#fitz x fool

"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."

Fool's assassin - @therealrobinhobb

“It is time's oldest question. Are we solitary creatures by nature, or is it nature that unites us? Are we bound by our differences, or alike as the bird that shares the flight of a bee? For I have read texts, Fitz, that speak at length of squashing any notion that man must be separate from his fellows. Texts that posit man’s isolation is but the result of losing sight of that which is part of one’s own flesh.”

The Fool's Seduction | A03 << read it here

repeatedly calls the fool “my fool”

calls the fool by his true name “beloved” in moments of intimacy and intense emotion

refused to leave the fool’s body behind in aslevjal because he knows how much the fool hated the cold

feels more life-ending, soul-destroying grief over the loss of the fool than he did over the man who raised him

searched for and carried the fool’s filthy, battered and broken dead body through endless corridors of ice and emptiness for an indeterminable amount of time (likely days)

spoke to the fool’s body as if he were still alive and would respond to him as he carried him and wept over him

refused to put the fool’s body down even at risk of taking bodily harm from the pale woman

took the fool’s body to be cremated at the rooster crown square because that’s where he felt one of his most intense connections to him

cleaned his brutalised body of blood and filth because he knew the fool hated to be in any way dirty and he refused to let him be cremated while dirty

called the fool “fitzchivalry farseer” almost immediately after finding out it’s a tradition from the fool’s birthplace to pronounce complete devotion and love

then literally fought AGAINST TIME AND DEATH to try to take the fool’s death as his own and swap his own life for the fool’s

also fitz: “i wrapped my arms around my friend”

Long time no see!

I didn’t die, I had just decided to focus on learning. I found a mentor, gnawed my way through fundamentals and have just started anatomy. My personal art is not getting better, as far as I can tell, but maybe it’s because people have lots of parts and I’m only starting to learn those.

Anyway, here’s my new work for @winterfest-gift-exchange-v2 

and beloved being like “WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PUT THAT AWAY”