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spectrum-color · 1 year

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So Fitz and the Fool obviously had this insanely homoerotic relationship and were intensely devoted to each other. We as readers were all there for “I love you and all that is part of you” and “the man I had been would not survive this loss” and “Beloved, I have missed your company.” What do people in their lives think though? We get some hints, but I have my own ideas too.

Burrich-Way too hung up on Fitz having the Wit to be worried about his sexual orientation. Also, with the way he talks about Chivalry, he probably also has a very distorted view of platonic friendships between bros.

Nighteyes-He can literally read Fitz’s thoughts; he can hear the whole internal monologue about the Fools golden beauty at all times. He would also def rather Fitz take the Scentless One to mate than his existing choices (the Howling Bitch? Really?)

Chade-Def thinks that they’re on the DL and does not care. For all Chades faults he doesn’t gaf what Fitz does as long as it doesn’t impact the Farseers.

Kettricken-You cannot convince me that she isn’t like “they’re finally together; good for them” when they return to court as Lord Golden and Tom Badgerlock.

Patience-How much she knows is a huge mystery actually. I do headcanon Patience as bi and Lacey as her partner (imo it’s quite obvious and hilarious that Fitz doesn’t notice) so she would be open minded, but Fitz hides a lot from her.

Shrewd-We don’t get enough of him from Fitz’s POV to know but personally I would think it’s hilarious if he clocked that his jester was in love with his bastard grandson and was like well not sure what to do with that information.

Verity-The man is barely clinging to life for Fitzs entire adolescence; I think he only had the vaguest idea of what was going around him for like 5 years.

Molly-Fitz keeping the memory stone statue and the unsent letters he writes the Fool locked in his secret study implies that he never tells her about the Fool or their time as Prophet and Catalyst, which makes sense because he always used her to hide from that kind of thing.

Starling-She totally knew it and was outraged that Fitz would claim to have no idea. Def saw them snuggling at least once in the Mountains. Had no idea who Lord Golden really was but still thought he and Fitz were hooking up. Would hear about Lady Amber and Prince FitzChivalry and feel very validated.

Hap-He goes into full research mode after he sees Lord Chance (who looked strangely like Lord Golden?) go into the wolf with Fitz in preparation for the ballad he was going to write about it. Since this research involved talking to Starling, he now believes that Lord Chance was a woman in disguise who had a decades long torrid affair with his foster dad.

Dutiful-He discreetly approached Fitz about it and Fitz gave the weirdest most suspicious denial ever; he def thinks that they’re sleeping together. Plus he’s friends with infamous closet case Civil Bresinga.

Nettle-Also asks Fitz about it and is told “I loved that man as I have loved no one else,” then she meets him and sees that he strongly resembles her little sister who mysteriously appeared long after her mothers fertile years, and finally watched them go into a memory stone statue together. She def has her theories.

Bee-She knows what’s up. Fitz literally talks about raising her with the Fool while they all cuddle. Plus she read some of his unsent letters and his memoirs, and if they are in fact basically the first 6 books, they are gay af.

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paunchsalazar · 3 years

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people will say we're in love...

#really what did they think would happen..#the tawny man trilogy #fool's errand #god....#things were so good we didnt even know it #lord golden #fitzchivalry farseer #fitzloved #uh #i always forget so many names #beloved #thats just a word on its own :/#the fool #realm of the elderlings #rote #my art #books

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mistninja · 2 years

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Happy Valentines Day to Fitz-no-homo-Farseer and his Beloved (platonic):

"I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition"

Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb.

"Like sundered pieces of crockery that snick back together so precisely that the crack becomes invisible, the Fool joined us and completed us."

Fool's Errand.

‘I love you,’ he said quietly. ‘I set no boundaries on my love. None at all. Do you understand me?’

Golden Fool.

"Oh, Beloved! I said. I bent and kissed his brow in farewell. And then, grasping the rightness of that foreign tradition, I named him as myself. For when I burned him, I knew I would be ending myself, as well. The man I had been would not survive this loss “Good-bye, FitzChivalry Farseer.”

"For a moment our gazes held as we mingled in unity. One person. We had always been one person. It was good to be whole again. [...] And so, we passed, one into the other, but for a space we had been one. The boundaries between us had melted in the mingling. "No limits" I recalled him saying, and suddenly understood. No boundaries between us"

Fool's Fate.

