How depressing is Fitz?

[Tam-I-Am]

I actually thought that Hobb did an incredibly good job of explaining this at the end of the books (so I guess this is a potential spoiler alert).

Given that he had felt so acutely rejected by his mother and suffered the psychological trauma of that, and thus didn't allow himself to get too close to any other (human) people throughout the rest of this life, his depression was, at best a holding away of himself and, at worst, a kind of self-imposed Forging...which he later almost bore out in reality (when giving so much of himself to Verity's dragon).

That kind of seemed to be the whole point of the books to me. That in regaining those parts of himself (forced or not) he was forced into healing, and therefore into developing some real relationships for the first time in his life, in his mid-to-late adulthood.

He was definitely an anti-hero...but it wasn't purposeless by any means.

[Grimbear]

Ah - I don't find him that depressing. He has a hard time of it so can't find it in myselfto blame him for being negative.

The depressing character I would seriously most like to kick off the page is that annoying whiny snot in the Robert Jordan Wheel of Endless Boredom series.

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[cornelius]

Originally Posted by Grimbear

Ah - I don't find him that depressing. He has a hard time of it so can't find it in myselfto blame him for being negative.

True. Something like: congrats, you've saved the realm, as a reward ALL your loved ones will think you're dead. Don't think any of us would be very happy with a "reward" like that.

[Grimbear]

Oh yep some reward. !