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viridializard · 4 months
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Family Gathering
Here's the piece I made for this year's RotE Winterfest Gift Exchange, a cosy scene bringing together Fitz, Beloved, Bee, Nettle, Riddle, Hope and Hap <3
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sirguyofdykesborn · 5 months
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Nettle&riddle
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me and my wife don't argue she tells me to go on a mission to suicide watch her father and i do
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apamates · 19 days
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i'm not losing it but you could say i'm needing gps
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I found my voice. "I'm going to—"
Riddle crossed his arms on his chest. His nostrils flared and he exclaimed defiantly, "I don't care what you do. Understand that. Do whatever you wish, but it won't change anything."
"—be a grandfather." I choked on the word. Incredulity melted his face and he stared. It gave me the moment I needed to organize my thoughts. Words tumbled from my lips. "I have money saved. You can have it all. You must leave soon, before travel is too difficult for her. And I think you must flee the Six Duchies entirely. She is the Skillmistress; she is too well known for you to..."
"We are not leaving!" Anger tightened his slack face. "We refuse. We were lawfully wed—"
Impossible. "The king forbade it."
"The king can forbid whatever he likes, but if a man and a woman make their vows before the Witness Stones, with at least two witnesses—"
"Only if one is a minstrel!" I interrupted him. "And the witness must know both parties."
"I wager the Queen of the Six Duchies knows us both," he said quietly.
"Kettricken? I thought Kettricken was a party to forbidding the marriage."
"Kettricken is not the Queen of the Six Duchies. Elliania is. And she comes from a place where a woman can marry whomever she wishes."
It all fit together as tightly as the blocks that make up an arch. Almost. "But your other witness had to be a minstrel…" My words trickled away. I knew who their minstrel had been.
"Hap Gladheart." Riddle confirmed it quietly. A smile almost twisted his face. "Perhaps you've heard of him?"
Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool Trilogy #2)
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katrinsupernova · 1 year
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Finding Shine 
Illustration series for the Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb
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jalopeura · 1 year
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royal assassin lb thread:
ive only known cub for 10 chapters but if anything happens to him i will kill everyone in this room and then myself
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heaartshaped · 11 months
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I just finished fool’s assassin and BEE😭😭😭😭😭 FITZ😭😭😭😭😭😭 terrible cringefail man you try so hard to be a good dad
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yuurei20 · 3 months
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【Voice Lines Not Included on EN】
A recent Tumblr ask revealed that it seems two lines might be missing from each character's History Lessons on EN?
They have been compiled here!
Featuring: the out-of-ink pen that Leona might have given Vil for his birthday, Ruggie meowing and more!
Proofreading and corrections by Twitter's wonderful irafuwas, thank you so much!
Thank you also to @bi-panicatthedisco for the ask, @cursedgamerchild for all their amazing work on the Twst wiki and YouTube's riika_tw for the EN lesson uploads that were so much help as a reference!
Screenshots for reference:
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Riddle: Reviewing is essential. All my hard work has paid off.
Trey: This is quite a mean-spirited question... Pretty good, right?
Cater: Ah, which is it? Shall we aim for a perfect score?
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Ace: Oh no! I completely forgot! This is the most basic of basic ♪
Deuce: Okay, which twin is this...? This is the part I reviewed yesterday!
Leona: Tch...my pen's outta ink. Even a warthog would know the answer to this.
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Ruggie: Meow, mraow. Shishishi, it's more or less like this!
Jack: This is difficult... I did well.
Azul: An easy game. This is it for the questions?
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Jade: I feel Trein-sensei's gaze. Oh, is this all?
Floyd: Ah, it's the thing sensei was talking about. Hey, this is easy ♪
Kalim: I think I just gave myself a headache... I've heard this somewhere before.
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Jamil: This one's a trick question. The average score is...around here, I suppose.
Vil: My handwriting is beautiful as well. Nothing less than a perfect score.
Rook: Everyone has a serious expression. Beauté, if I do say so myself.
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Epel: I'll just fill in the blanks for now. I'm good at this topic...I think.
