one unforeseen consequence of getting into rote is that I can no longer type “my beloved” about characters because I now only have one Beloved who will be my Beloved for all eternity. I can’t type it about someone else in good conscience anymore
imagine you've been living in the woods, relatively secluded from others, for 15 years and then a witch tells you one of your life's great loves is coming back to you then your ex-situationship visits out of nowhere and oH NO THEY'RE EVEN HOTTER, they're shining like sunlight and they're GOLDEN and their hands are so long and nice to look at and and you get tipsy and stare at their profile in the firelight before you fall asleep. fitzchivalry farseer i know what you are.
thought about fitz almost crying about having been left to die in prison and got so angry, it's just like the ending of assprentice. "oh we're so sorry fitz, we couldn't do anything about your uncle openly trying to murder you because he's a prince and you're just a bastard" -> "oh we're soo sorry fitz, we had to let you rot in prison because there's no way the queen could personally demand to see a lowly bodyguard freed" fuck you, chade!! you're a spymaster!! figure some fucking excuse out!! that's your job!! and how dare he overrule kettricken. and then he has the nerve to feel offended fitz doesn't trust him, when did he ever give him a reason to??
i walk into a room and say what are you doing. hobb is standing with her knife poised over chade fallstar. she says i'm not doing anything. i say are you killing fitz's father figure off-screen again so he has to mourn alone. she says noooo. i say give me the knife. she says noooo.
Hello “A pretty little sigh” nation. What are we angry about today? Today I think I’m quite angry at Fitz seeing Amber in Paragon’s arms and thinking she makes a fetching woman. Like yes of course you only realize this when shes in the arms of something that looks exactly like you. Whatever don’t piss me off
when i'm in a trying to kill myself by dissolving my life essence into the skill competition but fitzchivalry farseer and kennit ludluck are already there
chivalry makes me so sad because what do you mean in an old forum thread, robin hobb confirmed that ‘the other one’ chade is referring to is chivalry and that in the past queen desire would fabricate situations to paint chivalry as disloyal to the farseer family. shrewd testing chivalry and fitzchivalry, shrewd breaking his son and then his grandson…and both times due to queen desire’s machinations. it’s so bleak! i think of young chivalry losing his kind mother and infant sister then his father marrying someone who is cruel to him and strives to corrupt his father’s image of him and consistently undermines his place in his family. of course, chivalry fighting to marry patience allowed him to break the cycle that shrewd set; although chivalry had a hateful stepmother who killed him, he was able to give fitz a loving stepmother who saved their life.
(hobb’s comments in the thread under the cut)
hobb's response to the question who is 'the other one':
Chivalry. In events that are not told (and probably never will be) Queen Desire puts quite a torque on him in terms of his loyalty to his family. She creates situations in which no matter what Chivalry does, his actions can be interpreted as 'disloyal.' The discovery that when he was much younger, he fathered a bastard is just the pry bar she needs to get him out of her way. In many ways, the heir is driven out, and not just to make more room for her son. The action isolates Chivalry and makes Chade and Verity both more vulnerable to her plotting. Queen Desire is a nasty piece of work. It's no wonder that Chade keeps Fitz away from her and out of her sight as much as possible.
hobb's response to whether this conversation is between queen desire, shrewd, and chade:
I always wonder if you REALLY want to know these things, or if it isn't more interesting to puzzle and come up with your own explanations. The overheard conversation is between Chade and Shrewd. Chade would never speak that bluntly to Queen Desire. For that matter, he would never want to clearly confirm for her who he is or how/where he exists. She suspects a lot of things, of course. Fitz 'overhears' the conversation because he has worked himself into such a state worrying about what Chade and King Shrewd think of him that his walls are completely down, his focus is on them, and his inherent Skill talent is beginning to work erratically.
hobb's response as to why chade would tell shrewd to 'break him like you broke the other one':
It's all about tone. When Chade, in anger, suggests to Shrewd that he 'break him as you broke the other one" he's being sarcastic, or inviting someone to make the same mistake all over again. Imagine a husband and wife quarreling, and one saying to the other, "Go ahead, lie to me again!" and you have the tone of the comment. (I'm a bit chagrined that the tone didn't carry in the context.) Chade and Chivalry were extremely close. Later in the tale, he divulges to Fitz that he could never convey to Chivalry that his existence was supposed to be extremely secret. Chivalry immediately brings his little brother Verity into it, delighted to meet an uncle he didn't know he had. When Chivalry 'accidentally' dies, Chade takes it very personally, and tries to keep Fitz closer to him than ever. There is a conversation in which Fitz dances all around asking Chade if Chade knew or was a party to his father being taken out. Chade says that no one would come to him for that, because they know he wouldn't do it, just as he wouldn't take Fitz out if asked to do it. Queen Desire is, indeed, behind the whole 'test his loyalty' thing. Chade obeys his king in this request, up to a point, and then he can't stand it any more. Okay, back to work for me.
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