Mar-30-2009, 04:52 PM (UTC)
Everything you say about The Fool is true (Jinna's palm-reading, etc etc etc)...but that doesn't make him a woman. It just makes him in love with Fitz. To the Fool, (being NOT human) the gender thing didn't make a difference, but he knew Fitz well enough to understand that it was definitely a problem for Fitz. That was one of the themes of that last two books I think...Fitz had to learn that real love has nothing to do with sex. And he did learn that. It's what the Fool had been trying to teach him all along. I thought the ending was perfect because the Fool loved FItz enough to first, give him his life back by way of girl on a dragon and second, let Fitz have the life HE wanted (with Molly and Buckkeep and Nettle). The Fool knew he couldn't have all of Fitz's love, so he left. It made a lot more sense to me the second time I read it.
But for here, for now, just between us two, and for no other reason save I am me and you are you, I tell you this. I am glad, glad that you are alive. To see you take breath puts the breath back in my lungs. If there must be another my fate is twined around, I am glad it is you. - The Fool in Assassin's Quest
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