Nynaeve - myeh. What can be said about her? The most admirable thing she's done the entire series is send Lan off to the Gap. Amazing how so much whining and pushiness can be stuffed into one dress.
Ya I know what you mean...Healing Stilling and Gentling..Anyone could have done that..That whole thing where she aided in cleansing the taint on Saidin? pointless..Beating one of the Forsaken in a one on one battle when she was still an Accepted? Hell who couldn't do that. The fact that of all the main characters in the series she is the only on who has tried to stay true to her roots and loyal to her friends is retarded right? Ya Nynaeve..what a worthless waste....
Coulda done without the sarcasm, but whatever. See, this is why I rarely posted on wotmania either, even though I was a member there forever. I used to post there that I liked Egwene and people absolutely KILLED themselves to tell me how stupid I was.
In response to your post, I really meant from a VIRTUOUS point of view although I guess that would have been easy to miss from my original post. I'm not saying she hasn't done anything amazing. But her motivations have rarely if ever been anything but spiteful, selfish, anger-based or rooted in a need to prove herself to others. Sending Lan off to ride through the Borderlands is the first thing I remember her doing that she actually did without baser motivation, setting her own selfishness aside in favor of the wants and needs of others. Even her protective nature toward Rand and Company seems to me less a true concern for their well-being and more of a territorial motivation, again springing from her own selfish needs to assert her authority. I don't doubt she cares about them, but she STILL thinks of them as "her" people, for crying out loud!
All that said, I actually like Nyaeve more than I dislike her. I just think she's kind of an ignorant kid who still has a damn lot of growing up to do. With the exception of maybe Perrin, who still persists in being a whiny-ass pansy, she has grown the least of any main character.
Forgive me if I tend to admire people more for their inner motivations and core characters than their surface accomplishments. Sorry.
I wasn't being mean with the sarcasm..just silly....Anyway..your argument is one of the most confusing arguments I've ever come across on this board. You judge people on their motivations not their actions and yet you seem to like EGWENE!!! over Nynaeave!! Based on your assertion that Nynaeve's motivations are callow and selfish?
Nynaeve may have been preturbed that other Aes Sedai were doubting her Healing ability but her motivation to Heal is purely selfless and for the betterment of mankind.
I don't want to get into a whole argument about Egwene's faults here..it's been done to death..but talking about ghow much you like and admire Egwene and than disparaging Nynaeave, all based on what they have accomplished and the motivations behind those actions makes absolutey no sense. Seriously, what books are you reading?
If you just said " I like Egwene and not Nynaeve" I could deal with that, I wouldn't understand it but I could deal with it.
But your like or dislike is based on things that can't be argued..Nynaeve has clearly accopmlished many more admirable things and her motivations were clearly more selfless than Egwenes have been on even the smallest of things.
Johnnymack.
I got tGS for Christmas - some comments with spoilers
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Re: I got tGS for Christmas - some comments with spoilers
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How did you ever wait?
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Nynaeve
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Well, technically...
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