Idia: Rote learning's just a waste of time, isn't it? This is easy mode.
Ortho: I can keep answering~ 100% accuracy
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Malleus: A story from before I was born. Too easy.
Lilia: Well, I'd forgotten. I should get a gold star for this.
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Silver: Crap...I don't know. Hm, this must be it.
Sebek: Ugh! My pen tip has been crushed! I'll get a perfect score, just you watch!
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Grim: I just had an epiphany! Ha ha ha ha!
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I was thinking, you know how Revachol is meant to be the great solution to the riddle of history and all that.
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When I first read the book, I thought well yeah it sure is, it gets nuked and the world begins its end. Kinda Gordian as far as solutions go, but sure. But upon further consideration, while the entroponetic collapse is likely a consequence of Ambrosius' declaration of war, it predates the dropping of the bomb proper. So that's not QUITE that, probably.
There's always the possibility of further books explaining that there was a specific event that triggered it. As is, however, I do think the cause was "declaration of world war (strategically dropped to generate an entroponetic monster wave)". But that takes the focus of the end of the world out of Revachol, and we know the focus is in Revachol because Inland Empire said so.
HOWEVER. What does happen in Revachol is Le Retour. Which I maintain is bound to be almost one and the same as the ascent of worldwide nihilism. So that'd square that particular circle: the (still very Gordian!) solution to the riddle of history is Ambrosius' coronation. Once you have crowned an accelerationist Innocence, after all, the last 20-30 years are just the rote positioning of a by-the-book chess endgame.
(a strong connection between all these elements is the city's insistence that Harry can influence the nuke. Nobody can influence the nuke in 22 years, especially not a cop patrolling Jamrock. But if the historical causes of that eventual situation are to be found in Revachol in two months or so, then yeah! That's the window of opportunity!)
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sirguyofdykesborn · 8 months
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Your ROTE art is always so top tier and I am such a fan of it! Idk if you’re still doing requests but I’d love to see your take on Riddle
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i will never forgive fitz for being like ugh i still have no idea which one of these people is a chade's spy... surely not my buddy named RIDDLE... completely unrelated but i hope Killblood MurderFanatic (maiden name SlaughterViolence) will never do anything bad they seem like a good enough person
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sabakos · 7 months
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The neat thing about mathematics is that you learn how to work things out for yourself, and in some sense this is a necessary skill to develop if you really want to understand any higher math; if you work through the problem sets in most undergraduate mathematics textbooks on your own, you'll not only know but also "understand" the content, in a way you wouldn't if you only read those books but didn't do any of the problems.
And what I'm calling "understanding" in this context is a more secure and accessible form of knowledge than most other forms of knowledge. You could learn that all of the other math students you had ever met were simply copying the instructor's solutions manual for each textbook, that your professors had all done the same in their time, that even the textbook author themself relied on someone else's solutions, and that none of them really understood the material in the same way that you did, and it wouldn't threaten the security of your own knowledge that you have understood mathematics. Even if you ever had any reason to doubt your memories or your senses, you still could rederive the mathematics yourself to make sure you still understood, while all of your memories of childhood would rely on the testimony of others or sense data on the external world. You could even begin to doubt the existence of the external world before you doubted your own understanding.
But we run into a new epistemic difficulty at this point. Suppose that all of your mathematics classmates really are frauds and charlatans. How could you, as someone who has truly understood mathematics, convince all of them that they hadn't? They don't understand, so they can't understand what they're missing. Some of them might just be willing to try deriving proofs for themselves if you ask them nicely enough, but it's not clear that there's any way you could win them over with rational arguments in order to get them to do so. Instead, you'd need to appeal to their irrationality, and find a way to get them to believe that it was worth their time to try, that they would be risking very little in exchange for something they'll only appreciate the value of once they've finished. Maybe some puzzles or riddles that throw them off balance, that create a need to seek more understanding. You might be lucky enough that some of them believe you.
