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Lift actively goes out of her way to help and heal people, at the risk of her own life. That alone means she's not a Designated Hero.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Lift's character has proven somewhat divisive in the fandom.
** Take A: Lift is a heroic KnightInSourArmor who uses ObfuscatingStupidity to hide her true nature from other people. She has been hurt before, and is actively avoiding forming emotional attachements for fear of growing to care too much. Despite that, she never managed to stop caring in full, and when push comes to shove, she shows her true nature, even if she dismisses it by playing up [[TheGadfly her goofy side]]. She has a lot of baggage to work through, though, and a lot of growing up to do - after all, she's only thirteen.
** Take B: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
** Take A: Lift is a heroic KnightInSourArmor who uses ObfuscatingStupidity to hide her true nature from other people. She has been hurt before, and is actively avoiding forming emotional attachements for fear of growing to care too much. Despite that, she never managed to stop caring in full, and when push comes to shove, she shows her true nature, even if she dismisses it by playing up [[TheGadfly her goofy side]]. She has a lot of baggage to work through, though, and a lot of growing up to do - after all, she's only thirteen.
** Take B: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Lift's character has proven somewhat divisive in the fandom.
** Take A: Lift is a heroic KnightInSourArmor who uses ObfuscatingStupidity to hide her true nature from other people. She has been hurt before, and is actively avoiding forming emotional attachements for fear of growing to care too much. Despite that, she never managed to stop caring in full, and when push comes to shove, she shows her true nature, even if she dismisses it by playing up [[TheGadfly her goofy side]]. She has a lot of baggage to work through, though, and a lot of growing up to do - after all, she's only thirteen.
** Take B: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
** Take A: Lift is a heroic KnightInSourArmor who uses ObfuscatingStupidity to hide her true nature from other people. She has been hurt before, and is actively avoiding forming emotional attachements for fear of growing to care too much. Despite that, she never managed to stop caring in full, and when push comes to shove, she shows her true nature, even if she dismisses it by playing up [[TheGadfly her goofy side]]. She has a lot of baggage to work through, though, and a lot of growing up to do - after all, she's only thirteen.
** Take B: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
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* Alternate character interpretation: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
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* Alternate character interpretation: AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
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* Alternate character interpretation: Lift is a DesignatedHero, bordering on VillainProtagonist. She is mean, dismissive, and selfish at every turn. She avoids making friends because any expectation being placed upon her would be burdensome. She would explicitly rather steal from people than buy things because she finds carrying money to be a hassle. She avoids any attempt to improve herself, and asked the Nightwatcher to make her never change. She will only address her spren--who is convinced he's on a suicide mission that will result in the destruction of the entire world if he fails--as "Voidbringer," his worst enemy. Lift only manages to seem heroic because she's pitted against a cosmic villain and the most prolific murderer in the setting.
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** A number of scenes in the previous books - as well as Oathbringer - involve the main characters specifically noticing a cremling. Most memorably, when Mraize shoots one with a blowgun dart. The Sleepless are watching.
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* ParanoiaFuel: A Sleepless is a sentient entity spread out across hundreds of cremlings, most common creatures on Roshar, and they're very interested in the going-ons of the newfangled Radiants. It's like realizing that every fly you see might be a spy.
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* ParanoiaFuel: A Sleepless is a sentient entity spread out across hundreds of cremlings, most common creatures on Roshar, and they're very interested in the going-ons of the newfangled Radiants. It's like realizing that every fly you see might be a spy. They do seem to be on the side of good, but it's still pretty creepy.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Thirteen-year-old Lift claiming to still be ten in ''Words of Radiance'' because any number higher than ten is 'unlucky' seemed like a silly joke at the time, but turns out to be related to [[spoiler:her incorrectly believing that the Nightwatcher had made her ageless and unchanging]].
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** Remember how Szeth's sword-nimi didn't want to kill Lift because it thought she was "funny"? [[spoiler: With evidence from ''Warbreaker'', and Lift's distinct nausea before Szeth found her, this probably meant that Nightblood tried to feed off her, in an attempt to foster thoughts that it had decided were "evil." And found none, which is why it didn't want to destroy her.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: A Sleepless is a sentient entity spread out across hundreds of cremlings, most common creatures on Roshar, and they're very interested in the going ons of the newfangled Radiants. It's like realizing that every fly you see might be a spy.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The Edgedancers are noted in ancient texts as being exceptionally eloquent and well-spoken, yet Lift has some definite grammar problems and can be rather crass. However, she instantly catches on the Yeddaw street urchin dialect, and then is unusually eloquent and almost ceremonial when talking to Nale. Could it be, now, that much like Shallan gets eidetic memory and Renarin gets future-sight as a side effect of their Surges, Edgedancers like Lift get the perk of being instantly able to match their style of speech to their conversation partner? That would certainly explain why the scholars thought the Edgedancers to be the most elegant and eloquent of all Radiants.
* HilariousInHindsight: The epigraph that praises Edgedancers' oratory skills gets much funnier once the abovementioned FridgeBrilliance settles in; it's a fair bet that after the highbrow scholars left, awed by what they saw, the Radiants started exchanging dirty jokes with the stablehands.
* ParanoiaFuel: A Sleepless is a sentient entity spread out across hundreds of cremlings, most common creatures on Roshar, and they're very interested in thegoing ons going-ons of the newfangled Radiants. It's like realizing that every fly you see might be a spy.spy.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The epigraph that praises Edgedancers' oratory skills gets much funnier once the abovementioned FridgeBrilliance settles in; it's a fair bet that after the highbrow scholars left, awed by what they saw, the Radiants started exchanging dirty jokes with the stablehands.
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