The most couple of all time, invented love etc etc. I could write a 1000 pages book just with the scenes these two have that make me crazy. And this is only from half the series.

#fitz and the fool #no one cares BUT i do #idgaf about valentines day i just love them #mine

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gealach-in-a-misty-world · 3 years

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“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.” - Jacqueline Carey

I’m a Tolkienian, first and foremost, so I blog about J.R.R. Tolkien a lot - but I also blog about A Song of Ice and Fire, Brandon Sanderson’s cosmere books, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series, Marvel comics (mainly X-Men. Mostly Akihiro) and books I’m reading at the time.

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Favorite Characters Daken (Akihiro) Laura Kinney Galadriel River Song Theon Greyjoy

OTPs otp: I was delighted when I heard you were going to join us here (Daken Akihiro/Johnny Storm) otp: always and completely forgiven (River Song/the Doctor) otp: Theon grabbed Jeyne about the waist and jumped (Theon Greyjoy/Jeyne Poole) otp: and I set no limits on my love for you (Beloved/FitzChivalry Farseer) otp: and there was great love between them (Galadriel/Celeborn) otp: to the world (Crowley/Aziraphale) otp: we call everything on the ice love (Victor Nikiforov/Katsuki Yuuri)

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cptablovegood · 5 years

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Who do we all think the Fool slept with?

“Wait. I see. You imagine that I have never known intimacy of that sort. That I have been ‘saving myself’ for you. Don’t flatter yourself Fitzchivalry. I doubt you would have been worth the wait.”

To me that leaves no room in my mind that the Fool has been intimate with someone. And we know it’s someone he cared about emotionally too cos right before that he says -“Then? Then what? Then I could be like you, sate myself with whoever was available merely because it was offered to me? That, I would find ‘distasteful’. I would never use Garetha or any person that way. Unlike some we know.” And presumably this happened some time between him being the Fool and becoming Lord Golden.

So potential options I can think of:

1) Garetha. Or I would’ve maybe thought such if not for all the Fool says in this particular chapter so ok not her. Also kinda unrelated but it melted my heart that Lord Golden left her a cottage with a garden.

2) Jek. Amber knew Jek prior to the events of the liveship books and it is implied they have spent a fair bit of time together. Although we know Jek doesn’t hide the fact she likes sex and men she does find Althea attractive when she’s disguised as a boy then teases her about it after. Also Jeks reaction when she thought Amber was dead was very emotional, even cutting a lock of hair in mourning, a six Duchies custom that women don’t usually follow. She also berates Brashen for downplaying their relationship when he seems to think his grief is the only important thing: “ I’m grieving in my own way. Amber wasn’t some chance-met acquaintance. I’ve cut a lock of hair to mourn her, not that I expect you to understand that.” I had always thought there was maybe something more between Amber and Jek, and although Beloved was still very much in love with Fitz I also think they were very lonely after the redship war. AND i think it’s markable that really the Fool doesn’t have that many true friends, even less those who he trusts fully and will let know secrets ect. Jek is one of those people that he’s entrusted to a lot of those secrets to - maybe not the significant prophet-esque ones but the more personal ones which I think are even harder for the Fool to share. Jek’s reaction when she sees Lord Golden after so long and realises that it’s Amber is also so lovely: “She advanced on him, completely confident of a warm welcome, to hug him heartily and then step back.” And she fully had a go at Fitz for being an idiot about Ambers feelings. Yes this could just be gals supporting each other but idk I always thought there was more between them.

3) Jofron. Remember her? Way back from Jhammpe. Fitz thought to mark their friendship and I really took note of it. I guess again cos the Fool didn’t really have many friends, especially back in the farseer books. And again they were a pair where I wondered that had gone on between them in the months the Fool was alone and had thought Fitz dead. In Fool’s Fate when Lord Golden leaving stuff for all his significant people he includes Jofron. 15 years later, with probably minimal contact (I mean the occasional letter sure but the mountains aren’t exactly an easy place for a visit) and he left her things he knew she would enjoy. Also the quote “She’ll value them and recall me fondly, regardless of how abruptly I left her.” Idk he could have just said ‘the way I left’ but the addition of her? Making it specifically about her seems kinda intimate. I know the fool is just super soft with people he cares about so again maybe I’m reading in to that more than I should.

