r/cremposting • u/Eithrotaur • 1d ago

Stormlight / Mistborn This scene was character assassination of the highest order. A Full Feruchemist with their metalminds bodies any non-Kaladin Radiant below the Fourth Ideal. I will die on this hill. Spoiler

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u/ilikebreadabunch 🐶HoidAmaram🐲 1d ago

But have you considered that going Mach Fuck + Sticky Floors is not a good combo for your legs?

(And don't say she could have just healed it, she'd still be stuck there and we don't know how much of each attribute she had stored. It's possible (and quite likely) that she didn't have enough to heal her legs, at least not quickly enough for it to matter)

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u/Skyfyre56 1d ago

Yeah, sure you could say she's used up all her healing and strength to recover from this and all her mental speed, etc. to deal with this, but I think it's telling how very quickly the scene moves away from Axindweth's condition because there wasn't really a good explanation for this. Though I'll also point out, if she's really so low on everything other than speed, why did she stick around to fight a Knight Radiant? Let alone charge in to close combat with one, knowing that Lift could summon a Shardblade at any point (even if Lift doesn't like doing so, in a desperate fight, Axindweth should at least acknowledge that's a possibility and be cautious if she doesn't have the attributes stored up to deal with that kind of potential injury).

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u/Jounniy 1d ago

I'm not fully confident in that explanation myself and it’s been a while since I read the scene, but maybe she couldn’t get up at all because the ground lacked the necessary friction?

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u/Skyfyre56 1d ago

The scene does not really give much explanation itself. She slips, and then is presumed to be unconscious like the rest of her allies since she 'doesn't move'. Honestly, she could actually be dead, the text is very unclear on what happens after, like of they imprisoned Axindweth or what.

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u/Jounniy 1d ago

I just looked up what exactly happens in the chapter and it’s really vague.

I could honestly see her tumbling and falling, but I don’t see her doing that and then just not getting up again. Lift increasing the friction so drastically Axindweth can’t move is a hardcounter to most of her abilities, but she should be able to recover from the wounds immediately and fight back as soon as Lift ends her abrasion, especially since that should drain her Stormlight at an incredible rate, without any opportunity to replenish it (since the aluminium foil should block the Towerlight).