So if all has gone well, you now have initiates, and you've all decided that together you want to restore the field of mathematics to its former glory, and purge the corruption of rote memorization from the academy. You'll learn quickly that much like you can verify your own understanding, it's also possible for you to identify those who have really understood math - you can present them with a proof for something they've never seen before, that's related to something they have seen, and they can work it out to a state that you or any initiate who truly understands can identify. And happily, they can use these methods of proof on each other. And so you can spread your knowledge and understanding via those who have also understood.
But you haven't gotten out of the woods yet, and your difficulty is not just that you're outnumbered. Once you've made a bit of a name for yourself and attracted a following, there will be other initiates who seek fame and glory, but yet can't or won't understand anything, and are no better off than before you met them despite your best efforts- they can't prove new theorems they haven't seen, they can't confirm the validity of others proofs, and they can't devise questions that others will be able to solve. Often these others will insist that they really are taking the same steps as everyone else, from their perspective, the rest of you all must be lying, or else something about them must be broken. Neither possibility will make them happy, and for the rest of it's existence your movement's survival depends on filtering these people off. If these sorts figure out how to fool the rest of you, or they go out in your name claiming to teach "real" mathematics, all will be lost, and your rare understanding will be diluted by their more common lack of it.
Unfortunately, at some point you will die, and everything you understand for yourself will be lost to the world. Your initiates who have truly understood you will die as well, and those they have taught will, in turn, also die. There are no immortal guardians who will safeguard the true understanding of mathematics, and it cannot be written down, only experienced directly, or it would have been written down before. Those who have understood this must always continue to spread understanding to those who might understand, and each generation of them must combat the threat of those others who have not, or else all may again be lost and forgotten.
But yet, there is one last glimmer of hope; though what you have found may one day be lost again, what has been lost may yet again be found, else you would not have been able to find it. Perhaps this is enough to hold onto.
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What do you have in store for Ida and Rosie’s story? Because they are the only pairing who aren’t at the POW camp.
Aha!! This is gonna be a long answer, hence why I let your ask molder away as I worked on a reply, thanks for your patience.
I can’t wait to weave this whole thing, and it’s honestly the only postwar story I’m at all sure about in this universe so far. Let’s just say it’s a hella slow burn. Even after getting married. Because they do marry. Rather soon. But they are a bit of a buddy cop duo. Romantic love -at least for Ida- comes later.
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I think it’s safe to assume that dear Ida was present when Rosie first introduced himself to the Bucks, told his underwear story and generally made a magnificent entry. Now, one must consider two things with this:
1. Rosie’s regret over what the hell he was thinking telling that story would be compounded by telling it in front of a female officer
2. Ida might have always been a stiff spined stickler before her trauma and the Stalag, but she did have a sense of humor. I like to think she found him funny, plus, with the Bucks beginning to fray a little in their own morale, flagging in offering encouragement to the newbies, I think Ida would be the sort to fill that role, best she can. Surprisingly, Rosenthal, Nash, Pappy, they’re not the sorta men to resent a woman giving them a pep m-up chat.
Now, keep in mind it’s three missions later and she’s been downed so there was not really a connection made there. Although I love to think that some night in the Stalag when everyone is bored and playing ask games with each other, one of the questions is:
“Who was the last person ya danced with?”
And Bucky gets to tell about Paulina and Gale gets chafed about choosing Meatball over Maureen and Brady bemoans having been so stuck on the bandstand playing sax instead of taking his chances and then when it’s Ida’s turn she’s just: “it was one of the new ones, the ‘egg frying on the instrument panel,’ guy.”
This is met with a chorus of “Rosenthal???”
“Told me to call him Rosie.” Ida shrugs. “He had some fun moves.”
Anyways. That’s a far off thing by April of ‘45.
SPOILERS ABOUT ESCAPE:
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when Ida get away with Gale and makes it back first of anyone to England? Best believe she is beyond distracted with worry for her girls. Who’s there to meet her and welcome her and Cleven to Thorpe? Crosby of course -and Rosie. Malnourished, ptsd riddled and burdened with responsibility for her girls, Ida isn’t exactly the sparkly female Colonel that Rosenthal remembers meeting and dancing with.
