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illusions-in-octarine · 1 year ago

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I LOVE this Aviendha, can't wait for her to meet Rand and affectionately mock the living daylights out of the Dragon Reborn.

I can see Stradowski's rough sincerity and Smart's sharp joy working very well together. She's cracking wit at Perrin! She's been out of captivity - should I say, a Box - for all of a few hours and she's deriving happiness from messing with her free-r and fellow traveler. She has a debt and it doesn't phase her for a beat! The antithesis of "duty heavier than a mountain". Duty and joy existing side by side.

#wheel of time spoilers #wot on prime spoilers #I didn't pick up this dynamic in the books #perhaps because Aiel humour is meant to be inscrutable #and perhaps because R1J1 was not gifted with believable other-culture comedy #and Aviendha has her own problems in them.#but the Aiel DO joke. a lot. to all the wetlanders' confusion. So I'm glad to see that sense of joy in people who should be hardened #but instead are both the deadliest killers and the constant wise-crackers of the series.#aviendha #wot on prime #wheel of time

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