Small, random questions about RotE that still bother you (spoilers all RotE books)

[Farseer]

I agree, Mervi...Patience hides her intelligence very well (it's not only Fitz and Fool etc who can act their roles brilliantly !), and she is one of my favourite characters because of it.

Ok, here's a burning question: ah, LOTS of spoilers for Tawny Man coming up...am I needing spoiler tags or are we assuming people have read all the books by now?

It's been pretty well documented here on thePlenty that quite a few readers (NOT me!) feel that Fitz is a bit of a whinger, and a negative sort of a personality than most 'heroes' tend to be. While some of this has been attributed to his having been partly Forged at the end of AQ (when he put his memories in Girl-on-a-Dragon), what about the effects that Galen's Skill suggestion/command/imprint had on him when he was training?

Dutiful was finally able to reverse Fitz's Skill command that was accidentally placed on him on Others Island, though Fitz didn't know how he'd undone it in the beginning and, as far as I remember, Dutiful didn't ever fully divulge to Fitz how he had achieved it. Or did he?

Also, as far as I can tell, Fitz has remained under Galen's imprinted Skill command throughout the entire story so far and, yet, has been powerful in the Skill despite the command's presence and the negativity it has no doubt wrought in him.

Am I wrong? Did Fitz ever shed the command?

Could the command, as well as his sensitivity to the Skill and also his temporary Forging, be a further reason why Fitz is often suseptible to emotions such as despair and suicidal thoughts at times? Verity, and even Fool, had experienced the 'downer' of elfbark but I don't think they ever truly reached the low points that Fitz often did? On the Skill Road, Fitz did think Fool's harsh demeanor had been a result of the elfbark but I got the idea that much of his mood could be attributed to Regal and co? *straining to recall*

Fitz also had a number of suicidal thoughts, some of which we've touched on before - one that was put down to the actual Skill command from Galen (when Fitz thought about throwing himself off the edge of the Queen's Garden...how strong he must be in the Skill to have been able to turn aside from that?!)), one was put down to the bad dreams and negative effect of the Rain River/Cursed Shores during his trip down to Bingtown and yet another was put down to a massive elfbark downer he experienced after he'd lost his Skill on Aslevjal.

While all of these reasonings are no doubt accurate, possibly the presence of the Skill command could well have left an on-going and permanent negative imprint on him - one that makes him question his self-worth and abilities as an undercurrent to his life (a bit like the ever-present music of Thick's?)? If a similar command left him with no option but to let Burrich die (as Burrich was also still under the influence of Chivalry's own Skill command), what consequences has or will Fitz also have to suffer?

Anyway, back to the main point of the question...Fitz may have recovered his memories but did he ever shed Galen's Skill command?