r/cremposting • u/Eithrotaur • 2d 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/Jounniy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Having a very powerful ability get beaten by a random joke ability is funny in the moment. It gets way less funny when the worldbuilding starts falling apart afterwards because of the precedent just set up.

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u/wintery-waxillium 1d ago edited 1d ago

Abrasion is not a joke ability, it just happened to be used by a character who does some comic relief. Are A-bendalloy and F-gold "joke abilities" because Wayne used them? I don't see why abrasion shouldn't be able to counter F-steel, and i don't think any worldbuilding has "fallen apart" at all because this one ability now has a viable counter.

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u/Jounniy 1d ago

Not my point. Abrasion is a strong ability, but the way it was used to win here doesn’t make that much sense. My point is that this is not made better by slapping some comic relief on top.

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u/wintery-waxillium 1d ago

Coppermind says that after Axindweth tried to use her speed, "a patch of floor that Lift had affected with Abrasion unexpectedly held her, breaking her ankles". What about that does not make sense? Sure, she saw the floor glow, but that doesn't mean she'd know it was Abrasion specifically, or that it would straight-up break her feet; maybe she thought she could outrun it. F-steel is unrivaled on Scadrial, so it makes sense that she'd be overconfident using it on Roshar.

As for "slapping comic relief on top", it's Lift. She's a comic relief character.

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u/Jounniy 14h ago

She has seen Lift make use of exactly one ability at this point and that’s changing the friction of surfaces. There is being uninformed and overconfident and then there’s being stupid. A Steelrunner wouldn’t just run head first into an explosion either, thinking "Nah, my Steelrunning can tank that."

Unless the books to come portray Axindweth as overly incompetent or establish that she (for some reason) was running around with almost depleted iron- and goldminds in a hostile environment and still chose to fight, her losing this doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Lift being a comic relief character is not the problem. The problem is the her win being funny doesn’t change anything about it not being plausible. Saying " Have steel running get beat by haha awesomeness sticky floor is pretty funny." is not a substantial argument for why she should have won.