#tv siuan

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siuan + looking at moiraine

[queenofmalkier]

Lan really said "That's it I'm telling your WIFE."

[moiraineology]

Moiraine Damodred + textposts (1/?)

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Moiraine x Siuan

[wheeloftimedevourer]

memories seeping through every fibre of her being from that fucking touch.

[tiredmoonslut]

So bc I like pain I'm going to share the WOT Prime theory I've kept closest to my chest.

I think Lanfear stilled Siuan.

I've felt this way since the scene first happened. The way the shield Siuan put around Rand had evaporated the moment Siuan was struck. The way Lanfear emphasised that a broken Amyrlin was more useful to her than a dead one. Broken how? Clearly Siuan wasn't grievously injured, or else Lanfear wouldn't have said that, and how else would you truly break an Aes Sedai if not by stilling them?

I think they're going to have Siuan stilled prior to Elaida's coup---instead using the event, Moiraine's apparent betrayal, and the loss of Rand when they'd had him in hand as her grounds for taking Siuan's place on the Seat. If Siuan is not even able to channel, she cannot lead, laying the groundwork perfectly for the alternate timeline version of the Tower schism. This also sets Siuan (and Leane, if they include her how she's included in the books) up for needing to catch up with Moiraine and Rand's group, as they have no other sanctuary. I presume the whole thing with Gareth Bryne is off the table, and putting Siuan and Leane immediately in Nynaeve's path sets up their stories (and Nynaeve's) nicely. Then they can lead into Salidar and Egwene and all that.

But ooooof the angst and circular storytelling of Moiraine losing her Power and not having Siuan to lean on versus Siuan losing her Power and not having Moiraine to lean on come on you see what I'm getting at right come on

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Moiraine by nessas_portraits (Vanessa Bohlinger)

Siuan by nessas_portraits (Vanessa Bohlinger)

Lan by nessas_portraits (Vanessa Bohlinger)

Alanna by nessas_portraits (Vanessa Bohlinger)

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Okay so you know how Siuan’s dad tells her in the cold open for 01x06 that she can come home “when it’s safe in Tear for girls like you”?

Wouldn’t it be poetic for Siuan and Moiraine to go to a hut in Tear together at the end of the series because Rand has taken over Tear and saved the world etc. and made it “safe in Tear for girls like [Siuan]” so she can finally go home?

[sixth-light]

every time I see someone excitedly speculate that a new WoT cast member could be Gareth Bryne I cross my fingers even harder that he never appears in the show and Moiraine and Thom never even meet

[alicenthighstower]

and my heart breaks for every version of me that didn't end up with you. (x)

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So my other obsession of the month is wheel of time and I saw episode 7 and boy o BOY do I have major thoughts and I need to get them out.

Siuan?? What the hell? Following LONG ass post is in defence of Siuan because the general consensus there is right now about Siuan just doesn't rhyme for me.

ONE thing all of Siuan actions did, it brought out SO MUCH .

Liandrin drew out 1 dark friend (Moiraines nephew) and he consequently got locked away (or killed).

One Forsaken showed herself to an entire city, no more hiding or denying (at least not from the Aes Sedai because there were like 14(!) there)

Siuan clearly has doubts about Verin and Verin acted exactly as expected (now I think Verin has a lot more going on but hey 🤷🏼‍♀️)

When Siuan shields Rand, she pushes Moiraine to say all of her intentions with Rand and their decades build plans in front off Rand as if he is not there. Which Moiraine does to protect Rand from Siuan.

Siuan asks Rand if he has channelled carefully and deliberately (not verbatim but this is the general idea), which he hasn't. She scolds him for it and says that he hasn't learned much in 6 months, which is absolutely true.

Which leads to:

Moiraine is shielded (something I do not think Lan figured out on his own) and subsequently released of said shield by Rand when she tells Rand that she trusts him. When last season Moiraine very clearly showed that she doesn't. Rand needed to hear that from Moiraine. It pushed Rand to actually use the one power very DELIBERATELY and CAREFULLY otherwise, Moiraine dead. Now who again scolded Rand about that I wonder hmmm 🤔

Which brings me to the following and perhaps most important point:

Rand now 100% trusts Moiraine, he believes Moiraine does want to protect and guide him to save the world, which previously he didnt. He was confused about what was going on and felt like a toy being played from all sides. Siuan put Moiraine in an impossible situation and Moiraine chose Rand, the dragon reborn because she knows that is the right thing to do. Rand needed to be shown Moiriane will give everything to save the world including turning away from Siuan and being made to do something she does not want (closing the gate).

It is VITAL that he does because Moiraine will be the only one capable of providing Rand the protection and guidance that he needs to save the world. He only does at the end of this episode, which is nearly at the end of this season. They already lost too much time. Drastic extreme measures are unfortunately required because Siuan was right, Moiraines way wasn't working.

At the end of this episode due to Siuans actions, he doesn't trust any Aes Sedai, which is good because you know Black Ajah and doesnt trust the Forsaken, but he very clearly does trust Moiraine, and that WILL set him on the right path.

If I can trust book readers, Siuan is a very powerful channeler. However, like Egwene, it's her intelligence that is actually her greatest power. She is a crazy smart woman and nowhere near as impulsive, brash and stubborn as Moiraine, aka Pufferfish.

Something that stuck by me is that Siuan said "you have given everything, Im going to row beside you now". Siuan knows Moiraine will absolutely not let her. Moiraine is like Nyneave in that way. She would rather die than let anyone she loves do that.

Siuan has given up a lot this episode and put power back with Moiraine, leaving herself incredibly vulnerable, having lost her one true ally, Moiraine. Going back to a tower filled with enemies, she's f*cked, and she knows it, but she needs Moiraine focused on her mission, not on Siuans' potential downfall. Because that will definitely be a distraction for Moiraine.

There is no way in hell a Master chess player like Siuan would move her pawns so early and openly like she seems to be doing in this episode. That is not Siuan. Everyone in WOT world, though, needs to believe that she is (including Moiraine).

[queenofmalkier]

Upsetting thought for the day: Moiraine never anticipated Lan going to Siuan because she really though he'd give up on her if she was hurtful enough.