#elliania blackwater

[alittlplacecalledthemoon]

Narcheska Elliania

[brbarou]

Would you draw Elliania? 🙏

little girl...going through horrors..

[heyitsrink]

Even the small fandoms deserve a Barbie meme ✨

[starling-illu]

Narcheska and Sacrifice

[kevin-sedai]

The Thanksgiving table: Farseer edition

Dutiful: I wanted to propose a toast. *lifts glass* Here is to our family. May we remember all the challenges that came our way, and that we prevailed each time, united, as Farseers.

Everyone: *Lifts glasses with the toast*

Beloved: Well said, Dutiful, I would also like to propose a toast.

Chade: *grumbles under his breath*

Shine: Quiet

Beloved: To the dragons. May we live side by side with them for the years to come. And to the Elderlings, who will tend to them. May we welcome their return with open arms.

Everyone: *lifts their glasses*

Chade: I'm going to propose a toast now, too.

Lant: Oh, for the love of Eda

Hap: *sits up straight and leans forward while idly moving his fingers on an invisible lute, eyes hungry*

Fitz: Chade...

Chade: *ignoring everyone* May we raise our glasses to the old Farseer kings and queens. My brother Shrewd among them. May we remember them and the times they reigned. Peacefully. Without dragons.

Everyone: Here we go.

Chade: What? What? One of you tell me how life is *so* much better with dragons back.

Thick: I think they're neat.

Chade: Not you. Someone tell me how life is better. Go on.

Fitz: *holds staring contest with Chade*

Beloved: Chade. They bring bal-

Chade: If you say balance, I'm not kidding when I say I'll launch myself across the table at you.

Dutiful: But, Grand-Uncle, they really are beautiful creatures.

Elliania: Truly. And Icefyre and Tintaglia saved my people.

Nettle: Oh, Tintaglia isn't all as she's cracked up to be. *smirks*

Chade: Thank you, Nettle. That reminds me. Remember when we went to the Outislands? We almost died? *points at Beloved* YOU died! For the sake of dragons!

Fitz: Chade... *starts to stand up*

Chade: No! I've had it, Fitz. Everyone is praising Fool for everything he's done. What about me!?

Bee: Yeah. What about you?

Beloved: Hush, Bee.

Kettricken: *rubbing her temples* Can I just have the stuffing?

Shine: *to Bee* Don't talk to my father like that!

Bee: Or what? You'll get your brother to stop me?

Everyone: *voices are raising*

Riddle: Can I have the brandy?

Fitz: I have it.

Riddle: Can I have it?

Fitz: No.

Beloved: Let's all just calm down. What happened on the Outislands and to me is in the past.

Thick: Not really.

Dutiful: Thick, stop.

Thick: What? Fitz and Beloved always make Skill music together.

Chade: *psh* That's what they call it now?

Everyone: *screaming at each other*

Fitz: 'Ight, I'mma head out.

[spectrum-color]

Important question for the RotE fandom. I will not provide reasoning for any of these characters but trust me I did actually think about this.

Just note that they don’t have to fulfill the role to Fitz; many of them do for another character.

(Also, this is supposed to be lighthearted so don’t get offended on Robin Hobbs behalf; I’m not actually accusing her of using shallow character tropes)

[chloristoflora]

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)

[mouseinamushroomhouse]

[blackandwhitemotley]

[spectrum-color]

My first fandom was Pokémon (I was on the forums and everything,) and I have many current fandoms, but my biggest one is prob Realm of the Elderlings. So I will make signature Pokémon for Rote characters! I ran into the 10 image limit with this post, but if enough people like it, I will do a second one with characters that weren’t covered here.

Fitz-Lycanroc

I am mostly trying not to go too literal but there was no way I wasn’t gonna give Fitz a wolf Pokémon. It’s too intrinsic to his characterization; he doesn’t just bond a wolf, his personality reflects it. I decided on the Dawn form because it gave me the most Fitz vibes, though Midnight form would have been funny (werewolf Fitz!)

Beloved-Mew

I know it’s cheap to give my fave a mythical, but I am genuinely not trying to be. The mystery and playful personality of Mew just fits his character so well! Plus he’s the White Prophet; having a special Pokémon fits.

