– Aes Sedai marry as seldom as Wisdoms. Few men can live with so much power in a wife, dimming them by her radiance whether she wishes to or not. – Some men are strong enough. I know one such.
Throughout the course of the Wheel of Time, Rand al'Thor is consistently gaslit into believing his trauma isn’t real/or overblown by everyone around him and that all his PTSD symptoms are a result of the Taint. This in turn is the reason why he is unable to process any of his trauma, which leads to him believing his symptoms are a sign of personal weakness and causing him to hide them in this essay I will
There’s also the thing where he’s constantly in a mental health crisis and everyone around him just…. let’s it happen
The only person who gives him advice how to deal with stuff is Lan - too bad it’s shit advice.
Rafe Judkins: They’re such fascinating characters in the books and they have, you know, especially when you read New Spring, they have - I mean, for a queer person reading the books, it feels very explicit. Like, oh, they’re just saying it. They clearly say it. But I think that relationship is one of the core relationships for Moiraine, obviously, in the entire series in The Wheel of Time (…) The goal was, in that scene at least, to see something akin to a marriage bond between these two women, a bond of trust in a world where you can’t trust anyone. — for Empire Magazine’s Spoiler Special Film Podcast
GREEN: warriors, standing ready; YELLOW: healers of all things living; BROWN: keepers of the past; BLUE: seekers of justice; GRAY: law-focused diplomats; WHITE: pursuers of truth and reason; RED: dedicated to preventing the wrong and dangerous use of the One Power.
The Wheel of TimeOrigins #5: The White Tower [depictions of the seven Ajahs]
aviendha: so. who broke it? i’m not mad, i just want to know.
rand: i did. i broke it.
aviendha: no. no you didn’t. mat?
mat: don’t look at me. look at perrin.
perrin: what?! i didn’t break it.
mat: huh, that’s weird. how’d you even know it was broken?
perrin: because it’s sitting right in front of us and it’s broken.
mat:suspicious.
perrin: no it’s not!
egwene: if it matters, probably not, but elayne was the last one to use it.
elayne: liar! i don’t even drink that crap!
egwene: oh really? then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?
elayne: i use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. everyone knows that, egwene!
rand: okay, let’s not fight. i broke it, let me pay for it.
aviendha: no! who broke it?!
perrin: aviendha…nynaeve’s been awfully quiet.
nynaeve:REALLY?!
perrin: yeah, really!
nynaeve: OH MY GOD-
[everyone starts arguing]
aviendha, later: i broke it. it burned my hand so i punched it. i predict ten minutes from now they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick. good. it was getting a little chummy around here.
