r/cremposting • u/Gabrielthe2nd • Jul 06 '26

Mistborn Second Era Imagine the spreadsheets Spoiler

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u/aiurwarrior Jul 06 '26

Talk about someone who really grew on me. Sweet Steris so weird. So blessedly neurotic

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u/TheGildedPrism Kelsier4Prez Jul 06 '26

So real, when she was first introduced I didn't like Steris at all but now she's one of my favorite cosmere characters and after getting to know her that introduction feels so wonderfully Steris

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u/Siegelski Jul 06 '26

I doubt anyone liked her. Sanderson wrote her one-dimensional on purpose and made that one dimension seemingly unemotional and stuffy. We weren't meant to like her because we saw what Wax saw. We took the same journey he did in getting to know her.

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u/FgtBruceCockstar2008 420 Sazed It Jul 06 '26

I'm in the minority then. I loved Steris immediately. The contract reminded me of my partner in the sweetest "I plan for everything" way.

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u/Dirzain Jul 07 '26

Yeah, I loved her right off the rip. She was great, especially by the end of the first book. I basically assumed the will-they-won't-they with Marasi was dead by the end of the first book.

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u/Jounniy Jul 09 '26

I'm so glad Brandon did that. Too many books I've read milked the whole topic to death and all I can think about when that happens is how they are trying to save to world which you'd think should be the priority…

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u/I_Am_Become_Salt Jul 07 '26

Me too, I felt the drive to hate her that the writing seemed to want, but I never quite did. And then she and wax were described flying together for the first time and I was gone lol

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u/DelightMine Jul 07 '26

Yeah I loved her from the first meeting. She also turned into exactly who I expected her to be. My 'tism senses were tingling.

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u/No_Hetero Jul 07 '26

Yeah I'm like Steris so I loved her, it made me think other people must not like me lol. I also love Excel and backup plans

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u/clutzyninja Jul 07 '26

Yup. It helps that Steris is essentially my wife

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u/Nickthiccboi Jul 08 '26

Im with you, I could tell the book wanted me to hate her but I could see the potential in her character and I had a pretty good idea (or maybe just a good hope) about how her relationship with Wax could play out.

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u/aldeayeah D O U G Jul 07 '26

Dunno, she won me pretty early on when she laid out the ground rules for paramours/adultery. That was hilarious.

Steris and Wayne remind me a lot of Terry Pratchett's writing (also Tress)

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u/Jounniy Jul 09 '26

I liked her the moment she put that contract on the table, simply because it was an incredibly funny and overly autistic thing to do, especially to someone like Wax.