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I love the idea that Fitz has to finally feel his feelings. I hate the implication that because he had walled off heartbreak from his youth that he was somehow an incomplete person and his relationships as an adult were less valuable because of it. I hate that we openly acknowledge in the text that Molly can’t share Fitz’s affections with others??? Like she wasn’t ever a safe person for Fitz to confide in as young lovers. She was jealous of his wolf and his responsibilities with his family. Yes, they were both just kids but that’s what makes this so unbearable. Robin Hobb has killed off and banished characters from the narrative in a way that feels cheap and forced just to make high school sweethearts end game. I hope to god in the last 30 pages of this book Molly denies Fitz and sets boundaries of Friendships. Lady Patience and Lacy are back in his life. He has Dutiful and Ketteicken and Thick and I get he needs to be present for Nettle and Burrichs boys, but the text basically claiming that none of those relationships compare to his year long fling from his teenage years is just so disappointing. What is Robin Hobbs problem with ending trilogies with shocking and unneeded traumatic events only to then force a happy ending where the characters act unlike themselves to smooth the path that follows? I’m literally still so mad about this and I’m not even done with the book
I now see that Robin Hobb did a very brilliant and fucked up thing forcing fitz and Molly back together like that made any sort of sense. Cus I resented the move enough to now not be that upset to find out that Molly was essentially just narrative breeding stock????
Like I know fitz loved her but it’s not the same devotive love we see he has with Beloved. It felt so forced and yuck. But now I find out that Robin Hobb wanted Fitz and Fool to have a kid that was spiritually (and genetically?) both theirs and she needed a character with a womb to enable that??? Preferably one who would not have the life span of a Skill Healed Catalyst, or a White Prophet???
I know in any other situation I’d be horrified and pissed at her for this, but my toxic reaction is basically “it’s what I deserve after you forced all the tragedy into Fools Fate to manipulate Fitz and Molly back together and I had to stomach that bs in the first place. And in story Molly was happy so who is it hurting?”
Halfway through Assassins Fate and I am devestated and pissed that I have to spend any time in the last book of this series hearing anything about Kennit. Especially nice things. I don’t care what his trauma was. I’m glad he died. He deserved to die. He does not deserve tj be remembered as “complex” He doesn’t get a fucking pass or deserve a nice word. The awkward neutrality that some characters seem to have to him, that AMBER sometimes seems to have for him is unbearable. His son also seems like a spoiled prick so far. I was excited to see Althea and Brashan again. I loved Fitz seeing his face on Paragon. But this is too much. Kennit is a villain I don’t care how he was hurt before he became one. And I understand Robin is building complex social structures in an already complex narrative but I feel like this is the last book of 16. I’ve put in the work and patience for all of these roads to converge and I don’t want to sacrifice time with any of the characters I love to make room for a pompous, greedy, slimey, rapist piece of shit. Thanks for coming to my rant.
I’m obsessed with the idea of one of my tragic protagonists having a dramatic, gay, devistatingly camp revenge tour, crying and routhlessly cutting down the people who hurt the ones they loved. I want it set to I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. I want slowmo explosions and blood spatters etc.
Yes, Fitz did just find Fool lifeless on the floor of a dungeon. Yes I want to see The Catalyst light up the Servants’ asses. Give me Tarantino levels of blood set to poppy depressive anthems by Taylor Swift as Fitz unleashes the true assasin for the first time in decades.
Bonus points if it cuts to Paragon in a silent and calm harbor dancing along to the music nobody else can hear.
Finished rote last night. First of all, fuck that. Second of all, what are the preferred fandom fix it fics? Personally I’m fine with everything until the parasites.
I’m open to happy family Fitzloved. I’m open to Bee stays with Nettle and Fitzloved disappear. I’m open to them settling anywhere. Building a cottage by Verity’s dragon and taking trips to the areas around the mountain kingdom and learning about Fitz’s bio mom and visiting Bee and Spark and Per and Ketricken for holidays? Ideal. Bingtown? Cool. Show me Fitzloved double dating with Althea and Brashan. Kelsingra? Even better. I want Beloved to befriend Alise as Beloved and not Amber while Leftrin and Fitz get drunk and talk about Tarman (now a dragon) and Nighteyes. I wanna see the Liveship Dragons and how different they are from the traditionally hatched ones. CARSON AND SEDRIC HELPING FITZ WITH HIS COMP HET BULLSHIT while Motley is just vibing with Heeby and calling Fitz stupid.
Help me. Anything but worms and everything being left unsaid.
I would also like to do a small apology tour for Kennitson. His dad can still get fucked but Kennitson ended up being a good kid. I was sadder than expected when he didn’t make it.
I’m also happy somebody finally said out loud that Etta straight up sucks and told Wintrow to stop being a fucking simp.
One of the best bits all series is Hest getting double punched then gobbled up and nobody knowing where he went and just shrugging and moving on with their lives.
I gotta compose my thoughts and share my likes and dislikes in a more orderly fashion.
Fellas is it gay to put your very mind and soul into the same stone vessel as your fate interwoven partner in shaping the world who has been there for you for like 80 years who you've continuously shaped the world with, trying and failing to call him by his true name as you suffer an agonizing death, thinking only of putting your soul into it, and yet wishing that you could ask him to come with you, but thankfully you don't have to because they comes of their own free will?

then you have nothing at all









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