#laral x lyn

[cosmereplay]

Day 7: Come back soon

Rated Teen, Laral/Lyn, Rhythm of War spoilers

Can you fly?

Not without you.

Hi, Lyn. I was worried about you all day. Are you okay?

Yeah. I kicked Fused ass as usual. Can’t say too many details but it was good. I got to save Kara too so we’ll have to figure out how she can pay me back.

You know I don’t like it when you save other women.

And you know I like it when you get jealous. 

That is no way to treat a Citylady!

Oh, sorry Brightness. Will you ever forgive me? I’m curtseying so deep right now. How are the twins?

I’ll forgive you if you stay alive. They miss your flying lessons. They’re obsessed with becoming Windrunners. Battah save my sanity. Oh, and they broke one of the spears you gave them. 

What happened?

One held it between two chairs and the other jumped on it. Broke it right in half and caused a huge snap noise. I thought one of them had smacked his head and killed himself.

I guess I’ll have to give them the “spears are not for jumping” lesson when I get home. 

How long until you're home?

You ask me that every day, Laral. It’s yesterday’s number minus one. 

No, tell me. I need to hear it from you.

Well, since you're asking so nicely. Eight more days, then I’m home. You didn’t work yourself to the bone again today, did you? Let Hesina help you.

She’s busy with that extra stuff Kaladin is doing.

She’s not too busy for you and you know it. I confirmed it with her before I left. Maybe tomorrow I’ll spend my assigned spanreed time on her instead of you, just to make sure you’re not a husk of a woman when I return.

You wouldn’t dare.

Oh I would. I will do it Laral, I swear on Nalan’s right arm!

Alright, fine! I’ll talk to Hesina tomorrow.

Tonight. It’s not even sunset yet in Urithiru.

Tonight, then. And I’ll use all my free time tomorrow to worry about you dying.

You still having nightmares?

Yes. You still there?

Yeah. I wish I could help with those. I’m sorry. 

Just come back soon, okay?

As soon as I can. 

[trishyeves]

The first of four Cosmere fic's for Trish's celebration of Femslash February!

This one is Lyn/Laral, a rarepair Trish first considered because she misread a @cosmereplay Lyn/Laran fic's tags, and has stuck in her brain ever since.

Next week will come a Design/Khriss fic, one with a fun AU twist.

Oh, and it's Trish's birthday today! So that's fun. Your present to Trish can be reading this fic 🥺

[bobokaha]

Kaladin HAS to be the ship bag of this fandom, get me? Heyyyy like I'm not that old of a reader to see that. Shallan, Adolin, that guy he got chained or something, Szeth, blueberry Gatorade girl, renarin, rlain, leshwi, Lyn, Tarah, Jasnah, Laral………….sometimes even all of them.

But hey, we gotta love a man so miserable, the fandom has to be the one to do something 🤷‍♀️

-looks at moash- Or, uh… make him worse…?

(him x happiness tops imo)

[turttastic]

Ranking potential Kaladin fates from best to worst in my opinion. Obviously this is just my personal feelings:

Desirable Outcomes:

1: My Ideal World:

Kaladin stays romantically uninvolved, but ends up in a position where he is responsible for kids. Maybe he's a teacher, maybe he raises Shadolin's kids if something happens to them, maybe he raises Oradin. He would be great with kids, he's such a protector and I think the unconditional love of a kid would be good for him personally. He is ideal for a found family setup, honestly, and I don't particularly want to see him get paired off with a woman just to create a nuclear family.

2: Impossible but beautiful world:

Kaladin, Adolin, and Shallan polycule. They understand him, they love him, they are both capable of providing him with different types of support and won't be intimidated by his personality. Adolin is an absolutely crucial part of the puzzle here, though. To me, Adolin x Kaladin can work without Shallan, Adolin x Shallan works without Kaladin, but Kaladin x Shallan cannot exist without Adolin because it would be catastrophic.

3. Monster fucker win:

Kaladin ends up in a partnership with Leshwi that is probably somewhat ambiguous but has a distinct romantic undertone to it. They already have a warriors bond and respect/have a vested interest in each others continued survival. There's a deep relationship there for sure. I don't personally see it as romantic but I think it'd work fine if it was. Wouldn't detract from either character.

