Nepotism: The Dreamwatch, allegedly the most elite nightmare painters, are actually a bunch of rich and powerful people's relatives who treat the job as a social club and steal the credit from the subordinates who do the actual work. 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. 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. New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson adds to his Cosmere universe shared by Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive with a new standalone novel especially for fans of Asian pop culture. Illustrated by Aliya Chen. Must draw this! Yumi is my fav among the three Cosmere secret projects XD Can't wait for its final release!

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. That was Yumi and the Nightmare Painter for me. The unanticipated story of two people who find one another. For every episode, we randomly draw a set of clues from all submissions, so yours might take some time to appear Yumi, on the other hand, is a tragic delight. She’s kept in an emotional prison, unable to think or feel for herself. During her adventures with Painter, she discovers freedom. She makes friends. She lives for the first time. And she begins to understand all the wonderful, terrible things that living can bring. Hoid explains that Painter's world uses a different calendar to the people he is telling the story to. He doesn't add such an explanation when they get to Yumi's world, because they have the same time measurements (though the names are different), because they're the same world.Chekhov's Gun: After the time spent at the carnival, Yumi draws a very simple (and not really good) picture showing her and Painter's hands. Near the end, Painter passes that picture to her through nightmare-Liyun, which allows Yumi to regain memories stolen by the machine. Amnesia Loop: The father-machine doesn't have enough power to trap the souls of the fourteen yoki-hijo the way it trapped everyone else, but it does have just enough power to erase a day's worth of their memories. So it uses its captured souls to create fake villages and has each yoki-hijo live out the same day over and over again, erasing their memories each night, for seventeen hundred years. 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. Yumi is a yoki-hijo, a sacred caller of spirits who binds them to a task. Her life is regimented to exacting detail, every step ritualized to protect her position. Her gift sets her apart from normal people, and her skill sets her apart from the gifted. All she wants is to live a normal life, for just one day, but her duty binds her too tightly even when she has the opportunity. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/YumiAndTheNightmarePainter Follow ing Literature /

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. 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.Yumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience, granting her the power to summon the spirits that bestow vital aid upon her society - but she longs for even a single day as a normal person. Painter patrols the dark streets dreaming of being a hero - a goal that has led to nothing but heartache and isolation, leaving him always on the outside looking in. In their own ways, both of them face the world alone.

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. 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. Gondor Calls for Aid: Akane and her friends manage to bring thirty-seven painters, about ten percent of all the painters in the city, to help Painter when he tells them an army of nightmares is coming. In a variant, no one is quite there because they want to help; most of them are there because they think it might be funny, or because they were bribed into coming with debts called in or favors promised. They're all rather annoyed when they realize Nikaro is involved, and they almost all leave pretty early on. Then the nightmares come.It's mentioned that Yumi averages twelve spirits called each session (compared to ten for most others), but she manages thirty-seven the first day we see her. Yes that was explicitly exceptional even for her, but it's still a huge jump. Because she's been living this same day over and over for almost two thousand years, her skill has grown to incalculable levels, so from her perspective her output suddenly jumped by a huge amount overnight. Yumi And The Nightmare Painter has a lot going for it. Sanderson’s flair for vibrant settings and magic is on full display. I particularly appreciated the feeling of being eased into a more advanced Cosmere, where technology becomes prevalent but the magic doesn’t fade away. Sanderson does a great job using Yumi as a sort of bridge between the medieval-ish fantasies of the other Cosmere worlds like Roshar and the futuristic ages the wider universe is creeping toward. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is a novel of The Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson, the third of his "secret projects" written during the Covid-19 pandemic.

You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Throughout most of the story, Yumi refers to Nikaro by his profession (though she does indirectly refer to him by his name when with Akane and the others to keep up her cover as his sister). After Painter reveals the truth of how he lied to his friends, he begins to walk away to leave her alone. It's only when Yumi directly calls out to him by his actual name that he turns to face her. From this point onwards, Yumi frequently switches between calling him "Painter" and "Nikaro." Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Human Disguise: Hoid used lightweaving to give Design some sort of three-dimensional disguise; apparently the specifics are complicated, but the short version is that it acts like she's made of flesh. The characters of Yumi And The Nightmare Painter are something of a mixed bag. My friend recently described Painter as having “edgelord vibes,” and that’s not entirely incorrect. Painter’s growth throughout the novel redeems him in some ways, but it still leaves lots of room for improvement. He begins the book as a lone warrior, painting nightmares solo even as his colleagues band together for their patrols. He describes his former friends to Yumi with no small dose of disdain, clearly hurt by something that happened in the past. His energy for the first half of the book is grating, and it led to a longer-than-usual reading time for me. Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: Nikaro's bachelor suite is cluttered with laundry, dirty dishes, and old take-out containers. He tries to convince himself he's Married to the Job as a distraction from the utter mess he's made of his social life.

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." TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Brandon Sanderson's reputation is finally as big as his novels' The New York Times on Words of Radiance 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. 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.