Letryx13 Posted December 1, 2022 Posted December 1, 2022 6 hours ago, Greywatch said: Yes, thank you for grabbing the quote, that was exactly what I had in mind when I said what I said. Insisting that he's not sorry is great character writing for a character who can't get what he's done out of his own head and trying to put a different spin on why he can't stop himself thinking about it. I appreciate the help in backing up my point. I’m sorry, but that’s not what the quote means. What Moash is saying is the same as someone being sorry they were caught doing something wrong, not sorry they did something wrong in the first place. If he was truly sorry, he’d be able to say it. And he’d try to do something, anything to make up for it. And while Sanderson doesn’t force feed character development, he does show when characters are conflicted. When Kaladin considers assassinating Sadeas and Amaram in WoR, it shows him specifically thinking that something doesn’t sit right with that. And again, in RoW, Kaladin struggles with his father’s logic about passivity. Moash is not showing this conflict; he’s acknowledging that he doesn’t regret his actions. 2
Marabout Posted December 1, 2022 Posted December 1, 2022 That’s not what the quote “means”, that’s Your interpretation of the quote. 1
Letryx13 Posted December 6, 2022 Posted December 6, 2022 On 11/30/2022 at 8:08 PM, Marabout said: That’s not what the quote “means”, that’s Your interpretation of the quote. It literally says he's not sorry for what he did. 1
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