Mags

When your mom constantly info dumps at all times about anything and everything and your having a really hard time being enthusiastic about the unappreciated history of pigeons for her.

If I were to die in a year, I'd probably be a lot more depressed than I am now . . .

"It doesn't matter if they could do harm if they haven't done anything yet . . ." He seemed troubled by this. "Alright then."

"Okay . . . But what crimes could a mere chicken commit?" Aki asked earnestly.

Oh for sure! Though admittedly, my gen z attention span probably wouldn't be able to handle them . As with most things in this fandom, I tend to hear one thing or another second hand. Thanks for all the insights!

Ah! Thanks for the reminder! I'm tend to completely forget about spoilers that aren't for new releases (if fact I think you've had to remind me in the past before lol) Huh, I'll be honest I wasn't aware so many books had annotations for them, and I've never read the annotations myself. I feel like a book should be clear in it's writing without relying on author's notes for context, but I completely understand that it would be the first place to check when not understanding something.

That's comforting lol

no lol . . . it's the movie trope, y'know

They're nice boys, and hard working too! You can't go eating them when they might help us save the farm!

NOO don't eat my little guys!!

EDIT: My computer is not loading the edit function correctly, so I can't spoiler it right now? Anyway, !! THIS POST HAS SPOILERS IN IT !!, I'll try and get it in a spoiler box asap, sorry about this. Thank you for getting that! I honestly didn't remember that many hints, so I'm surprised to see them. That being said, I'm almost certain when I read them, I did not interpret it as hints towards a crush/possible romantic affection. Hrathen is the sort of person to feel respect and admiration even for his worst enemy, so that's all I saw it as. I see it often in other pieces of fiction as the 'the honourable adversary.' I suppose I fit him into that trope in my brain, and so assumed that any hints for his crush were just his respectful attitude. That being said, I'm not going to pretend like I'm not a fairly oblivious person lol . . . I tend to pick up on subtitles when I'm looking for them, but sometimes I miss things completely. For me, these hints alone are not enough to hint at a crush. I need more for it to stick in my brain. It might be enough for someone else, but not for me. I understand Brandon not wanting him to address the feelings directly, because he wanted the character being a certain way (as he said in the annotations). I'm not saying Hrathen needs a monolouge about it or anything, I'm just asking for more hints I guess--and those hints to get more obvious closer to the end. Have him show his conflicting emotions through the different plays he makes against her (maybe he subconsciously 'goes easy' on her for something, and he acknowledges that his not sure why), have him act differently when she's in the room, etc. I think Brandon could have pulled of the 'doesn't consciously acknowledge it' thing if he'd added more hints. That being said, I am partly of the mind that Hrathen could have acknowledged the feelings and wouldn't have felt out of character. I think I would've liked a monolouge, if I'm being honest, but I understand that's not what he wanted to do with the character. Certainly, hence my earlier comment. If he were to rewrite it today, I would probably love Hrathen. (Unrelated, but that's why Elantris is one of Brandon's stories I would really like to see adapted into another medium--it would give him the chance to re-polish things). That is an interesting point, but I just have to go back to what I already said. If Hrathen is experiencing confusion over how he feels, we need to be shown that. Maybe mention a past attempt at a similar relationship that he decided wasn't for him. I never once got the feeling that Hrathen was having a hard time understanding himself or what he felt. To me, it seemed like he went from 'I admire this person as an opponent,' to 'I think I have romantic feelings for this person' far too fast, and with very little questioning of what he felt/ deliberating. I could be wrong, but his comment of 'why am I jealous or Roaden?' seems to be the only time he questioned himself. Perhaps, he was questioning himself, but I as a reader don't remember because the story barely focused on it. Is Hrathen confirmed as Aromantic, or is that speculation from his actions?

What is your opinion on grasshoppers?

That's so cute! The hair gradient is so pretty!

Alright, so it started out with me helping to paint a mural on the wall of this . . . place? I'm not sure what it was supposed to be, it was a big room and sort of seemed like an events center or assembly hall? Anyway me and whole bunch of other people are painting trees on the walls for some reason, but I can vividly remember what mine looked like. Cut to sometime later, the mural isn't finished, but my family is using the building for our Christmas party. (We never have a family Christmas party, lol). The building is way to large for us, btw imagine a massive hall full of seats and a tiny group of people at a table at the front. For some reason, we did it so each person randomly drew another, and they had to buy all the gifts for that person. An interesting system and one we don't use in real life. All that to say, I got my older brother. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what to buy him and so I got him 1-a pack of those cheap kid markers (idk why I thought that was a good idea), and 2-some other item that I can't remember what it was but it sucked just as much lol. I was super embarrassed because my gifts sucked, and I could tell my older brother was disappointed. So I decide, hey, I didn't use all the gift money I had so I'll just take him shopping. Que the 'events center' shape shifting into a mall in the most physics breaking way. Anyway we look around at stuff and he can't decide on anything and I'm kinda disappointed in myself. Then I lost all continuity of the dream, so I can't really remember what happens next but I'm pretty sure my brother died? I don't remember how, he was just dead suddenly. And yeah.

@Scars of Hathsin

"Sure . . . I haven't got much else to do, really." He followed Larry, mildly curious and more then a little eager to distract himself from his own predicament. He glanced at them warily. He'd grown up in the country side, and knew that they wouldn't normally act that way. "Somethings off . . ."

PFFFT- this is amazing, (lol that would never happen btw, I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too shy to be a performer). In five years @Wierdo will have defeated every Lynel 50 times each in the latest Zelda game

Going even further with that, you could play with how someone's perception of a plant affects how they use it. Can someone of one culture use the meaning of another? How does the different meanings affect how mages from different places see each other and interact? There's lots of cool places you could go with it!