“In Amber’s guise, the Fool became a very fetching woman.”
Every POV character who met Amber in Liveship described her as unattractive, but Fitz thinks she’s beautiful. Fitz is totally attracted to the Fool and it is obvious to everyone but him
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"In the space of a sundown, you show me the wide world from a horse’s back, and the soul of the world within my own walls" - Fool's Errand
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While I think it’s actually pretty easy to defend the platonic interpretation of Fitz and the Fool (at least on FItz’s part), there’s something that I can’t get past.
For all the 'creature of sun and sky' and 'live happily ever after' and hand holding and 'you can not do this to me' and “Fitchivalry Farseer’ (A line that also feels more significant because its not shared with the Fool) I still think that the number one argument for Fitz having romantic or sexual feelings is 'My dream was dead in my arms.'
Ignoring the inherent romanticism of that line (It’s very Disney. Literally. The remix version is in Tangled), the biggest and most damning factor here is that Fitz has never said this dream aloud. He’s never shared it with us. Or the Fool for that matter. It’s one of the instances where Fitz purposely omits or lies about something. (Like his memories of his mother, which he both claims not to have and also puts into the dragon). Because of this omission, the line stands out. It feels Honest and raw. At that point in the book he could have gone home. He was expected to go home, in fact. He had a life ready made to step into (as seen by the fact that he does step into it in the end) and yet...my dream was dead in my arms.
It is an acknowledgement that Beloved is what Fitz wants for himself. More than anything or anyone else. Beloved is what he dreams of. And the fact that Fitz never explains this want is very suspicious.
The line remains to me the greatest evidence of Fitz's feelings. Because I’m not sure there’s a non-romantic explanation for referring to your deceased friend as ‘your dream'... And if there was a completely platonic explanation, I think Fitz would have used it. (Because he’s Fitz) And it brings so much meaning to that last conversation because Fitz is so close to living this dream that he won't voice. I think in that last part of the book Fitz was so close to admitting how he felt to himself. (Personal theory that he did admit it during this time period and then quickly dismissed it again as soon as the Fool left.) It just...it gets to me.
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I’m sorry, did Fitzchivalry “no homo” Farseer just tell the Fool that his new Elderling features are “not unattractive”?!?!!! In Tawny Man he still would have thought it but would have set himself on fire before admitting it out loud
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I'm on my first read through of Realm of the Elderlings and as a little personal project for myself, I'm taking a scene or small moment from each book in the series and turning it into a comic spread.
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I think I'll forever be chasing the high I felt while reading Fool's Errand for the first time. I could have chosen any number of scenes to panel but it just had to be The Reunion. Pg 99-105 changed my brain chemistry.
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He was a slender youth, but just as the lightness of his horse prompted one to think of swiftness, so did his slimness call to mind agility rather than fragility. His skin was a sun-kissed gold, as was his hair, and his features were fine. The tawny man approached silently save for the rhythmic striking of his horse's hooves. When he drew near, he reined in his beast with a touch, and sat looking on me with amber eyes. He smiled.
Something turned over in my heart.
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