The 2026 version of my friend called this pair drawings "Hoid after I read the Cosmere" and "Hoid before I read the Cosmere".

And now, here are all the original info crumbs I was working with back then, copy-pasted from the OG post.

“She also told me to post this here and to spoiler tag it, just in case. (Again, I have no idea what I am spoiling)

I am planning to read the books in the near future, so please do not spoil anything for me - thank you in advance.

Information I have received:

(Comments added by the person (from here on referred to as “she”) who read the books will be listed between [these] parentheses)

He has white hair but dyes it - we don’t actually know why his hair is white

He once showed up with a full beard, and, after I visualised him looking like a Mall Santa (fake beard held in place by a string, all that stuff), I was promptly told that he put actual effort into the whole look, and grew it out himself (probably) [I can neither confirm nor deny that that is a real beard, or an illusion]

He is a Worldhopper, which basically means Local Cryptid (Edit: Foreign Cryptid. Interdimensional Cryptid? Intergalactical? Planetary?)

He was buddies with God

He loves playing music and telling stories (He does that too while the world is about to end apparently, in a clearing or smth? Idk, she is being extremely vague when describing these bits of info to me)

I imagine him sitting on a rock in the woods, playing a jolly little kazoo tune into the stormy night

He gave his flute to Kaladin (to cheer him up or something), but Kaladin lost it because stuff happened in his life, and apparently Hoid was not too thrilled about that fact. (Kaladin is the depressed guy who walked back to camp without his footwear, and who called a parrot a chicken, and that’s all I know about him) [There is a piece of misinformation in that sentence, but I am not willing to correct it]

He loves instant noodles

“Put that pattern on his hoodie - Don’t ask, just do it”

“Read and find out is an actual shirt, and I want you to make him wear that”

He is a Lightweaver, so, illusions?

He has a pet (?) dragon. I saw the flute, saw the dragon, and, based on those two singular bits of information about the guy, promptly decided that he is now my favourite character - even though I barely know him.

“Put that map in the background.”

He has these gold (?) dust/dirt/particles in his pockets, that he just... throws at people?? Like... sprinkles it the way one would throw spices into a bowl of soup?

That’s all there is to it, really.

Edit: The remaining bits of info I have include Adolin, The heir to the Kholin Princedom, shitting himself three times, all on purpose, crabs, and a talking sword who wants to destroy evil.