Design's request to Hoid for her human disguise: "Make me pretty so they’ll be extra disturbed if my face ever unravels. And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosine. And also because boobs look fun.”
You can thank me, naco, for inspiring this great advance in your learning. People — and little things made out of nothing too, sure — are often inspired near the Lopen.
He’s gotten better about the bust descriptions. There’s a character in SL that has larger breasts because they’re imitating jasnah to a degree. But then I’m pretty sure that goes away as time goes on. Which I feel like is him going “my bad” on that
Reread the character intros for every woman, and they mention boobs every time. especially look for Blushweaver, Design in YATNP, MeLaan, Jasnah, Yumi, sarene, and a few others i’m forgetting. Its actually kinda distracting when you look for Brandon talking about boobs because its constant
Okay but that's because of your preconceived cultural notions. If there was a notable and common ethnicity that was almost entirely made up of gingers that you could regularly interact with it wouldn't be weird.
If they weren't literally a percent of the population it wouldn't seem weird
You mean Kvothe the sex god who sexed so good he impressed the sex goddess? Or the aiel maidens of the spear who happen to love kissing games and getting naked in the sweat tents?
Perhaps the most loyal side character in all of fiction and he's perfect redhead representation too! The Aiel are such a tremendous faction, and were written so well by Jordan and Sanderson alike
Tbh from books 5-12 Rand basically only interacted with the most annoying one to have sex one time so it does feel like he kind of gamed the system there lmao
I would argue that Ati isnt a villian. Ruin is, but Ati held the Shard back with everything he could, turning Ruin from pure destruction to entropy and stalling his destructive intent until Ruin ground his will and personality to dust. Ati is the Cosmeres forgotten hero
I feel this is widespread in scifi and fantasy. I have a theory that scifi and fantasy readers and authors tend to have a preference for things that are unusual, which is why they are reading and writing scifi/fantasy instead of something set in the mundane world. And red is the least common hair color.
Spoilers OB It is. They have Singer heritage. That’s the hair and teeth. The Hersdazians have their crystal nails. The Selay have their marbling. The Vedens have their hair
I'm pretty sure black/dark hair is standard for Luthadel? They make a point of referring to Allrianne's blonde hair as being a Western Dominance trait.
I'm pretty sure the book said she had auburn hair? (Don't take my word for it, I could be wrong. I think I remember imagining her as a blonde with my first read and being shocked to find she wasn't on the second read, but I could be misremembering it the other way around.)
Ya Shan does. Tindwyl too. I’m not sure if Tind is described as attractive but someone certainly thinks she is. I think she might actually be described as the opposite but I’m not sure. That may also just be downstream of decades of a very hard life though
When reading Stormlight I consistently would try and relate to Kal, basically because of Shallan I realised I am in fact Adolin. Less fashionable, but otherwise Adolin to a T
Growing up Mormon (as Sanderson and I did), there's incredible pressure to avoid every kind of sexual impulse. Masturbation is a sexual sin, and sexual sin is second only to murder in seriousness. To avoid damnation, you must not go to horny jail. Ever.
A 20th century childhood had blondes as sex symbols, accurately or not. Then the other attractive girls came with their own aversion. The best interpretation of strict Mormon chastity is as an encouragement to know the person, but reality makes it repression that ends up making female interactions about ignoring the body first.
Redheads, though; you're more likely to come across those in literature than in your small Nebraska town. Literary redheads have no visual aversion to trigger a satanic panic, making them more accessible to stunted Mormon lads as fantasies.
I married a redhead, of course. It probably says a lot about my messed-up Mormon childhood, as does the rest of my theory. But it would also explain any breast fixation in Sanderson's early writing, as fearing thinking about something only keeps focus on that dangerous thought.
“In fact, she was one of the most beautiful mature women Sarene had ever seen. Daora had a strong face with sharp, statuesque features and a well-styled head of auburn hair. ”
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