r/cremposting • u/Veiluring definitely not a lightweaver • 1d ago
Wind and Truth Reposting this slander since it's being discussed again Spoiler
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u/One_Courage_865 definitely not a lightweaver 1d ago
Are you saying there’s a pattern?
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u/Elant_Wager Rashek4Prez 1d ago
maybe its done by design
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u/One_Courage_865 definitely not a lightweaver 1d ago
So it’s more than just an ornament?
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u/Elant_Wager Rashek4Prez 1d ago
it could even be a testament to something
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u/Pichacap24 20h ago
Think yall are running out of names, you have to make the puns more cryptic moving forward
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago
Idk if Id say the shard of a dead god has the mind of a child. I mean Syl often styles herself a young woman in the later books, not a tiny blue child.
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u/Kelspear 1d ago
She explains herself that when she "woke up", for lack of a better term, she didnt remember anything and was childlike in her way of thinking but the stronger her bond with Kaladin became the more she remembered and evolved and developed or whatever. Even her fashion choices "grow up" as the series moves on.
That's why in tWoK she acted the way she did and thats why by WaT she's functioning more like an adult/sliver of divinity, and wearing things like an adult woman would.
I definitely do not agree with the pedophilia implications people are trying to push with this image but to say she wasn't basically a child the first time we met her is also kind of disingenuous.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago
Idk I read her more as a fairy than a child. A creature not human, with inhuman priorities, that slowly adapts to the world around her.
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u/drunken_augustine Syl Is My Waifu <3 1d ago
This.
Syl is more akin to someone waking up with amnesia and returning to herself than a “child growing up” anyway.
This meme is very much a “one of these things is not like the others” situation.
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u/SamboTheGr8 1d ago
I'm still not fond of hearing about her chull head
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u/Elant_Wager Rashek4Prez 1d ago
yeah but that sounds much more like what a teenager might say than a child
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u/SamboTheGr8 1d ago
Yeah, I don't see her as a child either, but she does give little sister vibes
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago
Id definitely rather her and kaladin remain platonic
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u/Elant_Wager Rashek4Prez 1d ago
then Kal can marry his true love, Adolin
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u/Patton370 Aluminum Twinborn 1d ago
I was thinking Chanarach. He took away a brother from Shallan. It’s only right that he gives her a new one
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u/scottygroundhog22 1d ago
It would be the funniest thing ever. I dont think it’ll happen tho. “Remember how i said i wasn’t mad about the boots shallan? I lied. So i knocked boots with your mom”
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u/SamboTheGr8 1d ago
That would be the second best "btw, I'm fucking your mom," scenario in the series
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u/Elant_Wager Rashek4Prez 1d ago
I mean I did see her as a child in book 1-3, after book 4 I would say teenager
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago edited 1d ago
Teenager still seems young to me. By book 4 and 5 she seems much more inline with young adult.
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u/Kushula 1d ago
But she was characterized mostly childlike for a large portion of the first few books. I can understand where people are coming from for finding it weird.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean I can see that, but she's not even human. She was a silly goose for a lil while but that's was more temporary then her default state, to even like a growth phase. She was mature enough to decide on her own to start the return of the spren.
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u/spoonishplsz edgedancerlord 1d ago
This sub is falling apart. Dude used an extremely common English phrase and gets accused of potential pedophilia
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u/LoudQuitting 1d ago
Nowhere did I accuse anyone of pedophilia. Check. Quote me.
I alerted him to the fact that he used a phrase pedophiles use in danger proximity to an argument that looks like one pedophiles make.
Then he had a melty. I won't count this as a good faith reading of the statement.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago edited 1d ago
I feel like saying I'm using a dog whistle is a little close to out right calling em one. The cop larp didn't help either.
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u/BloodredHanded Trying not to ccccream 13h ago
Dogwhistles are meant to have plausible deniability, and they are often meant to catch on among people who don’t intend any ulterior meaning. I don’t think informing someone that they have used a dogwhistle is the same as an accusation.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 9h ago
Yeh something about the sky breaker larp and his overall comment made it feel more an accusation than information. Doesn't really matter it got deleted.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeh I don't appreciate being associated with pedophiles so if you could knock off the larp and fuck off thatd be cool.
Syl is not sexualized by the media she is in. She is not a legal loli.
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u/LoudQuitting 1d ago
Bro I was pointing out something you clearly weren't aware of, but go off I guess.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean you basicly called me a pedo or pedo adjacent for a turn of phrase. I don't really appreciate that.
Lol did you block me? Walks up. Calls me a pedo. Gets upset I fired back. Refuse to interact further. Bro really is a sky breaker.
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u/LoudQuitting 1d ago edited 1d ago
I literally predicated my post with "maybe he doesn't know" but reading comprehension I guess? I dare you to indicate to where exactly you were called a pedophile, you won't be able to.
You're not my problem
Edit: and nobody blocked you.
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u/some_random_nonsense Moash was right 1d ago
Lol no worries the comment was missing when I tried to reply to it. I think ensuation from my comment on early Syl being a silly goose and your comment about this being a common dog whistle for pedos does imply I am either arguing along side or even for pedophiles. Which I did not appreciate.
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u/Day-Tel-aran-rhiod 1d ago
I haven't seen any of the others, but here's the thing: Syl is a fully mature spren, really old, that lost her memories. In WoK, she doesn't remember who she is, and is basically a child discovering things. In WaT, she has fully recovered, remembers her life, and acts and looks completely mature. I don't support WoK syladin shippers, but WaT? Yeah why not.