In fact, that first initial interaction goes a bit sourly. She needs a nap, he awkwardly needs a deposition on her treatment. It’s a little rough, ok?
But the longer she is back at Thorpe, reunited with her few girls still there who were never downed, she learns how well their new Lt. Colonel -Rosenthal- has looked after them, fought to resend the grounding orders after Ida went down, generally been a good bean.
Also, due to being her superior now and having been given the legal burden of collecting information and evidence on the girls treatment by the Germans, Rosenthal and Ida start spending time, a lotta time, together.
There’s Jeep chauffeuring, Coffee Breaks and Mercy Runs where he goads her into buzzing the tower for the first time in her life -“of course I haven’t done it before, Rosenthal. One of you cats do it and it’s cute, I do it and I’m fired. No, I don’t mean discharged, I mean plainly fired.”
And then there’s the depositions, eventually full of her having to dictate shit that she’s never vocalized since it happened to her. Somehow, Rosie makes the whole thing easier than she ever expected. Not to say it’s easy. Although if you asked his female secretary, she’d say the one more visibly affected by it was the male lawyer, not the half catatonic victim spewing a rote litany of horror.
One time, his grip on his pencil gets so tight that it snaps. Ida replaces it. His quiet rage for her is about the best closure she’s felt so far. And that thread of such shared knowledge between them and them alone, even if it was in professional context? -That’s Intimacy. Far more than kisses or rings.
A righteous vengeance duo? Yes please, they’re a force to be reckoned with as the war winds down.
Before long Ida is asking Croz, “Was Rosenthal always that pretty?”
Harry is cackling over it, “Yeah.” He goads her, “But he is more confident now.”
“Confidence.” Ida repeats, trying to convince herself, “Yeah, that would be it.”
The thing of it is, Ida was unsure or marriage before her brutal treatment in captivity. Now? And after her military experience? She’s very sure she could never be a wife. Not even of a smart and secure man like Robert Rosenthal. Men just expect certain things and dynamics from their wives and Ida has never been sure she had that in her. Now she’s positive. And she’s too proud to marry only to then “turn a blind eye” as he finds what she lacks in women elsewhere.
Rosie? His argument is that what they’ve already built these last months, it’s what he wants. Marrying her is to keep that. If that’s all they ever have that’s enough, he couldn’t stand to lose it.
A chaste honeymoon on the way to Nuremberg to go fuck up a bunch of Nazis for the second time in their young lives? You betcha.
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"Shine! Shine, stop! You're safe! Shine, it's me, Fitz—Badgerlock! And Riddle. We're here to find you and take you home. You're safe! Shine. Where's Bee? Was she with you?"
The saddled white horse had jigged aside from us. It was evidently only following the brown because it had no idea what else to do. Riddle pulled his horse in, dismounted hastily, and approached Shine. She kicked at him, shrieked again, and then fell off her horse and into his arms. I dismounted, took her reins, and stood stupidly as he patted her back and told her she was all right, she was safe, she was safe now.
Her wailing slowly faded to deep sobs and then to breathless, shaking weeping. "Bee? Shine, where's Bee? Shine, look at me. Do you know where Bee is?"
To Riddle's gentle questions, she only shook her head wildly and sobbed louder. A terrible certainty was building in me. The white horse came closer. I ignored it until it stood near enough that with a calm step I could take the end of the dangling reins. Two horses. Two saddles. One rider. No Bee. The saddle on the brown horse was definitely Chalcedean-made. The one on the white horse was like nothing I'd ever seen before. High in the front and low in the back. It looked uncomfortable to me.
Bee, where are you? Did you ride on this horse?
"Tom Badgerlock."
I turned in surprise. Her voice was thick from weeping. She'd pushed back her hood. Her hair was matted and hung in wads about her face. She'd lost weight, and the boniness of her face made her look more like Chade. Her lips were rough and her cheeks chapped red. She was still breathing hard but she had stepped clear of Riddle. The white fur coat she wore was enormous, hanging in folds around her. Her hands clutched her forearms and she hugged her body tight as if she might fall into pieces. She faced me and looked directly into my eyes. This was a different woman from the one who had demanded that all life must stop until we had purchased green stockings for her.
