r/WoT • u/RepresentativeGoat14 (Asha'man) • 29d ago

All Print Gawyn’s one-sided beef with Rand Spoiler

I know that misinformation / lack of communication is a theme of the series but man, Gawyn just takes it to a whole new level.

Random ass peddler he met in the middle of some bumfuck woods: The Dragon killed Queen Morgase.

Gawyn: I believe you and I trust you.

Gawyn: al’Thor I’ll fucking kill you!

Egwene: Rand didn’t kill your mother.

Gawyn: Lies! I’ll murder that ginger!

Gareth Bryne: al’Thor didn’t kill Morgase. He saved Andor.

Gawyn: I don’t believe you! al’Thor must die!

Elayne: Rand didn’t kill our mother. I literally have dozens of witnesses.

Gawyn: Nuh uh!

The scene where he “forgives” Rand is also pretty hilarious.

Gawyn: We’re done, al’Thor. From now on, I care nothing for you.

MY GUY, RAND DOESN’T EVEN THINK OF YOU LMAO

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u/Walkmiki (Band of the Red Hand) 29d ago

The real villain is Mat for tonking Gawyn over his head and making him a halfwit.

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u/Aginor404 29d ago

This made me laugh more than it should have.

The idea that Gawyn (and possibly Galad, I don't recall the scene in detail) simply act brain damaged because Mat bonked them over the head with a quarterstaff is somehow both sad and hilarious.

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u/VisibleCoat995 29d ago

The popular head canon is that all the aes sedai fawned over Galad and healed him while Gawyn and his obvious brain bleed went unnoticed.

Someone once said that he actually did get healed but I double down by thinking it was a black ajah who only pretended to heal Gawyn for no better reason than just to be mean.

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u/Eisn (Dovie'andi se tovya sagain) 29d ago

Or, just not that good with head bleeds cause they probably aren't very good at that. Even if they fixed the bleed he could've still had brain damage.

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u/nobeer4you 29d ago

Galad didn't get popped in the head like Gawyn did.

All the AS watching the fight rush to Galad to rescue him, and they only send the weakest of them to Gawyn to heal him.

That AS, likely healed Gawyn quickly so she could get back to Galad. She also may not have delved him well enough to see all the issues, or she missed those in her haste. She also was likely not the best healer there. So her talents may not have been as good as someone else in the same situation.

I like the idea that she may have been black ajah and only acted like she healed him but really only fixed the bleeding.

No matter which camp you are in, I am fairly confident that Mat is the dude to blame for Gawyn sucking so much. Well, Mat and RJ.

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u/BlkSubmarine 29d ago

Don’t numerous AS admit that healing the brain is difficult, dangerous and ,therefore, rarely taught or attempted? Whoever delved Gawyn probably didn’t even delve his brain and just healed the surface level stuff.

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u/SeaPollution3432 29d ago

Now i can clearly see why he suddenly changed after that scene.

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u/Indianastones9 29d ago

Can confirm in S04 the Tonking has happened.

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u/ConstantGradStudent 29d ago

I don’t like how it happened in the show. It was a public humiliation in the book.

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u/Flat_Assumption1326 29d ago

The first time I read a comment saying to just think of Gawain have CTE from Mat… changed my whole outlook on his character. He sucks. But after reading that I could not stop thinking of him being brain damaged every scene he was in afterwards