#fool’s fate

[lesovyart]

Civil Bresinga is the single most funniest character in all of ROTE and he’s not even trying to be

[octowillow]

When you give your most beloved person in the world all of his pain back and his humanity with it and you know it’s gonna be painful so you try to make it as gentle as possible

[everywaythatmatters]

So breathe, breathe, just… breathe

A part two to this drawing, since it turns out I am still experiencing many emotions about RotE and The Amazing Devil

[raindropwindow]

my best friend Beloved !!

[halcyonhowl]

I’d like to share the current Fool’s Fate fix-it scenario I keep rotating in my mind. Fitzloved | Realm of the Elderlings Mini fic, FF Fix-it

The Fool takes Fitz’s hand, about to kiss it to take away the Skill bond. Fitz thinks he is leaning in to kiss for real, so he also leans forward, compelled by overwhelming emotions, and their lips meet.

Fitz lets it linger, his eyes closed tightly, but when the Fool doesn’t respond he backs off. All is silent save their shaking breaths. The Fool’s eyes are wide and haunted. Fitz wants to slide into the nearest bottomless chasm.

“Oh. I…I have misjudged.”

The Fool searches his face. “Fitz…?” It’s a question as much as it is a plea.

 “Don’t—” Fitz begins, swallows, afraid he is about to resort to begging, and for the moment he does not care. “Don’t go where I can’t follow. You said that once, and I have come to know all too well that I feel the same.” He continues in this way with ill-formed, stumbling confessions that only make everything more unclear. Old aches flare as if in response and he rubs his shoulder, his Skill-touched wrist no longer accessible.  “I should not have done that. I… I felt so many things at once. I thought you… I mean, I wanted it to be so. You have done this to me before, and I—"

“Stop!” The Fool is on the verge of tears.

Fitz wisely closes his mouth. He has never seen the Fool so undone. But when he continues to struggle to find his words, Fitz cannot let this pass by. “I would like to kiss you again. That is what I feel right now.”

The Fool closes his eyes, letting the unshed tears fall. “Why?” His voice is so brittle it compels Fitz to move closer. But then his eyes open again, and they are incandescent. “Tell me! One last friendly peck before I go? Or is it because you want to change my mind, and you know it is a thing I want?”

“It is a thing I want,” Fitz says, and tentatively reaches for the Fool’s face again to brush a tear away with his thumb. “I am not good at this. I’ve said hurtful things to you and made you think that I hold some deep contempt for your nature. I wish I could—” Fitz quiets, because the Fool has leaned his face into his hand and closed his eyes. “Come here.” Fitz moves even closer, and pulls the Fool into his arms.

The Fool seeks out Fitz’s hand, his head resting back upon Fitz’s shoulder. “Oh, Fitz, we have too much unfinished between us, it seems.”

“Does that mean I can kiss you?”

The Fool’s laugh is weak, but the sound is so welcome Fitz’s heart might burst from it.  “Oh, my eager one. I cannot let you win me over that easily.”

“I thought I already had. I was in fact counting on that.”

The Fool lifts his head, and his attempt at a mock lurid smile gave way to something more genuine. “How true that is.”

Fitz presses his lips to the Fool’s temple. “We will talk more, if that is your wish.”

“It is my wish to say here like this and pretend there is nothing else in the world that matters.”

Fitz settles into the embrace and smooths his fingers down the Fools hair. Nothing else needed to be said in this moment.

[creatureofsunandsky]

-The Iliad of Homer, BOOK XVIII

-Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb

[daughter-heir]

hey do you ever just

do you ever

just

[roostercrowned]

best part of the Tawny Man trilogy is when Chade tells Fitz to stop showing off for the Fool

[rainwilds]

Deeply amused that after Civil brings up his suspicion that Fitz and the Fool are lovers and they both deny it, Fitz then promptly spends the night in the Fool’s tent.

[notsopersonalcharlie]

nothing will ever be as heartbreaking as “my dream was dead in my arms”

[novacane0808]

Depressing Fool sketch 🫥

[theplentynet]

Selected photos from the John Howe art exhibition at the Tampere Hall in Finland (July 6th to August 18th 2024)

* Detail of Icefyre and the Stone Dragon (Fool’s Fate)

* Detail of Buckkeep and the Witted Stallion (The Golden Fool)

* FitzChivalry Farseer (Fantasy Art Workshop)

* Verity’s Tower (Assassin’s Apprentice UK 20th anniversary endpapers)

* The Perilous Wood (UK hc Shaman’s Crossing)

* Buckkeep coast (Subterranean Press Assassin’s Apprentice)

[everywaythatmatters]

Currently experiencing many emotions about RotE and The Amazing Devil

[halcyonhowl]

Little things from the end of Fool’s Fate:

Fitz opens the package and scroll that Beloved left for him in private. He doesn’t even touch them when Chade brings them out.

The scroll was the poem (Last Dance of Chances) and a farewell. Is this ‘farewell’ a full letter or just the word? He doesn’t elaborate.

He assumes that Beloved did not have a change of heart. I think this is when he officially stuffs his grief down deep.

When he goes to put them away, he refers to them as ‘treasures.’ He cherishes them!

He puts the wooden carving of Nighteyes Beloved made, and the memory stone on his workroom hearth.

The memory stone is turned so that Nighteyes is faced out. He is hiding the Fool even from himself.

In the epilogue, Fitz feels their story is unfinished. He will never know a bond like he had with Beloved again and he sees this as a good thing. How lucky he was have someone like that in his life, even for a limited time.

He is living the life that Beloved foresaw as their last prophecy. It was always so so important to Beloved that their prophecies be taken seriously, even the ones that hurt the most. But knowing that Fitz would have a happy life kept Beloved going, even through the worst of the torture.

I’m crying right now goodbye

[ramblesandstuff]

I absolutely loved the conservative grandpa vs grandson’s liberal boyfriend dynamic that Chade and the Fool had in Tawny Man. One of the funniest subplots in the whole series

The Fool would grab Fitz’s arm and Chade would be staring at them with vitriol intense as seven suns on his face, only to then convince Fitz to do his bidding and grin at the Fool grinding his teeth in a corner… peak comedic relief

[daughter-heir]

men will literally say my dream was dead in my arms about their bestie and then resurrect them in the gayest way possible and then hold them as close as a lover through the night and not feel like less of a man because of it. then they’ll kiss next the next chapter