Kettricken-Alolan Ninetales

Take one look at this thing and tell me that is not Kettricken. The icy elegance that still has a hint of warmth is all her. I promise the fact it’s a fox is a coincidence!

Bee-Ralts

I love this one because Ralts is basically what if an autistic child was a Pokémon, but it’s also a three stage line that evolves to be very powerful. It even has a gender split evolution in case, like her White father, she grows up to be GNC.

Chade-Malamar

Look at this thing doing Plots and Schemes. It would gladly take up residence in the walls with Chade and within a month they would probably have successfully overthrown the government.

Burrich-Mudsdale

This is a steady, reliable, hard working Pokémon with an earthy vibe, just like Burrich. It’s even a horse to live in the stables!

Dutiful-Shinx

Something about Shinx’s cute earnestness really brings TM era Duti to mind. Plus it will eventually evolve into Luxray, a very appropriate Pokémon for a king.

Elliania-Sneasel

Ice/Dark is the perfect typing for an Outisland Narcheska, and Sneasel also has Ellis scrappy toughness.

Patience-Florges

I went back and forth over a lot of flower Pokémon, but I think this one strikes the balance of being feminine without being too cutesy and demonstrating unexpected strength like our favorite former Queen in Waiting.

Nettle-Tinkatuff

I am in love with both this evolutionary line and Nettle, and this one in particular captures her spunky attitude and fortitude

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

[anxiouswizardart]

Elliania and Peottre Blackwater

[starling-illu]

Dutiful and Elliania wip

[spectrum-color]

Needs so much therapy and would willingly attend: Beloved, Verity, Nettle

Needs so much therapy and would need to be dragged kicking and screaming: FITZ!!!! Burrich, Chade, Starling, Regal, Bee, Shrewd, Shine

Does not need much therapy but would go: Dutiful, Molly, Patience, Hap

Does not need much therapy and would never ever go: Elliania, Kettricken

Is the therapist: Nighteyes

blorbo alignment chart where one axis is "doesn't need much therapy" vs "needs SO MUCH therapy". and the other axis is "would willingly attend therapy" vs "needs to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to therapy"

[relpda]

(*) iconic, not favorite (my favorite isn't on here either because he is not iconic enough),

I didn't include Fitz & Fool & Nighteyes for obvious reasons (they would win) but honorable mention for all of them

Most iconic fitz moments according to me: murder spree while laughing in front of everyone at buckkeep & "that game was taught to me by a woman!!!" when dutiful was being sexist about the stones game, because that moment is hilarious to me

Beloved has many iconic moments, two of my favorites are the plumbing rant in AQ, and "fool you were never with molly" ".....but I was with you" in FQ

Nighteyes is just iconic in general

[petewentzssilkpress]

if fitz and the fool started dating and came out to kettricken she would be very happy and supportive of their relationship, and would punish anybody who dared mistreat them because of their love for each other. If they came out to elliania she would immediately legalize gay marriage in the six duchies and begin making arrangements for their future wedding.

However, Neither of them would say anything to Dutiful, and would just leave him to figure it out himself. If he ever tried to be weird about it they would both be able to shut his mouth about it permanently with a single look.

[chloristoflora]

It was Kettricken tugging at me, lifting my arm to put it across her shoulders. And then she stood, not effortlessly, for the years weighed more heavily on her than they did on me. I tottered as she escorted me to a chair near the hearth. I sat, feeling confused and older than I'd ever been. I did not understand what was happening until her cowl dropped and I saw that her head was shorn.

The others gathered round us. Dutiful spoke softly. "Oh, Mother, I told you we must be restrained."

"Restrained?" This from Elliania. She snatched crown and scarf from her head, revealing only a short brush of what had always been her glossy black hair. "Restrained?" She lifted her crown as if she would dash it to the ground. Prosper caught her arm and she let him take it. She sank down to the floor, her royal robes puddling around her. She put her hands over her face and spoke through her fingers. "We have lost a child. A little girl! A Farseer daughter! Gone, just as my little sister was gone for years. Must we have this agony again? The not-knowing? The secrecy of the pain? Gone! And we must be restrained?"

She threw her head back, baring the long column of her throat, and keened as if she were a wolf mourning her cub. Prosper sank to his knees beside her and put his arm around his mother's shoulders.

Fool's Quest, by Robin Hobb (Fitz and the Fool Trilogy #2)