Lift's motivations for going to Yeddaw weren't as simple as she pretended. She's that trope of the reluctant hero who just pretends to be in the right place at the right time. She went there not DESPITE Darkness being there, but in order to "steal his lunch." In other words, she knew he was going there to kill someone and she was trying to figure out who so she could save them. I thought her motivations and how they were presented were genius.
Agreed, I thought the whole point of the book was that she was hunting him but pretending to be in the city for pancakes because she didn't want to be seen as responsible
About the body horror crab guy. I've been having a blast rereading The Way of Kings and seeing all sorts of hints and foreshadowing. In chapter 54 when Wit is talking to Dalinar at the feast (right before he tells him that he also goes by the name Hoid) he says, "I wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian."
Crab guy is actually from Brandon's second novel ever, Star's End (which is unpublished) He's a Sleepless, who write the blurbs on the back of the books (the weird cremling in Kaladin's cage in The Way of Kings is a piece of one)
Okay that intro got me, that was glorious. I just love that in this epic fantasy series we have a character that is fuelled by pancakes, amazing. The 'crab' person you're confused about is a certain type of person in Roshar (some of which you've already met!) I'm excited to hear your thoughts on how Lift plays into Oathbringer once you're done, I thought it was so well done.
Thank you! I saw some glory spren after falling to the ground ;) Intrigued about the "crab" person, and I'm very excited to see what comes of Lift in Oathbringer. I'm about 300 pages in and loving it
Lift is awesome. This is an indisputable, canon fact. Also, her motivations are a little deeper than just wanting pancakes. She is telling herself that she went for the pancakes, but she was actually seeking out Nale (aka Darkness) I really enjoyed both novellas. Maybe Edgedancer had some problems, but... it's from Lift's POV. Makes it automatically an awesome book. (Interestingly, I don't really like Lift all that much when seen from other people's POV. She is a menace to the people around her :D)
she reminds me of a kid with adhd. she has to see everything, touch everything and do everything. her motivations make sense to me, she was starved as an orphan, so food became a primary focus. people that were in bad situations that make food scarce tend to think about food quite a bit. idk I find her the chaos that brings entertainment to serious situations. I tend to enjoy comedies though, so that explains it.
Lift is one of those characters that grows on you. At first she seems overtly plucky and a bit annoying, but thats why Wyndle is there to be the constantly sighing voice of reason (aka the reader). She doesn’t change or have much of an arc, if any, but by the time you finish Edgedancer you come to understand her a lot better. So, in a way, Lift's wish is metacontextual. Her wish was to never grow, to never change. And despite that being the case, we can still see that she's more complex than she lets on, giving the illusion of change.
LOL came for the pancakes, left for the spoilers, as Stormlight archives is still TBR for me! Definitely coming back to this one! *saving to Watch Later*
Me, someone who has only read The Final Empire and not read anything else: *watches this entire video anyway* Both you and Chase from Fantasy Talk are very much making me wish I read more Sanderson!! Every time I pick up Way of Kings it breaks one of my fingers because it's so heavy and I put it down bc I don't have the health insurance for this
Oh gosh, this comment. Thank you! Chase is making awesome videos, so happy you feel some peer pressure, lol. And maybe read WoK on kindle? Less life-threatening, for sure
@@jojosoni unlike mistborn, there will only be a gap of about 15-20 years between book 5 and 6 of Stormlight. So our cast will still be around, they would just be older. Lift would be around 30 by then lol
Thank you for giving some love to Edgedancer. I like that book a lot. The video was really good. Great Job! Just 2 points to add I think SPOILER WARNING 1. Lift is a unreliable narrator The things that she says must not be taken seriously. She may say that she went to that city for pancakes or that she is looking for darkness to steal his food, but the true is that she found out that Darkness was there. So she is going there to confront him. Well she enjoys the pancakes but is not the motivation. 2. And the fact that the ability of transform food to stormlight is a unique ability that she has. Other radiants use gemstones infused with stormlight, but she can not do it. The powers that she has as a radiant is abrasion, that allows her to change the friction of her body against her surroundings and Progession that allows for two different sorts of abilities. She can use Stormlight to increase the rate of growth of plants and Regrowth It allows Lift to heal others from serious injuries that would otherwise be fatal.
Thank you! And thanks for adding these points -- Lift lies frequently both to Wyndle and the reader (and herself, honestly). And I COMPLETELY forgot to mention her healing abilities. Abrasion and Progression are definitely more complex than being a "slippery fish," lol. I really look forward to seeing Lift's role among the radiants in Oathbringer, and how she fits into this wider world.
