#stormlight Lopen

[novaraptorus]

I loved when the Lopen said “it’s Lopin’ time” and Loped all over the place

[onlycosmere]

The Stormlight Archive by Josh Corpuz

Shallan, Dalinar, Kaladin, Jasnah, Szeth

Pattern, Moash, Adolin, Syl, Rock, Gaz

Hoid, Lopen, Eshonai, Navani, Zahel

Sadeas, Lift, Veil, Teft, Rlain

Ben McSweeney: Pretty excellent, I like a lot of these!

The artist is from the Phillipines, and they do superb animation work as well. I think they're tied up in videogames, working on JRPGs.

[lamaery]

SPOILER WARING FOR WORDS OF RADIANCE, I guess...

YAY! There will some more posts this year from things I could not share before. One of these is the first illustration of the six I made for Nexus 2024's con game. The story card decks! 

I got to illustrate the short story "King Lopen The First of Alethkar" by Brandon Sanderson and Isaac Stewart. A side story from the end of Words of Radiance and some character growth we missed out in the main books. 

It was so awesome seeing everyone trading these at Nexus and I got to sign quite a few. I hope I get to share more of it in the future, but for now I can show you this one, of Lopen ending (nay diminishing) his opportunities for one-armed-jokes and many cousins to witness it.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

There are a lot of good reasons for the epilogues in the Stormlight Archive, but the most important reason is to let The Lopen progress through the oaths by doing mundane, anticlimactic bullshit, like tying his shoes or talking to his cousin

[taurnachardhin]

I love Dawnshard so much! Rysn's fantasy discord server for paraplegic ladies. Rushu being such a glorious ADHD nerd at all times. The wisdom under the Lopen's goofiness when he talks to Talik and Rysn about their shared experiences of being othered by the Alethi and the able-bodied, respectively. Rysn and Cord both independently having conversations with people where they talked about discovering that they wanted risk and adventure. (👀 please Mr. Sanderson, let them sail around the world together and kiss!!) Rysn crying because Vstim called her a friend. Cord being ready to trick and/or fight any god who comes for Rysn when they've only been friends for like a day. Chiri-Chiri making tiny, adorable roars to protect Rysn. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and when your hammer is trade negotiation, you sit down across from a guy who's 300 cremlings in a trench coat and make a sales pitch for not killing you.

[azure-sorceress]

The argument that Moash was the only one in Bridge Four that didn't see Kaladin as some kind of deity or hero really falls apart once you get to the Bridge Four POV chapters in Oathbringer. They're like "yeah, Kaladin is great, but sometimes he can be an idiot, you know" and things of the sort.

Meanwhile, in Oathbringer and Rhythm of War Moash's POVs actually show that he paints Kaladin as this perfect man and soldier.

[vanilla-vivillon]

WHO IS COOKED 🗣️ 🔥 🔥 ‼️ 🧑‍🍳 🔥

[cosmerelists]

Bridge 4 Discuss Terrible Pickup Lines

As (sort of) requested by @dewypeach and @imtheseventh

So back when @cam-ulu29 asked for a Kaladin flirting list, I ran a poll about whether it should be a sincere, sweet list or a list full of terrible, out-of-character pickup lines. The former won by a MILE, but some people were interested in the latter. Dewypeach & imtheseventh in particular suggested doing something with Bridge 4 either suggesting terrible pickup lines or having Kaladin try them out. So here's something like that!

Skar: Worst pickup lines you can come up with. Go.

Lopen: I suggested one for Kaladin, but it wasn't terrible--it was really good. He acted like it was terrible, though--does that count?

Kaladin: It WAS terrible.

Kaladin: And...weird.

Kaladin: I'm not going to flirt with Dalinar. He is my boss. And married. And old.

Lopen: So what I said, right, was that Kal should look Dalinar right in the eye, all serious-like, and say, "My relationship with my father is terrible. Will you be my new Daddy?"

Moash: [spits out drink]

Skar: No!

Lopen: Listen, it would work! I can read a man, and I KNOW that would work on Dalinar!

Kaladin: I DON'T WANT TO FLIRT WITH DALINAR, MY MARRIED ELDERLY BOSS

Lopen: Okay, okay! If you prefer to flirt with Navani, you just gotta roll up with something like, "So I heard you like long, thick towers. It just so happens that I..."

Kaladin: NO

Moash: See, the thing is, Kal, you're attractive enough that you could probably get away with a really bad pickup line.

Moash: I bet you could tell someone that you want to "Plunge straight into their their Honor Chasm" and I bet it would work.

Kaladin: That would absolutely not work.

Moash: You say that, and yet...

Rock: Moash has point, though! We are all well-known now, yes? All good-looking (except maybe for Lopen, who is unfortunately very short). I think men like us get away with some pretty bad lines, yeah?

Letyen: "You did a bridge run straight into my heart."

Moash: "I wanna explore YOUR chasms."

Kaladin: (What's you and the chasms, man?)

Lyn: "Let's...bridge this distance between us."

Teft: "I'm from Bridge 4. Do you want to get a drink?"

Skar: "Let me show you how good I am with my spear."

Sigzil: "You prefilled the forms in my heart."

[They all look at him]

Sigzil: What? In Azir, that's a very effective line.

Moash: Is that true, though, or are you making up Azir stories to trick us stupid Alethi?

