Cosmere Characters vs. Math
As requested by anon. :)
Cosmere characters. They have Opinions about math.
1. Adolin: Quite likes basic math
Adolin: Ah, addition! Two numbers come together in love to produce their large child, who is the best of both of them! Adolin: Ah, subtraction! A ferocious duel where only the stronger number will survive--as a shadow of its former self! Adolin: Ah, division! One number going into the other, just like a man into -- Shallan: π Adolin: --his armor! Shallan: Oh. Adolin: Multiplication is boring, though.
2. Lift: Hates basic math
Lift: Math? You can't trust math. Lift: "Math" is one of those things they use to lure you into a school so that you'll be trapped forever away from the sunlight. Wyndle: ... Wyndle: N-No part of that is true, mistress!
3. Nikaro: Hates geometry
Nikaro: What can I say? I was an art nerd, not a math nerd. Yumi: [Looking over the gorgeous lines of Nikaro's art with its careful attention to perspective, shape, and shading] Yumi: If you say so...
4. Design: Loves geometry
Design: Pi(e). It's math. And it's food. Enough said. Akane: How did you pronounce the parentheses??
5. Shallan: Feels ambiguously toward geometry
Shallan: I mean, practical geometry is fun. Shallan: Like figuring out the shape of the chasms simply by figuring out their symmetry. Kaladin: That was fun...? Shallan: But doing a sheet of geometry problems...? Shallan: That feels a bit more tense when the math is looking back. Pattern: [Is humming happily from the sheet of paper]
6. Steris: Loves times tables
Steris: There is nothing quite like getting that clean sheet of multiplication tables and then just racing through them, pencil never pausing. Steris: That was basically my favorite sport in school! Wax: ...That's a sport? Steris: In my heart it was.
7. Kenton: Hate times tables
Kenton: Could I get to the end of the worksheet? Yes. Kenton: Was I fast? Absolutely not. Kenton: And somehow that meant *I* didn't get a sticker?? Kenton: The pain is still so real.
8. Sarene: Feels ambiguously about times tables
Sarene: Was I good at them? Of course I was. Sarene: But even as a child, they felt vaguely like a waste of my time.
9. Mraize: Quite likes algebra
Mraize: Ah, algebra. Mraize: Hunting down the true identity of the "X," no matter how it tries to hide, no matter how many forms it takes... Mraize: You can't hide from me, little X... Iyatil: You have problems.
10. Kaladin: Does not like algebra
Kaladin: Look, if men were meant to do algebra, it wouldn't have letters. Sigzil: ... Sigzil: I don't even know where to start with that.
