You asked for Kelsier? The prompt kind of fitted him, I think? So here he is instructing Vin how to correctly throw yourself off a city wall.
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The first image shows Kelsier and Vin on the city wall at night. Kelsier is up in the air, mid-jump, his hands spread out wide and his back towards the misty emptiness behind him. The tassels of his mist cloak spread around him as he grins down at Vin, also wearing a mist cloak, who still crouches on the wall, looking up at him with a guarded expression. The image is tinted in muted colours of rusty purples and greyish blues. The second image is the same as the first but in greyscale.
vin venture fucks with gender in a way that can appeal to like. every single gender group.
at her most basic, she is a woman who learns to fully embrace her womanhood while simultaneously learning not to let it define her.
as a young transmasculine kid, i loved that she could perform gender and enjoy it while never losing the street-hardened awesomeness at her core - simply evolving it.
i know that some transfeminine readers connected to her growing acceptance of her own femininity.
i connected to the weakness and vulnerability she feels around those who are more visibly capable, especially men, and was inspired by how she found her own strength to be greater - and so was my dad, a middle-aged cis(?) man who is similar to me in a lot of ways (physically, personality, interests etc.).
she is, in many ways, a standard hero of the (male-dominated) fantasy genre, with zero concessions based on her gender of what she can and can’t do.
she’s a brilliant character with so much nuance and i don’t think bsandy intended any of this at the time :P
Compilation of mistborn art Iโve made so far while reading the books (I havenโt finished the hero of ages yet so please please please be careful with spoilers!!)
