#kelsier core

[sazed-s-faith-crisis]

Kelsier core

[kaejot]

People compare Moash to Kelsier a lot, because of the whole hating nobility thing. But I think a better comparison would actually be Moash and Marsh. They are both keystone support characters for the protagonist in the first book of their series, they both have a desire to rebel against the current hierarchy, they both sacrifice everything for their goals, and they both are influenced by an Evil God because of those sacrifices, and begin acting against the protagonists. They each are having their true emotions buried by the god that commands them, Marsh being forced to enjoy the suffering he inflicts, Moash having his doubts and emotions taken from him.

The difference is that Moash thinks his only hope is to double down and back Odium so he never has to face his emotions and his betrayal, while Marsh never stops fighting Ruin.

Moash’s core goal is revenge against everyone he feels wronged him despite his claims to be fighting for freedom, but Marsh’s core goal is freedom not just for himself, but for everyone.

[marvelousmagicalaura]

I think I've finally decided on the Intent for my Mistborn AU's version of Preservation's enemy. Though it's very canon divergent from Mistborn canon, and idk how people may like it. Plus this is coming from someone who's finished all of Mistborn but hasn't read Stormlight Archive.

For my AU, I want the Intent of Ati's Shard to be Evolution. When writing this out, I started by making lists of Ati and Leras' canonical plans. Decided to change a few crucial things about Ati and Leras' conflict.

1. I wanted to bring Ati's future sight much closer to Leras. For him to see much further and wider into the future than his canon abilities, and to see more of the prophecies' true intentions.

2. Wanted Ati to be the person to create the original prophecies. He's the one with the plan.

3. The trilogy's theme and the Shards' core conflict to be stasis VS change

4. Wanted Ati's plans to capture the slow, gradual, time infinite Intent of when Kelsier saw into Ruin's Spiritual Realm

[ultimateinferno]

Anyways. Finished Yumi atNP. The Realmatic theory wheels are turning so I'm doing a singular post vomiting my thoughts. Major spoilers. Not a book review.

So assuming the Machine (or even cosmere at large) didn't just schlorp most of Yumi's investiture upon its destruction, which is a valid assumption since she nearly died, she technically still is Very Fucking Invested. According to Design, Elantrian level.

Which side note, interesting how we got confirmation that Elantrians have more magic than Returned. The bastards have to die, see the future, come back and eat souls to persist, meanwhile the silver people just automatically get the cool shit with no maintenance. Making up for the 10 years a zombie, I guess. Is Endowment stingier than we thought?

This, honestly explains how Nikaro was able to bring her back with his painting given there's a direct correlation between the amount of investiture a cognitive shadow has and how long they persist upon death.

That does bring me to the thought of if the Machine's repeated amnesia prevented... let's go with the term Sprenification of Yumi's cognitive shadow. As Vasher explained to Kaladin, as cognitive shadows persist in time, they more they're made to embody core aspects of their Identity in order to survive. Yumi has been dead for 1700 years.

You can rationalize this as the Machine pruning her Cognitive development. Then again, her mastery of stacking (which honestly very fun talent, love that for her). I haven't read TLM (despite having it digitally), but it's been discussed that Kelsier may already be undergoing that process, and he's been dead for only <400 years, so 1700 is a lot.

If not, I wonder if Yumi is now immortal because she is (was?) more invested than a Returned. That does mean she might eventually undergo Sprenification, if it hasn't occurred already.

Speaking of, I like how... a lot of the magic is just... not really elaborated on. Unlike other Cosmere books, where their fight scenes live and die on how meticulous use of the magic by our protagonists, and Sanderson likes to stress that there is a correlation of an audience's understanding and narrative problem solving regarding magic. It's... a big reason why there was that pre-Sanderlanche exposition dump. I'm wondering if there was a better way to relegate that information.

