Odium's Champion [Cosmere]

Kaladin would kill anyone who is threat to those he has seek to protect, no matter who. He has killed countless of individuals before without the support of the Thrill. The singers may have been defenseless but they were raising the Everstorm who would have destroyed every single living person. I thus don't believe killing them would go against his oaths. I could be wrong, but I do think Kaladin would have had less of a hard time than Adolin, oaths or no. Why? Because Kaladin has the heart of a soldier while Adolin doesn't.

Dalinar kills Parshendis for no valid reasons while being Thrill-less. He joins in the fight himself and happily kills others without a qualm.

I think they were quite certain they were conjuring the Everstorm, but huh, I am not entirely certain, so huh, I could be wrong.

Adolin is not broken, not yet, but he is self-sabotaging his relationships: we have a WoB on this. And he is doing it out of fear of not being "good enough", author's words, not my own. These are facts, not speculations. He also is a perfectionist (supported by several text evidence most notably the chapter entitled "Perfection"), which doesn't mean he is broken (I also have a WoB which states he isn't), but it means he isn't this mindless Casanova brute who rejoiced in warfare who'll just brush away issues as if it never mattered many readers seem to read.

There is something off within the Dalinar/Adolin relationship and just because it hasn't pan out yet doesn't mean it isn't there. They never have to withstand hardships, their relationship has never been trialed mostly because Adolin has always been exactly what daddy wanted him to be. In another time another world, perhaps nothing bad would ever come out of it, but ground work has been made for future issues.

There is no issues now but I suspect there will be and Dalinar will be the root cause. He is too hard with Adolin (supported by another WoB) and has too high expectations for him: it will come into play.

What is intriguing about Adolin, to me, is the fact his public persona clashes with his private one. Each time we get his POV, it clashes violently with third person's perspective we previously had, mostly from Kaladin and Dalinar. The most interesting to me is how afraid he is he may fail.... He talks about it, several times over.

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