"Bee," she said. "They took Bee."
"I know," I said. I tried to keep my voice calm and even. "They took you and they took Bee. But you're safe now." I drew a breath. "Bee. Do you know where Bee is now?"
"They took her," she said again. "They took her into a stone with them."
Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool Trilogy #2)
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gffa · 2 years
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I LOVE THIS???  I love how much affection and respect Obi-Wan has for Yoda, but also I love that this gets to the heart of Lucas’ philosophies on teaching, that you don’t just “drill and kill” your students, you don’t make them do rote memorization, instead, you have them figure things out for themselves, you have them gain experience for themselves.  It gives them the chance to truly learn something. It’s not like nothing is ever explained, even within this book, Obi-Wan often thinks about how he has the Archives to tell him stuff, we hear him thinking of Qui-Gon’s explanations, etc. But this is also why the Jedi fuckin’ love riddles and puzzles, why Yoda is often so cryptic about stuff, because he wants the Jedi to think, to learn how to figure things out on their own, so when they come up against a situation where someone isn’t there to guide them, they will have the skills to figure out whatever the situation needs from them. And it’s paired precisely with “They see the best in people, and help them get there.”  That is what Yoda is for the Jedi who respect him, that’s why they admire him so much, because Yoda respects them in return, sees the best in all of them AND I AM HAVING FEELINGS ABOUT FROG GRANDPA AGAIN.  HE ADORED HIS JEDI GRANDKIDS SO MUUUUUUCH.
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emmalovesfitzloved · 5 months
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Can you tell me about Fitzloved?
"OH MY GOSH, AM I ABOUT TO INTRODUCE YOU TAYLOR SWIFT?!"
that's what i first meme when i saw your lovely ask! hahahah
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Introductions
So its a fandom based on the epic fantasy series that follows for the most part, 2 soulmates, from their childhood all the way to their older years as they grow from friendship, partners to lovers. And I have to admit, the way it's written is almost euphoric. It's utterly lyrical.
So introductions now put aside, 'Fitzloved' is the ship name for "Beloved" (one of his many names) name of the characters and "Fitz". They are the two ongoing protagonists in one of the most respect and wonderful high fantasy series ever created, Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. They are the main couple shall we say that span the 16 book series. I think a lot describe it as the "mona lisa of fantasy series" within the genre. It's aesthetic is very much evermore meets folklore meets Merlin. Its veryyyyy cozy fantasy and perfect for the season but also the Fall/winter.
The big 5 writers of fantasy rn i have been told are: Brandon's, Robin Hobb's, GRRM (Although he's lost a lot of respect in the community because of his insane hiatus!), Steven Erickson's (Malazan series) and Joe Abercrombie. While you will see with the Cosmere, Brandon is very much straight to the point, prioritises fights, magic system building and very cohesive ensamble casts. Unlike her peers, Robin Hobb on the other hand, is a delicacy. A slowly made dessert that has sweet and salty tastes if you will. And another defining feature is that her series does not involve a massive war at the epicentre of the fantasy plot, which ironically is rare in high fantasy now a days.
Of Cats and Closed Doors by @tragediegh
HOWEVER. The WAY in which i was introduced to this series is kind of dumb and silly, i.e. very me lol. i stumbled across a fiction on ao3 under 'in a the cabin era way' tag and stumbled across @tragediegh's soul-binding, amazing wonderful fiction called Of Cats and Closed Doors that is still ongoing and she updates mostly weekly! At first, not joking i thought it was an original work, but only well into crying, loving, reading, laughing, did i realise when i looked better at the tags it was actually based on ROTE lol. I was new to ao3 that's my only defence :P
And what @tragediegh and Hobb are doing probably tell from my handle, is make literally my roman empire. Like I reread chapters everyday before going to sleep. It's fr fr my safe space. and what i love is the maturity in which they both write, as they create stakes in different ways. She creates a very tangible atmosphere, a world you can touch, the foods cooked, how they smell, and what the character's rely on. From banquet halls, to the wood carvings the Fool leaves behind, the well lit fireplaces, mugs of ale and coffee on the table, through jewels adorned, to how the dragons gleaming like jewels in the sky… it's simply amazing. You get me. There is NEVER a moment where you feel like it's a slog or dull moment. Like I did sometimes while reading the Stormlight Archive or Outlander (those books in their defence, are longer individually).
