#skar

So...since Rosharan men can't read (typically), they're probably really used to interpreting pictures, right? Therefore, I bet they'd be really good at sightreading the cultural import of our emojis! Hence this list.

🙃 [Upside-down smiling face]

Lopen: Oh! This is a happy man who is hanging upside down! Lopen: It must be used to convey sincere joy and whimsy!

2. 😎 [Smiling face with sunglasses]

Elhokar: I'm not sure what that man has on their face... Elhokar: Yet I am overwhelmed by the feeling that this person... They are very cool... Elhokar: Perhaps the coolest person in the world...

3. 🙂‍↕️ [Head nodding vertically with blue lines indicating motion]

Rock: Wow! A joyspren emoji! Sigzil: I think the face could look happier but yes, that is surely what that is.

4. 🖖 [Vulcan salute]

Szeth: Sadly, that man's fingers may be broken. Kaladin: Eesh, yeah. Kaladin: I wonder why they have an emoji for that. Szeth: Must be a violent culture...

5 🤑 [Face with dollar-sign eyes and a green tongue with the dollar-sign on it]

Teft: Oh dear. Teft: This person is clearly very sick. Teft: That is what I look like after a...particularly rough night.

6. 🥳 [Partying face]

Szeth: The strangely colored, conical head... Szeth: The long blue tongue... Szeth: Some sort of monster, but of what kind I do not know.

7. 🤜[Right-facing fist emoji]

Teft: That's a punch. Moash: Yup, a punch. Skar: Nothin' else it can be, really.

8. 🤛 [Left-facing fist emoji]

Teft: Wow. They have multiple punch emojis. Moash: Well, you never know which direction you might need to punch someone. Skar: This culture... They must do a lot of punching...

9. 🤡 [Clown face]

Szeth: The white skin... Szeth: The emphasis on the huge, wide eyes... Szeth: They have a Shin emoji.

10. 🥰 [Smiling face with hearts]

It's so fucking deliberate... they care again....

For idk how long now I've been getting legitimately up in arms whenever there's a part where they're not assigned to the same post/mission together. Like WHOMST separated the husbands? And then cheering whenever they show up in the same place together bc like... I THOUGHT THEY WERE HUSBANDS. When they rescued and returned Gavinor to Uruthiru, that made perfect sense. Who better to care for him than the married couple? "Ah, their adopted son arc; of course."

This was NOT a headcanon; I thought this was legitimate actual canon. I thought the books had them marry a while ago. You know? Revealed whenever it was that Sigzil was talking about forms and it was revealed Drehy was gay. So... Idk how to slot Dru into my worldview now. He doesn't fit.

They're MARRIED. Right? No? What????

I... sigh. I have to reread EVERYTHING bc nothing makes sense if these two suddenly aren't married. They were canon married and now they're not and I'm so confused.

As Kaladin joined Skar, the man picked up another spear from beside the wall and tossed it out the window.

“Storms,” Kaladin said, glancing at the squires—who in their haste to assemble their camps hadn’t yet noticed that Skar was stealing their weapons. “This group is particularly oblivious, aren’t they?”

The nearest group of squires finally saw what Skar was doing. Several of them yelped as they realized he’d managed to dispose of every spear in the place save three.

Skar doubled his pace, tossing two more spears out the window before—at last—one of the new recruits managed to grab his weapon and hold it tight. Like a mother with a newborn, eyes wide. The rest simply gaped out the window.

Skar grinned. The man enjoyed all this a little too much. 

“We’re under attack!” Skar bellowed. “Squires, to arms and form ranks!”

Stunned silence.

Then mass chaos.

Skar gave Kaladin a wink.

“Sir!” one of them shouted. “Our spears!”

“Stolen by the enemy when you weren’t looking, you dun spheres!” Skar bellowed. “Might have thrown them out the windows!”

“What do we do?” another asked.

Pictured: Drehy and Skar finding Elhokar and Gavinor after the battle of Kholinar