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if you want to get better at drawing then you need to get obsessed with a freaky little character and draw them a billion times

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as per my last post yeah hes losing it. dont blame him. and he doesnt even know shes the white prophet. hes gonna go postal

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you know? all things considered? fool's assassin has been a great christmas read. very festive. would narnia have been more light and typical? sure. sure it wouldve been. but this isnt not festive.

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jesus christ

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also im sorry but the jofron thing is so funny like holy shit. you fall in love with the failed white prophet and hes like mourning his catalyst who he was in love with but like its fine because youre picking up the pieces and even though he feels like he failed, YOU have faith in him, if not as a prophet as a person, because you love him. and you build this little life together, and you move in together, and you share a craft and a business and you're his weird little priestess girlfriend and everythings going great and then he comes home one day bridal carrying this emaciated 6 foot something man and says its his catalyst whos alive after all and then you help him nurse him back from the brink of death and then he breaks up with you and just fucks off forever. gone.

and that fitz NEVER NOTICED. like after all this time hes like yeah i guess they DID live together and i guess she DID just mysteriously move out after i showed up but yknow i just assumed that was because i was sleeping in the bed. you know the bed. the only bed. in the hut they lived in together.

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see also i DO have guesses for how the fool is going to actually be with bee herself. like, im really excited to see their relationship. shes another white prophet, and one he can help guide while not making the same mistakes that were made with him. this is also something that as far as we understand about prophets isnt supposed to happen, because prophets aren't supposed to overlap. the pale woman and the fool are said to be the exception to that. (im not counting the fool and prilkop, because the fool was done with his task by the time they met.)

but the fool was SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD before bee was ever born. and she's currently having visions and about to go about her quest. a former white prophet mentoring a current one is i think supposed to be impossible, so this is very cool. and itll be healing for him to do that, and helpful for her.

and besides the white prophet stuff... shes fitz's daughter. and shes a LOT like him when he was a kid. and shes a white, and shes a LOT like the fool. ("strange," learned to act and play dumb or freak people out to combat being bullied, values her privacy and her things not being touched or moved, precocious, good at insults when she knows she has little other power.) and visually she looks like the fool as a kid, and probably resembles fitz. i am FASCINATED to see how the fool reacts to a kid that is the closest you could possibly get to a kid that's both his and fitz's, especially when fitz is absolutely going to fall right into "you are pack, cub is pack property, this is your cub too." after so many years staying away from fitz because hes convinced himself there is no possible way he couldve had a life with him, here is bee, who is mollys, and fitz's and in a strange way very much his too. and here is fitz, who had every moment of the life the fool foresaw for him and was in fact incredibly happy and now hes done with it and he needs him again. and hes going pack pack cub cub shes yours too, help me with her. (and theyre still i think married, which the fool still doesnt know either!)

thats a LOT. thats a LOT and im fascinated to see how it goes. but like, i can imagine a lot of ways that could go. i can imagine the fool having a lot of strong reactions to helping the next white prophet. i can imagine the fool having a lot of strong reactions to seeing a kid that is a lot like both him and fitz. i can imagine the fool having a lot of strong reactions to fitz trusting him with his daughter, or acting like naturally she is His Daughter Too because thats How Fitz Works. i can imagine him having a lot of strong reactions to the fact she's molly's, too, especially since the fool just never knew her.

and i can see bee being jealous of him taking up her father's attention (which she already expressed concern over, i believe) or being angry if fitz tries to pull a "i dont love him more than your mother BUT" like he did with nettle and feeling like fitz is replacing molly, or liking him because he makes fitz happy, or feeling a belonging with him as a fellow white, or seeing him as a father figure, etc etc and/or and/or. theyre gonna have a really interesting relationship and i can see a lot of ways that could go.

but like. just the fool. FINDING OUT. fitz and molly had a daughter and shes the next white prophet. NO clue how thats gonna go. hes gonna crash out

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so it seems like the fool doesnt know about bee. seeing as the butterfly messenger said shed been sent before him, yet was so delayed she worried that he wasnt here already, and considering when he wouldve sent the message to fitz and jofron—hes probably been on the run for over 15 years? (as of where i am now, where bee is 10.) thats when fitz got the messenger he missed, so maybe more if that one was sent by the fool while he was still at clerres, and took about a year at minimum to arrive (since thats how long jofron said it took to get a message up to the mountains.)

so he left well before bee was born and likely hasnt heard news of her since, since hes too busy running for his life or "escaping" or whatever the butterfly girl means to say by that. and id assume if he heard news of her BEFORE the messages were sent, hed have mentioned her in them or warned fitz to keep her safe or something.

so fuckers just gonna emerge like. emaciated from the woods and find out about bee all of a sudden. and probably figure out immediately this is The White Prophet not just a white like the butterfly girl was. and i just wanna say. i have. NO guesses how hes gonna react to that. dial up noise. pass out. laugh. scream. grip fitz's shoulders and stare at him in blank horror until he assures him that this situation somehow is going to be alright. how does one process. truly how does one react. id lose it.

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beloved come get your fucking daughter

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middle aged lady on my bus just called someone's partner "your whimsical idiot boyfriend" over the phone . with sincere frustration might I add

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bee-loved. hahaha. hhaahhahahah. hahahahahhahahahha

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met bee. i think im gonna need about a month to process this information.

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this is bad.

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the more we learn about silver and its place in elderling society the more insane it is how much fitz and the fool just fuck around and find out with it

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friendships end. relationships end. fictional man whos doing even worse than you is forever

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hey, it’s almost christmas!

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hey guys do you ever think about how kirk is married to his ship (a noble and logical machine that has a heart that burns as hot as a star) and spock is married to starfleet (the idea of facing the vast and unknown universe with kindness, fairness, and courage)?? I do. I think about it. I think about it a lot.

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this is the real war on christmas