Charlie.x.3000 Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 In the original Mistborn Trilogy, the difficulty of hovering and/or a soft SteelPush is talked about a lot; however, in the Wax and Wayne series, Wax is able to hover quite easily. Is this because Wax can manipulate his weight instead of manipulating his push? Or is it merely because both Kelsier and Vin were Mistborn for only a little while, and did not achieve Wax's experience/savantism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Surelly Weight manipulation helps a lot....Wax may adjust his path with a finesse that ful Mistborn would envy. Using both precise Push and the right weight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 He's also a borderline steel savant, so that probably helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savanorn he/him Posted December 25, 2016 Report Share Posted December 25, 2016 Experience is probably an element as well. Vin and Kelsier were both talented, but Wax has had twenty or thirty years to work his skills. But you're on the money, the fact Wax can manipulate his weight helps with his Pushing. It also helps that Modern Mistborn has a lot more fixed metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hoodie Mistborn he/him Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 I think the answer is... "yes". Weight manipulation certainly helps but Wax also has a level of experience with his Steel that no Mistbirn of era 1 we saw had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exalted Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 I think part of it has to do with what Vin realizes in TFE: if you only have one metal, you get really good at using it. We never had a Coinshot viewpoint during the original trilogy (the one with the most screentime being Beldre, who didn't use her power very much at all, so she doesn't really count), so the fact that Wax can do things with steel that the Mistborn of era 1 could not shouldn't be too much of a surprise. And of course, iron Feruchemy definitely helps as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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