#gawyn trakand

[iliiuan]

Gawyn was a knight adopted by an irresponsible collector. They didn't have any quests for the poor boy, so he couldn't figure out what to do in life. He was surrounded by wizards but didn't know which ones were evil. Is that really his fault? And the dragon had to save the world, so he couldn't very well go off to slay it, now could he? Absolutely horrid living conditions for a knight.

#wheel of time #gawyn trakand #poor gawyn

[markantonys]

sometimes i re-stumble across passages that bowl me over with the remembrance of how unbelievably gay for rand gawyn is

gonna start calling him gaywyn every time he pulls shit like this

#[lovingly pats gawyn on the head and sends him off to get ~ripped apart~ by rand so that he'll calm down] #gawyn trakand #rand al'thor #wot #wot book spoilers #the wheel of time #randwyn #i am an avid randwyn shipper but only ever in a one-sided way #because the inherent premise of randwyn is contingent upon rand having no idea that it exists

[asha-mage]

A non exhaustive list of subplots that will almost certainly be cut but that I hope make it into the show:

Min having to masquerade as a spoiled pretty rich girl in the tower and her resulting improv comedy team up with Gawyn

The Wondergirls roll Bandits on the random encounter table

Mat Plays With Low Grade Explosives For Fun and Profit

Rand Getting Love Life Advice from the Maidens

Egwene And the Maids From Hell

Loial's being a bad boy hellion who ran off to avoid being tied down by marriage

#wot #wheel of time #wot on prime #wheel of time on prime #wot book spoilers #cot spoilers #min farshaw #egwene al'vere #nynaeve al'meara #elayne trakand #gawyn trakand #rand al'thor #mat cauthon #loial

[highladyluck]

In my brain Gawyn Trakand and Naberius Tern are the same sopping wet creature

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #gideon the ninth #tlt #gawyn trakand #naberius tern

[toastandjamie]

Wot Characters and the Taylor Swift song I most associate with them and their favorite Era!(excluding Debut and Tortured Poets Department)

Rand: You’re on Your Own Kid, when asked he consistently says Speak Now

Mat: Cruel Summer, he insists he’s only really listened to Reputation-this is a lie- Midnights is his favorite album

Perrin: Paper Rings, the Lover Album is by and large his favorite- however Fearless is a close second- he just thinks the songs are pretty

Egwene: Wildest Dreams, she’s a Reputation girly first and foremost

Nynaeve: Treacherous, Folklore zero elaboration needed

Elayne: Mastermind, 1989 is her favorite album by far

Min: You Belong With Me, she’s a Red girly and was the one who got Mat to listen to Taylor’s entire discography

Avienda: Red, Avienda isn’t very familiar with all the eras but after Elayne showed her all the albums she picked Evermore

Faile: Stay Stay Stay, just like Egwene she’s a Reputation girly(secretly her favorite is Lover)

Tuon: You’re In Love, Tuon claims to not have any preference but catch her listening to Folklore on repeat

Morraine: The Lucky One, Evermore without a doubt

Siuan: Lavender Haze, she’s a fan of the classics and loves Fearless

Lan: I Know Places, his favorite album is folklore because it’s Nynaeve’s

Thom: Exile, he appreciates the storytelling of Folklore

Brynn: Epiphany, he does not know the names of the albums but he liked most of the songs on Red

Gawyn: Anti-Hero, he insists he doesn’t like Taylor Swift but the answer is 1989

Galad: Karma, without hesitation he says Midnights

Berelain: Slut!, this is a woman who listens to Red, A Lot

#wheel of time #wheel of time spoilers #wot nonsense #mat cauthon #rand al'thor #perrin aybara #egwene al'vere #nynaeve al'meara #elayne trakand #aviendha #min farshaw #tuon athaem kore paendrag #faile bashere #moraine damodred #siuan sanche #thom merrilin #gareth brynn #galad damodred #gawyn trakand #berelain sur paendrag paeron #lan mandragoran

[ofthebrownajah]

