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just a quick drawing of Jonathan Crane crying in his office between patients because he's having a hard day...

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Ozai’s angels!

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You’re the pink in my cheeks and I’m scared that it means I’m a little bit soft

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Dr. Jonathan Crane contemplating wether he should fear-gas all of Gotham this afternoon or get a coffee

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Different pov🤷‍♀️

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some of my zutara sketches from twitter!

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FEAR

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girls selfie time  💖 📸

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cosmere inktober 21: rusty

rust and ruin

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Mistborn AU where Ruin is the protagonist and Preservation is the antagonist

Ati was able to control Ruin a little bit more, channeling its Intent to destroy things that harmed humanity. But Preservation still did not like this destruction. He would rather humanity be harmed, but not destroyed, so long as everything in the universe stays stable with all its processes working smoothly. In his mind, Ruin is messing with the natural order of things, so he locks Ruin up. Preservation in this AU is more stable, so he continues to affect things around Scadrial to keep everything The Same. But Ruin was still trying to get out. Alendi and all that stuff happens, but Preservation uses Rashek killing Alendi for his own goals, manipulating him to create an empire without change. It doesn’t matter if people suffer, so long as everything is The Same.

Flash forward to the books, and Ruin manages to get enough of his power into the world to infuse Kelsier with some of it (fun morally good destruction guy, Ruin loves him). Kelsier notices he has some weird powers that he shouldn’t have, and it excites him, but it also freaks him it since he has no idea where it comes from. Eventually, an Inquisitor “accidentally” spikes him so Ruin can speak to him, explaining his plans. Kelsier is excited because a god trying to kill The Lord Ruler? Awesome! So he works with Ruin to kill Rashek. He still dies in this AU but becomes a Cognitive Shadow with Ruin’s Investiture, not Preservation’s.

Ruin figures out that in order to stop Preservation, they *both* need to be destroyed, so most from here on out goes similar to canon, with Harmony/Discord being created. Vin still has to take the power of Preservation to defeat Ruin, which really pisses Kel off.

#i am discord friends with fox go follow him his stuff is great #this au is so interesting #cosmere #mistborn #mistborn era 1 #kelsier mistborn #ruin mistborn #preservation mistborn #harmony mistborn #harmony #sazed #kelsier

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This is an extension of my last reblog. I think if Ruin was better at futuresight than Preservation, there would need to be a sort of roleswap between the two Shards. Ruin would the protagonist or good guy with The Plan, or even the Sealed Evil in A Can with The Plan. Preservation would be the antagonist or bad guy.

I say this because part of the Terris Prophecies’ effectiveness was that, as far as we know, Ruin’s futuresight web didn’t include the possibilities that served as their foundation. So his plans served as an abysmally shorter-term contrast to Preservation’s Plan, which threaded towards the true Hero of Ages. Ruin, instead of threading the true Hero of Ages and manipulating them, decided to manipulate the Hero’s of each cycle into freeing him.

I think in a roleswap Ruin would need to be the one to create the Prophecies, as part of a Plan that’s in line with his Intent. Perhaps in line with a kinder, more in-control interpretation of his Intent.

[screenshot from Coppermind Metallic Arts page]

No.

Absolutely not.

I hate hate hate this, and I hope it’s as wrong as ‘Voidbringers are Parshmen’ turned out to be.

WHY WOULD PRESERVATION MAKE SOMETHING END-POSITIVE, AND THE TWO COMBINED MAKE IT NEUTRAL?? THE ENTIRE POINT OF THEIR PARTNERSHIP IS THAT THEY HAD TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET ANYTHING ACTUALLY MADE TO PRESERVE OR RUIN!

Hemalurgy of Ruin, yeah, but I would argue with Branderson himself about Feruchemy being half from Ruin. Nothing is destroyed by using it, vs you BURN METAL for Allomancy.

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tl;dr I think that Feruchemy should be the magic system sourced purely from Preservation, Allomancy should be the one that’s half Ruin and half Preservation.

#mistborn #cosmere #brandon sanderson #terris prophecies #futuresight #precognition

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I really enjoy your questions here. For awhile, I wondered what the Metallic Arts are end-positive/negative/neutral towards. Is it towards life, metal, power, or something else? After finishing The Bands of Mourning and Secret History, I think the end-X format has to do with three things related to Investiture

How the power - the Investiture of each Metallic Art- interacts with the body and soul.