I love this so much. Also Lift is amazing, it’s nice having a character who isn’t taking all this heavy shit too seriously. And you probably know by now I agree with you on BS giving too much info on his characters. Awesome video 👍🏻
I found the lift section in words of radiance the most obnoxious part of the book, because it was such a tonal shift and left field addition it just didn't work. But in Edgedancer Lift really came to life for me
@@ManCarryingThing same. I liked Edgedancer decently well, but I thought Lift's interlude is the best interlude to date because its not just *weird fantasy exposition* but actually tells a full short story.
I loved Edgedancer. It obviously doesn't have the depth or epic scale that a main Stormlight novel has, but I enjoyed staying with one character/storyline through the book as a charge of pace. I agree that the motivations weren't clear for much of the book, but I think this was intentional as she was in the process of discovering them. I also liked the humour and whimsical nature of a lot of the story. I think my favourite part was the way the narrator said "Lift became awesome".
I could make a good bookish meme out of that intro if you want it. (It is stuck in my head now, forever). Great video. Made me want to speed read so I could read the second book and the novella.
This vague motivation you mentioned, I'd say it is a conscience of Lift's perspective as well, when I got to the end of the book I had a feeling that she has some particular reasons for been there but she either was pushing it away and denies them, or just avoids to think about them, both of which could be rooted in her past. With Sanderson we only can guess until we see more, so that's just my opinion
Thank you for this. I've listen to one chapter of Oatbringer (hehe) but I stopped and bought English audiobook as there is no Polish one. Will have to learn the Sanderson specific terms and names, but it's worth it. I loved Lift in the interludes.
I'm hoping a lot of people's probs with Lift will get alleviated in the back half of Stormlight. She will be older, and we'll get her as a major flashback character, so she'll be fleshed out and more interesting
In Arcanum Unbounded there is version of Edgedancer without this beginning part from WOR. But if someone want to read this book without any knowledge about Stormligh Archive this beginning part is important. Everyone can skip this part. So... Everyone should be happy
I could see how the body horror aspect of the Sleepless would come as a surprise to Stormlight only readers. Sanderson has written gross horrifying things before in the Mistborn series, but the Sleepless is the first time it pops up in the Stormlight Archive. Also heads up Dawnshard is a novella before Rhythm of War, and I think it's even stronger than Edgedancer. It works so well on it's own.
So I have re-read Stormlight books 1-3 at least four times through and book 4 once before learning that Edgedancer was reccommended reading between books 2 and 3. My first and so far only readthrough of Edgedancer was overwhelmingly positive. I can definitely see OP's point on how someone in his specific position would have felt being told to read Edgedancer before Oathbringer tedious. For me it was like finding a new level when I'm on a completionist run for finding lore and it was fun :) I've always felt like Sanderson's dialogue from children sounds off and way too mature (not nsfw, I mean like full grown) but for the most part Lift sounds appropriately childlike for her age. (13?) I felt the familiar superpower wish fulfillment which is a hallmark of the cosmere, while also getting a single adventure novella that I felt had similar pacing to a graphic novel. I felt that crab dude scene was a near Lovecraftian horror and I LOVED it. From the beginning of my Edgedancer readthrough I felt lift was dishonest with her motives for travelling to Yeddaw, and I enjoyed her blatant and believable lie cover story of pancakes. So for me I didnt find her motives nor the plot boring. "Say it." "Your Pancakefulness."< That page had me dying laughing XD I'd leave an overwhelmingly positive review of the novella with my only note that the childrens' dialogue was still sometimes a bit too well worded and grown up for their age.
The story was underwhelming but it has one of my favorite dialogue exchanges I've ever read: "Did you just assault that woman?!" "Barely" (Lift proceeded to skedaddle away)
I have to agree about your opinion of Lift. She is awesomeness. I did read Edgedancer as well, and well Meh, it did remind me of Brandon's other lighter works like Alcatraz vs. and his Rythmatist series. Lift gives me a light heart while reading heavy sometimes sad material. Just what you need in an epic series.
XD THE INTRO WAS SO GOOD TY Nin, Nalan "Darkness" is NOT an honor radiant.. He's the herald of Justice. How do you miss this lol it's literally his whole thing.....................
