#hrathen/dilaf

[knightsgaydiant]

The thing is that Hrathen’s love language is power struggle, so to me it makes perfect sense that he’s in love with both Sarene and Dilaf.

[lamaery]

7 - seethe I didn’t feel like drawing spores, so instead I wondered which cosmere character was the most seething. And decided to go with Dilaf. Sceptical Hrathren on the side.

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters Versus A Toaster

Kaladin: Heroically sets the toaster to its highest possible setting. The toast is burned.

Vivenna: Cautiously sets the toaster to its lowest possible setting. The bread is unchanged. She tries it again. The bread is slightly warm. This happens over and over until she finally eats her vaguely crunchy but essentially untoasted bread. It's fine.

Hrathen: Is highly trained in the ways of toasters. His bread is always perfect, which he credits to the power of Shu-Dereth.

Dilaf: Deliberately burns his bread so that it is "blackened like the devils who dare to resist Shu-Dereth" and then eats it with wild eyes. It's disturbing.

Navani: Always calibrates her toaster so that it toasts properly every time.

Dalinar: Faithfully follows the ways of those who came before...that is to say, he never changes the setting from whatever it was when he got there. That means he's using Navani's settings, and his toast is always perfect.

Vin: Grew up eating burned toast but later learns that she kinda likes lightly toasted artisan bread. Angsts about this for a minute but eventually realizes that she can enjoy both.

Rock: Wants his toast to be burned. Is successful.

Adolin: Believes with all his heart that the settings on the toaster correspond to "levels of toastiness" and that others must understand how it all works better than he does.

Steris: Toasts her bread in a pan so that she can better control how toasty it gets.

Wax: Eats thoroughly blackened bread on purpose as a show of dominance. Calls it "Roughs Toast."

Yumi: Ritually toasts her bread seven times. It's pretty (lowly) bad.

Szeth: Always eats his bread plain and untoasted. Has never once considered any other way.

Renarin: Carefully reads all of the toaster instructions (in this reality he can read) and carefully chooses the most sensible setting. The bread burns anyway because toasters are bastards that way.

Jasnah: Carefully reads all of the toaster instructions and carefully chooses the most sensible setting. The toaster knows better than to burn her bread. It is perfect.

Tress: Has a crappy toaster that always burns the toast, but she just scrapes off the burned part and it tastes pretty good.

Hoid: Appears in the background of a scene putting a bar of soap into a toaster for some reason. Per Sanderson's "RAFO," this will be highly relevant later.

Lirin: Follows the "Wisdom of the Heralds" and does his bread in a toaster oven. It's way better.

[ahhfear]

yappy dog Dilaf

[sedgewicke]

When you have 60+ years of supernatural fight-monk experience but suddenly find that you have no idea how to break a chokehold from some one-boned fool who doesn't even have an online certificate from Bone College and should already be dead from blood loss.

[my-personal-hellsite]

I had to draw it

[gnckholin]

every so often I think about the elantris bdsm won and like. how was he surprised. he wrote hrathen and dilaf's weird little. thing. whatever that was

[tousleheadedpoet]

Shards excluded bc I ran out of options. 2nd place is VP

[fithragaer]

Much as I hate the idea I think the absolute best adaptation of Elantris would be a heavy rain/dbh style multi perspective rpg…cuts between doing survival platformer shit as raoden, politicking as sarene, inquisitor things as hrathen…QTE to smash dilaf’s nose bones up into his face…do you see my vision

[probablycatastrophic]

for most of elantris i unironically shipped hrathen and dilaf (don't kill me) and then dilaf started commiting atrocities at the end

[to-shards-you-say]

elantris anagrams: entrails. latrines. rat lines. some fresh material for hrathen and dilaf maybe

[knightsgaydiant]

I love the fact that it takes seeing Dilaf with his shirt off to get Hrathen to realize oh shit he’s the dom.

(tagging @sedgewicke because I know these are your boys)

[artethdilaf]

the fact that dilaf listed like 30 names for his odivs, a percentage of them just arelish nobles, and hrathen didn’t fuckign question it for a second

[cosmerelists]

Biggest Green Flags of Cosmere Villains

Last week I talked about the biggest red flags of various Cosmere characters. And while doing so, I realized that the Cosmere sure does have some walking red-flag factories! So let's take those characters whose red flags number in the hundreds and give them a chance: what are the biggest green flags of characters who don't have many to their name?

Note: I'm using "villain" loosely here--sure, some of these guys had heel face turns or may be more antihero than villain, but listen. They're all morally gray at least.

Szeth: Keeps his promises.

Denth: Good sense of humor.

Aesudan: Knows how to party.

Tarvangian: Only considered eugenics--no implementation!

Crow: Did NOT (successfully) sell a woman into slavery.

Lezian: Very goal-oriented.

Raboniel: Promotes women in science.

Iyatil: Can commit to the bit.

Mraize: Seems to care about his bird, I guess?

Moash: Anti-slavery. Anti-unlawful imprisonment. Gently moves aside a child before killing his father.

Miles: Wants to help the downtrodden. Should be friends with Moash.

Lord Ruler: Really good at naming things (@cosmere-cosmeme)

Hrathen: Sharp dresser.

Dilaf: Good public speaker.

Amaram: Good wages and benefits for any of his men that he's not murdering.

Ialai: Lots of spies friends.

Sadeas: Knows his wife's favorite place to have her back scratched.

Straff: Helpfully manages to be SO terrible that you can enjoy his death guilt-free. So generous!

[ahhfear]

Hrathen and Dilaf from the beginning of elantris

[sedgewicke]

Powerful, dignified, emotionally constipatedstoic men who seem like they have everything figured out and all their shit together, but are actually hot messes who have Way Too Many Emotions that they have no idea what to do with (probably combined with some nonspecific, undiagnosed mental illness) and are generally just barely keeping it together under a veneer of being Totally In Control.

Is a very specific fetish of mine.