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Also Asmodean is the definition of “go king, give us nothing!” because he spent an entire book failing to channel, playing his lute or whatever, and dressing like a little lad who loves berries and cream just to die twice in 24 hours

#even on hiatus i will always reblog an asmodean post #asmodean

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I’m sorry. Aviendha sleeps with Rand (and they’re both TOTALLY in love with Elayne), Min is pining for Rand, and Elayne just bonded Birgitte as her Warder??? Exactly how big is this polycule???

#amazing

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RAND + curly hair | Requested by @warriorfaeriequeen

#rand al’thor

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Wheel of Time theology:

“Oh yeah, the Devil is real and he’s been leaking out of Hell for the past 3,000 years. There was an industrial accident at the high-energy particle metaphysics lab”

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I didn't really care for Rand all that much when watching WoT but I gotta say he's absolutely become my blorbo now that I'm reading the books. Sensible little farm boy that goes completely off his rocker and just keeps collecting fun scars??? Every second sentence prefaced with "I'm not mad yet, but..."??? Never learned how to talk with girls??? Iconic

#rand al’thor

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Literally everyone that rescued him from literally being tortured for two weeks straight: What's wrong with him?

Rand:

#rand al’thor #wot book spoilers

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Some sketches of Nynaeve from The Wheel of Time. I love drawing her long braid! Lots of fluffy hair in any shape makes me happy ^_^ Lately I'm trying to let go of the need to make everything as perfect as possible since it creates a huge amount of unnecessary stress for me, and honestly kills the joy of drawing entirely. So I try to allow roughness, imperfection and wonkiness, and I find that I like that imperfection much more than I would have thought.

#nynaeve al’meara

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#wot memes

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choedan kal

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Elayne that’s gay

#elayne trakand #aviendha #wot book spoilers

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oh no i can feel the rand hate rising guess i’d better dust off my “rand is an intentional critique on the super-special-chosen-white-boy trope” essay

#rand al’thor #wot book spoilers

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rand al’thor really is this repudiation of the idea of a Noble Sufferer, isn’t he

like, as early as book 2 he’s resigning himself to this trope. he decides that he’s going to Suffer In Silence, you know, he even tries to die for the girl he loves (and the first seanchan invasion but egwene’s a big part of it) at falme, he starts withdrawing from other people in book 3 and taking up the burden of the dragon reborn “because i must and there’s no one else who can,” and at every turn the narrative is showing that this isn’t possible. he tries to die heroically in falme and survives against all odds because the pattern isn’t done with the dragon reborn. he tries to kill ishamael three times before it takes, expecting the fight against darkness to be Over each time. by book 4 he’s becoming self-aware of his own trauma responses and they horrify him?? he can’t understand why he’s becoming angry and violent and struggling with lashing out. he still spouts off this whole speech to lanfear about how he was born to destroy the darkness in ostensible total acceptance of his destined role. he expects things to be simple in ways that they would be in another narrative. he tries to quash his entire identity to be the prophesied warrior of light, which includes ignoring his own trauma, because he can’t have trauma if he’s not a person, and we see how this does not work. he goes from dissociating sometimes to dissociating constantly, his Selfless Desire To Die mutates into a seesaw between fear of death and increasing suicidality. which is extremely, viscerally human. repressing his pain and never talking about it alienates most of the people in his life including people he’s trying to reach out to because they can’t understand what’s going through his head. he becomes cold and furious and difficult to be around despite his best intentions. he’s killed the boy who was rand al’thor but that doesn’t turn him into a fabled hero it just turns him into a miserable person he doesn’t recognize.

he WANTS to be the ideal stoic martyr, he WANTS to bravely face his destiny like people do in all the stories he read growing up, but he doesn’t understand that those are just stories and real people can’t live like that. 

#rand al’thor

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love and light to rafe saying that characters sitting down and having a conversation is the heart of the books when the entire book series is just characters either

a) willfully choosing to keep crucial information from each other

b) suffering conveniently-timed memory loss when they’re given an opportunity to give somebody crucial information that they by all logic and established characterization would give that person in that moment, but the plot is contingent upon them not doing so

c) being isolated from the other characters for 7 books straight and unable to have any conversations with them

d) having magical means of insta-travel and inexplicably not using it to pop in on their loved ones and have conversations with them

#honestly #i got so used to no one telling anyone anything ever in wot #that if i see information being shared off screen in other stories #it always throws me off

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#demandred #the forsaken #wot book spoilers

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#rand al'thor

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tumblr users be like “put Rand al’Thor in therapy!!!” and then the only therapist available in the entire wot universe is one of the Forsaken

#rand al'thor #graendal #wot memes #wot book spoilers

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Alviarin is introduced as an utterly generic White Sister that is instantly forgetten because the characters are all focused on the giant, obvious, blaring red flag that is Liandrin and I think that’s great and very funny.

#alviarin #wot book spoilers