Anyways, the pre-existing magic system's primary basis is built on the pre-existing foundation of Realmatics and Perception. Expectation and perception shapes outcome. If you image the Nightmare as bamboo, it is bamboo. If you shove the soul of a 19 year old highly invested yokihijo into the body of an art school drop out, shit dude, that's her's now. With the dissipation of the Shroud I'm curious as to how art can influence the world from there. Can paintings more readily dictate the shape of spirits, due to their similarities to the Nightmares? This magic system I think is the softest of the lot, and I actually find that pretty cool.

Lastly before I wrap this up, while Sanderson has introduced cosmere soceities inspired by non-european cultures, (on multiple planets, no less), it feels especially palpable with this setting. While Roshar is decidedly not European but it's also familiar enough that whitewashing is an active problem within fan spaces. Meanwhile, here, it's so in your face about being not European that people have no excuse (as if they had any to begin with), but maybe I'm too much of a weeb that catching details was easier for me than others. It's cool, though,, we get to see snapshots of the culture as it develops through time, which is only really exemplified in the Mistborn novels so far. Not really relevant to magic but a musing nonetheless.

[stormblessed95]

Hi Stormie!

Non-BTS ask. Aside from the Stormlight series, what is your favorite Sanderson work? I read them all in a frenzy when I first discovered him, so I need to go back and start over because my adhd means I essentially forget what I’ve read. I enjoy them all immensely while I’m reading, but I can’t for the life of me remember any of the details.

Stormlight is my favorite, but Mistborn would probably be after that! Era 1 and era 2 for different reasons! Lol

Mistborn official description: For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Basically it's an epic heist novel with some of the best found family vibes snd the emotional punches that don't hold back. It has some cliches, including Vin being one of tbe only female characyers and it can be very "not like the other girls", which Sanderson has admitted to regretting and has since grown from in his future books. But otherwise she is VERY well written and she is a BADASS. While it does have cliches, its twists them on their head more often then not. Its got multiple POVs and the magic system is one of the highlights of the book for me, being incredible complex, but logical and easy to understand and follow.

The quote "there is always another secret" is basically one of the defining characteristics of the plot and novel as a whole and it all is done SO WELL. The novel started out as the whole idea and premise of what happens if the hero/chosen one fails? And that's where the story picks up, with the Dark One having won and taken over the world, and it's now been thousands of years of people living under his domain. It's also ultimately a story about never giving up hope. It's got crazy twists and an amazing OTP, one that I'll cherish forever. "You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?" (No, I don't think so! Lol) It dives deep in morally ambiguity and morally Grey is who are Characters are at their core. It starts off by pushing you straight into the deep end with some crazy action and then you learn as you go and it's amazing. Keeps you on the edge of your seat. It explores fallacies of religion, faith and politics in a way that's respectful but still critical. And it doesn't take you out of the story while it does so either.

Content warnings for Abuse of a sibling, Death, Gore, Murder, prostitution, SA, Slavery, Violence, blood, self harm, war, decapitation, hallucinations, child's death, stalking starvation, suicidal ideation, torture, hostage situations

[callumnova]

rules: go to pinterest and type in “[your name] core aesthetic” and create a moodboard using the first nine images. no need to reveal what your name actually is!

i was tagged by @cresents, thank you so much! this turned out soo nice i love it

tagging: @maethril, @harmoon, @comealongamypond, @dimitresque, @drunkonimagination, @crowleyaj, @aemondtargaryenn, @steveharingtn, @obihoekenobi, @kelsiers 

[painted-fanbird]

Still thinking about Kelsier because when am I not honestly XD

This time it’s how I’m choosing to characterize Rewrite Kelsier, because I crave a very specific flavor of Kelsier that seems pretty different from the general perception of him I’ve gleaned from scrolling through his tag lol

My Kelsier is many things, much like he is in canon. A drama queen, a dreamer, a man who can’t stay away from a challenge, he’s cunning, he ruthless

But at his core? He is kind, and he loves so, so deeply.

He’s also traumatized and suicidal.