The Intent of the Shards that supply each Metallic Art

How the Metallic Art is accessed, which might have to do with the corresponding Shard's Intent.

Allomancy is end-positive. This being of Preservation is the most iffy out of the Three Metallic Arts. The best explanation I came up with is that accessing Allomancy has to do with preserving somethings: a bloodline, trauma and the body/soul.

We saw in the Mistborn Trilogy how dedicated the nobility were to preserve their Allomantic bloodlines, either by having sex with whoever moves or keeping relations strictly to other nobles. After all, these methods were a noble's best chance to sire an Allomancer, particularly a Mistborn. Straff Venture and Tevidian Tekiel in particular were known for doing this. There's the fact that to be born with Allomantic potential, a person must have a noble in their heritage. But that's not enough because the nobility were known to... I guess you could word it as "preserve traumatic experiences in their bloodlines." Children of noble families were victims of planned beatings in attempts to Snap the children, to bring out the hidden Allomantic potential. Then there's the matter of how Preservation's Investiture interacts with the body/soul when a metal is burned. In which case, nothing happens. The body is only affected during the duration of the metal's burning. When an Allomancer stops burning, the body returns to its normal state - preserving the body.

Preservation's Intent, at its core, is stagnation and stasis. But it's also about protecting, stabilizing, and reinforcing.

Hemalurgy is of Ruin, and we can see this in its workings. I don't think Ruin is of change, at least not the type of change the tags seem to suggest. Not the type of change I once thought, or hoped, Ruin represented. I don't even think it's chaos... at least not the human definition of chaos...

Ruin represents a type of change, but that type doesn't include creation or growth. It doesn't include the chaos or change that breaks out of eternal stagnation and order. Ruin's Intent is very slow decay and very slowly winding things down to nothingness. Ruin's Intent is entropy - energy spread out in a less usable form. It is being at peace with the fact death and destruction exist, and the fact life doesn't last forever.

This force was time infinite. It was the winds that weathered, the storms that broke, the timeless waves running slowly, slowly, slowly, to a stop as the sun and the planet cooled to nothing. It was the ultimate end and destiny of all things. And it was angry.

We see this in Hemalurgy. Hemalurgy is accessed by killing someone, with decay and entropy occurring the moment a spike is created. Leave a spike outside of blood, the potency of the stolen power is diminished throughout time. Even when a newly created spike is immediately pierced into a recipient, they gain a slightly weakened power in return. You could say all forms of Hemalurgy decay the soul, because they create cracks in it. Hemalurgic constructs could be reflective of Ruin's aspect of life not eternally staying in the same form.

Feruchemy is of both Shards for a reason. When a Feruchemist fills a metalmind, their attributes become less present in the body, mind and/or soul. The Feruchemist temporarily Ruins themself. They lose strength or weight, senses become dull, body gets colder, Connections are reduced, memories are removed etc. When a Feruchemist taps a metalmind, their attributes are added into the body, mind and/or soul. Or if they neither fill nor tap, the Feruchemist completely returns to normal. They become Preserved.

As for the tags about how Ruin should be better at futuresight than Preservation... I have complicated feelings. If Ruin's Intent was a true fundamental opposite to Preservation's Intent of stasis - if Ruin was chaos that advances the world, brings change within stagnant and orderly systems, brings passion and dynamic events - then Ruin should 100% be better at futuresight.

But unfortunately, Brandon didn't go into that direction. It seems he went in the direction of Preservation's Intent being more or less described as "fuck Ruin in particular." It also doesn't helped that Leras heard the thoughts of all Scadrians. Whereas Ati doesn't have the same ability and seemingly can't (frustratingly) speak to the minds of all Scadrians.

[screenshot from Coppermind Metallic Arts page]

No.

Absolutely not.

I hate hate hate this, and I hope it’s as wrong as ‘Voidbringers are Parshmen’ turned out to be.

WHY WOULD PRESERVATION MAKE SOMETHING END-POSITIVE, AND THE TWO COMBINED MAKE IT NEUTRAL?? THE ENTIRE POINT OF THEIR PARTNERSHIP IS THAT THEY HAD TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET ANYTHING ACTUALLY MADE TO PRESERVE OR RUIN!

