He's Scrawny Now, too! I can't take it anymore!

[Tosh 8]

Can I be the priest? I've ministered an internet wedding before... Don't ask.

[Sivart Reborn 7]

When it comes down to it, none of RJ's pairings or even how relationships work in WoT are really very practical or realistic.

 

But is that why we read them? Good lord, I hope not.

[Tosh 8]

It does make for half decent conversation though. Even if we've pretty much pulped the sad remains of this particular horse.

[Iris 0]

at least one advantage to him leaving out so many details is that we get to fill them in. *stuffs fluff into WOT book*

[jan 14]

Good point.

[Brynefan 2]

I have told myself that Siuan and Gareth are playing some sort of game. The first abusive action between them was when Siuan hit Gareth over the head with his boots. Now that ought to hurt a lot. His response was not to slap the bitch, but a rather cold and humiliating spanking. The second scenario that Siuan herself has mentioned is when she put salt into his tea just to tease him into violence.

 

Siuan reacted with violence when Nynaeve teased her about the spanking (Leane had spread the tale I think) and that ended with them rolling on the ground in the most epic cat-fight imaginable. Siuan is a violent person. Even more so than Gareth, I think. But I don't know how to reason about this as an outsider anymore While I do have trouble thinking of Gareth as abusive, he was showing physical signs of rage (or something different?) when Nynaeve spotted them in an argument in the streets of Salidar. He seemed content when she argued back and didn't have any need to act upon it. He LIKES when the woman can fight back. Do I make sense? xD

 

Bah, that's what they're doing in my head at least, and I'm far more comfortable that way. But I'm definitely not RJ. If I had been, Thom would have looked better and Mat would be the Dragon Reborn

[Tosh 8]

I think it makes more sense when you consider that the reason for Siuan being under Gareth's thrall is that shes a criminal offender, making at least part of their relationship into that of say a warden and an inmate.

 

If we say that is how Bryne perceives the situation, aside from whatever attraction exists between them, then that would explain why he feels obliged to respond physically to Siuan's, um, assaults.

 

He LIKES when the woman can fight back. Do I make sense? xD

Your resistance only makes my penis harder?

[Brynefan 2]

Your resistance only makes my penis harder?

 

YES! I was going to remark on that he had a throbbing vein in his forehead at that "argument" scene. Other things ought to have been in a similar state too

[Kaitlin 22]

 

Bah, that's what they're doing in my head at least, and I'm far more comfortable that way. But I'm definitely not RJ. If I had been, Thom would have looked better and Mat would be the Dragon Reborn

 

*nods* Thom would have been Mo's age and Mo would have been the Dragon Reborn. *gasp* Is that heresy?

 

KoD sort of spoiler about Thom looking not so old:

In KoD Noal is described as being an old old man and Thom was confused as being the leader of the party without any mention of his scrawnyness by that Seanchan guy. For a lot of the descriptions I figured that they were in the PoV of Mat or other teens... and maybe to him Thom was older and more crotchety than he really was. Or something. I convinced myself of that.

 

[Ekho 52]

That could make sense, when people are younger they tend to see the old as even older that they really are

[Iris 0]

well i clicked on katie's spoiler so thats good to know! *phew*

 

another thing about Siuan/Gareth is that Egwene offers to intervene (to stop the, uh, "abuse") but Siuan says no. I don't think its much of a pride thing for her since she doesn't seem to have too much of that these days. She likes it.

[Brynefan 2]

another thing about Siuan/Gareth is that Egwene offers to intervene (to stop the, uh, "abuse") but Siuan says no. I don't think its much of a pride thing for her since she doesn't seem to have too much of that these days. She likes it.

 

Ah yes See my indisputable proof in the spanking thread. It's been so long since I read the books I started to doubt them, but after some reading I'm relieved.