Ladies Is It Gay To Hold Hands And Sing In Such Perfect Harmony As To Mix The Divine Powers Of Two Disparate

Jonathan Sims realized that he couldn't be accused of the "bury your gays" trope if all his characters were gay and then never looked back.

Imagine being so good at therapy that you literally teach a magic psychopath demon sword the power of friendship (inanimate object btw)

Inversely, imagine also being so good at therapy that you therapize your suicidal client so hard that he finally gets the balls to actually kill himself so that he can escape the voices (Magical mass murderer btw)

your main therapy tools are a magic flute & crawfish boil (btw)

liar, liar, liar

a tango with the enemy (…?)

when you're scientific genius enemies turned doomed toxic old woman yuri by the narrative, which is literally named after the musical manifestation of your lesbian gay love for one another

So y’all know the classic edge trope of “my blade cannot be sheathed until it has tasted blood”? What if a magic sword that has that requirement, except it’s sort of inverted. A sword that, instead of being inhabited by an evil spirit which once awakened cannot be lulled back to sleep except by blood sacrifice, was inhabited by a benevolent spirit who would not allow the sword to be drawn unless bloodshed were the only possible solution. A sword whose power could never be misused because it would only allow itself to be used in situations where it was justified. What about a Paladin who spends their entire journey fighting with a sheathed sword, incapacitating but never killing or maiming. The party believes that the Paladin has taken an oath of no killing, until they face the big villain. And it is in that moment, and that moment alone, that the sword will allow itself to be drawn.

Idk, this image set my mindwheels a-turning.

But do y’all see the vision?

No wait this cooks.

Awakeners could definitely nerf with radiants if they knew the right tone, but allomancers could negate this with copper. Here me out:

Bronze allomancers describe sensing burned metals as rhythmic pulses; Vin also describes the well of ascension — preservation’s perpendicularity — the same way.

Similarly, the pure tones of Roshar are derived from the investiture of its shards; stormlight, lifelight, and voidlight all carry a unique cadence and pitch. Listeners also describe rhythms pertaining to different emotional states (rhythm of irritation, joy, amusement, etc).

These two sound systems are intentionally similar; therefore, we can reasonably conclude that investiture has an intrinsic rhythm and tone based on its source and intent (at least for the shards of preservation, ruin, honor, cultivation, and odium).

This has incredible implications for the interplay between their magic systems.

Parshendi/listeners could hear allomantic pulses.

Seekers could hear Rosharan rhythms, a fact confirmed by Sanderson in 2016 (source).

Smokers could prevent — or at least resist — someone singing an anti-tone. If copperclouds dampen allomantic rhythms, they should dampen all invested rhythms.

Scadrian magic in general would be incredible on Roshar.

Rioters could summon emotion spren around others at will.

Leechers could drain radiants of investiture.

Nicros could boost a single lashing or awakening well past the normal limits.

Hemalurgy could steal breaths.

Duralumin feruchemy could steal spren bonds like a bondsmith (connection is OP).

Nicrosilminds would be absolutely broken (simply a better gemheart)

There’s so many implications for magic crossover and I can’t wait to see it.

why Awakening might just be the most powerful combat magic system against the other Invested Arts.

Bold fucking claim for me to make given atium and the Surge of Division letting people SPLIT THE DAMN ATOM but hear me out.

At Second Heightening (200 Breaths) an Awakener gains perfect pitch. If an Awakener hummed an Anti-Tone (Anti-Stormlight/Anti-Voidlight), would they be able to just neuter a Radiant. And I wonder if an Anti-Tone could exist for other magic systems, given that Bronze lets someone burning it hear the Rhythms of other metals. Just need a scholar or something to figure out the Anti-Tone of Preservation and you can also completely fuck over a Mistborn/any Allomancer. Thank you for coming to this insane ramble because I enjoy far overthinking Brandon Sanderson's magic systems and mix matching different planets systems to create hypothetically the strongest possible mix.

I need to be allowed to pester Brandon with questions but I would get plenty RAFO cards.

Spin this wheel of stormlight characters three times. They are your new roommates.

Marcille is so funny to me. she's such a bait and switch. when we're first introduced to her you see this cute girl who's totally distraught at everything Laios does and you think she's gonna be the tropey token girl in the party who does the healing and stays out of the fights and has to be the designated Team Mom. but that's not Marcille at all. she's only on healing duty because Falin isn't around. she's a frontline attacker and she's constantly thinking about murder and explosions.

dungeon meshi really said "so there's this incredibly powerful black mage whose signature spell is "explode your skull" and she loves necromancy and is wanted in 5 countries. she can heal in a pinch but when she does it, it hurts, because there isn't a gentle bone in her body" and then she looks like this. i love her so much