/lit/ - Literature

>>8472441
>>8472353
>Essun
Well Alabaster and Innon already won the Essunbowl. Innon won the Alabaster bowl too. Essun will become a stone-eater like Alabaster so she can get reunited with Alabaster.

>Schaffa
F.
>literally has his role as villain replaced by Steel and only exists to keep Nassun in line
>getting cured is essentially instadeath
>if he doesn't get cured he's going to lose his mind like Ehiru and remember he's already too scared to an hero
>Mentor deathflag
>Redemption deathflag
>'You’ll kill everything you love, eventually. Your mother. Schaffa. All your friends here in Found Moon. No way around it' t-thanks Steel
>Even if he survives everything Essun is going to kill him because of MISUNDERSTANDING
>even if he survives everything + Essun old Schaffa will return and murder Nassun in maximum velocity tragedy because of Finagle's law
But that's probably's not going to happen. Schaffa's going to die and then Nassun will have a mental breakdown Shinji style and then go full Woobie, Destroyer of the Worlds trying to save him..
And it sucks because he's essentially won the Nassunbowl and they were really cute together.

>>8423445
I'm going to say that compared to Brave New World and 1984 Schaffa and the Guardians really aren't that bad. All (even the children) have some measure of free choice as long as they get some rings and don't sperge out completely and massacre people.

I mean the breaking the wrists shit is pretty messed up, but at least they're not sending all the mentally children off to fight alien Lovecraftian horrors who can mindrape and mutate people's bodies as canon fodder in gigantic robots which contain the souls of their dead mothers while their fathers just reject them in totality and send their child the freshly laundered clothes of one of their classmates who died while they were in a coma only for said child to kill the only friend they ever formed.