#do u think she is as haunted by the narrative as i am? likely!!!
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ms. moiraine wheel of time really does make me feel like my brain is getting tossed around the trunk of a monster truck lmao
throughout the series you have all these characters going "woe is me, i am trapped by destiny and fate i cannot escape the narrative of my life 😔" (justifiably) and then moiraine is literally like. sorry im built different and becomes the only character to actually manage to CHANGE her destiny and avoid the life she didn't want aka she runs away from being placed on the sun throne, but in doing that she ends up on an even wilder, more complicated life path dictated largely by outside forces
like she manages to give fate the run around, but at the same time escaping the sun throne is the exact thing that sets her up to hunt down the dragon reborn. it's just so neat that a story about how being "the chosen one" or whatever sucks and severely limits the kind of life u get to have gets kicked off in part bc of one oddball woman's choice and agency
and i haven't even touched all the ancestral legacy and guilt stuff with laman etc!!!! aka every step taken by people before she was born set her in the exact right place to end up finding rand!!! did she even get to make a real choice in the end!!!
she's trapped in never ending circles......wheels even........
#do u think she is as haunted by the narrative as i am? likely!!!#moiraine is prob half as focused as she is bc if she takes a minute to breathe she'll have an existential crisis of truly epic proportions#this is so unhinged xbsvavqnqmakal#sorry to all the mutuals who havent had to to deal with any fandom posts from me for at least half a decade#but um. she COMPELS#hopefully any of this makes sense but if it doesnt yet it does....#cant begin to describe the brains worms ive gotten from reading a decades old fantasy series#moiraine damodred#wheel of time#wot book spoilers#not really but just to be safe lmao...!
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