Plot twist: A fat protagonist has a compelling arc and stays fat the whole time, because using weightloss to signify personal growth is fucked up and also lazy writing.
and she used her white privilege to propel the integration movement and stood up against the active and overt racism in her town. ya go tracy!!!
so Shallan’s arc with her trauma and mental illness and such is really important and compelling, but I also really like the ways she isn’t revolutionary.
her interests - art and scholarship - are stereotypically feminine for her culture. she likes wearing makeup and looking cute and going on dates with her boyfriend. she finds meaning and joy in her religion, even though, to us, it appears stiflingly sexist. as she says to Lyn, she is proud to demonstrate that a Radiant can still be a proper Vorin lady.
and I think it’s so cool that she isn’t punished for that. like, obviously women can be badass warriors and iconoclasts like Jasnah and Azure and Eshonai and Lyn - but they don’t have to be. it’s fine for Shallan to like girly things! it’s ok for her to be more “traditional” about her femininity. there’s even silly things like the fact that she gets super embarrassed over almost showing her safehand, but she isn’t shamed for that in the text, like with the narrator winking at the reader over how dumb she is for not realizing that it’s just a hand. she’s allowed to fit perfectly into the existing social structure not because she’s forced to but because that’s just how she is.
like sometimes male authors will go ‘okay, I can admit that there is more than one kind of woman… but these kinds of woman (the ones exactly like my Strong Independent Protagonist) are good and these kinds (all others) are bad.’ Sanderson doesn’t do that and I just think it’s neat
anyway, my older sister was adopted when she was almost 16 (kinda on accident too), and because of that she got away from an abusive household, went from barely passing classes to being an honour student, and launching into a career where she’s happy and healthy and paying her own way. just two years of parenting where she had 3 meals a day, a bedtime, and parents to help and protect her changed her life radically. Plus, i got an older sister
anyway reminder that tear gas is actually a fucking nerve agent that can absolutely kill you and is banned from being used in warfare by the geneva convention
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