i think that the main thing I find annoying about Perrin's character, is that I like him and wish he'd make more of himself- or wish he Had made more of himself sooner. it seems like an ongoing trend with characters here to be like "i'm no lord", or "i'm no battle leader". it happens often that they'll notice unique powers about themselves but won't focus on it, won't focus on leveling up. perrin did this with the wolf telepath power for a long time, and i don't think they've done anything with the power of them seeing what the other Taveren are doing when they think of them... perrin will think of matt or rand, and an image of him will form and he'll shove it out of his mind cuz he doesn't want to have unique abilities or something.

if i discovered i could channel, or talk to wolves, or dreamwalk or see one of my friends no matter where on earth they were, i'd be like... Cool! I'm gonna try and develop this, because it could come in handy. The characters tend to shove things out of their minds instead of focusing on turning them to good use.

some characters obviously don't do this, such as Egwene, and Rand (after book 2 ish?), and a handful of others, but its more irritating with Perrin because he's an introvert like me, but takes Absolutely FOREVER to EVER come to terms with who he is and what role he'll play. I was always hoping his character would mature so that he could settle into a Kick-Ass role that i could enjoy reading about for longer, but now the series is pretty much done and we only have 1 book to enjoy a matured Perrin character. kinda disappointing because of how much potential ive seen in his character for all these books

their relationship was closer to a normal one, yes. however it was still AS and warder. one bonding the other, not AS and Asha'man. i imagine them coming up with a way to do equal bonding- both bonding the other at the same time? (in regards to the more "normal" pairs of bonded AS/Asha'man

i've always kinda been annoyed in the back of my mind, about how some of the AS with Rand's group bonded Asha'man and they basically became glorified warders. And then there's Logain bonding some AS against their will and making them do stuff...

I want to see an AS and an Asha'man bond of an equal decision and be equal partners, not one commanding the other one to protect them, or one being in service to the other.

it annoyed me too- and still does. I'm guessing that it'll play a part yet, what with Alanna missing after receiving a letter from Verin. it probably contained some crucial piece of info and she'll use it to benefit rand, because of the bond they share.

(i'm also kinda surprised that the 3 girls don't put any pressure on anyone to have that bond removed)

It makes sense that the world at large doesn't know this, as the only ones who are stilled and realize they can lie, that we get a POV from, keep it secret. It should occur to them however, to be on the lookout for other stilled-then-healed AS who could potentially be darkfriends, or send a warning to Rand to keep his eyes open or something...