4) some unknown individual they encountered in the 12ish years between the stone dragons and going to bingtown?

I think it’s interesting that all/the main two are female. I personally think that like their gender the Fools sexuality is fluid. Yes their one true love Fitz is male but Lord Golden flirts with males and females alike. Also I think it’s nice that of three potential people the fool loved/loves (jek, joffron, Fitz) they represent different pairings eg m/f, f/f, m/m.

Anyone else got any ideas as to who the Fools has been with?

UPDATE I HAVENT READ PAST THE TWANY MAN TRILOGY SO PLEASE NO FUCKING SPOILERS

#realm of the elderlings #rote #robin hobb #the farseer trilogy #the liveship traders #the liveship traders trilogy #the tawny man trilogy #the tawny man #beloved #the fool #lord golden #amber #the white prophet #fitzchivalry farseer #fitz x the fool #jek #jofron #the mountain kingdom #jhammpe

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kholinoscopy · 7 years

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Even though it was another slow-moving affair which ended with another major cliffhanger, I enjoyed almost everything about Robin Hobb's Fool's Quest. In my review, I warned readers who hadn't read The Liveship Traders trilogy and The Rain Wilds Chronicles to do so before they continued reading The Fitz and the Fool trilogy. The storylines from all these series, with the addition of The Tawny Man trilogy, officially merged at the end of Fool's Quest. As a result, to prevent the feeling of being left out of the loop and for the ending to make any sort of sense, one needed to have read Hobb's other series. The events featured in the second installment were brought to a close in a way that appeared to indicate that the final volume would be a tapestry woven of various threads from all those book sequences. Which is why I urged readers who had yet to do so to read The Liveship Traders and The Rain Wilds Chronicles before continuing on with this series. And now that I'm done reading Assassin's Fate, I can vouch for the fact that this third volume is not only the final book in The Fitz and the Fool trilogy. It's much more than that. It's the culmination of the Farseer, the Liveship Traders, the Tawny Man, the Rain Wilds Chronicles, and the Fitz and the Fool series, tying up all the storylines together for one grand finale that will leave no one indifferent. And although the novel marks new beginnings and new directions for these characters and their world, there is no denying that Assassin's Fate also marks the end of several protagonists and plotlines. And though it hurts, Assassin's Fate is everything one would want the "end" to be. Here's the blurb: More than twenty years ago, the first epic fantasy novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend the Fool struck like a bolt of brilliant lightning. Now New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb brings to a momentous close the third trilogy featuring these beloved characters in a novel of unsurpassed artistry that is sure to endure as one of the great masterworks of the genre. Fitz’s young daughter, Bee, has been kidnapped by the Servants, a secret society whose members not only dream of possible futures but use their prophecies to add to their wealth and influence. Bee plays a crucial part in these dreams—but just what part remains uncertain. As Bee is dragged by her sadistic captors across half the world, Fitz and the Fool, believing her dead, embark on a mission of revenge that will take them to the distant island where the Servants reside—a place the Fool once called home and later called prison. It was a hell the Fool escaped, maimed and blinded, swearing never to return. For all his injuries, however, the Fool is not as helpless as he seems. He is a dreamer too, able to shape the future. And though Fitz is no longer the peerless assassin of his youth, he remains a man to be reckoned with—deadly with blades and poison, and adept in Farseer magic. And their goal is simple: to make sure not a single Servant survives their scourge. The bulk of this novel is comprised of two extremely long journeys. That of Bee, as a captive taken to Clerres, and that of Fitz, the Fool, and their companions, on their way to destroy the Servants. And though their destination is the same, both parties will follow vastly different paths to get there. One of my favorite aspects of Assassin's Fate was that these two journeys take us all over Hobb's universe. The Rain Wilds, Chalced, Bingtown and Trader Bay, the Pirate Islands, the Spice Islands, and, of course, the mysterious island of Clerres, just off the mainland of Mercenia. We discover new locales and revisit places we haven't seen in years. Revelations hint at countless new things to come and raise yet more questions. Still, for all that these journeys can be fascinating, the pace often remains an issue throughout the better part of this book. Having said that, slowly but surely you can see the storylines coming together in unexpected ways and how they join other unconnected plotlines to elevate this tale to another level. And though the rhythm has been an issue in all three installments, it's obvious that Hobb needed time to lay down the groundwork for all these storylines to come