Aug-03-2009, 08:26 AM (UTC)
I'm convinced Beloved is Female and there were a lot of clues pointing to this fact.
1. I recall in the Liveship trilogy that Amber teaches Althea how to act like a boy and strap her chest and how to manage her monthly times. Althea attributes Ambers good knowledge of these things due to the fact that Amber had told her she had spent some time masquerading as a male in the past.
2. In the Tawny Man trilogy, Fitz eavesdrops on Beloved speaking with Jek. Jek expresses shock at how Beloved has kept this all from Fitz. Admittedly, Beloved could of been simply keeping up his image as Amber for Jek, but from reading that conversation I was convinced that Beloved was sincere in expressing that he/she never wanted to tell Fitz the truth about his/hers love for him and or Gender
3. If those things didn't convince me, it was when I read this that I was certain of Beloved being a female, when Beloved shows Fitz the tattoos he/she is marked with, yes he/she holds the sheets up to his/her chest the entire time, and then Fitz is ordered to leave whilst he/she puts the shirt back on and Fitz remarcks that it takes Beloved a very long time to get his shirt back on which leads me to believe that Beloved was strapping her chest.
Also adding up all the other clues that have been mentioned in this thread.
But I'll also say that the gender of Beloved is irrelevant to the story, and Hobb makes a point in this purposely.
Though it is fun to speculate
1. I recall in the Liveship trilogy that Amber teaches Althea how to act like a boy and strap her chest and how to manage her monthly times. Althea attributes Ambers good knowledge of these things due to the fact that Amber had told her she had spent some time masquerading as a male in the past.
2. In the Tawny Man trilogy, Fitz eavesdrops on Beloved speaking with Jek. Jek expresses shock at how Beloved has kept this all from Fitz. Admittedly, Beloved could of been simply keeping up his image as Amber for Jek, but from reading that conversation I was convinced that Beloved was sincere in expressing that he/she never wanted to tell Fitz the truth about his/hers love for him and or Gender
3. If those things didn't convince me, it was when I read this that I was certain of Beloved being a female, when Beloved shows Fitz the tattoos he/she is marked with, yes he/she holds the sheets up to his/her chest the entire time, and then Fitz is ordered to leave whilst he/she puts the shirt back on and Fitz remarcks that it takes Beloved a very long time to get his shirt back on which leads me to believe that Beloved was strapping her chest.
Also adding up all the other clues that have been mentioned in this thread.
But I'll also say that the gender of Beloved is irrelevant to the story, and Hobb makes a point in this purposely.
Though it is fun to speculate
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