Because to me, it is love that drives Kelsier’s actions within The Final Empire. It’s love that drives the Rebellion, that has him looking after the skaa when he can because they are hurt and traumatized and they need someone to inspire hope. It’s love and kindness that has him plucking Vin off the streets, teaching her allomancy and friendship, and it’s of course love that has him looking at Vin like the daughter he never had with Mare. Then there’s the crew, who you can’t tell me he doesn’t love. Because I think he does, deeply. These are his friends and he cares so much about them.

Kelsier’s methods for change are violent yes, but Scadrial is a violent world. Don’t forget, this is the world where it was codified into law that you are allowed to rape a skaa woman, as long as you killed her after so she couldn’t bear any bastard children. This is the world that held an executioners axe over his, Marsh’s, the crew’s, and Vin’s heads because of the very nature of what they are. He is merely matching what he’s being given.

But then there’s the lynchpin of his entire plan with the Rebellion. To die and mythologize himself as a martyr. That is not an act of selfless love. That is an act of hurt, coming from a man who doesn’t think he has anything to live for once the Rebellion is done. Kelsier is traumatized by Hathsin, Mare is dead, the society he lives in is callous and cruel and uncaring. The fight is all he has left, once that’s done his purpose will be fulfilled. So he makes it a last, brilliant hurrah, so that even if he fails the world might be a better place.

He dies in the best way he could have hoped. Fighting for the people he loves.

Then he doesn’t. Suddenly he’s alive and he’s not supposed to be. The Rebellion succeeded! The Lord Ruler is dead! He realized Mare’s dream!

And he doesn’t know what to do with himself.

So Kelsier throws himself into researching the missing Atium cache, into researching the secrets Rashek kept on Allomancy, both because he is truly curious about the answers to both things, but also so he doesn’t have to look in the eye the fact he wishes he didn’t wake up. The fight is over. What’s left for him?

That’s the crux of his arc in my rewrite. Kelsier has to learn how to live after spending so long trying to be dead. Which he does, ultimately. It’s two books worth of arc, but he realizes that he’s hurt and traumatized, but he loves and is loved. He has the whole crew, he has the kids, and life will get better. You can heal from that hurt. But you have to give it time. It does help that the man causing most of the problems is dead now, so the world is literally a better place to live, but my point still stands lol.

It’s better to live than it is to die, and ultimately Kelsier is a good man. Truly, one of the best the crew has ever known <3

[thaidakar-is-hot]

Sorry, I can see why it'd come off as rude. Personally, kelsier is what I would be in the mistborn universe. I think they went too soft on nobles by era 2, too. He was generally right across the board.

I suppose I'm just bitter that he got second life when someone like goradel or dox deserved it way more.

C'mon, Dockson would have been a way better leader of the Ghostbloods, and would have given him better closure than he got by book 2.

Sorry I was negative on your post though, I'm used to thousand-note posts where no one reads that I say haha.

Thank you for the kind apology! I figured you were both just messing around, but I had just woken up and I do get a lot of Kell hate my posts!

I'm actually not ok with the blind noble hate, but I'm not really ok with blindly hating anyone based on external traits! (Though most of them are fucking skeevy assholes!) However, I forgive Kelsier for it, and don't really care that he murders them. He's ultimately very fair with it, and he doesn't torture them, though I believe he's left a few to drown in their own blood from slit throats.

I do feel bad about Dockson's death, but as he wasn't invested, he didn't stay long. I wish he'd have gotten more time, and his hatred of Kelsier at the end rips me apart. He goes through a lot of emotions during his time in the Cognitive Realm, most of them feeling horribly overwhelmed and horrible for what he set in motion.

Kelsier is just a very realistic man at his core. I love him for it.

I do want to point out that Goradel died an extremely noble death; his death allowed Ruin to finally be defeated. It allowed for Vin to take the power. His death, ultimately, was orchestrated by Kelsier as well, in an effort to get Marsh the information he needed to help Vin. And yes, Kelsier feels sorry for it.

