest bestie of all time #and that is because sanderson is obsessed with perrin and didn’t understand mat for shit #and also was constrained by the epilogue requiring mat to have an opportunity to knock tuon up #(bc even in mat’s final scene in TOM he’s STILL intending to go back to rand and then only in AMOL does he suddenly want to run away)#luckily for you guys i’m away this weekend and on mobile or otherwise i’d be yapping even more in this post djfjdh #wot book spoilers #wot

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