#the rain wilds chronicles

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Magnus Chase/Alex Fierro- The Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan

Alyce/Aurora- Malice by Heather Walter

Wenren E/Yin Hanjiang- Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know by Cyan Wings

Sedric Meldar/Carson Lupskip- The Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

[roostercrowned]

following someone's Rain Wilds liveblog and experiencing all over again my brain's first-glance interpretation of character names. That dragon and her keeper, you know, uh,

and

[jidaryat]

We have to seize our opportunities, or we have to recognize we cannot have them, and let them go by and seek out others.

- Robin Hobb, Dragon Haven (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #2)

[heyitsrink]

The first 5 chapters of my queer bird keepers fic are now posted! Cute and flirty bird nerds - what's not to love?

[prawnlegs]

so how ‘bout them dragons

[everywaythatmatters]

RotE dragons my beloved

[stellar-jay]

so far loving the vastly disparate vibes between fitz and the fool and sedric and carson

[brbarou]

LLOVEEE THESE GUYS!!!!!

[lesovyart]

So how about those Elderling robes huh

[trconlyme]

SPOILERS AND DISCUSSION

The thing that really pisses me off in RotE, Fitz's books is the fact that I completely understand why Fitz made the choices he made. And a lot of those choices were made based on his own experiences. But all other characters rebuke him, seemingly forgetting the reasons or not telling the whole truth. Examples:

- Molly told Nettles that Fitz was her father but forgot to reveal she had fled Buckkeep without telling him she was pregnant. Burrich knew or suspected she was but never told Fitz either. Molly told her the truth badly enough that Nettles thought Fitz was a deadbeat that abandoned her pregnant mother. And literally, NOBODY rebuked Molly for fleeing without ever giving Fitz the chance to be a father.

- Chade rebukes Fitz for not bringing Nettles to court and teaching her the Skill, but forgets all the trauma Fitz had to endure for being a bastard at court. And how horrible his instruction in the skill was for him

- Chade also rebukes Fitz for being addicted to elfbark, but HE was the one that presented it to him in the first place and made him addicted. He just forgot about it, never apologized, and treated Fitz addiction as an easy thing to overcome

- Ketriken keeps talking about duty and sacrifice to the people, but she forgets that the royal family has power. The sacrifice is proportional to the decision power the royals have, both in the SIX Dutchies and the Mountain Kingdom. Fitz has only been used, and abused by that Family. He never had the chance to have real power, and he did not want his daughter to face this treatment.

- Verity literally VIOLATED Fitz body, and never made him anything more than the bastard. Fitz literally sold his body for Nettles' happiness and uncomplicated life.

Fitz was hit in the head, drowned, revived by a dog, suffered seizures and weakness, was poisoned , mentally violated, driven to suicide, permanently damaged by the skillmaster, then was sent to war, made to kill forged people in several ways, then was tortured, killed, made into a mental parasite inside a wolf, brought back to a cadaver, forced to follow a skill command against his deepest desires, shot in the back and almoat died again, then he saw his family being "stolen" from him, in desperation he gave up part of this soul, his body was confiscated and used in ways he never consented to.

AND CHADE STILL HAD THE COURAGE TO DISPARAGE FITZ FOR NOT TRUSTING PEOPLE

Sure, Fitz does wallow in self pity from time to time and did make some stupid decisions in his life: he killed the coterie in rage in plain sight and did feed his memories to the stone without understanding the full effect that would have. But everything could have been avoided if Chade had just poisoned Regal when Fitz suggested it.

So yeah, if I were Fitzchivalry I would have been a lot more bitter and a lot more resentful. And I would have said waaayyy more unkind things and confronted the other characters a lot more.

" Did you enjoy your uncomplicated and happy childhood, Nettles? Good, because I sold myself to make sure you had for as long as I could. And I did not abandon your mother. She just did not see fit to tell me about you, and neither did your perfect papa Burrich. So don't come at me saying you don't NEED me. I know you don't, you never had the chance to need me, I was never given the chance to be needed by you. And I wont force you to be my daughter. I have a son who chose me as his father, and this is enough for me. "

I think Fitz should have sais something like this when Nettles told him she did not need him at the end of Fool's Fate

[spending-life-pretending]

POV you’re Robin Hobb deciding on the title of your new novel

[wobubling]

elderlings sketch (thymara & malta)

[heyitsrink]

Update: I couldn't stop thinking about the inherent queerness of the bird keepers so I wrote a longfic exploring the early days of their relationship. The first two chapters are now up!!

Me using my own fan art to argue with Robin Hobb about the inherent queerness of her characters

[hoppyart]

i still wanna come back to this one day

[perplexingly]

Anyways why is it always a sailor who gets to have an interesting relationship with a dragon

[henryviiicutupwhiletalking]

i’ve seen some people express distaste for rote dragons but listen i do really love them and their designs it feels very reminiscent of medieval art of dragons. however i also do think that the descriptions of them are kind of murky. but i like to think they look like medieval dragons.