[pizzazzterbi]

Kelsier not only does all of those things but is one of like. Three total mortals that we know of contending on the same stage as the gods who replaced the former god AFTER KILLING IT AND SHATTERING THE CORE OF THE WORLD. Kelsier spits in the eyes of the fuckers who broke the old world and rebuilt it again in their own image tens of thousands of years ago, and his three primary motivations are “Fuck the man”, “I love my wife”, and “Everything I want should be MINE.” He is the biggest bastard in the fucking WORLD, and he learns to fight literal gods to help his daughter even when he thinks he is about to wink out of existence forever. He was bitch-slapped to death, and STILL managed to do it with so much style he became the WORLD’S LARGEST RELIGIOUS FIGURE, DESPITE HIS BUDDY WHO BECAME AN ACTUAL GOD TRYING TO DIVERSIFY THE FAITHS.

Kelsier is so “Bitch I lived” that him surviving spoils multiple book series on its own despite the fact that he is first introduced to us as The Survivor Of The Pits Of Hathsin, which later becomes just The Survivor (plus The Lord of Scars which. Come the fuck on.). AND THIS IS WITH A BROTHER WHO IS REFERRED TO AS SIMPLY “DEATH” ON WORLD. Nobody survives like this fucking bastard. He survives so hard that a god whose primary motivation is ending the world uses the image of his survival to twist his successors to his will.

I love Aang. He only came back in a big surprise way once. Those are fucking rookie numbers to Kelsier.

[terramythos]

TerraMythos 2022 Reading Challenge - Book 8 of 26

Title: The Final Empire/Mistborn (Mistborn #1) (2006)

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Genre/Tags: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic, First-Person, Third-Person, Female Protagonist

Rating: 8/10

Date Began: 04/11/2022

Date Finished: 04/23/2022

For one thousand years, the world has been oppressed by a living god known as the Lord Ruler. Ash constantly falls from the sky, and a mysterious mist blankets the world every night. Despite being the majority of the world’s population, a race of people known as the skaa live harsh, miserable lives as slaves under the wealthy noble caste.

Amidst this, a skaa half-breed named Kelsier manages the impossible; escaping the brutal Pits of Hathsin. With the newly awakened Allomantic powers of a Mistborn, Kelsier uses his experience as a thief and contacts in the criminal underworld to orchestrate the downfall of the Lord Ruler and his Final Empire. But Kelsier accidentally discovers another Mistborn: Vin, a teenage street urchin ignorant of her powers. Kelsier takes Vin under his wing, but soon realizes her aptitude for Allomancy far exceeds his own— and that she will be crucial to overthrowing the Lord Ruler.

“The trick is to never stop looking. There’s always another secret.”

Review, content warnings, and minor spoilers below the cut. 

Content warnings: Depicted-- Death, mass death, child death, slavery, violence, gore, abuse, underage drinking, police brutality, body horror, addictive behavior, dehumanization, PTSD, mild claustrophobia, mind control/manipulation, warfare.  Mentioned-- R*pe, sexual abuse, p*dophilia, torture, forced sterilization/eugenics, infanticide, genocide, suicidal ideation. 

The Final Empire AKA Mistborn is the first Brandon Sanderson book I’ve read. After hearing near-universal praise for his work, this was recommended to me as a good starting point to get into his overarching Cosmere universe. Overall I had a fun time with this first entry. It’s not perfect, but the things Sanderson does well, he does incredibly well. I look forward to reading the next two in this initial trilogy and hopefully branching out into others later, as I’m sure he develops significantly as a writer.

I noted several strengths throughout my read. The magic system is an obvious candidate; it’s very creative, and Sanderson clearly put a lot of thought into its design. “Allomancy” requires its users to ingest metals/alloys and “burn” them, which confers certain powers. These abilities are pretty standard fare— everything from levitation to super strength to emotional manipulation. But the core concept of how they work is believable. Most Allomancers can only use a single power. Only the titular “Mistborn” can use all of them. One neat detail is that scientific principles like physics play a role in how Allomancy functions. I’m intrigued about two metals (atium and gold), as they have big implications not fully explored in this entry. Finally, I love that Allomancy isn’t the only magic that exists. I’m a huge fan of fantasy worlds that have multiple magic systems, especially if they interact in unexpected ways (The Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin is another good example of this).

