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Akane asks with concern after Yumi's safety, and Painter promises she will be staying away from this fight. Nikaro again insists that the stable nightmares will come and Akane asks him to confront the possibility that he has imagined everything. He does, out of respect, and promises that if the nightmares do not come he will get help. Masaka then notices the shroud is rippling, and the army of stable nightmares begins to emerge. At the Noodle Pupil, Painter approaches his friends and apologizes to them for what he did years prior.
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There is a world of endless night, surrounded by an even deeper darkness. Filled with nightmares come to life, twisted shapes that slink to windows and slide across floors to look down on helpless faces. There are a few similarities between the pair Nikaro-Yumi and Tidus-Yuna. And I loved it, especially the slow-burn romance between each pair.
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Nobody knows who Yumi is either, simply thinking she is an eccentric with a strange accent and an uncanny ability to stack bowls. Yumi is a yoki-hijo, chosen by the spirits at birth to serve the people. Servants feed her, bathe her, and transport her from town to town. During her days, she stacks stones in intricate patterns to summon the spirits, which she can then encourage to take different shapes to assist the townspeople. She lives a lonely existence, but she is duty-bound by her purpose. Still, Yumi longs for something different…a life that would allow her to make her own choices.
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I understand each reader’s tastes are different, but from my analysis, only someone who despises having any tiny moments of romance in their books will hate this. The majority of this book is just about relationship development. It is brimming with multitudes of emotions, good or bad. Relating to how Tidus and Yuna complement each other, Nikaro and Yumi bring their missing colors and puzzles to complete each other. Assuming we are not talking about teenagers, I personally think Sanderson is excellent at writing romantic relationships between characters.
They eventually leave the store with several new outfits for Yumi. Akane invites Yumi to join her and her friends for lunch after she has had a chance to drop off her new clothes in Nikaro's apartment. Hoid then introduces the yoki-hijo Yumi as she observes the bright daystar, which she considered to be a good omen. Her attendants, Chaeyung and Hwanji enter her wagon and feed her a breakfast of rice and stew.
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Painter then walks to the Noodle Pupil, enters, and takes a seat at the bar, asking Design for his usual order. As he eats, Painter questions Design about his self-worth, which she mistakenly interprets as a request for a discount. Design encourages Nikaro to socialize with the other painters meeting at the establishment, but he refuses.
We read from their POV like usual, hear their thoughts, and feel their emotions. However, we get the occasional commentary, interruptions, and philosophical musings from Hoid. For me, there was never any dull moment in this book. Even though it is a different kind of Cosmere novel, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter remain Sanderson’s storytelling at its prime. On a more focused level, Yumi’s plot was just fine.
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She began on very bad terms with Painter, seeing him as a liar that is doing everything in his power to humiliate her. Her experience in the stacking ritual is immense, with the practice from every day over nearly two-thousand years crossing over, despite her loss of memory. She is not exactly happy about her life and wishes for something more, but forces herself to accept it, and all the rules accompanied with it, without question. This faith ultimately left her utterly distraught upon learning that it was merely traditionalism, instead of the explicit will of the hijo. Understandably, most people stayed indoors at night. Similar features, same black hair, but of paler skin than many you’d find on Roshar.
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Together they will root out devils, protect their world from demonic invasion, and keep each other warm on cold nights. Yet before Ryn can do all that, he has to graduate from the prestigious Primal Academy. Matt plans to delve the rifts responsible for the monsters that destroyed his city and murdered his parents.
They explain that they activated the father machine at the Festival of Reveals 1,763 years ago, and instead of creating energy from the spirits it consumed the Torish people. The only beings that resisted the machine were the yoki-hijo, and so they have been imprisoned all this time. She asks for their help to stop it, but they refuse to help. They transform fully into nightmare forms and move toward her. After they have been left alone in the orchard shrine, they cross through the orchard to the east side of town.
Painter notices that everyone has become very still, and as he watches they all begin turning into nightmares. He tries to destroy the machine but is stopped by Gyundok, who is also a nightmare along with the other scholars. Nikaro asks about the others as their surroundings disintegrate into the shroud, and the scholar explains that they don't understand their true natures. Liyun transforms more fully and Painter realizes she was the stable nightmare they were hunting for. Lastly, he turns to see Yumi turning into a nightmare as well. Gyundok apologizes for taking so long to reach this point, explaining that they had troubles with their power source and needed some time to catch some rogue spirits.
The lead scholar is unsurprised, and calls for Sunjun, explaining it is time for a confrontation. He asks for Nikaro's theory on what is happening as the other scholars bring out their machine. His idea amuses Gyundok, who says it is wrong but a good guess.
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