Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: A Cosmere Novel

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/YumiAndTheNightmarePainter Follow ing Literature / Ghostly Death Reveal: Referenced for laughs during one of Painter's stints as an invisible spirit. As a spren, Design can see spirits, so when she notices him, she drops a bowl of noodles and starts asking him how he died. Hoid: She... did not do a good job acting human. I take no blame, as she repeatedly refused my counsel on the matter. At least her disguise was holding up. Must draw this! Yumi is my fav among the three Cosmere secret projects XD Can't wait for its final release! Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: The stable nightmare hungers for Yumi's incredible Investiture. According to Hoid, if it had succeeded in killing her it would have basically become a new yoki-hijo. This is why the Machine couldn't kill any of the yoki-hijo, because from its perspective there was no difference. But as Design points out, Yumi is so powerful that they should be running from her, and when she decides to stop being afraid she rips nightmares away from the Machine with no trouble whatsoever.

The drama Yumi watches seemingly ends with the main couple being forced apart forever, but Yumi later hears that there was a secret bonus episode where the couple does get their happily ever after. This leads to the main story ending with Yumi dying to save Painter's society and let the souls of Torio rest, only for Painter to resurrect her in the epilogue. Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once Hoid is unfrozen he wants off the planet as fast as possible. As nice as the planet is after the Shroud comes down he openly states he has no intention of ever visiting again. Even worse for the victims of the Father Machine, which has trapped their souls either in a catatonic state of nothingness they are very much also aware of, or in a "Groundhog Day" Loop where the Laser-Guided Amnesia has them living the same day over and over and over. It's indicated at the end that once the Father Machine gained enough spirits to maintain itself perpetually it would never let them go. Considering those spirits are tantamount to God in this world, then suffice it to say, nobody would be coming to release them.Fantastical Social Services: Nightmare painters are essentially a state-run extermination service. The pests just happen to be living nightmares that creep into the city from the eldritch darkness beyond, and the extermination involves painting them into harmless forms before they can eat enough fear to assume a much more dangerous physical form.

Painter (Nikaro) is a lonely man making his living by trapping nightmares in paintings. He considers himself a lone warrior protecting the city, nevermind the fraternity of fellow painters who work with him. He is not a particularly fortunate man, but he makes his life more difficult by brooding. All he wants is to be important, not realizing that he is the biggest obstacle in his own way. I Work Alone: Painter insists on working alone rather than in a pair because he thinks he's a lonely dark hero who no one appreciates. Hoid lampshades that this mostly just means he's socially awkward and won't talk to his peers. The nightmares are able to be shaped by a person's perception of them, but the difficulty in doing this makes it necessary to actualize that perception in the form of a painting. Alien Among Us: According to Hoid, one of the first problems a world faces when they leave their world and discover life elsewhere in the Cosmere is the fact that everyone else has been likely visiting their world for quite a while. The only reason worldhoppers don't help uplift the locals on their own is because it requires a lot of paperwork.Lonely Bachelor Pad: Nikaro's bachelor suite is part of his compensation as a nightmare painter, and he doesn't have much going on in his life besides work, soap operas, and the noodle shop. Team Mom: Akane for her misfit group of painters. She sincerely cares about all of them, looks after them and basically adopts Yumi. Nikaro mentions that it's what she's always done. The third of Brandon Sanderson's four "Secret Novels," this book is beautifully illustrated by Aliya Chen and meticulously designed. One day, Yumi and Painter’s lives become spiritually bound to one another. Painter wakes up as Yumi and must live her life while Yumi herself guides him as a spirit invisible to everyone else. In Painter’s world, Yumi keeps her form and explores the wonders of Kilahito while Painter guides her. Together, they try to unravel the mystery of their lives and why they are intertwined. Corrupted Contingency: After his adventures on Lumar, or possibly after (Cosmere spoilers!) discovering what Taravangian did to his memories, Hoid put protections on himself against having his mind or soul interfered with. When he arrived on Komashi and the Machine tried to seize his soul, his protections activated... and froze him into a kind of stasis for the next three years, until Yumi defeated the Machine. He notes that this was not what he'd intended to happen, and presumably the protections will be further refined.

Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. No Ontological Inertia: When Yumi steals all the spirits from the Machine, rendering it powerless, it promptly shuts down. Under normal circumstances, it could just be turned on again... except it's been running non-stop for almost two thousand years, so almost all of it has worn away and been replaced by Investiture. Without a constant power source, those parts disappear, and it's left a pile of scrap.There is a world. One of endless night, surrounded by an even deeper darkness. Filled with nightmares come to life, twisted shapes that slink to windows and ease open doors, sliding across floors to look down on helpless faces. Ship Tease: It's implied that Akane and Tojin have a thing for each other, though it's not focused on at all. Even for a compulsive planner like me, sometimes a story emerges like magic. Unexpected, unprompted. You build an outline in days, craft worlds during a compulsive daydream, and develop characters with a burst of imagination like the brief flash of a firework. Brandon Sanderson's reputation is finally as big as his novels' The New York Times on Words of Radiance

Suddenly flung together, Yumi and Painter must strive to right the wrongs in both their lives, reconciling their past and present while maintaining the precarious balance of each of their worlds. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it’s too late, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them, but the very worlds they’ve always struggled to protect.No Endor Holocaust: The Shroud being dispelled exposed the living inhabitants of Komashi to the sun for the first time in centuries, and removed the hion lines they'd relied on to power their lives. While this probably should have caused a major catastrophe, Hoid's second epilogue reveals that the people were able to survive the change in conditions. They also managed to persuade some spirits to restore the hion lines, granting them enough power to keep civilization going. In the epilogue, as they defy fate to let Yumi return to life, and after they have already learned they actually live on the same world, this becomes: "Our world, our rules." selectedStore.City }}, {{ selectedStore.State }} {{ selectedStore.Country }} {{ selectedStore.Zip }} Brilliant, but Lazy: Painter is actually one of the best artists in his city, but he's too lazy to paint anything more complicated than bamboo. His failure to be accepted into the Dreamwatch despite his talent convinced him that his art was bad and so he stopped trying. Design: Make me pretty so they'll be extra disturbed if my face ever unravels. And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosine. And also because boobs look fun.