Elsecalled

Doesn't she say multiple times that his shape keeps changing, individual arms recombining to form different complex shapes all the time? Unlike the flamespren, Pattern seems to have not been locked in the shape Shallan drew of him. Her drawing him was still immensely significant, but not in making him stupid, I think. Syl was stupid in the beginning too. I think that's something most spren go through.

Just wanted to point out that while Jasnah dismisses romantic connections with a man, this doesn't in any way mean she is asexual. She's precisely the kind of person who'd see sex for what it is, and having no issues having sexual relations with a man without letting that mean she'll marry him. And I think Jasnah's change when she became an adolescent may simply be because she figured out that her mother did not love her father. I don't think she hates Navani, but she probably figured out that her mother married the elder brother out of political expediency. And I think that explains both her disdain for getting tied down to a man (especially one you've never met) and her comment comparing using the beauty of your face to get a man being the same as a man using his muscles to force a woman. She is the kind of woman most men in a place like Alethkar would be turned off by. In fact, I distinctly remember some lord or prince in WoR making a disparaging statement about her along those lines. I think that's something Jasnah the adolescent would have sensed too, and that would have made her disdain the men around her even more. And I agree she isn't a very good candidate for a sociopath. The quote about Taravingian is telling. She's troubled that men who are violent and aggressive to gain success are viewed as the best men. A sociopath would have much less trouble with that.