The setting/worldbuilding is neat. While The Final Empire is pretty standard fantasy, I like how Sanderson incorporates post-apocalyptic and even horror elements into it. The ash-choked landscape blanketed by an eerie, nightly mist is both distinct and memorable. Sanderson also does a great job with foreshadowing/reveals about the world’s lore and characters. It’s a running idea in the story that there’s “always another secret”, and that’s no lie. While I figured out certain twists in the story, others totally surprised me. The final reveal about the Lord Ruler is something I actually speculated super early, but dismissed as unlikely. So it was a real shock when it turned out to be true. There’s still some enticing mysteries by the end. We don’t know where the mist really came from, what was up with Vin’s mother, and so on.

Leads Vin and Kelsier are both well-written, with solid development and character arcs. The surrogate father/daughter relationship between them is equal parts heartwarming and heartbreaking. I like how Vin goes from a timid, distrustful loner to someone who actively seeks out close relationships. It’s great to see her gradually heal from her traumatic upbringing; it still affects her, but she learns ways to cope with it and grow as a person. Initially, I didn’t like Kelsier so much because he seemed almost too perfect. But he gains nuance over time. In particular, I like that he and the Lord Ruler are deliberate foils for each other, but the meaning behind that changes throughout the story. An interesting thing to consider with both leads, but especially Kelsier, is how symbolic character traits become more literal over time.

I like the first-person excerpts before each chapter; they tell a separate story from the one starring Vin and Kelsier. It’s easy to extrapolate the identity of the narrator, and it adds a lot of context to the primary storyline. In particular, I like the ways in which the first-person story mirrors events in the Vin/Kelsier plot, even just in broad strokes or character comparisons. While the story would function without them, they add depth and a sense of history to the world.

Betrayal and faith are the two main themes I noted. Vin assumes that anyone she trusts will inevitably betray her, largely due to personal trauma. Kelsier was betrayed by someone close to him, yet deliberately chooses to trust others in spite of that. While reading, I kept anticipating direct betrayals; someone selling out another character for their own gain. But for the most part, the betrayals depicted in The Final Empire are indirect and emotionally complex, which defied my expectations. Faith is a little more spoilery, but we learn most religions of the world have been systematically wiped out by the Lord Ruler, and supporting character Sazed dedicates his life to documenting them in secret. There’s also an idea of godhood and what that means; the Lord Ruler is considered to be God, and Kelsier at his most egotistical has some disturbing parallels to him.

While I enjoyed The Final Empire, I do have a few criticisms. A pretty obvious one is diversity; there’s very little. Disability is probably the most represented group, as both leads suffer from PTSD and Kelsier in particular has chronic pain. Sanderson also gets credit for making one of the two leads in his fantasy epic a teenage girl. Vin is well-written and a compelling perspective character. But she’s pretty much the only (living) female character of note in the story. There’s a minor antagonist who happens to be a woman, but I hesitate to call her important, as she only shows up in a handful of scenes. There’s a few female characters who were important in the past, but are now dead or MIA (including a Tragic Backstory Dead Wife), so I can’t really count them. Considering the background of systemic sexual violence against skaa women, the lack of representation outside of Vin isn’t great. More broadly, it’s weird to read a book about an oppressed group rising up when said book features almost exclusively straight white men. Granted, The Final Empire was published in 2006, and representation standards have changed a lot. But after reading Le Guin, who went out of her way to depict diverse casts as far back as the 1960s, it’s a little disappointing to read the opposite.

