The One Who Reads

Dockson?

Mistborn spoilers

WoR/Elantris Spoilers

I knew I had a song for Shallan somewhere!! LINKIN PARK- Numb Key lyrics- "Can't you see that you're smothering me, holding too tightly, afraid to lose control?"- Shallan says pretty much this in regard to her farther trying so hard to hold his family together. "I've become so numb, I can't feel you there"- Shallan becoming 'numb' over her a certain incident and forgetting and nearly killing Pattern. "Become so tired, so much more aware"- Lightweavers don't speak oaths they speak truths about themselves. "I'm becoming this,"- Shallan has frequently gone along with something only to find out she actually gets too comfortable in the role (e.g. Jasnah's wardship where she went to steal a soulcaster and ended up falling in love with 'scholarship') this follows into "all I want to do Is be more like me and be less like you"- This is pretty much Shallan's plot-line her growing (and in my opinion misplaced) self-confidence, learning to be her own person. Less notably- "Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes"- Shallan thinks she is the only person left who knows about the oncoming desolation, Jasnah's shoes are mighty big ones to fill indeed. "every second I waste is more than I can take"- I might be twisting this one a bit but to me this fits perfectly into how Shallan refuses to acknowledge events that have happened to her. Her subconscious will not allow her to waste time on what has happened. Not the fact that her mother tried to kill her, nor Shallan's killing of her own mother as a child not even the killing the farther who destroyed himself to protect her. Later on she is even surprised to recall she killed Tyn. Shallan is not a Kaladin or a Dalinar who keeps their failures and fears close, she has seen from her family how that does not work. Living without her distractions would be "more than" she could "take". Well I am glad I got that off my chest, seriously Shallan is such a well-written character.

First time using spoilers so beware Warbreaker spoilers below. Mistborn spoilers

Vin and shallan take this for me, mostly vin. Am I the only one thinking shallan has a shardblade that she has not only gifted to another person but also transforms into 'a large knife' in WoR? People putting Vin down due to her weapons not being that dangerous to kal should remember shallan has got no problem handing her blade over to the trained warrior then going to draw her pretty pictures. This leaves vin with a similarly suped up weapon (no mental comunication / transforming though), way more experience of aerial combat then kal, the ability to attack at range with coins, superior stealth (street thief with tin and pewter vs the glow in the dark man) and what we can only assume are similar physical feats. Kal does win in healing factor and with his blade in spear form he has a pretty big reach advantage as vin is probably not going to be comfortable with using a large weapon. She uses things like koloss sword but never with her normal skill that's dagger work This is ignoring the elephant in the room however, if she has autium she will crush kal it is just too much of advantage in a close up fight. Wayne has no way to interfere with a fight in the sky short of humorous comments and one on one his bubble is worthless against someone like vin. But pattern will probably love his 'method acting'.

No Renarin love in the whole thread? Here is his song in my opinion: Imagine Dragons - Monster (I even gave you a link with lyrics on screen). Key lines: "If I told you what I was, Would you turn your back on me?" - Renarin's fear that he is committing top-tier blasphemy (predicting the future and surgebinding) and "Can I clear my conscience, If I'm different from the rest, Do I have to run and hide?"- Renarin is a quiet contemplative individual with less then stellar physical abilities, and who happens to have three of the greatest warriors of the modern day in his family and lives in a culture which literally views war as a man's greatest Calling.