Shard roller disco: Scadrial Part 2
Kelsier living his rockstar truth.
Music? Murder On The Dancefloor by Sopie Ellis-Bextor. Obviously.
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Roshar
Nalthis
Sel and Scadrial
First of the Sun and Taldain
Threnody
Roshar 2 (row spoilers)
Roshar 3 Bonus Dawnshard (spoilers)
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I think pierced ears and earrings are cool and all, but I’m not a fan of wearing earrings all the time because they allow the evil god of change and war and destruction to influence your thoughts emotions and actions and prevent the god of safety and peace and preservation from helping you and giving you extra superpowers and letting you share references to your favorite book series.
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One of my absolute favorite things about the Mistborn series (era 1, specifically) is the bait-and-switch of the overarching plot.
Like, you go into it and you're like, "Yeah, okay. I'm reading one of the Big Fantasy Trilogies of the modern era. Hell yeah. What's this all about?"
And so you read. You get introduced to the characters, the magic system, and, most importantly, the central conflict: it's an assassination plot.
Clearly, the whole trilogy is going to be about finding a way to kill the god-emperor of the cruel and oppressive regime, and the final book will have them overthrow him and everything will Be Good.
"Of course that's what will happen," you think to yourself. "That's a pretty standard narrative structure."
So you keep reading.
But as you read the book, something doesn't feel right. The pacing seems... Off. Isn't this book moving too quickly?
And then, as you get around the second act of the book, it hits you all at once.
"Are they... Are they gonna successfully assassinate the Lord Ruler?? IN THE FIRST BOOK??"
It sure looks like it.
SO WHAT THE HELL ARE THE OTHER TWO BOOKS GONNA BE ABOUT.
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I think more fantasy protagonists should be evil. There's so much media where they're like "I can't kill him, that'd make me just as bad as them." No girl, fuck him up! Murder him in cold blood!
Vin Venture and Adolin Kholin had it right. Kill the bastard.
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sometimes I remember that elend venture “not-like-other-girls”ed his way into marriage and ultimate political and magical power. that bitch was reading in the corner cuz he didn’t like the parties he was forced to go to. then he picked up objectively the hottest girl IN the world and then became emperor AND got the best magic powers. And he wasn’t even the protag!! can I just say
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vin my beloved gremlin
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*vibrating at incredibly high speed* I Am Normal About Marsh Mistborn
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elend: vin's not like other girls
tindwyl: no girl is like other girls it's called individuality bro
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nah. kelsier didn't die.
i'm just gonna sit here in complete denial.
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Shard Roller Disco: Autonomy (she is just messing around in too many systems by now...)
Music? eeerr, let's go classic Funky Town by Lipps Inc.
More Shard Roller Disco AU:
Roshar
Nalthis
Sel and Scadrial
Scadrial 2
Threnody
Roshar 2 (row spoilers)
Roshar 3 Bonus Dawnshard (spoilers)
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rashek... girl...
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spoilers!!!!
now about halfway thru mistborn, my thoughts so far:
i LOVE vin, she’s everything i want out of a complex female character. she has just enough of the “annoying” teenage attitude to feel realistic. she’s stubborn and headstrong.
also love the father/daughter dynamic between vin and kelsier, at first i was worried it was going to turn into some weird like teacher/student romance but we’re safe from that, phew
so idk if there’s any romance going on in this book, but im hoping to see elend & vin have a enemies/lovers moment. love a forbidden romance trope. kelsier definitely has his hands full with vin. ik some people hate the “omg ive seen him twice and im in love with him” but lets be so real that’s how teens are LOL
i do get kelsier’s mistrust in the nobility, but i think there’s possibly rebels who feel the same way as him. the nobles seem to be just as policed and watched, maybe even more so, by the lord ruler. yes they’re privileged and treat skaa awful but how many of them act out of fear?? also cmon an ally like that would be a game changer
wtf is going on with these Keepers? why would the lord ruler use them. why store this knowledge if to hide it from everyone?
why is the continent covered constantly under ash? was it done on purpose by the lord ruler? does the volcano have some connection towards this eleventh metal - hence why it’s kept active by some magic? does it tie in with his immortality?
i have a feeling there’s going to be some betrayal i get blindsided by, kelsier has faced it before & vin lives in constant fear of it. but… who will it be? ham seems likely now given his doubts about their army.
also marsh and mare??? maybe mare didn’t betray him and it was marsh trying to save mare from her fate. still angry with his brother’s recklessness, the fact that he got her over himself. was mare actively having an affair with marsh? or marsh just never won mare’s favor?
vin’s father. would he recognize her if he saw her? do they bare an resemblance? don’t know. but i have a feeling he will play a part in this. will he be sympathetic to his daughters cause or will he be disgusted?
there’s more i probably should add but this is what is off of the top of my head. this book is so hard to put down.
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Wayne has been... interesting over the last few chapters and really this whole book.
Firstly I do think it's strong characterization for him to easily espouse and laud the greatness of Wax and Marasi while writing himself off. Proceeding to basically solve the entire apartment scene and downplay his accomplishments.
Wayne not only has a strong disdain for himself, but like many people in similar headspaces as him, he is not only unable to acknowledge his own positive attributes but is quick to actively downplay himself for the raising of others.
I doubt I am the first to see there's a strong connection between Wayne's power of bring sickly and unhealthy to then be the one taking punishment and intentionally being harmed to draw attention away from friends. It's like the allomantic equivalent of self-deprecating humor, which he is also consistently using, see again, the apartment scene.
Wayne is blinding rich, but lives a poor man's because he thinks he deserves it.
Wayne is constantly joking in his head about drinking because he's constantly thinking about drinking.
Wayne has the ability to slow down time, to create moments where there are none and yet he has defined the entirety of his life by a split second decision made by a parentless kid 25 years ago.
Wayne is so antagonistic towards Steris (she'll change Wax), so loathing of himself because not only can he not let go, he can't accept change in general.
If Wax is a positive side of Ruin, of change, it feels to me like can be Wayne is the toxicity of Preservation.
This is super rambly but I hadn't posted in a while and felt like these brainworms would be enjoyed.
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Let me tell y'all about a real thing that happened:
Me, just finishing Mistborn Era 1 Book 2 talking to my husband about predictions for Book 3: Man....I just want the world for Sazed.
My husband, who had finished with the series, internally screaming at my choice of words: Uh-huh.
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