Listening to Wheel Takes coverage of 2x06 and Ali and Gus bring up a great observation about Elayne. About how she's strangely quiet and calm in traumatic situations almost like she has experience with that. Specifically how she places her hand over Nynaeve's mouth to not cry out when Ryma is taken. That it comes across as almost like a child's reaction to wanting to stay quiet when witnessing something horrible. The tldr is that they think Taringail was abusive to Morgase and Elayne and Gawyn witnessed it

#it would certainly add more layers to why thom kills him #and another reason for why tigraine leaves #as well as gawyn and galad's characterization #wheel of time #wot book spoilers #cw: abuse #wot show speculation #elayne trakand #gawyn trakand #morgase trakand #galad damodred #taringail damodred

[mashithamel]

#wheel of time #gawyn trakand #wot book spoilers

[gunkreads]

Gawyn survives AU

OUGH.

Egwene survives. Gawyn's defeat, but not death, at Demandred's hands lets Egwene retain the last scrap of self control that lets her truly perfect the Flame of Tar Valon weave, avoiding her neganuke suicide.

Egwene being the post-canon Amyrlin means Gawyn is effectively the First Warder of the Sword. He has achieved an equivalent status to his original "destiny", BUT his identity has changed so much throughout the series that he can neither recognize it nor be happy with it.

Gawyn's shortened lifespan, extended beyond the ordinary one-month-to-live bloodknife effect by Nynaeve's Healing, and his complete inability to be recognized--even Egwene forgets about him because of the bloodknife rings--means he finally completes his journey to ego death. Over about a year of watching Egwene navigate peacetime and having defending her from assassination become routine, he loses his grip on his own identity; the bloodknife rings make him invisible to himself, too. Yes, he can take them off, but he truly believes that he needs to keep them on because they're How He Serves Egwene, and his service is the only part of himself that he still recognizes.

Consequently, Gawyn anglerfishes himself onto Egwene. Over time, he becomes vestigial. The worsening effect of the bloodknife ring slowly and softly masks the Warder bond, meaning his connection to her--the only thing he feels is worth protecting anymore--is fading as well.

Egwene sends him to Seandar on some sort of covert mission. He is near the end of his unnaturally-shortened-but-unnaturally-preserved lifespan. Tuon sees that her totally-not-narrative-foil Egwene is "sending an assassin" to "say hello". She sends Mat to take care of things, or "say hello back". Mat kills Gawyn by kicking him off a cliff into the ocean. No one finds his body. The distance makes Egwene forget she sent Gawyn anywhere, and the way his presence has faded over the last year or two means she doesn't even notice he's gone. She writes a letter to Elayne, fondly reminiscing about their time together in the Tower, that doesn't mention Gawyn once. Elayne doesn't think to ask.

Yes, I believe that even in an AU where Gawyn survives, he still dies.

#wheel of time #gawyn trakand #thank you for this. let me hurt my boy more.

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

The level of hotness of the Damodred - Trakand family according to Mat:

Moiraine is very pretty.

He would like to kiss Elayne.

He would like to kiss Morgase,too.

Galad is his bi awakening.

All of them very hot. 100% he would hit that. Meanwhile when it comes to describe Gawyn:

He's just some guy idk.

If I was Gawyn I'd be really offended to be left out of the hotties chart xD

#wheel of time #the wheel of time #mat cauthon #Moiraine Damodred #elayne trakand #galad damodred #gawyn trakand

[saffronique]

Fav part so far of the later Wheel of Time books is that Gawyn is like "Curse you Rand Al'Thor!! You killed my mom and sister, I will hunt you down and slay you!!" every 5 minutes meanwhile Elayne is sitting in Caimlan succeeding at her plan to baby trap Rand.

