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=== Appearance ===
Rlain has the marbling characteristic of [[singer|singers]]; his skin and beard (when he has one) are a unique pattern of red and black,{{book ref|sa3|14}} regardless of which form he takes. After Bridge Four is freed by [[Dalinar]], Rlain gets the glyphs for "freedom" and "Bridge Four" tattooed on his forehead with the rest of the crew.{{book ref|sa2|2}} This carries over to his other forms, blending into his skullplate in warform.
From his earliest times taking warform, he displays unusual adeptness at resisting its inclinations to violence and taking risks, preferring a more cautious and pacifistic approach.{{book ref|sa4|81}} He avoids engaging in physical violence in his resistance of Odium’s forces, and it concerns him that he hears the Rhythms more loudly in this form.{{book ref|sa4|81}}
=== Personality ===
Like the rest of his people, he considers touching the bodies of his fallen kinsmen to be a major taboo, a holdover from the ancient days when humans hacked apart singer corpses, searching for gemhearts.{{book ref|sa3|i|3}}
In Urithiru, he pretends not to notice humans' discomfort in his presence, and he habitually exaggerates his facial expressions and de-emphasizes the Rhythms in his speech to put them at ease.{{book ref|sa4|38}}{{book ref|sa4|74}} Sometime between the Battle of Thaylen Field and the Alethi campaign to Emul, he takes workform in hopes of looking less like the enemy. However, workform's vague visual similarity to slaveform causes humans to treat him like a parshman, which he finds intolerable, so he returns to warform.{{book ref|sa4|15}}
He struggles with reductive stereotypes and discrimination in general, no matter how much he tried to change for others. He is fully aware of how people around him stare at him and fear him, to the extent of many simply making up stories about him to try to justify their prejudice. He is also aware of how people on both sides of the war distrust him.{{book ref|sa3|55}}{{book ref|sa4|79}}{{book ref|sa4|109}} He has experienced various people trying to feel his carapace or look underneath it, and this leaves him very uncomfortable and irritated.{{book ref|sa3|55}}
He enjoys playing cards--particularly Towers and Runaround--and he's quite good, as his spy training and the listeners' cultural de-emphasis on facial expression make him excellent at bluffing.{{book ref|sa4|79}} ▼
He hates how he is seen as a symbol, a representation of his entire people, and wants to instead just be seen as a person.{{book ref|sa4|79}} All of this makes him feel like an outsider, and he feels that as the war goes on, he is only becoming more and more of an outsider.{{book ref|sa3|55}}{{book ref|sa4|79}} He hates it when people use racial slurs to describe the singers and listeners, though he doesn't speak up for them or for himself, simply saying "it's all right," when they apologize to him, as that is what they expect him to say. He sometimes accidently attunes the Rhythm of Irritation when he says it, betraying his true feelings on the matter.{{book ref|sa3|55}}
For a long time, he struggled with feelings of being a traitor to his people, not just to the Listeners, but also to Bridge Four.{{book ref|sa2|79}}{{book ref|sa4|42}}{{book ref|sa4|96}} Over time, he grew to love himself more and get over these feelings.{{book ref|sa4|96}}
He wants to be recognized for his own abilities, enough so to turn down an honorspren that chose to bond with him due to being forced to.{{book ref|sa4|15}}{{book ref|sa4|109}} He was overjoyed upon Tumi picking him of his own free will, based on being in awe of him for his actions and personal attributes.{{book ref|sa4|109}} This can be seen as an extension of his general desire to be seen as who he is.{{book ref|sa4|79}}
▲He enjoys playing cards--particularly Towers and Runaround--and he's quite good, as his spy training and the listeners' cultural de-emphasis on facial expression make him excellent at bluffing.{{book ref|sa4|79}}
He is gay, exclusively being attracted to other men, he described this as not being what he was expecting.{{book ref|sa4|79}}{{wob ref|14751}}{{wob ref|14647}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
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