Jun-24-2011, 01:39 AM (UTC)
(Jun-23-2011, 04:43 PM (UTC))Apricot Wrote: When Dutiful visits Fitz in the tower room for the first time after Fitz's healing. Dutiful heats the meal up for him and they are talking about Patience. Choked me up but also made me happy that Dutiful finally knew who "Tom Badgerlock" really was.
Yes! We can't help but share the 'I've been caught' feeling building inside Fitz, and I just wanted to hug Dutiful for how he managed the whole 'reveal' (not to mention the time when he immediately agreed to help Skill-heal Burrich). It's interesting that he is still not fully aware of who Fitz is, though I understand the reasons why this must be so. I doubt Dutiful will ever learn of "the secret" but I wonder how he would react if he ever DID find out. Being so linked via the Skill, it would be difficult for Fitz to keep that from Dutiful, and it's such a shame that they can't share a complete, unencumbered relationship with each other such as Fitz eventually shares with Nettle. Of course, possibly the truth would create an even greater division between them...
Thinking of Nettle makes me think of the time when she first ran into Fitz outside the steams...a chuckle-worthy moment that one!
(Jun-23-2011, 04:43 PM (UTC))Apricot Wrote: It was the same when Web revealed to Fitz that he was aware of his true identity. I gasp out loud and as that was at the beginning of FF I was doubly excited as I thought, bring it on this is going to be awesome. I wasn't disappointed I love that book.
Me too! Web's acknowledgement of Fitz after releasing Icefyre was special as well...a bit of a nod that could have been a bow...very nice, not to mention goosebumpy.
I felt much the same way when Longwick announced that many men would hold their tongues about Tom Badgerlock's identity merely at 'Lord FitzChivalry's' request, rather than Prince Dutiful's.
(Jun-23-2011, 04:43 PM (UTC))Apricot Wrote: The first time Patience and Fitz meet in the garden made me giggle.
Oh, poor Fitz. Hmm...actually, the last time they met each other in a garden was funny also!
(Jun-23-2011, 04:43 PM (UTC))Apricot Wrote: Another bit that struck me as funny on a re-read was at the end of the AQ when Fitz is imprinting the skill command on Regal to return to Buck and be loyal to Kettricken and the unborn Dutiful but stops short of having Regal erect a statue in his honour.
To extend the quote you posted on the Favourite Character thread, this was one of those moments when I went "Oh Fitz, why NOT??"
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