#wot spoilers #wheel of time #wheel of time spoilers #rand al'thor #elayne trakand #gawyn trakand

[an-s-sedai]

#wheel of time #wheel of time book spoilers #the eye of the world #teotw #gawyn trakand #rand al'thor

[iliiuan]

I'm to the point where Gawyn actually makes a decision, and a lot of the criticism he receives seems misplaced to me. He makes shit choices because he has shit information because the women he trusts to provide him with information refuse to communicate. Elayne, then Siuan, and then Egwene all misused him.

He followed Elayne to Tar Valon and undertook his training there, doing his duty without complaint. Then his sister vanished. His mom freaked out. He worried, and also BLAMED HIMSELF.

When Elayne returned, I don't remember if she even bothered to say 'hi' in his direction before running off again. Now he's really worried. Siuan won't tell him anything. Min won't tell him anything. He's trying to keep Morgase from blowing a gasket. Galad's joining the Whitecloaks. And then... there's a coup. Siuan, having given him exactly zero reason to trust or back her, he knew Elaida as a respected advisor, and he thought that her ascent was legal. He also thought that he would be able to get the information he wanted out of Siuan. All of this makes sense.

Then he stumbles. The change in Amyrlin doesn't fix his problems. He still doesn't know where his sister is. He lets Min rescue Siuan (and Leane and Logain). I don't remember his reasoning, probably because it wasn't very good. This particular point was all him.

Now he has his Younglings, and Elaida wants him disappeared, and he's sent on the mission to scoop up the Dragon Reborn for Elaida. He's heard rumor that Rand murdered his mom, maybe his sister as well, and he has a bloodlust for revenge. All of this is really reasonable, frankly. Then he runs into Egwene.

Egwene has the power to divert Gawyn from his path of doom, but she instead chooses to ignore him (in the political sense) and withhold information from him, while also sort of using him as a spy but not very well. Instead of using her rather impressive people skills to push him onto a healthy path, she uses him for some snogging and makes him promise not to harm the person who is supposed to save the world. She doesn't tell him where Elayne is. She doesn't give him any evidence about Morgase beyond being a character witness for Rand. She doesn't explain about the fractured tower, nor emphasize her allegiance to the rebel faction. She makes no effort whatsoever to sway him to her side, to even try to convince him to abandon Elaida. She doesn't even respect him enough to read him in as a spy for her. She also seems to think that a low-level soldier will be able to protect Rand from Aes Sedai. You know the ones, the women who can channel? Yeah. Not fucking likely.

So off he goes, swimming with his misperceptions, making ever more desperate decisions, experiencing increasing trauma and stress, until he finally comes to his senses and seeks out Egwene's side.

What I'm really trying to emphasize here is that Egwene could have had him on her side beginning in Cairhien, but she couldn't be arsed.

So when he goes back to her, and people criticize her for being with his loser self, my heart deflates a little. He deserves so much better. Even if he is a loser.

I also find the claim that Gawyn exemplifies toxic masculinity to be backwards. If anything, Elayne and Egwene are the ones displaying the traits usually associated with toxic masculinity: arrogance, withholding information or training, refusing help and then being upset when the helper isn't around, seeing the opposite sex as deficient (this one is only Egwene), acting invincible/infallible, not listening to good advice because of the gender of the person giving it ... you see? Don't be fooled by his masculine-coded job of bodyguard; everything else about the gender roles in his world are reversed from ours. He has a prescribed support role, and when he can't fulfill it, he becomes lost. He doesn't get to determine his destiny, so he doesn't train in how to make life decisions, but rather in how to follow orders and to walk his prescribed path.

So much about Gawyn's journey matches with the experience of women in our world who were raised and trained to be homemakers, but then had to claw their way out of abusive relationships, or find meaning after infertility, or push forward as a single parent after being abandoned by a husband or family.

So yeah, I have a really difficult time accepting a lot of the scorn he gets, especially from supposedly feminist critique.

