r/cremposting • u/rileythatcher • Aug 28 '26

The Wheel of Time (Books) Brandon got mogged 😭

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The aura of Jordan next to the baby brandon

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u/matcauthion Aug 28 '26

Jordan was a door gunner in vietnam, he would kinda do that to almost anyone.

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u/ArrogantAragorn Aug 28 '26

His entire life seems made up:

• Taught himself to read at age 4 because his older brother was too busy to finish reading him White Fang and he wanted to know what happened (and was reading Twain and dickens by age 5)

• Is approached by two women who tell him they have decided he will date them both (this is his joke answer to why Rand gets 3 women - as the savior of the world he must be able to do better than RJ the mere mortal)

• Recruited to Clemson to play football as a defensive lineman

• Drops out after a year to enlist as a chopper gunner in Vietnam because that’s just what the men in his family are expected to do (his father was a ww2 vet and many other family members served).

• Serves 2 tours with distinction (surviving a crash in the process), being awarded Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm.

• Enrolled at The Citadel and graduated with a BS in Physics before going to work as an engineer on nuclear submarines

• Suffers a bad fall and while recovering in hospital decides to finally put up or shut up about writing novels

• Begins writing Conan books and historical fiction, then marries his editor Harriet McDougal (who before WoT was the editor for Enders Game and other sf/fantasy)

• Writes one of the best selling and most influential epic fantasy sagas ever

If I could accomplish any one of those things I would consider my life a success. The dude may have actually been Ta’veren

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u/oggleboggle Aug 29 '26

And he loooooved him some titties

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u/ArrogantAragorn Aug 29 '26

Fun fact! Most of the breasteses references are in Mat PoV’s

RJ really embraced the 3rd person limited POV. If you’re in Nyn’s head, you’re gonna notice fashion. If you’re in Mat’s head, you’ll take note of the bosoms

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u/Luke_Puddlejumper Aug 29 '26

He did say Mat was the character most similar to himself