0:52 Me my freshman year of high school accidentally starting the Stormlight Archive with Edgdancer because the library catalog made it look like book 1, and not liking it because I was missing 2000 pages of world building and didn’t understand what the frick was going on because Lift is a character who doesn’t really ask questions: Haha, yeah, definitely wouldn’t want to do that… 😬 Don’t worry, I found out that same year I read the wrong book and started over in the right order, Edgedancer was a lot more enjoyable when I understood what the heck a spren was 😅 Also, about Lift’s age-I believe she says something about being 10, and that she had been 10 for three years, so I think that puts her at about 15
Pretty mid book. But it was a nice pallet cleanser after I was done with radiance. The crem man and confrontation with Nale was worth it tho. I just woke up on a sunday morning and finished it off by lunchtime. So not a massive time sink either
Been a while since I read Edgedancer, but I agree Lift is awesome, but her motivations were weak and it made the non action/non funny parts feel like a chore. Probably a 7-7.5/10, but when it's good it's excellent.
Nice video bro. I didn't like Lift at all lol. And I agree about this book feeling a little like a chore because I really just wanted to start Oathbringer instead of reading this.
You can get it as part of Arcanum Unbounded which will have additioanl short stories and novellas. Makes it more worth it though a couple of the stories require you to have read Elantris or Mistborn Era 1
My problem with Lyft is that Sanderson clearly thinks she’s quirky and hilarious, and for me she just really isn’t. I’m not saying she’s badly written, she just doesn’t click for me, I find her like she’s 99% of the time being different just to be different
I don’t understand how people like Lift. I think Stormlight suffers from her being in it. It’s like having crappy John Green schlopp in my adult Fantasy soup. So, I could understand people liking her if she was in her own isolated series and you like middle grade stories.
It's really quite simple: she's a loveable, goofy kid with magic powers who loves pancakes and is a fun break from the heavier themes and characters of the rest of the series. Not every character can be Kaladin or Dalinar.
Lift is great largely because she's an annoying cringy tween. Like it's super lame but I definitely would've called my special powers my awesomeness at her age.
Lift is a character from avatar the last Airbender that ended up in a very serious epic fantasy, and you cannot change my mind on that.
lol i see that
@@ManCarryingThing me too!
Lift is Toph
@@RobinsMusic, Lift isn’t focused enough to be Toph, but I could see Sokka ^_^
@@Nortarachanges nahh I find her resemble toph more cause theyre both very sarcastic and want to undermine authority
Lift's motivations for going to Yeddaw weren't as simple as she pretended. She's that trope of the reluctant hero who just pretends to be in the right place at the right time. She went there not DESPITE Darkness being there, but in order to "steal his lunch." In other words, she knew he was going there to kill someone and she was trying to figure out who so she could save them. I thought her motivations and how they were presented were genius.
Yeah, I thought the same while reading it
Agreed, I thought the whole point of the book was that she was hunting him but pretending to be in the city for pancakes because she didn't want to be seen as responsible
_Lift became awesome_
No
@@sap509 quiet, voidbringer
@@DanielDangerous You might actually make someone kill themselves by repeating cringe of that level. Just saying.
@@punkmantion Guys, I found Darkness
About the body horror crab guy. I've been having a blast rereading The Way of Kings and seeing all sorts of hints and foreshadowing. In chapter 54 when Wit is talking to Dalinar at the feast (right before he tells him that he also goes by the name Hoid) he says, "I wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian."
That's gibletish.
Crab guy is actually from Brandon's second novel ever, Star's End (which is unpublished)
He's a Sleepless, who write the blurbs on the back of the books (the weird cremling in Kaladin's cage in The Way of Kings is a piece of one)
How do i read that book
@@nityamjain1561 I don't think Brandon Sanderson has made it available, he has just mentioned it in interviews.
More on those Sleepless in the other novel Dawnshard
Okay that intro got me, that was glorious. I just love that in this epic fantasy series we have a character that is fuelled by pancakes, amazing. The 'crab' person you're confused about is a certain type of person in Roshar (some of which you've already met!)
I'm excited to hear your thoughts on how Lift plays into Oathbringer once you're done, I thought it was so well done.
Thank you! I saw some glory spren after falling to the ground ;) Intrigued about the "crab" person, and I'm very excited to see what comes of Lift in Oathbringer. I'm about 300 pages in and loving it
Lift disliked this video just to be an internet troll. How typical of a preteen.
Lift is awesome. This is an indisputable, canon fact.