Neutral Outcomes:

4. The Easy Way Out:

Kaladin finds Tarah again and ends up with her. This feels like the most obvious and perhaps most likely possibility. It's boring, it's uninventive, I don't want to see it happen, but I guess it's fine? It's a nice conclusion to Kaladin learning to live in the present, but it just feels too easy.

5. Windrunner bloodline:

Kaladin gets back together with Lyn. She can do better tbh. I love Kaladin but hes a lot. He also is kind of a traditional type of guy when it comes to gender and relationships I think, and Lyn is the type of woman who wants to break away from tradition. They just don't fit to me. Only reason this happens is because they specifically want Kaladin to marry a Windrunner and have kids that seem destined to be Windrunners also until they're not.

6. Blaze of Glory:

Kaladin dies in book 5 saving someone else. It would be so so so upsetting for this to happen and unfair to Kaladin personally but it wouldn't butcher his character at least. Like it would suck, I would go catatonic, but it'd be like Vin and Elend dying. It seems like a believable fate for him to meet, as heartbreaking as it is.

Bad Outcomes:

7. White Woman Jumpscare:

Kaladin ends up with Laral. What can i even say about this. Childhood friends to enemies to strangers to Kaladin pitying Laral in a way that really pissed her off because of how condescending and patronizing it was. I don't want them together.

8. Chrom's fate:

Kaladin gets married to a random, unimportant woman between books 5 and 6 solely for the purpose of creating plot relevant children that will likely ultimately be used to hurt him.

9. Depressed together:

Adolin dies and Shallan ends up with Kaladin. Any outcome where Adolin dies is unacceptable to me but thus one especially. I love Kaladin. I love Shallan. I love them both in a relationship with Adolin, mutually or separately. But they cannot under any circumstances be allowed to date just each other. They understand each other's trauma and are drawn to each other, but neither of them is capable of helping the other process their trauma while also dealing with their own feelings. It's a relationship destined to crash and burn from my perspective.

10. Hell and hate on planet Roshar

Syl takes a physical form and gets romantically involved with Kaladin. Literally the worst possible thing I can imagine happening to either of them. Their souls are bound together, they are vital to one another, and they love each other, but not Like That. It's closer to a sibling relationship than anything. This particular situation could only arise from a gross misunderstanding of their relationship as its been developed thus far.

[luchibelle-throughthecosmere]

RoW: chapter 2 and chapter 3

Can we just for a second acknowledge that Adolin is giving Syl fashion tips?

Also, Lyn and Kaladin? What in the storming winds… How? When? Why? Syl, come here and give us a full report on this!

Kal, Syl, Hesina and Oroden seem to have a close relationship but not Lirin. He seems to be mad at his son but I have a feeling Lirin feels guilty about what happenned between him and Roshone and how it forced Kal to be something Lirin has always despised, a soldier. Maybe he hasn’t coped well with Tien’s death either. It’s going to be interesting to read more about him through his POV.

So Stormblessed is now officially their surname and Kaladin is Highmarshal. It took them long enough.

We were robbed of a Hesina and Navani meeting. ROBBED. I have so many hopes for that to happen. Hesina’s family descends from Lighteyes and how she interacts among them is something that I can’t wait to see unfold.

This chapter is surreal. You said you won’t leave Hearthstone while there’s people here that may need your help. No problem, we will just move ALL OF YOU on a flying platform all the way to Urithiru. Can you say no now? I thought so.

NAVANI, YOU GENIOUS!

She doesn’t seem to be aware of it but she kind of unifies all kind of scholars around her. Makes me wonder if she could be a bondsmith. The Sibling was connected to Urithiru and Navani really wants to bring it up to life the way it used to be in the old days. Their paths will eventually cross apparently.

FOURTH BRIDGE

Aluminum is an interesting metal. It makes more sense if you have read Mistborn but it isn’t such a big part of the plot that people would be confused about it.

Lift is aging and growing, she sure isn’t happy about it. The Nightwatcher broke her own rules when it comes to Lift. Instead of granting her wish and giving her the corresponding curse, she gave her another kind of blessing.

Dalinar, who can still infuse stormlight, called Navany “gemheart” and if that doesn’t melt your heart, you are a Voidbringer.

Overall the third chapter was much more enjoyable that the second one. Maybe because we’ve listened to chapters 7-8 and it took away part of the tension.