My other criticisms come down to personal taste. There’s a romantic subplot between Vin and a noble named Elend. I didn’t care about it at all; it felt like some arbitrary “love at first sight” cliché. Elend himself seems fine, if a little underdeveloped, but there will be opportunity in the next book to correct this. My main beef is his role in the conclusion. Avoiding spoilers, he accomplishes something major that feels too convenient and unearned. I’m not against what happens with him, but I felt like we needed at least one more book of character development for it to make sense. I suspect Elend will be a lead going forward, so hopefully I end up liking him more.

Finally, the strongest points of The Final Empire are undoubtedly the first and last 20% of the novel. Personally I found the remaining 60% just okay. This isn’t a problem per se; the middle of the novel is perfectly serviceable. It just pales in comparison to the rest. I wish the sense of intrigue and excitement present in the beginning and ending felt more consistent. Again, this is very much my opinion, and I’m sure plenty of people disagree with me.

Despite the above criticisms, I do recommend giving The Final Empire a shot, as I can see a lot of potential in this trilogy. As a relatively early work of Sanderson’s, it’s possible my general complaints are handled better in his other novels. Nevertheless, I plan to read both The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages and see how they compare.

[koravelliumavast]

Well that’s a new one: Amazon Cosmere reviews Mistborn edition. (Snippets of two reviews)

Breeze, Dox, Ham, Clubs, most of Kelsier, and most of Marsh could be deleted from the book and you wouldn't be missing out on anything. You can skip most of the chapters of Kells and his "crew" bantering, and you won't miss a thing. That's the biggest problem with this book. Beyond that, the book actually has some above-average qualities that make the book a worthwhile read - IF you've already read all the better books in the same vein - (Wheel of time, {does op know that Brandon finished wot???}the first few Sword of Truth books, and I'd also recommend the Foundryside series) If you're going to read this book, I recommend you skip any text that features dialogue coming from Dox, Breeze, Ham, and Clubs. Oh, and also skip every passage where the characters are reading the Lord Ruler's journal, or where they're reading the history books. What an insulting waste of time. And none of it matters in the end. Oh, and skip all the first-person text at the beginning of every chapter because none of that crap has any bearing on the story either.

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Okay, Allomancy as an explanation for super-powers is new as a concept but so what? It turns the cast of very paper-cut out characters into the typical super heroes with one special magic trick or, rarely, into the super-super special hero with all the abilities roled into one stomach lining. The novel was also trying to be a slick super-crime such as Oceans 11's in its plot but obviously Sanderson doesn't have much insight into the sort of brilliance required for the supreme criminal mind nor much knowledge of the intelligence methods used by a totalitarian government. The meetings of the supposedly super-thieves were as dull as dishwater to read, a gloss-over of basic facts and illustrative of such shallow thinking that I was as bored as if it was a meeting with a low-level accountant. The conversations were as completely uninspired as the characters, their "plotting" so empty of sophistication or subtlety, and so full of holes, that I was unconvinced that these guys were really as slick as they were described; it certainly wasn't demonstrated.

Then the actual action had them doing things that even the most amateur of subversive criminals would never consider. One of my pet peeves, Sanderson either doesn't think about what the "opposing" forces might be doing in reaction or he succumbed to the "stupid enemy" contrivance. For example, the entire core of the elite team visit together the site of a hit by the dread Inquisitors, a place that was hit because they'd met there or because Vin, now a part of the team, had lived there; and they all show up to expose themselves in a world where, supposedly, everyone will rat out everyone else at the drop of a dime! But, not to fear, the totalitarian regime that made the hit has neglected to stake it out to watch who turned up to check out the mess afterward! And none of the crowd of spectators actually informs on them, either. It was juvenile mistake and I couldn't help but think that, trying to write this sort of plot, Sanderson was completely out of his depth. He should at least have read a few espionage and crime novels and gotten a clue before trying to write one himself. This team wouldn't have lasted five minutes in fiction, never mind real life...

