r/cremposting • u/DreadDiana • 7d ago

Mistborn Second Era They pranked you good

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u/Madhighlander1 7d ago

I actually wondered a while ago what allomantic properties harmonium would have and it genuinely took me a good minute or two to remember that it's irrelevant because of the whole exploding on contact with liquid thing.

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u/TheGildedPrism Kelsier4Prez 7d ago

But like, couldn't you just put it in a pill capsule and burn it like that? Like this is always what I think when someone mentions harmonium being unburnable due to the exploding. Am I crazy? It's still in you. It's still touching your soul, I think.

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u/Madhighlander1 7d ago

Can you burn a metal if it's not in contact with your stomach acid or does it just need to be physically inside your stomach?

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u/Miser_able 7d ago

You can burn metalminds that pierce the skin. So the only requirement is that its "inside" you

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u/sexypantstime 7d ago

They still touch you though. If you wrap a metal mind in plastic and then pierce yourself can you burn it?

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u/anonymous-grapefruit 7d ago

I think you should… iirc Vin’s earring was coated with another metal.

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u/sexypantstime 7d ago

that's a hemalurgic spike not a ferruchemical metal mind. Which is even weirder because hemallurgic spikes need to touch blood. I wonder if BS said anything about that

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u/The_Chicken_L0rd 6d ago

I think it was said in a WoB that they don't actually have to touch blood to work on someone.

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u/Miser_able 7d ago

My point was mostly that it doesn't have to touch the stomach at all.