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A recent fanart commission! 

The three Emond’s Field boys from the Wheel of Time series~~!

Rand - DUTY

Mat - LUCK

In part because sprawling Aiel polycules would be hilarious, with insane complicated rules that confuse the hell out of the wetlanders. The relationship between Rhuarc and his wives, for all that it baffles Rand, really isn't that complicated. What happens if it crosses clan or society boundaries? What happens if two women who dislike each other find themselves sister-wives because their husbands' wives are married to a common husband? What if one of a pair of first sisters isn't interested in the husband (for aro/ace reasons) but the husband is in her for platonic reasons?

Jordan wouldn't have to hold back, and could have had a ton of fun just making up random rules.

Somewhere during Knife of Dreams, Aviendha suddenly becomes extremely interested/obsessed in marriage laws and rites in the Age of Legends. Elayne helps her with library access, of course, but starts to get worried when this obsession doesn't abate. When Elayne pushes Aviendha to relax - this doesn't matter because laws are different in Andor - Aviendha says:

So as far as these characters know, Rand is going to die at tarmengedon. To Min, Rand has two years left to live, she’s in love with him, and currently the most important thing is stopping the end of the world which also happens to coincide with Rand’s mental health.

Let’s put it this way, if a doctor told you that your partner had a terminal illness and had two years to live, would you not drop everything, set aside your personal goals and desires, to focus on loving and caring for your partner for those remaining two years. Cause I would.

Rand: History/English double major. Constantly drowning under the weight of all his assignments. Nose in a book forever. You ask him for his plans after college and he just stares at you.

Mat: CS major. Cause why not. He hates reading, mostly just wants to hang out and chill through college, but still ends up miserable anyway. Also (h/t @highladyluck) it’s where all the ambiguously neurodivergent boys end up anway.

Perrin: He’s in trade school, but his girlfriend convinced him to audit some ecology/animal science courses with her, and he really took to it.

Egwene: This one is tough. I feel like she’s got big, undefined ambitions, so I’ll say Pre-Law, possibly Poli Sci. But also she has about five minors in wildly different departments and no one understands how they fit together.

Nynaeve: Med School. Obviously

Elayne: STEM girlie, 100%. Not biology or chemistry (sorry show only moonshine-making Elayne). Probably Physics or Engineering.

Aviendha: She got recruited on a massive women’s basketball scholarship, and now she’s struggling to find something to do. Currently Undeclared.

Min: Fashion major, History minor (the only time she ever sees her boyfriend is in class).

Faile: Animal Science, cause horse girl. But also she’s ambiguously rich and keeps alluding to the fact that she’s probably not even going to work after college.

Tuon: Business major. Sorry. It’s the only place that satisfies her cutthroat ambitions. But also she takes a few pre-med classes, just for fun.

Moiraine: History professor. Area of focus: inscrutable. Regularly disappears for “conferences”.

Gawyn: There on a men's basketball scholarship. Signs up for an electrical engineering major because "he's probably smart enough for it" but only picks whatever classes are taught next to Elayne's. He starts dating Egwene after he accidentally signs up for a pre-law class that's right next to Elayne's first-year engineering ethics; Egwene thinks he's cute and launches an investigative vibe check. She asks him out after watching him pull a triple-double in a basketball scrimmage.

Thom: rhetoric professor. He would be everyone's favorite, except for the fact that he has literally 14 hours of office hours a day and you HAVE to go to them to pass his class, and he'll honk a rubber chicken every time you talk in class if he didn't see you last week.

Bayle: runs the closest bodega. He's lived in this town his whole life and actually, genuinely doesn't know there's a legal drinking age, so he's never carded anyone ever. His shop has a suspiciously rotating hard-goods inventory. It's not technically a pawn shop with a liquor store attached, but...