Also, her motivations are a little deeper than just wanting pancakes. She is telling herself that she went for the pancakes, but she was actually seeking out Nale (aka Darkness)
I really enjoyed both novellas. Maybe Edgedancer had some problems, but... it's from Lift's POV. Makes it automatically an awesome book.
(Interestingly, I don't really like Lift all that much when seen from other people's POV. She is a menace to the people around her :D)
she reminds me of a kid with adhd. she has to see everything, touch everything and do everything. her motivations make sense to me, she was starved as an orphan, so food became a primary focus. people that were in bad situations that make food scarce tend to think about food quite a bit.
idk I find her the chaos that brings entertainment to serious situations. I tend to enjoy comedies though, so that explains it.
Lift is the fucking bomb. I hope when she becomes a real knight radiant she’ll have attendants and “her pancakefullness” will be her official title
The hug at the end was the best.
Lift is one of those characters that grows on you. At first she seems overtly plucky and a bit annoying, but thats why Wyndle is there to be the constantly sighing voice of reason (aka the reader). She doesn’t change or have much of an arc, if any, but by the time you finish Edgedancer you come to understand her a lot better.
So, in a way, Lift's wish is metacontextual. Her wish was to never grow, to never change. And despite that being the case, we can still see that she's more complex than she lets on, giving the illusion of change.
LOL came for the pancakes, left for the spoilers, as Stormlight archives is still TBR for me! Definitely coming back to this one! *saving to Watch Later*
Hahaha thanks! Glad you are going to read Stormlight!
I love the interactions with Lift and her spren. The chaotic child and anxious caretaker dynamic is kind of hilarious but also sweet
Me, someone who has only read The Final Empire and not read anything else: *watches this entire video anyway*
Both you and Chase from Fantasy Talk are very much making me wish I read more Sanderson!! Every time I pick up Way of Kings it breaks one of my fingers because it's so heavy and I put it down bc I don't have the health insurance for this
Oh gosh, this comment. Thank you! Chase is making awesome videos, so happy you feel some peer pressure, lol. And maybe read WoK on kindle? Less life-threatening, for sure
About Life getting the flashback treatment, Brandon has confirmed that Book 6 will be based on her, and we’ll learn about her past in it
Wait a minute, i thought stormlight archive would enter era 2 after 5 books like mistborn
@@jojosoni unlike mistborn, there will only be a gap of about 15-20 years between book 5 and 6 of Stormlight. So our cast will still be around, they would just be older. Lift would be around 30 by then lol
Lift is awesome. One of my favorite characters for sure. I can't wait until we get the flashback book for her, hopefully book 5
Thank you for giving some love to Edgedancer.
I like that book a lot. The video was really good.
Great Job!
Just 2 points to add I think
SPOILER WARNING
1. Lift is a unreliable narrator
The things that she says must not be taken seriously.
She may say that she went to that city for pancakes or that she is looking for darkness to steal his food, but the true is that she found out that Darkness was there. So she is going there to confront him.
Well she enjoys the pancakes but is not the motivation.
2. And the fact that the ability of transform food to stormlight is a unique ability that she has. Other radiants use gemstones infused with stormlight, but she can not do it.
The powers that she has as a radiant is abrasion, that allows her to change the friction of her body against her surroundings and Progession that allows for two different sorts of abilities. She can use Stormlight to increase the rate of growth of plants and Regrowth It allows Lift to heal others from serious injuries that would otherwise be fatal.
Thank you! And thanks for adding these points -- Lift lies frequently both to Wyndle and the reader (and herself, honestly). And I COMPLETELY forgot to mention her healing abilities. Abrasion and Progression are definitely more complex than being a "slippery fish," lol. I really look forward to seeing Lift's role among the radiants in Oathbringer, and how she fits into this wider world.
@@ManCarryingThing you will love it hahahaha
@@ManCarryingThing Lift likes being compared to a slippery fish (or a skyeel for that matter).
I just finished listening to the audiobook. I loved it and I loved Lift. She's probably the most hilarious character I've ever encountered in a book.
I love this so much.
Also Lift is amazing, it’s nice having a character who isn’t taking all this heavy shit too seriously. And you probably know by now I agree with you on BS giving too much info on his characters.
Awesome video 👍🏻
Thanks so much man! Yeah, it was nice getting some levity in such a dark world.
I found the lift section in words of radiance the most obnoxious part of the book, because it was such a tonal shift and left field addition it just didn't work. But in Edgedancer Lift really came to life for me
Interesting. I actually enjoyed that tonal shift for giving some variety to WoR. But I agree, her character is better developed in Edgedancer
@@ManCarryingThing same. I liked Edgedancer decently well, but I thought Lift's interlude is the best interlude to date because its not just *weird fantasy exposition* but actually tells a full short story.
