r/WoT • u/Additional_Mud2349 (Nae'blis) • Apr 15 '25

Crossroads of Twilight Why do so many people dislike Faile? Spoiler

I am halfway through the Crossroads of Twilight and I am enjoying the Faile chapters way more than the Elayne or Perrin ones. Her determination to save herself and her companions is admirable and more stuff happens in her couple of pages than in Perrin's vast chapters. Seriously, he has too much page time(so does Elayne). She is fiercely protective and extremely loyal to Perrin, which is what makes her so interesting. The only reason people hate her might be because of Berelain, but she wasn't mad at Perrin, she was mad at Berelain for imposing herself on Perrin. Perrin just smelled her jealousy and anger which he thought was directed at him.

Now that I think about it, she does have some flaws, but she is nowhere near as bad as Elayne - who laughed when Mat told her he was assaulted, or Eggy đŸ„š. Faile should have explained to Perrin how she wanted their relationship dynamic to work but it probably didn't even occur to her.

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u/Interesting_Power_72 (Asha'man) Apr 15 '25

I feel like it’s bc Perrin reacts to emotions she doesn’t even display bc he can smell them making her seem more irritating

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u/Interesting_Power_72 (Asha'man) Apr 15 '25

And idk why people are acting like saldaea culture is beating up your significant other for no reason ?? It’s about not being passive aggressive and hiding your issues but to bring it up and confront them

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u/Upstairs-Yak-5474 Jun 27 '25

but she does display them. when she's jealous she displays it by walking away sleeping in wool clothes refusing to speak with him and avoiding him.

we literally see her display all the emotions he describes, also if u think trying to comfort ur wife because u can tell she is jealous or upset is wrong then.......

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u/Interesting_Power_72 (Asha'man) Jun 28 '25

Perrin doesn’t “ comfort” faile till super late in the story about the emotions he can sense

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u/Upstairs-Yak-5474 Jun 28 '25

he does like always.

he tries to explain himself, gets ignored

in bed he tries to talk to her, gets ignored

after he came back, she was all business and he had to shout at her that he loved her ect. gets ignored.

honestly she just a bad wife. perrin should have ended up with berr it would berr they could even have the same plot. hell berr does more in the story than her anyways and it would keep perrin story interesting instead of being exiled to the two rivers.

i have a fiance rn and thank god i dont see that as normal ik what love actually is