#design cosmere

[nooneinnportant]

Remember when i said that i like Hoid bc i can put him in literally any situation™ and it would still somehow be totally in character for him. Case and point:

Hoid: Best friend, Im pregnant.

Design: By who?

Hoid: That's the thing it's between Jasnah and Frost.

Design: Girl, if you dont name that baby Jafrost and flip a coin for responsibility. Tails Frost heads Jasnah.

Hoid: ...Girl, you smart flip it up!

Design: Heads! Jasnah, the papi!

Hoid: I knew she was... *calling Jasnah* I knew it. Hello Jasnah.

Jasnah: What's up?

Hoid: I'm late..

Design: Ooop, quarter thirty, girl. It's tails.

Hoid: Happy birthday, girl!!! You thought I was gonna forget??

Jasnah: My birthday was 4 months ago... What're you talking about?

Hoid: Ehh.. *calling Frost* Frost?

Frost: What's up?

Hoid: I'm late..

Frost: Where you gotta be?

Hoid: I'm pregnant!

Frost: Oh... I'm ready. I'm ready to be a dad.

Hoid: I'm ready, too. I wanna name him Jafrost.

Frost: Jafrost, yeahh I like that!

[natequarter]

plot twist: tien's cryptic was also design, design is just really fucking bad at picking radiants who won't die horribly and went with hoid (immortal) out of desperation

[virtualtear00]

Decided to play a bit with Yumi Design and Tress Hoid. Since I haven't read either of the two books, I had to use their descriptions from The Coppermind. Decided to give Design a different outfit 'cause why not. Love that she's described as a curvy young woman. This is kinda a continuation from this suggestion I got. They give me such siblings energy, or a child that loves to annoy their parent energy. Either way Design loves to annoy Hoid.

[khaedart]

And so it came to pass that 5 years later, I redrew Rafo Ramen Hoid

Whoa. This artwork was/is

1. long overdue for a redraw

2. quite possibly still the dumbest thing I’ve done in this fandom up until today.

Some of you might remember this post from quite a while back. The story behind it is that my bestie got me interested in the Cosmere by sharing fun facts about Hoid out of context. I drew the original version for her as a gift, then not long afterwards proceeded to get obsessed with Moash midway through WoK, and the rest is history. But before then, I had this Hoid.

I’ve been meaning to redraw this for months (years), and include some new stuff that got revealed in the meantime. 5 years ago Design didn’t have her Ramen restaurant, and kazoos were yet to be canon in the Cosmere. Hoid still had his sense and good style, which I, of course, had to strip away from him the first chance I got. I also changed the bowl he is holding to be a version modelled after the official merch from the Dragonsteel store.

The greatest change is definitely the map in the background. iirc the OG version was a map of the travels of worldhoppers and Shards – well, to an extent it still is. Please welcome Hoid clowning his colleagues, and also including a very detailedTM drawing of himself as a coat rack next to Komashi. As well as a few doodles, and a diss aimed at Kelsier.

More yapping and the OG Under the cut.

The 2026 version of my friend called this pair drawings "Hoid after I read the Cosmere" and "Hoid before I read the Cosmere".

And now, here are all the original info crumbs I was working with back then, copy-pasted from the OG post.

“She also told me to post this here and to spoiler tag it, just in case. (Again, I have no idea what I am spoiling)

I am planning to read the books in the near future, so please do not spoil anything for me - thank you in advance.

Information I have received:

(Comments added by the person (from here on referred to as “she”) who read the books will be listed between [these] parentheses)

He has white hair but dyes it - we don’t actually know why his hair is white

He once showed up with a full beard, and, after I visualised him looking like a Mall Santa (fake beard held in place by a string, all that stuff), I was promptly told that he put actual effort into the whole look, and grew it out himself (probably) [I can neither confirm nor deny that that is a real beard, or an illusion]

He is a Worldhopper, which basically means Local Cryptid (Edit: Foreign Cryptid. Interdimensional Cryptid? Intergalactical? Planetary?)

He was buddies with God

He loves playing music and telling stories (He does that too while the world is about to end apparently, in a clearing or smth? Idk, she is being extremely vague when describing these bits of info to me)

I imagine him sitting on a rock in the woods, playing a jolly little kazoo tune into the stormy night

He gave his flute to Kaladin (to cheer him up or something), but Kaladin lost it because stuff happened in his life, and apparently Hoid was not too thrilled about that fact. (Kaladin is the depressed guy who walked back to camp without his footwear, and who called a parrot a chicken, and that’s all I know about him) [There is a piece of misinformation in that sentence, but I am not willing to correct it]

He loves instant noodles

“Put that pattern on his hoodie - Don’t ask, just do it”

“Read and find out is an actual shirt, and I want you to make him wear that”

He is a Lightweaver, so, illusions?

He has a pet (?) dragon. I saw the flute, saw the dragon, and, based on those two singular bits of information about the guy, promptly decided that he is now my favourite character - even though I barely know him.

“Put that map in the background.”

He has these gold (?) dust/dirt/particles in his pockets, that he just... throws at people?? Like... sprinkles it the way one would throw spices into a bowl of soup?

That’s all there is to it, really.

Edit: The remaining bits of info I have include Adolin, The heir to the Kholin Princedom, shitting himself three times, all on purpose, crabs, and a talking sword who wants to destroy evil.

Edit 1.5: How could I forget to say that I’ve also heard about the “You could be fire” “I am a stick” exchange. Legendary."

[echoingcave]

"I asked chatgpt-" Well I asked Hoid and he started to tell me a story but turned into a coatrack 5 words in so I'll just sit here and have noodles while I wait

Actually, maybe the owner of the noodle shop will have answers, maybe I should ask her instead

[conis1234]

Yeah I love Hoid but Design will always be my only true love

[breadraccoon]

Design running a noodle shop while Hoid is stuck frozen as a coat stand wasn’t something I expected, but it’s what I need. I could read a whole series of Design and Hoid going on side quest.

[isthistaken72]

Do you think cryptics mean to scare the living shit out of prospective radiants? Because I feel like creepy symbol heads have been the cause of many panic attacks in this series.