1. I really do not like Spook. He took up a lot of HoA. I was reading for Vin. Spook was always a side character and always uninteresting.
2. Vin committed suicide because Elend was dead. Vin giving her life for a cause I could maybe accept. Vin saying she had nothing to live for I will never believe. Vin was very young. She had a lot to live for. (I also hate Romeo and Juliet. Stupid suicidal young people.)
3. Vin was not the Hero of Ages. I will never get over that. I am a very big Vin fan. Final Empire remains one of my favorite Sanderson books.
I don't have much to say about point 1, but...
2. Vin didn't commit suicide because Elend died. It was more that with Elend's death, she was freed to be able to sacrifice herself to destroy Ruin without any regrets.
As further evidence, look at what happened in WoA when Elend was dying; she didn't think "oh, the love of my life is gone, what's the point of even trying to save the world" - it was quite the opposite, even if she was misled by Ruin.
3. Even if she wasn't the Hero in the prophecy, let's be real - she was clearly the hero of the original Mistborn trilogy, and even Sazed acknowledged that of all the people to hold Preservation's power, she was by far the most worthy. Brandon constantly subverts expectations, and it would have fallen into extremely overused and boring tropes of prophecy in fantasy stories for her to be the Hero. Finally, everyone on Scadrial in Era 2 acknowledges her as literally one of the greatest, most selfless, and important people to ever live. Does it really matter that she doesn't have the specific title of "Hero of Ages"?
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I don't have much to say about point 1, but...
2. Vin didn't commit suicide because Elend died. It was more that with Elend's death, she was freed to be able to sacrifice herself to destroy Ruin without any regrets.
As further evidence, look at what happened in WoA when Elend was dying; she didn't think "oh, the love of my life is gone, what's the point of even trying to save the world" - it was quite the opposite, even if she was misled by Ruin.
3. Even if she wasn't the Hero in the prophecy, let's be real - she was clearly the hero of the original Mistborn trilogy, and even Sazed acknowledged that of all the people to hold Preservation's power, she was by far the most worthy. Brandon constantly subverts expectations, and it would have fallen into extremely overused and boring tropes of prophecy in fantasy stories for her to be the Hero. Finally, everyone on Scadrial in Era 2 acknowledges her as literally one of the greatest, most selfless, and important people to ever live. Does it really matter that she doesn't have the specific title of "Hero of Ages"?