Hemalurgy of Ruin, yeah, but I would argue with Branderson himself about Feruchemy being half from Ruin. Nothing is destroyed by using it, vs you BURN METAL for Allomancy.

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tl;dr I think that Feruchemy should be the magic system sourced purely from Preservation, Allomancy should be the one that’s half Ruin and half Preservation.

#mistborn #cosmere #brandon sanderson #thoughts on the three metallic arts #thoughts on futuresight in the cosmere #futuresight between shards might be an intent vs intent thing #marvelous magical rants

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One of the things that bothered me about The Hero of Ages was Elend’s duralumin-atium burst. It’s iconic but it always annoyed me why Elend could do what Ruin couldn’t - foresee Preservation’s plan and Ruin’s death. However, now that Secret History has given insight into precognition I finally understand Elend’s sacrifice.

Elend never knew for certain if his sacrifice would be guaranteed to drive Vin to murder-suicide Ruin. But he aimed to protect the world and trusted Vin, so he sacrificed himself to help her. This is something Ruin - an unaware Vessel filled with the contextless embodiment of decay - was unwilling to do.

Before heading west to the Ire’s fortress, Preservation showed Kelsier a future vision that starts from him heading west. The future vision held Connections between Kelsier and his soul to Preservation, Kelsier to everything and everyone on Scadrial, Preservation to the ground and air and metals. And in the vision, it held a path of future possibilities - many, thousands upon thousands, infinite, tangled with each other. Kelsier could only glean vague, general impressions because his mind isn’t expanded to sort through or understand the sensation, the information, or the individual possibilities.

Elend saw into the future the same way Kelsier did - through glimpsing Connections. But he could understand all the possibilities because Atium expands the mind. When burning duralumin+atium, Elend became temporarily Connected to Kelsier, Vin, Ruin’s essence, the future, the past, everything and everyone in the battlefield. Those Connections are the blue lines pointing from his chest in the Physical Realm and the white lines in the Cognitive Realm. 

Seeing the future possibilities within those Connections, but understanding them all because of Atium’s mind expansion. Judging from regular Atium and Kelsier’s vision, he probably saw the ”thousands upon thousands” of possibilities that could result from his current action - the fight against Marsh. 

“I see now” is when Elend liked the general implication of the future vision - that he could drive Vin to sacrifice her life if it meant defeating Ruin. So he let Marsh kill him and hoped it would come true. But even the Shards of Adonalsium - those who foresee infinite possibilities and infinite actions - can be wrong about the possibilities they see as unlikely, likely, or thread towards. 

All he could do was trust Vin and hope for the best outcome.

But where does this fit into the futures seen by the Shards surrounding these events - Ruin and Preservation? Ruin, the essence which fuels Elend’s future vision and the God whom foresaw what Elend saw. Preservation, the God Sanderson implies incorporated Elend’s death into his plan.

I believe for Ruin, his inability to acknowledge Elend’s future vision was not a matter of seeing the possibilities. But rather, it was a matter of seeing them as likely possibilities. Ati the Vessel basically didn’t exist anymore. Ati didn't even remember what planet he was working on, virtually a shell filled with Ruin's Investiture. Ruin the God foresaw the possibilities within Elend's future vision, but either saw them as unlikely or dismissed them entirely. You could even say he was a god that no longer understood or acknowledged the loving sacrifice that existed within his foreseen future possibilities.

Ruin the God didn’t embrace life or acknowledge that life needs to persist. Ruin didn’t sacrifice. He said he was life, and yet Leras/Fuzz comforted life when Ruin did not. And for this, he dismissed Elend’s futures and paid the price. 

Preservation protects. Preservation listens to the hearts of men, for it hears all thoughts of all Scadrians. Leras understands sacrifice, for the divinity sacrificed his mind and equal pedestal to Ruin. This was for the sake of protecting in the long run. This is why he wanted Elend to have the lerasium bead. Leras chose a successor who could live a life highly Connected to Preservation’s attributes, and might sacrifice her life for the greater good. He foresaw someone might use one lerasium bead for the pieces of the plan to fall together. And when the time came, He saw Vin’s lover as someone who might sacrifice his life for the greater good. Someone who could use the bead. Leras bet those possibilities would come into play at the last moment, did whatever he could to thread towards them, and hoped it paid off. 

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