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That said, I find it nice to read somebody acknowledge the fact that if you mistreat your comrades, they'll leave you. Granted, one of the 'heroes' said that. However, that was the only sensible "nugget of wisdom" aside from Slazed speaking about religion, or Ham trying to find a conversation. Speaking of Slazed, his name changes from time to time. {??? No it doesn’t}

On the other hand, there are several flaws. First off, for someone who's supposed to be insane, Keelsier sure does admit that a lot. Yeah, it should go without saying that unhinged people DON't do that. (That's coming from someone who's seen a stranger start squeezing her finger. So, his friend had to explain that the man thought her knew her.) Also, glares and flat stares don't even begin to look the same. That's unless you have some reason for being able to discern facial expressions.

[kingjasnah]

marsh's character..SO intriguing. what is going on inside his head. obsessed with the fact that he's called Death and Ironeyes in era 2

i made a post abt how he's the symbol of death of scadrial (go off goth king 💋) whole technically being alive and how our kelsier is you know, the survivor while being technically dead and i still think that slaps. love that for them. i want marsh to show up in everything i want him in era 3 I want him in stormlight give MARSH the novella this trying

but even before the ironeyes stuff he's saying an interesting character in just like bare minimum of bg info we get on him. HE was the idealist of the two of them, he lead the skaa until kell and mare got caught and like......over and over again even while under the influence of steel spikes he managed to break through and do good. he was the one who fucked over the lord ruler before vin killed him and what did he do in book 3? he fucked over ruin before vin handled him. king of being at his core a good man with iron self control. if i think about how kelsier banked everything on that i will start crying.

[adolin-is-best-boy]

SYLPHY OCS PART 2

wooo! i finally posted more of them! if you have any questions ill be happy to answer them!

this is the picrew i used to make these images: https://picrew.me/image_maker/197705

Amber (she/he)

- side(?) character (maybe minor protagonist later im not sure)

- cheerful, kind, outgoing

- very weak magic that she learned in secret

- younger sister of Atlas (and Malakai in spirit)

- protective and fierce

- thinks she has to protect Atlas and Kai

- hair is dyed, it’s usually brown

Adeline (she/her) 

- not quite sure how large her role in the story is yet

- single mother of Atlas and Amber, considers Malakai to be one of her own as well

- loving, hardworking, fairly easy-going, likes making jokes

- tries/tried to keep her family away from magic as much as possible for their safety

- knows Atlas is very likely to destroy the world (as that is what the Final Angel is prophesied to do...)

- loves Atlas very much anyways

Lazuli (they/them)

- side character

- flamboyant, dramatic, aloof

- has magic (nobody knows what it is though)

- Malakai’s weird landlord

- actually quite cunning and observant, also very secretive

- rich

- heard Kelsier* say “there’s always another secret” and made it their motto

Fantasia (she/they/he) 

- sometimes antagonist, sometimes ally

- perky, passionate, quirky, considered a bit of an oddball

- no core magic, can only use spells, most people dont know that though

- very loving girlfriend/partner of Fable (partners in crime AND romance)

- a moderately well-known mercenary in the arcane world

- uses Fable’s magical drawings to fight and complete jobs

- considers Kai and the others friends (even though they’ve fought several times)

Fable (she/they) [by Oli] 

- one of the characters i asked a friend to design for me (bf in this case)

- shy, quiet, artistic

- art magic! can create drawings that can be cast as spells

- very loving girlfriend/partner of Fantasia

- bad anxiety, opens up more when Fantasia’s around

- the one who came up with the idea of being a secret mercenary duo with Fantasia

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thats it for now, i think ill link up the previous one to this one but not rn im lazy

[m-i-n-t--t-e-a]

What your favorite cosmere character says about you:

Kaladin: ooh bitch you’re probably bi/wlw and depressed

Renarin: you are the mom friend

Wayne: chaotic and most likely lgbt

Lightsong: you like himbos (who doesn’t) and are pretty chill

Hoid: you’re probably obsessed with cowboys or pirates

Kelsier: you probably can be a jackass at points but are funny and a cool person

Vin: you’re cool and probably like martial arts

Vasher: depressed or you’re into him

TenSoon: probably a very easy going person

MeLaan: you are most likely very bi/wlw, probably a cottage core or bad at math gay

Jasnah: probably gay and in love with her

Szeth: how’s that mental illness going? also probably into a creative hobby as an outlet

[arkadion-of-sages]

Who is your favorite (cosmere) character? And why?

