#kelsier and mare

[heronpoxed]

Say what you wanna say about Kelsier but that man knew how to love and he loved with a raw fucking passion.

For years he was led to believe that Mare had mercilessly betrayed him before she died and yet he still insanely loved and missed her — something that he stated as a simple fact and not as a guilty confession.

Kelsier and Mare had 0 page-time together, but they still managed to snatch my fucking heart and push my expectations through the roof precisely because of how Kelsier talked about her! Is there anyone who does it like him? Hell nah!

[luckystar1327]

the stars are beautiful tonight (art; mistborn spoilers under the cut)

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[twylaelfirstwing]

Should I do this?

Just thought of a FanFic where Elend is a teenage king of Luthadel, Kelsier and Mare are still alive, and they and a majority of the crew live in a building for the poor and homeless Marsh, Clubs, and Dockson run. One day, Vin shows up, injured, feral, and, like Kelsier and Mare, a Mistborn, with Tensoon, and the two slowly earn her trust and adopt her.

[sankta-wraith]

Something about how Sazed surrounded Vin and Elend’s bodies with the flowers from Mare’s picture. Something about Vin finally meeting the woman who first dared to dream of a better world. Something about Mare finally meeting the girl her husband had claimed as a daughter. Something about how Sazed could (apparently) speak to the dead. Something about Mare asking him to surround Vin and Elend with those specific flowers as a sign, to those who knew, that they were safe now.

[backpackingspace]

Shut up shut up shut up I'm going to cry kelsier musing on how mare would have loved Vin. And how they had always wanted a daughter

[dont-eat-the-algae]

Thinking about Mare. Ya know, how she chose the best man. Yeah. How she got to wake up next to that blond genius daily. How she died for him. Died instead of watching him get beaten to death.

[cikebabbler]

I wish Sazed wrote about Kelsier and Mare meeting Vin and Elend after everything. I need to know that Mare embraced Vin like she's the daughter she never had. I need to know that Kell smiled at El and told him he did well. I need to know that Kell hugged Vin and let her know that he's so proud of her.

[fmlkell]

MISTBORN SPOILERS

one of the sweetest kelsier lines. i will not forget him : (

[crow-rai]

i'm only on chapter 5 of the first one,, so i don't actually know anything yet. BUT Kelsier is so cool RAAAAA. i love him sm<3

[lamaery]

The Final Empire read-through thumbnails 19 - 40 Vin bonding with Kelsier over Mare's drawing of a flower, talking to Marsh and Ham about Allomancy, rumors at Fellise and at balls, the secret army and the pewter drag (ending with Vin's hangover)

[cosmerelists]

Mistborn Era 1 Protagonists as the Seven Deadly Sins

[Spoilers for Mistborn Era 1 & Secret History!]

Because turning VILLAINS into the Seven Deadly Sins feels too easy, too unsatisfying. But which protagonists embody each of the Seven Deadly Sins? Now, that feels like an interesting question...

1. Wrath: Vin...but also Kelsier

Vin did eventually learn to set aside her wrath, but I'm thinking specifically of the Vin who went to Keep Hasting and simply slaughtered everyone there, the Vin who cut Straff (and his horse) in half with a giant sword. That's some wrath, baby.

But of course, if there's one person who has a surplus rage, it's Kelsier. He's the one who wanted to simply murder as many nobles as possible in revenge for all the suffering they had caused--and anyone who chose to work for them too.

2. Lust: Allrianne

I know, I know. The optics of having a woman as the embodiment of lust are not great. But Allrianne is the character who used her Rioting abilities to make the man she wanted fall in love with her, so... Of any of them, she's the embodiment of lust, I think, of doing anything to get the object of her desire.

3. Greed: Preservation...but also Kelsier

Preservation wanted to hold on to everything he had, to prevent anything and everything from changing or going away. That's a type of greed, I think, to hold on so tightly to what you have.

And speaking of holding on...Kelsier refused to give up his life even when he died. I remember the moment when he tried to get Vin to stay with him, but Vin understood what it meant to let go in a way Kelsier never could. Kelsier and Preservation are both a little bit like dragons hoarding their gold.

4. Gluttony: Spook

I'm thinking here about the Spook who ate so much tin that he became a tin savant and had to wear bandages around his face because everything was too bright and loud all the time. That's not food gluttony, but I think it is a type of allomancy gluttony.

5. Envy: Marsh

Marsh was jealous of his brother. He was in love with Mare, who was his brother's wife (which is pretty much classic envy), and I think he envied his brother for getting to be more free, while he tried to hold it together and do things the right way.

6. Sloth: Elend

I'm thinking here about how Elend knew things were fucked up and wanted the government and society to change...but mostly he met up with his friends to discuss philosophy and drink and didn't DO anything for a very long time. Obviously, that changed once he was with Vin and got his powers, but I think original Elend could be seen as the embodiment of sloth for reasons of wanting change but not being able to move forward to enact it.

7. Pride: Breeze...but also Kelsier

Yes, Breeze likes to wear nice clothes and drink wine, but that's not entirely the pride I'm thinking about. I'm thinking more about how Breeze pretended to be above it all, that he was chill and unaffected and didn't really care...until a certain death made him break at the end. I think it's a form of pride to want to pretend to be so much above the base emotions that everyone else is feeling. And there's the nice clothes and the wine too.

But, I mean...there is one character who deliberately set himself up as a god and formed a whole-ass religion around himself, and that's Kelsier. I think that takes pride. A lot of pride.

[hamletofficial]

“How?” Vin asked. “How can you? And, how can you possibly trust people? Didn’t you learn from what she did to you?” Kelsier shrugged. “I think… I think given the choice between loving Mare—betrayal included—and never knowing her, I’d choose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

– Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire.

[bogreader]

referring to kelsier’s wife mare as “mrs. fortnite”

[vremus]

thinking about how kelsier’s mistborn powers r a constant reminder of mare so its like his flight and freedom are still chains tying him down to his suffering. Or smth like that

[dont-eat-the-algae]

Pits of Hathsin fic...REBORN!

This is a much longer fic than my original Pits fic, and I've fleshed out the Pits a bit more.

[whimsicallywiddershins]

I know everyone is laughing at Hoid wearing a Hawaiian shirt to defeat Riina, but I feel like the actual shirt implications are lost on a lot of people. (Spoilers for a lot of Stormlight and Mistborn!)

Those are the Marewill flowers. The Ghostblood symbol. Hoid has a shirt of those flowers purely to mock Kelsier. Mare's flowers. I have a feeling Kel has no idea, but once he finds out there may be a small war on a planet that has no idea what is happening.