Sigzil: [sips drink enigmatically]

Kaladin: Fine, fine, okay!

Kaladin: If I wanted to "pick someone up" with my Bridge 4 cred, I guess I'd try something like...

Kaladin: ...

Kaladin: Uh... How about: "My days in the bridge crews were horrible and dark. I barely survived. I lost a lot of friends. Good friends. It haunts me still. But now that I'm out, I've decided to live. And that means doing things that make me WANT to live."

Kaladin: "Like going out with you!"

Kaladin: [Looks at them expectantly]

Moash: Oh, Kal...

Lopen: Even your pretty face can't save that one, gon...

Skar: The thick tower line is looking better and better...

Kaladin: WELL YOU GUYS ARE THE ONES WHO BROUGHT IT UP

[chumsterfire]

Brandon Sanderson and Dropout. A Venn diagram that overlaps heavily for my interests.

[hyoukanee]

I am proud to present to you the expanded version of Bridge Four! ⚔️ Most likely this will be the final version (more on that below). First of all, I want to say thank you for liking the first version, I was very pleased to receive feedback & nice comments. Secondly, I hope the characters who joined turned out to be recognizable! Thanks to Brotherwise we got official images for many of the characters, so Rlain followed the concept. I have nothing to add except that I need to practice drawing listeners more and Rlain is one of my favorite characters in Rhythm of War! Sigzil turned out to be very serious & calm, I thought about drawing him with longer hair, but his Sunlit Man design was clearly imprinted on me since the book came out. And finally, Lopen! His official design is damn hot and sexy! And I tried to convey his cheerful and slightly daring image, which is why he got a pirate vibe. And the pose is very confident! His outfit is inspired by Ben McSweeney artworks for Dawnshard. And finally: I will not add Moash for obvious reasons. Renarin is undoubtedly part of Bridge of Four too, but I perceive him as a more independent character, so I also did not draw him here (sorry). This post is getting ridiculously long, so I really hope you enjoy the updated version as well! 😊

[feptacks]

I really really want Lopen and Szeth to interact post WaT, because Lopen could teach Szeth all his one-armed Herdazian jokes.

“Obviously you’ll have to make these into one-armed Shin jokes, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out.”

[thesitcomarchive]

When The Lopen repeatedly asks for more and more stew every night, it is quickly discovered he is running a profitable stew reselling business in the upper levels of the Tower. Wit is revealed to have been working on what he calls a new "Secret Story", very soon after debuting his last five. A new Bridge Four recruit develops a fear of heights.

[queen-kassiopeia-the-5th]

Personal opinion, but Radiants shouldn't have to be able to heal old wounds, even with stormlight.

During the books we see Lopen regrew his arm, Gaz regrew his eye, Hobber reanimating his legs after being slashed by Szeth in the previous book. All wounds are months/years old but they heal them the moment they become Radiants and could breath in stormlight themselves.

In my opinion it shouldn't be possible. They should only be able to patch wounds they got after they became Radiants. Renarin can only heal wounds on others if they are relatively new, there is a time bracket during which his powers are effective. I think it should be the same for Radiants healing themselves.

Now, I know what some of you want to say. The king of the Reshi isles, who was born a woman but always saw himself as a man - operating under the title King even before - became physically male when bonding a Spren. So the bond turns you into the perception of yourself, how you view yourself in a way - Lopen sees himself as still having two arms etc.

But I still think it's a cheaper writearound. Because think of it. These people became Radiant, but they still have a disability, an injury, and they cam still kick ass despite it! Lopen wearing a fake arm he can send as a projectile, Gaz hiding extra gems in his eye socket a la Aemond Targarian, for extra stormlight, Hobbs flying instead of wlaking, kind of like Rysn's Fabrial enfused wheelchair.

Kaladin can't get rid of his slave brands, because they are part of how he percieves himself now, the Shash is the symbol he is assossiated with, but he also hates them, so I don't get why they don't heal, too.

I think it would be better if this waan't one of the Radiant perks, and we got to see these characters navigating theur powers with their disabilities and turning them into advantages.

[cuneiformkey]

I bring a “The Lopen” vibe to trauma recovery that the Kaladins will never understand.

[blogfromthehill]

Bridge 4 Biker Gang!

From left-to-right, bottom-to-top: Sigzil, Syl, Kaladin, Rock and, Lopen & Rua. Lopen using surge-binding to lift his bike.

Happy with how this turned out but I'll probably not draw anything with too many characters anytime soon... 5000+ pixels on procreate with an older ipad-- I still have nightmares with how it crashed & froze. And the layer management

Anyway- hope you enjoy it. Likes, reblogs and or comments are appreciated!

[tenebris-lux]

Kaladin’s spoken reasons for hiding Elhokar with Lopen’s family was because it was less likely people would find him there. But I also headcanon that he thought it might do Elhokar good to hang out with everyday commoners for a little bit, and even depend on them for his safety and health in a more obvious way.

And Lopen’s mom was having none of Elhokar’s rank-pulling in her house. She addressed him as was appropriate, but she treated him like she would any person a friend of the family dropped off. There really wasn’t anything Elhokar could legitimately bitch about either, because she was still kind and was looking after him. Also she was completely right.

I think it’s so cute how he just complies when she told him to shut up and eat. Tired from blood loss and probably had a hangover … it just wasn’t worth getting up in arms with this lady. … also she has a point, and the food is good.