It’s definitely Hoid ;) He’s my favorite white-haired snarky bard/jester type, living a ridiculously long life, mastering so many skills especially illusion magic, wandering across the cosmere, bearing supposedly grave purposes, hated by everyone, and still remains mysterious and hasn’t yet been a main character, which is good for my wild imagination XD

I really love how he is portrayed through various cameos and his screen time as Wit. He’s there, but he won’t steal other in-world characters’ show too much, just gives some hints and connections, sometimes surprises, but those are well-integrated into the plot. He is now one of the core reasons why I follow Cosmere series.

I just don’t know how to express my feelings, but everything about him is so great to me. I’ve never met a character like him before. (Someone knows me would say, “Ew, this person stinks of Hoid obsession!”)

Also, I think Shallan is another answer. Artist type, yeah! She should be the cosmere character I can most relate to.

(Other honorable mentions: Shai, Renarin, Khriss, Kelsier, Vasher, Wayne)

[chaos-is-my-lifeblood]

AU masterpost (not including oneshots)

Current update schedule: Updating various fics weekly, except when I’m not. I am open to suggestions, asks, comments, etc. I have so many Thoughts and I must get them out. Also I give blanket permission on my AUs, just let me know about it.

#danny denial: (Danny Phantom) Danny’s never around when ghosts are, and decides to take advantage of the fact. Cracky vibes. Ao3 here.

 - There are many versions of #danny denial, look here for the subAUs.

#wit kaladin: (Stormlight Archives) Tien lives + major canon divergence. One of my main writing projects. Ao3 here.

Star Wars adoption fic: (Star Wars) Vader overhears Luke calling Leia “sister”. Cue Vader feeling the need to (unknowingly) adopt his own daughter.

#dphs: (Danny Phantom) (Homestuck) Danny Phantom characters, mix of worldbuilding, who knows what I’ll do with the plot. Ao3 here

#doppelganger fun time: (Danny Phantom) Danny Phantom, time travel bs, and everyone being Confused™. And so many traumatized Dannys. Ao3 here.

Fics for the ambiguous future:

#kaladin and the nightwatcher: (Stormlight Archives) A fic for me to write in the VERY DISTANT FUTURE, stop tempting me cursed writer brain of mine. In which Kaladin visits the Nightwatcher, and Kelsier tries to adopt him.

#four halves of a whole: (Danny Phantom) A similarly distant-future-y fic. There are two Dannys, one on each side of the portal. Because I can never limit myself to one Danny, apparently.

Completed fics:

#sufficiently advanced: (Danny Phantom) Something’s going on in Amity Park. Could it be... magic? ...Lmao nah that’d be ridiculous. Ao3 here.

#truman danny: (Danny Phantom) Nobody knows, Truman Show AU. Gives me character study vibes? But with something akin to a plot. Kinda.

#cores are pocket dimensions: (Danny Phantom) A series of tumblr posts explaining a... Theory? AU? Ghost magic system?... where ghosts exist beyond a mere 3 dimensions. F i n a l l y done.

Chaos Epilogue: (Danny Phantom) Murder mystery where I decided to fuck around and find out (in terms of tropes and genre conventions). Is filed under the ‘#doppelganger fun time’ tag along with Death by Doppelganger, but is more or less narratively separate. Ao3 here.

#dndanny: (Danny Phantom) Life has a grand, intricate narrative ready. Death just wants to fuck shit up. As always, Danny is stuck in the middle. (dnd chatfic-format AU featuring Life and Death as two dumbass DMs and Danny being Done).