For some background:

BOGOsort is a sorting algorithm where you randomly arrange the elements of a list in hopes that the elements will be perfectly sorted by sheer random chance. This would be equivalent to sorting a deck of cards by shuffling it and hoping it ends up sorted.

O(1) is a way of saying that a certain algorithm is designed such that it will perform very fast.

Now here is the theory:

Throughout the series, we see several instances where one of our ta’veren characters will cause highly improbable events to happen. For example, a bunch of fish dropped from a basket all landing in with their noses to the ground, or several thrown spears landing in a perfect circle.

Therefore, it stands to reason that if someone like Artur Hawkwing tried using BOGOsort, then it would always sort the list correctly on its first try.

I rest my case.

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Multiple love interests in the main character falling for him for no apparent reason.

Uses (space) magic and has a magic light saber.

The son of a (dead) exiled royal mother, raised by his "father" who kept the secret from him until mysterious strangers from far away revealed his true origins.

Vaguely related to one of his love interests.

So WoT is actually Tenchi Muyo! just with 10x more "crossed arms beneath the breasts" and loud sniffing.

We all know Gawyn’s an idiot. The promising young prince of Andor spends damn near the entire series disappointing us with his flabbergasting decisions from fighting to depose Suian Sanche, breaking the white tower and killing his friends and mentors in the process, to swearing a vendetta against the savior of the world for killing your mother, which you insist on believing even after the women you profess to love insists otherwise, to attacking the armies of that woman and your childhood mentor. And after that mentor tears you a new asshole following your pea brained commando raid into his camp, he gets his shit getting his shit together enough to save Egwene’s life, only to endanger it in the Last Fucking Battle via a suicidal assassination attempt against and ancient master swordsman with hundreds of years of experience that even if successful, would have left you dead and Egwene crippled with the fate of the world at stake due to the nature of the terangreal you knowingly used.

There is of course nuance and counter arguments to be made, but it’s hard to deny that the guy’s head is full of rocks. It came as a surprise to me my first time reading because for the first three books he seemed very considerate, and even down to earth despite his royal birth. But reading The Dragon Reborn today, I think I finally realized the precise moment when everything change.

When Matt beat that boy’s ass with his quarter staff. Beat him bad. Him and his brother both. Gawyn and Galad were hot shit in the yard. Future blade masters with full Aes Sedai lining up to watch them train. And then one day Matt just strolls in looking sick as a dog and publicly humiliates them, dealing a double dose of reality and blunt head trauma.

Gawyn’s never quite the same after that. From that point on he becomes aggressive, paranoid and unpredictable. No longer the thoughtful youth of the prior books, his actions become governed by blind loyalty and seething resentments. The next time we see him he is killing his friends and mentors to install Elaida, and egomaniac who cares nothing for him. Galad doesn’t get it as bad, but the next time we see him he becomes conspicuously interested in the extremist doctrine of the white cloaks.

Now I don’t mean to blame Matt for Gawyn’s fall from grace. There was little he could do about the situation after it had escalated, and the wheel weaves as the wheel wills. But the evidence is plain as day. Galad being the gigachad that he is possessed an ego that could take the L and learn from it, becoming a better person in the end. But due to head trauma and a shattered ego, Gawyn was never able to get past that gargantuan L dished out by Matrium Bloody Cauthon, and people died for it.

Sorry if my English is bad. It’s not my second language or anything, I’m just not that smart.

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(Top right is Aram)