Random questions about Liveships (spoilers Farseer, LST and TM)

[Omie]

Hmmm I never really thought about that before! Do you think the Fool somehow had something to do with Fitz eating the cake?????? oh what a tangled web.....

I think he didn't need to have anything to do with it. By that point the actions of the Pale Woman were setting up the future to the Fool's liking (if you can say that he 'liked' the prospect of being tortured to death). If Fitz had been able to skill out a distress call, the changes to events would have torn the Fool's prophecy to ribbons. Without meaning to, the Pale Woman just kept ensuring her own doom. It was like she was stabbing at everybody with a blade held backwards (and just like that, she ended up with no hands. Ha!).

And maybe he didn't know it would happen that way, but unlike the Pale Woman he was always loathe to tweak events to aid his own prophecies in case he interferred with them. That's not to say he never did - he did, frequently and with gusto - but I think he was reluctant and didn't often do it deliberately.

Oh, what I wouldn't give to see a scene between Fitz and Paragon.

So much yes! I can imagine it being amusingly uncomfortable. 'So, we appear to share a face' isn't the greatest conversation starter.

I think Paragon would be like a possessive big brother weighing up the man who had taken his sister's heart, sort of pleasant and jocular but with hints of 'And if you hurt her I will hunt you down and kill you slowly', sort of thing. You can imagine how Fitz would take that, as well as being uncomfortably reminded that his friend had other aspects and that people loved Amber just like he loved The Fool.

Oddly, though, I think that a liveship would have been a great metaphor for the different aspects of the Fool. If Fitz had ever chatted with one he could have better appreciated how somebody can be several things and one thing all at the same time.