Ampy's Farseer, Liveship & Tawny Man Thread (spoilers)

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I believe it took Fitz long months of wooing in order to get Molly back. You have to remember that Fitz gave up a lot of his memories about Molly to Girl on a Dragon back at the end of the Farseer trilogy, so he was able to 'go on' in a fashion for many years. But when Fool gave him those memories back, after all those years, Fitz's feelings for Molly were as fresh as if he had just experienced them. This explains a lot on Fitz's side. Molly would never set aside her history with Burrich. She loved & cherished him. But she saw something in Fitz again. And they DO share a child together. There's something about that bond which can never go away. Do you have children? Can you fathom it?

That is precisely what was wrong about the scenario.....it is unfathomable that Molly would not feel loyalty to the father of the majority of her children and the man she was much closer to for more time as well as guilt. Children aside, even after a breakup of a very close relationship you feel some guilt and loyalty being abandoned when you become intimate with another person, unless you were unfaithful all along. Molly was more concerned about feelings she had been betrayed by Fitz than concerns about Burrich. Burrich was not even on the table when Fitz was wooing her back to him.

If we were faced with someone who had regained feelings and memories from youth we would probably view that person as delusional. Even if Molly could accept the circumstances that rendered Fitz a boy in a man's body Molly was still a woman who had a long history of experiences that included a life of dramatically difficult times with another man whom she loved and had been raising 7(?) children with. Fitz is off the hook as his feelings were held in limbo then dropped into his lap again in full force years later.

Going back to my belief that this was not the originally mapped out ending to this series, I think the changes that included this return to youth in Fitz was part of the patchwork that tied things together in the reworked ending. A possible alternate ending might have left the Fool dead and therefore the whole rooster crown and Girl-On-A-Dragon exchange would have been added as apiece that lead Fitz back to Molly.

I should describe the ending that I think the bulk of the series lead to so the patchwork is clear.