together in a way that made sense and that would blow readers' minds. This latest trilogy required more patience and focus from readers to truly appreciate how special it truly is, more so than in any other Robin Hobb works. And yet, the amazing payoff at the end of Assassin's Fate was worth every single moment. And then some! Mourning what he believes is his daughter's death, Flitz continues to be afflicted by self-doubt. Once more, I really enjoyed how Hobb portrayed him as a heartbroken man who gradually climbs out of the pit of his self-pity. Planning his revenge, he is aware that he will likely die avenging his child. The same goes for the Fool. Blinded and vulnerable as he was in Fool's Fate, as he heals the Fool will prove to be as crafty and driven as he used to be in the past. Many of their scenes are very emotional and add yet more layers to their long story. The closer they get to Clerres, the more fractured their relationship becomes. It was at times painful to see how at odds these two had become, and the guilt and terrible sadness they both feel will drive them apart even more. Though they share the same objective, at times it felt as though these two had never been as far apart as they were in Assassin's Fate. Often the hapless victim in the first two volumes, Bee shows a lot of character growth in this final installment. Encouraged by Wolf-Father, she tries to fight back and make her captors fear her. As a matter of course, Fitz and Bee are the only two POV protagonists. And as much as their perspectives are interesting, it's the supporting cast which makes Assassin's Fate such an unforgettable read. In the past, familiar faces made a few cameo appearances in other novels, but they never really played an important role in the resolution of the tale. Believe you me, it's not the case in this book. I wasn't lying when I said that Assassin's Fate was the culmination of the Farseer, the Liveship Traders, the Tawny Man, the Rain Wilds Chronicles, and the Fitz and the Fool, and understandably characters from all of these series show up and play an active role. Long-time Hobb fans like me will be pleasantly surprised to get reacquainted with Reyn, Malta, Thymara, Rapskal, Tintaglia, Icefyre, Prilkop, Leftrin, Alise, Paragon, Brashen, Althea, Vivacia, Boy-O, Kennitsson, the pirate queen Etta, Wintrow, Sorcor, and many, many more. I never expected that many characters to make appearances and it was awesome to see them again. Moreover, to discover just how Hobb wove all these storylines together and how it affected the greater scheme of things was truly remarkable. Robin Hobb has a knack for creating genuine and three-dimensional protagonists that you can't help but root for or hate with a passion, and God knows she has created a lot of them over the years. To see all of these men/women/boys/girls return unexpectedly was quite a treat for someone like me who's been there since Day 1. In my humble opinion, no other SFF author writing today possesses Hobb's deft human touch. As I've often said, she can make you laugh and cry at will, often in the same chapter. There are some powerful scenes featuring Fitz and the Fool in Assassin's Fate. And there are also emotionally charged ones between many other characters. Some of these scenes are big and far-reaching, while many are small and intimate, but no less important and/or gut-wrenching. Robin Hobb is a veritable a master at this sort of thing and she pulls on readers' heartstrings whenever the mood strikes. Assassin's Fate can be quite painful at times. Hobb made my eyes water on more occasions in this one than in any other of her works. It's impossible to discuss the endgame and the grand finale without using spoilers, so I will refrain from doing so. Suffice to say that Hobb found a way to bring all the plotlines full circle in a way that is poignant and powerful. Things will never be the same in the Farseer/Elderlings universe. It will be interesting to see where Hobb decides to go next, but it appears that the liveships might be at the heart of her next project. There are a lot of casualties among the main characters, which seems to hint that the author wanted a relatively clean slate for whatever she has in store for future related installments/series. When it finally comes, the end cuts like a knife. Everything comes full circle so beautifully, yet so painfully. So bittersweet. So heartbreaking. And yet so perfect. I read Assassin's Apprentice when it came out in 1995. Little did I know back then that I would embark on such a long and marvelous journey. With Assassin's Fate, Robin Hobb brought this journey to an end for many of the characters that I have come to love over the years. It's not the end, for this one marks the beginning of what will doubtless be numerous quality tales that will fill Hobb fans with wonder. Nevertheless, it is the final chapter in what should definitely be considered one of the best, if not the best, fantasy sagas ever written. Look no further. Assassin's Fate is the 2017 fantasy novel of the year. The final verdict: 10/10

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#hype af #gonna mcfreakin lose it #look at how many character come back #just so they can all die painfully

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