Stormlight Characters, What Body Part Would You Be Per Arclo's Philosophy?
As requested by @sushi1056.
In Edgedancer, Lift meets a philosopher named Arclo who asks, "What body part do you feel that you are most like? ... Are you the hand, always doing busy work? Are you the mind, giving direction? Do you feel that you are more of a ... leg perhaps? Bearing up everyone else, and rarely noticed?"
Lift gave her own answer (nose), but if others were asked this question, how would they respond?
[I decided to limit this to Stormlight characters but if people enjoy this I'll be happy to try it with other books!]
Dalinar: These days, I suppose I am the mind, as the one who gives direction.
Dalinar: But I think I used to be the teeth: always consuming, always violent, not really understanding why.
Jasnah: I do not think that the mind can be simplified into that which gives direction.
Jasnah: I am the mind that synthesizes, thinks, and remembers.
Wit: Why, the tongue of course! It's my job to say what the king wants to say. And I've known to tell a story or two.
Renarin: Hmmm...the eyes perhaps? I notice.
Rlain: And I would say ears. Because I listen. And not only back in my spy days!
Teft: Knees, I guess.
Teft: Supposed to be helping you walk and stand and lift.
Teft: But knees give out so easily. And nobody wants to have bad knees.
Navani: I'd say hands. I do like to be doing things--making things. I always always "kept busy" by my former husband, but now as an artifabian I am doing it for myself.
Sadeas: The gut. I'm doing things that others see as dirty, but which are in fact absolutely necessary if we want to survive.
Shallan: Eyelids. I want to control what you see--and what you don't see.
Kaladin: I'd be the shoulders, I guess. I feel like a lot gets piled on me. And that I support a lot of people when they can't support themselves.
Shallan: You're muscular...
Kaladin: I am also muscular.
Rock: The arms, I hope! Helping to carry whatever I can, and welcoming everyone in!
Sebarial: The stomach of course.
Sebarial: I just want to be filled with good things, and I don't care if it makes you sick!
Adolin: Well...I guess the feet? In a time when literally everyone I know has amazing powers and I don't, I don't feel like I could be, like, a glamorous part of the body.
Adolin: But I do keep us moving. And I'm here for support.
Vasher: I'd also be the feet.
Vasher: Stinky.
Szeth: I am the nerves--I carry out the instructions from the brain, and I can cause a lot of pain.
Nale: I am the liver.
Nale: I filter out the poison. I do not think many appreciate the work I do, but they would certainly notice if I were to stop.
Lopen: I am the hips!
Lopen: Good at thrusting, and I never lie!
Taravangian: I'd have to say that I am the neck.
Taravangian: Turning the head to make sure it's facing the right direction.
Taravangian: And if I break, humanity will truly be doomed.
Moash: Me? I'm the throat.
Moash: Made to swallow more pain and suffering than I ever deserved.
Moash: So when I choke, I'm taking the whole body with me.