Lift I love you.
Just had to say it, also could we have a minute of silence for Wyndle?
i love wyndle
I loved Edgedancer. It obviously doesn't have the depth or epic scale that a main Stormlight novel has, but I enjoyed staying with one character/storyline through the book as a charge of pace.
I agree that the motivations weren't clear for much of the book, but I think this was intentional as she was in the process of discovering them.
I also liked the humour and whimsical nature of a lot of the story. I think my favourite part was the way the narrator said "Lift became awesome".
I could make a good bookish meme out of that intro if you want it. (It is stuck in my head now, forever). Great video. Made me want to speed read so I could read the second book and the novella.
the memes are yours XD
Lift in her on words
is *awesome*
This vague motivation you mentioned, I'd say it is a conscience of Lift's perspective as well, when I got to the end of the book I had a feeling that she has some particular reasons for been there but she either was pushing it away and denies them, or just avoids to think about them, both of which could be rooted in her past. With Sanderson we only can guess until we see more, so that's just my opinion
Thank you for this. I've listen to one chapter of Oatbringer (hehe) but I stopped and bought English audiobook as there is no Polish one. Will have to learn the Sanderson specific terms and names, but it's worth it. I loved Lift in the interludes.
I'm hoping a lot of people's probs with Lift will get alleviated in the back half of Stormlight. She will be older, and we'll get her as a major flashback character, so she'll be fleshed out and more interesting
Gosh darn I love your reviews
Omg, I did not expect that and could not stop laughing! Great video!
Thank you!!
In Arcanum Unbounded there is version of Edgedancer without this beginning part from WOR. But if someone want to read this book without any knowledge about Stormligh Archive this beginning part is important. Everyone can skip this part. So... Everyone should be happy
This is true dedication!
Haha thanks!
Lift is my favorite character in the entire series. She’s awesome
Iconic indeed brother thanks for sharing 🙌🙌🙌
Thanks for watching!
I could see how the body horror aspect of the Sleepless would come as a surprise to Stormlight only readers. Sanderson has written gross horrifying things before in the Mistborn series, but the Sleepless is the first time it pops up in the Stormlight Archive. Also heads up Dawnshard is a novella before Rhythm of War, and I think it's even stronger than Edgedancer. It works so well on it's own.
Yeah, my first exposure was Shadows for Silence in the Forest of Hell.
Lift is so OP it's great!
So I have re-read Stormlight books 1-3 at least four times through and book 4 once before learning that Edgedancer was reccommended reading between books 2 and 3. My first and so far only readthrough of Edgedancer was overwhelmingly positive. I can definitely see OP's point on how someone in his specific position would have felt being told to read Edgedancer before Oathbringer tedious. For me it was like finding a new level when I'm on a completionist run for finding lore and it was fun :) I've always felt like Sanderson's dialogue from children sounds off and way too mature (not nsfw, I mean like full grown) but for the most part Lift sounds appropriately childlike for her age. (13?) I felt the familiar superpower wish fulfillment which is a hallmark of the cosmere, while also getting a single adventure novella that I felt had similar pacing to a graphic novel. I felt that crab dude scene was a near Lovecraftian horror and I LOVED it. From the beginning of my Edgedancer readthrough I felt lift was dishonest with her motives for travelling to Yeddaw, and I enjoyed her blatant and believable lie cover story of pancakes. So for me I didnt find her motives nor the plot boring. "Say it." "Your Pancakefulness."< That page had me dying laughing XD I'd leave an overwhelmingly positive review of the novella with my only note that the childrens' dialogue was still sometimes a bit too well worded and grown up for their age.
The story was underwhelming but it has one of my favorite dialogue exchanges I've ever read:
"Did you just assault that woman?!"
"Barely" (Lift proceeded to skedaddle away)
I have to agree about your opinion of Lift. She is awesomeness. I did read Edgedancer as well, and well Meh, it did remind me of Brandon's other lighter works like Alcatraz vs. and his Rythmatist series. Lift gives me a light heart while reading heavy sometimes sad material. Just what you need in an epic series.
XD THE INTRO WAS SO GOOD TY
Nin, Nalan "Darkness" is NOT an honor radiant.. He's the herald of Justice. How do you miss this lol it's literally his whole thing.....................