And like I said, the thing I LOVE the most with how they make us and fall in love with Fool (one of the protagonists) through the eyes of naive and a socially sometimes challenged Fitz. Fitz himself, is the most passionate, handsome, humble hero i've ever read. He is a bastard prince who from day 0 was neglected, abused, unwanted, un-named, manipulated, gaslit just all around most traumatised character one could read. Which most people end up overlooking and resenting bc he is riddled with insecurities (despite him being a hotttie hot chiseled smokie pie that everyone wants to cuffff) and developed unhealthy copying mechanisms that can effect the readability of the main series. Which is entirely relatable. I strongly believe the hero of Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson that everybody loves, is heavily inspired by Fitz in ROTE. In fact I think Brandon said it was one of his fav series.
But really, the masterpiece of this world is obviously the Fool. When I look at the other characters, its a bit like watching a glorious puppet show - I can see how the strings are moving and what the puppets are made of…But not so with the Fool, he is an infinite mystery and creating a character like that is something I`ll never be able to get out of my head. he is other worldly. Put Tolkien fae and beautiful faeries to shame with his grace, elegance, mysticism. His story with Fitz (the other main character) with that @tragediegh and Hobb are doing imo is one of the greatest love stories of all time.
Gender Identity
And I think also, Fool (also known as Beloved to a special someone 😉) is a lgbtq+ individual, and their identity and how they chose to present and address themselves daily (and not address it!) plays a massive role in the ROTE/OCACD overall. It extremely realistic, how it's writen, where for the most part some characters are confused, don't know how to navigate the topic. Which isn't helped by how private and mysterious the Fool remains. But for the most part, is heart warming, as the gender fluidity of the Fool is openly accepted by his mate (YES MATE) with open arms as he accepts it, and it's got me CRYINGGGG as i type this fr....! These characters were created pre-2000's, which just goes to show how timeless these gender questions and acceptances really are i think!
Music
CANON FOR ME swiftie songs that are FOR fitzloved to get a feel r:
ur loosing me
my tears ricochet
invisible string
stay don't go
the lakes
mastermind (YASSS beloved go manipulate ur boy fitzieee ily)
dress (as of chapter 48 and beyond hopefully alkdfjalkdjfj)
and Fitz's song for me for ever will be:
i see fire live and in session by ed sherran (i just feel the literal passion that fitz has through this song not to mention the howl XD)
Conclusion
So yeah, I cannot recommend enough this ongoing story and series to you.
TLDR: Fitzloved is a ship i read myself to sleep every night and cry about how amazing they are XD
Feel free to ask any more questions about them or even my favourite artists that do ROTE work bc ngl this post was 2x as long as i included artistic work but it was getting too long so i decided to leave that for a more specific ask :)) As you can tell i can just dedicate entire evenings singing from the top of these crusty english rooftops how amazing and life changing these two silly beans are. I hope this was enough of a good overview of my love for them and why! :)) Hopefully one day you will give it a go, and i swear your life will be changed for ever ! <333
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relpda · 11 months
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Based off of everyone's tags on my previous post and also scouring the wikis for a bit:
Extra comments because I don't know how to shut up:
I didn't include Wintrow bc I think there are better options for the poll and also I like to think he would be more like an uncle figure to Paragon, even if it contradicts canon.
I think Carson would be a better dad compared to Sedric because we already saw him mentoring his nephew and the keepers. But I felt bad including him and not Sedric, since we didn't really get a chance to see what Sedric could be like as a father. So they are here together.
Others I thought to include are Duke Brawndy of Bearns(Faith's and Celerity's father) and Tommie Tenira(Grag's father, he seemed nice from what I remember), I think they have about the same level of relevance as king Eyod.
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