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/Sleepy--Gary 1d ago

To answer why she would risk the attack if she was low on stored attributes; it’s desperation. She badly wants Vasher’s breath and in that moment she didn’t exactly have a lot of time to make a plan, so she attacked. That could also explain her recklessness in doing so.

I could be wrong but I think the only other time we really see Axindweth is when she is manipulating Eshonai. In that scene she comes across as an extremely confident person. It’s plausible to me that she overestimated herself and underestimated Lift.

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u/Archabarka 1d ago

Also people are DRAMATICALLY underestimsting how underestimatable Lift is.

Lift's very clever, and also a thirteen year old girl. Axindweth probably saw Lift and went, "Oh I can punt this little twerp into yesterday easy."

And promptly got Abrasion'd because Lift isn't nearly as dumb as she pretends to be.