| Re: The fool - man or woman?
I'm pretty sure the Fool's male, for example in the last part Fitz carried him around dead and it described him as wearing nothing but a piece of dirty sacking and when Fitz went through the stone to where the old market place was, he peeled the sacking away from the Fool. Don't you think he would have noticed if the Fool possessed breasts?
Another indication of the Fool's masculinity was when Fitz and he switched bodies so that Fitz could heal his friend. To do so he had to mend every little bit of the Fool, don't you think he would have noticed-'Hey this guy doesn't have a penis...'? :P
And Amber is described as manly, for example when Malta sees her for the first time she describes her as "flat-chested and narrow hipped" and Brashen notes her features as too sharp to be womanly.
That's just what I can gather from the story anyway. |