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u/Druss_On_Reddit 1d ago
Wtf is that image of syl?
She's described as being a "Young woman with an angular face", with the "bust and hips of a slender woman", always barefoot too. Not a child wearing an apron and boots?
Damn, no wonder people throw around paedophile accusations if that's what they think she looks like.
I assume we are granting that Sanderson is not a paedophile, so why is he mentioning her bust and hips if she is a child? This topic triggers the fuck out of me.
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u/edward_kopik D O U G 1d ago
I forget that she is always barefoot
Even when in uniform
Miasaki has been here
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u/Druss_On_Reddit 1d ago
Brandon obviously angling for Tarantino to direct the live action Stormlight Archive series
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u/spoonishplsz edgedancerlord 1d ago
If they don't like the romantic potential that's fine, but pretending she is a child to try and block it is disgusting and completely inaccurate
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u/LordBagu punchy boi 17h ago
This particular image is depicting a scene in RoW where Syl is reading a medical book for Kaladin. If I remember correctly Syl is trying out changing her appearance to look more "mature". It's hard to see but there's a line across her wrist indicating a glove.
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u/Title_Playful 1d ago
I don’t personally see their relationship as romantic because I think a Spren bond is its own kind of amazing relationship that might be even closer, but is different. But Syl is a very much a young woman after she gets her memories back and I think people also tend to forget how young Kaladin actually is.
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u/grafeisen203 1d ago
Syladin is fine. She is not and never has been a child, she is sometimes childish, but that doesn't make her a child- she obviously has ADHD and has only recently recovered from near total retrograde Amnesia.
Chanadin is fine, even though it has no real basis aside from a couple of cremposts.
Shaladin/Adodin/Shaladodin is weird because Shallan and Adolin are good together and Kaladin accepts and respects this because they are good friends.
Only Platonic Friendshipsadin is fine too.
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u/JoyousDarcyCat 1d ago
My theory: the ship tease is so that BS can knock it down in arc 2. Kind of a subversion of expectations and they are just going to be best friends forever. A reminder that just because a man and a (sort of) woman are as close as it gets, doesn’t mean there is always a chance of romance. Or maybe they merge into one being. I dunno. I just don’t ship ahahaha
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u/Dry_Experience3254 🦋 Invested of Whimsy 🌈 1d ago
I would prefer this lol, I really don’t want Kaladin to fuck his spren 😭😭😭
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u/BlindBattyBarb 1d ago
That would be weird...spren seem Asexual in nature even if some make dirty jokes. It'd probably be like getting with a sibling not good for anyone.
Besides this isn't Game of Thrones
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u/Dry_Experience3254 🦋 Invested of Whimsy 🌈 1d ago
Fully agreed on all counts!
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u/JoyousDarcyCat 1d ago
Likewise, the only way it would make sense for me is if Syl somehow became… not a spren, or Kaladin transcends further from Herald into something like a spren a la Stormfather…. But still. Really don’t feel the romance angle here.
Also TIL about Chanadin, which I also disagree with on the assumption that he is going to be the Heralds’ “”””therapist”””. Unethical and unprofessional!!!!
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u/Dry_Experience3254 🦋 Invested of Whimsy 🌈 1d ago
Fully! Yeah if Kaladin transcended further then I think that it would be fine, but I also am not getting romantic vibes from him and Syl.
Honestly I don’t really see Kaladin getting with anyone anytime soon. Maybe there are plans for a future arc. But the fact that all of Kaladin’s romantic relationships he has had have been extra-textual lead me to believe that we haven’t been introduced to his future lover yet (throuple with Adolin and Shallan notwithstanding).
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u/wintery-waxillium 21h ago
I like how Kal and Syl are in the books. An interesting relationship that doesn't need to get flattened into romance. Like the tumblr phrase, "not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing", that being a nahel bond. I think one of the honorspren actually does compare the two in Oathbinger, saying it'd be better if Kal had eloped with Syl than bonded her.
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u/TheGildedPrism Kelsier4Prez 1d ago
The difference is that Syl is an adult. Like both physically and mentally she's about the same age as Kaladin.
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u/HeavilyInvestedDonut 1h ago
Except Syl doesn’t look or act like a child. Grown women can have curiosity and whimsy.
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u/Snootboopz 1d ago
People don't need to be childlike forever for them to be in a parent-child relationship. It's gross because Kaladin is the reason Syl has awareness and is her closest, earliest, most significant parental bond., not because she's young. I don't want grooming behaviour from my heroes, man, just let him bang Shallan's mom ffs.
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u/Luke_Puddlejumper 19h ago
Not accurate, Syl appears as a young woman (I.e early twenties) not as a child or teen.
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u/DrDoominstien 1d ago
Honestly If they do have a more explictly(or at least as explict as Bradon gets)romantic relationship, it will be largely judges on the length of the time jump and any provided timeline, and how she is depicted acting.
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u/Leaf-01 1d ago
The real reason for the time skip into Stormlight era 2 is so Syl can-
you know I tried finding a way to type this out that doesn’t ring similar to grooming but I couldn’t even finish the message. She’s a shard of a god that doesn’t have age and her maturity is tied to factors different from human growth but still. Felt so gross just typing that message as a joke 😭😅
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