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kholin critical shallan
stormlight characters' response to being asked "did the chicken or the egg come first?"
gavilar - "this is nonsense. neither came first because they both come from each other. there is no "beginning" here."
dalinar - "their lives are a circle, the chicken lays the egg which hatches the chicken. they both come first, because they are the same."
navani - "it must be the egg, because all chickens are from eggs, so there never was a chicken not starting from an egg."
evi - "the chicken because she lays the egg and grows it ^-^"
jasnah - "if you follow the lineage of the species of chicken that we eat today back to its source, back to its last common ancestor where it split off and became an actual chicken, you'd see that there was at one point a non chicken that layed a chicken egg, so that egg hatched the first actual chicken. thus, the egg came first."
elhokar - "oh wow." [thinking face] "i don't know, that's a weird question."
adolin - "... the chicken, i think? it does lay all eggs, so it must have come first."
renarin - "the egg."
aesudan - "who gives a shit."
shallan - "well, if you look back into the history of the species, it wouldn't be possible for the first chicken to have hatched without being an egg, so the egg."
kaladin - "i... don't know? I mean chickens come from eggs, but those eggs also came from chickens so... they both just come from each other."
gavinor - "what's an egg? do you have a chicken here?" [you show him a chicken] "can i pet it? it's body is so soft! what is that stuff covering it? 'feathers'? wow!!!"
i'm jealous of the man i used to be, and the man i could become
this is from a couple months ago but it's still my favorite news reel i've gotten
luke had this big brained idea for a story and i had to draw it so bad. the shenanigans
outside the gates of kholinar
what was going through sandersons head when he wrote elhokar being transgenderized for a chapter. was he thinking all that much like 'hm how is elhokar thinking about this as a man raised in vorin culture' and 'is this something shallan really feels is necessary and is wanting to do for her reason' like going through it or was his primordial brain goop idea machine the same part that "subconsciously made shallan bisexual" shouting 'make him a girl' to his cerebral cortex and he just ran with it like 'sure yes shallan says they shouldnt stand out and that'll work and elhokar doesnt care for convenience's sake'
i should not be making a post about this right now since i'm Tired but you have to understand elhokar being chill with being a woman for a bit with no resistance is Cool by modern day standards that we live in for the most part but everyone there is living in a society where kaladin notes that adolin holding and looking at a book is out of the ordinary because "Many men refused to even look at books, considering it unmasculine." like its a low ass bar and straight up crossdressing is going wayyy farther over it than would be socially acceptable in most circumstances. guess what i'm saying is there's a reason it startled kaladin and shallan for a second when elhokar didn't care. like even a performative resistance even in a situation where its strictly for utility was something they were fully expecting and were both thrown off by when it didnt come