Atticus

-said that sadeas was exactly fifty in wor

-said stuff in the first two books that implied that the conquest of alethkar happened probably like twenty years later than it actually ends up happening in oathbringer

-ok yeah thats totally fine and normal

-changed his mind, wanted jasnah to be born while alethkar was first getting conquered and wanted dalinar to do the majority of his blackthorn conquest bullshit before he met evi, pushed the timeline back so that the first oathbringer flashback was 34 years ago, when dalinar was 19

-wobs have sadeas three years younger than dalinar

-sadeas is 16 in ob 3

-ob 3 is a year into the conquest

-sadeas was a highprince and a war general at age 15

-radiant says in a throwaway in wind and truth that sadeas and ialai ALSO murdered their way to the throne. which happened at the very latest when sadeas was 15, and also implies ialai was in sadeas's life at that point

-not only were sadeas and ialai high school sweethearts, but they were, like, ninth grade sweethearts. perhaps even middle school sweethearts. and they are the only functional lighteyed marriage of their generation

now your emotions are unstable. your anger is all-consuming, your fear takes your body away from you, and always always always you are a danger to others if you can't control yourself from what you want and need. you can no longer be in the daylight living a typical life, so your social world completely changes and so does the environment. you might be stuck now with cold empty streets and buildings. you might cling to clubs and bars are the only places where you get to be around people living their lives. in some severe cases, you can't even look at yourself anymore, or perhaps the figure in the mirror is someone you don't recognize. your past identity and way of being has been taken away, permanently

you do what you have to in order to survive. and your new way of surviving, the only way you can exist, is something society finds disgusting or fetishizes. it doesn't matter what other people think because it's all you can do anyway. your new "community", those who most understand what you're going through, are themselves traumatized and suffering, in a constant state of victim and perpetrator. maybe they want to help you but maybe they want to use you. maybe you want to be kind but now your very nature makes real consent and honesty difficult, so in some ways you are a user and abuser too

hector was clocking in like that one minimum wage employee keeping the local pizza hut afloat.

achilles had to basically be dragged kicking and screaming to troy, and he spent most of the last year of the war on strike (sulking).

they basically held odysseus’ infant son at gunpoint to make him join.

an argument could be made for menelaus wanting to be there, but the man just wanted to get his wife and get out.

paris may have started this shit but he sure as hell couldn’t finish it. hector had to drag him to the battlefield by ear daily.

"Sunny!" you cry, "Why did you draw the entire Trojan royal family from oldest to youngest in two days? That seems wildly unhealthy!"

"hurghhhhhhhh" I reply.

Anyways here's the full family portrait

Lucy lived happily with her loving mother, had her pick of three lovely suitors, was given full freedom to choose whom she would spend her life with and has that decision respected by all the men involved, who all admire and care for her so much that they remain devoted friends to her (and I mean REALLY genuine friends) up to and past the point of her death where they risk their lives to avenge her and put her soul to rest.

Mina is in an unusually healthy, loving, devoted marriage to a man she completely adores, again with a bright future ahead of them both. Jonathan constantly thinks of Mina, compares almost all women against her, and is absolutely utterly in love with her. Mina and Jonathan regularly subvert Victorian expectations of a married couple in that they deeply love and respect one another to the point of flouting “proper” Victorian customs by being affectionate out in public. In fact, the one time Jonathan decides to play the traditional man and ignores Mina’s wishes to leave her at home while he goes hunting vampires w the other men, he is IMMEDIATELY punished by the narrative! Draculas predation of Mina starts that night because she was left behind, and in response Jonathan affirms and reaffirms his total devotion to Mina above the other men for the rest of the story. In the third act of the novel while the team is trying to stop Mina’s slow turn to vampirism, Jonathan not only explicitly tells us the reader through his private journal entires that he will LITERALLY go against god if Mina is turned and damn himself to be by her side in hell rather than kill her if she becomes a vampire, he is unsubtle enough about it that the other men genuinely worry about where Jonathan’s loyalties will lie if they fail in killing Dracula and saving Mina.

So when adaptations pose that either of these women were just your typical trapped, bored, sexually frustrated poor Victorian traditional ladies looking for an out until bad boy Dracula comes to sexually liberate them…. Motherfucker they were ALREADY about as liberated as female characters written by a man in the 1800s could get. Lucy is introduced to us as a young woman flush with bright and happy futures and her pick of the litter for the life she wants to lead until Dracula kills her and takes that from her. Mina marries her childhood sweetheart who literally prioritizes her over God and is building a business with him before Dracula nearly ruins her life permanently.