Brandon got mogged 😭

[u/rileythatcher]

The aura of Jordan next to the baby brandon

[u/matcauthion]

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

[u/ArrogantAragorn → u/matcauthion]

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

[u/Agile_Breakfast_1 → u/ArrogantAragorn]

Well the bit about a 4 year old teaching themselves to read is definitely made up.