🎶🎶"Makin pancakes makin bacon pancakes!"🎶🎶
Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh
Oh, hey. I didn't know you actually did cosmere content, neat!
Lift is basically a Shōnen protagonist, and is awesome 😎 fight me!
Oh yeah! When Sanderson dipped into horror for a second. 😱😂😭
I like edgedancer, and I love lyft
Who here found Hoid?
That was a great bit, no pancake wasted
Man made a full plate of pancakes for the Content now that’s dedication
Came for the intro, stayed for Lift!
The pancake line at the start got me to sub so fast. lol.
Forgot to mention her healing power, but other than that, great video.
0:52 Me my freshman year of high school accidentally starting the Stormlight Archive with Edgdancer because the library catalog made it look like book 1, and not liking it because I was missing 2000 pages of world building and didn’t understand what the frick was going on because Lift is a character who doesn’t really ask questions: Haha, yeah, definitely wouldn’t want to do that… 😬
Don’t worry, I found out that same year I read the wrong book and started over in the right order, Edgedancer was a lot more enjoyable when I understood what the heck a spren was 😅
Also, about Lift’s age-I believe she says something about being 10, and that she had been 10 for three years, so I think that puts her at about 15
Pretty mid book. But it was a nice pallet cleanser after I was done with radiance. The crem man and confrontation with Nale was worth it tho.
I just woke up on a sunday morning and finished it off by lunchtime. So not a massive time sink either
i love lift man, shes the bomb
If I recall, Lift is 13. She says at some point that she has been 10 for 3 years now or something like that. She doesn't want to grow up
If those are not microwave pancakes (and really, how low can a person sink?), then you, good sir, have some great pancake making *skillz!*
they are genuine homemade pancakes! (thank u I am very proud)
Been a while since I read Edgedancer, but I agree Lift is awesome, but her motivations were weak and it made the non action/non funny parts feel like a chore. Probably a 7-7.5/10, but when it's good it's excellent.
A pancakeful day is never a bad one.
HAVE A PANCAKEFUL DAY! ❤
Lift is amazing
When someone says they don’t like Lift, I’m like “Quite, voidbringer !”
If think there should be a Stormlight TV series you should listen the Graphic Audio set.
Best intro
Lift is the best Stormlight Archive character she’s iconic
what is that song at the beginning?
Nice video bro. I didn't like Lift at all lol. And I agree about this book feeling a little like a chore because I really just wanted to start Oathbringer instead of reading this.
Glad you toned down the swearing in your more recent videos.
Lift is hilarious
“For those of you that don’t know what Words of Radiance or what the fuck I’m talking about, this may not be the video for you...”🥇
Man the carry thing 👍
I was gonna read this but it costs more than Oathbringer and is way short
You can get it as part of Arcanum Unbounded which will have additioanl short stories and novellas. Makes it more worth it though a couple of the stories require you to have read Elantris or Mistborn Era 1
Crab guy is like the Rat King.
I’m annoyed to have spent an Audible credit for Edgedancer.
Journey before pancakes. 😉
Thanks Teft.
This book does not seem relevant until you read who Darkness is xD
Also its one of my favourite books, I love lift
Lift is low key deep and complex. She’ll end up being the Arya to the Night King. Not Dalinar. Lol
My problem with Lyft is that Sanderson clearly thinks she’s quirky and hilarious, and for me she just really isn’t.
I’m not saying she’s badly written, she just doesn’t click for me, I find her like she’s 99% of the time being different just to be different
I don't think Lyft cares much about being different. She's just a bit peculiar by nature and I think that's okay. I like her.
I fkin love lift too. Shes the annoying little sister I never had.
I hate Lift, and I will explain why. She reminds me of me in middleschool, and instead of relating, I end up cringing so hard it hurts.
Lift? Cringe? Nah
Lift is quite possibly one of the most annoying characters in modern fantasy fiction.
I don’t understand how people like Lift. I think Stormlight suffers from her being in it. It’s like having crappy John Green schlopp in my adult Fantasy soup.
So, I could understand people liking her if she was in her own isolated series and you like middle grade stories.
Lol, i don't understand why you care what others think. Live and let live
It's really quite simple:
she's a loveable, goofy kid with magic powers who loves pancakes and is a fun break from the heavier themes and characters of the rest of the series. Not every character can be Kaladin or Dalinar.
Lift is great largely because she's an annoying cringy tween. Like it's super lame but I definitely would've called my special powers my awesomeness at her age.
I'm not really a fan of Lift. I find her to be pretty annoying