My thoughts on various things **Spoilers for all books

[Lady Persephone]

Thoughts on the Fool, Fitz, and Nighteyes being one, as in one whole being.  Many I think view the Fool in the light of a sort of a lover but from my reading I can see how very foolish that idea is.    Yes it is so that Fitz feels something deeper than love for the Fool and that is because he senses completeness from him as he does with Nighteyes.  It was very clear from knowing the way Assassin's Fate ends, but as I read Fools Errand it dawned on me even more so.  These three belong together and have ever belonged together.  In Fool's Errand these are the passages that crystallise it the most.  I've bolded the parts I feel really bring this truth home:

Pg: 94, "He swung his pale eyes to meet mine, the gold of them mirroring the firelight.  Light ran up from his cheekbones and dwindled  as it merged with his hair. I gave my head a small shake. 'In the space of a sundown, you show me the whole wide world from a horse's back, and the soul of the world within my own walls.' 'Oh my friend,' he said quietly. No more than that needed to be said.  We are whole. (says Nighteyes)  The Fool cocked his head to that thought.  He looked like a man trying to recall something important.  I shared a glace with the wolf.  He was right.  Like sundered pieces of crockery that snick back together so precisely that the crack becomes invisible, the Fool joined us and completed us.  Whereas Chade's visit had filled me with questions and needs, the Fool's presence was in itself an answer and a satisfaction."

Then on pg. 98: "It was that our circle made us one in a fundamental way we could not share.  Yet once we did, Nighteyes reminded me. Once we did, and it was good.  For a time, our minds had been joined, almost as if he and Nighteyes and I were a true Skill coterie.  

From Assassin's Fate, pg. 840: "'Fool.  What were we?'  It wasn't an idle question.  I need to know it.  I needed to finally understand it to put it in my wolf.  His words were so intense, but that wasn't what I wanted to talk about.  I waved them away. 'Yes, yes.  But there was something else there.  Always.  You were dead, and I called you back.  For that moment, when we returned to our proper bodies, as we passed one another, we . . . '  We were one thing.  Whole.  He was waiting for me to continue.  It seemed ridiculous that he could not hear the wolf.  'We were one thing.  A whole thing.  You and I and Nighteyes.  I felt a strange sort of peace.  As if all the parts of me were finally in one place.  All the missing bits that would make me a complete . . . thing.'  I shook my head.  'Words don't reach that far.'"

Then we see the fate these three were always meant to have at the very end on page 849 helped along by Bee, their daughter,

"He pulled the glove from his hand and let it fall.  He walked uncertainly, like a puppet with strings pulled by an apprentice puppeteer.  He reached my father.  So tenderly, he set his hand into my father's.  Then he leaned down until he lay upon the wolf, his face turned to my father's face.  He put his arm across my father's bony back.  He drew him close and then set his silver fingers to the wolf.  For a moment, all was still.  Then I saw Beloved's fingers stir the soft fur of the wolf's back.  The firelit bodies of my father and Beloved softened and merged.  I felt something I could not describe.  Like the whoosh of air when a door opens, and then closes again, but it was in the Skill-current, and so strong that I saw Nettle flinch at it, too.  Briefer than an instant, I saw light striate out from them.  A nexus, a node on the path of fate.  Then it was finished.  Something finally complete, as it should have been."

Best ending to a story ever!    And it explains Fitz's whiny moodiness throughout all the books better than anything else.  He always needed to be complete with Beloved and Nighteyes.  Together they made one whole person.  <3