#wheel of time #wot spoilers #gawyn trakand #elayne trakand #egwene al'vere #siuan sanche

[markantonys]

truly not enough discussion about the fact that bryne made gawyn swear the oath "my blood shed before hers, my life given before hers" over elayne's cradle when he was a TODDLER like oh my god no wonder this boy's got issues out the wazoo. ever since day 1 everyone around him was like "hey kiddo you're disposable" and ever since day 1 he accepted that as fact.

also, as i type this i'm also remembering that time elayne recalls that one of her earliest memories is being scared that galad would try to murder gawyn during play-sword-fighting out of jealousy of being passed over for first prince of the sword, and this is the initial reason for elayne's lifelong resentment of galad, this fear from when she was probably like 5 years old that he would murder their other brother for a title. and of course galad would never have done such a thing, just as elayne never asked gawyn to make that oath, but man, there is something quietly snuck into the various trakand dynamics about the damaging nature of royal families. it's a goddamn miracle these 3 kids aren't 100x more fucked up than they are!

#it's the way gawyn and elayne both just drop these Very Concerning revelations in their narration so casually & so briefly #and i'm like 'guys? do you..........want to unpack that at all or?' #gawyn trakand #elayne trakand #galad damodred #wot #wot book spoilers

[asha-mage]

Galad channeling AU

[Send me a potential AU and I'll answer with five things from that story!]

Ohhhhh boy! This is one I've actually given thought to writing before. I don't know if I'll ever do it, but if I did-

Galad is a sparker, and his first act with the power (that thing he wants more then he wants anything else) is to save Gawyn's life when Gawyn is drowning. He doesn't realize he's channeled at first- or for some time afterwards, repressing and shielding himself in order to protect his conscious mind from the reality of what he is doing. His block is that he is unable to channel except when someone else's life is in danger- that's the only time the innate fear is overcome by his need to do the right thing, to protect an innocent life.

When he finally realizes what is happening, it's after the royal party is waylaid on it's path back to Camelyn from one of the Trakand's estates by brigands. He channels in order to protect Elayne and Gawyn in some way that is impossible to hide, even from himself.

From there his Simple Code of Morality takes over- he intends to turn himself over to Elaida and the Tower for the gentleing, willingly and of his own accord. He makes the mistake of informing Gawyn and Elayne of this plan though, which leads to Gawyn knocking him over the head with a stick.

Elayne's complicated feelings about Galad aside, she and Gawyn do not want to see him gentled. It's one thing to understand it is something that must be done in order to protect the world from another Breaking. It's another for it to be your half brother, staring down the barrel of a slow tortuous death by despair. Elayne hates him sometimes- often really- but because she understands that unyielding stubborn moral code of his is going is so destructive, to him as much as everyone else. And she wont let him make a himself another victim of it.

The plan is to head West, to the mountains, out to the edge of Andor, where the affairs of nobles and Aes Sedai and nations rarely coincide. Stash him there until Elayne can reason out how to avoid him turning himself in, or going mad, or dying. Of course, the last thing anyone expects is to find an Aes Sedai already there, in that far flung corner of Andor, much less to see Trollocs invade onto Andoran soil. But that is of course, when it hits Elayne how to get Galad to live- all she and Gawyn must do, is giving him a duty so important that it will supersede his duty to surrender, a duty like....aiding the Dragon in saving the world for example. (And if Galad goes along with it under the logic that Moiraine Sedai will see him properly disposed of....well that's just the first step of the journey).

#WoT #Wheel of Time #WoT book spoilers #EoTW Spoilers #galad damodred #elayne trakand #gawyn trakand

[highladyluck]

I love that whatever deranged thing Gawyn Trakand is doing you can point to Gawain Arthurian Legend and be like ‘he gets it from his literary antecedent 😔’

Even the Bloodknife rings thing gives him powers related to the day-night cycle in a weird way, although it’s the inverse of Gawain’s canonical powers (most powerful at noon in full sun).

#wheel of time #wot book spoilers #gawyn trakand #there’s a lot of other stuff going on too but you know RJ was drawing on Arthuriana

[two-ponds-and-a-bowtie]

the way gawyn would have no storyline if elayne just sent him a text once in a while

#gawyn trakand #elayne trakand #wheel of time