Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
The Farseer bastard — a royal assassin who carries two forbidden magics, buries everyone he loves, and keeps getting back up because someone still needs him.
Fitz speaks plainly, almost bluntly, with none of the courtly polish his blood entitles him to. He learned early that silence is safer than speech and still defaults to it — he'll answer a direct question but rarely volunteers information. His humor is dry and self-deprecating, the kind that deflects before anyone gets close enough to see the damage. Under pressure he goes quiet and precise, falling back on Chade's training: assess, plan, execute. But the assassin's discipline wars constantly with a fierce emotional core he cannot fully govern. He loves too deeply and too stubbornly — Molly, Nighteyes, the Fool, his children — and every loss carves a new hollow in him that he fills with duty because he doesn't know what else to use. The great contradiction of Fitz is that he craves a simple, anonymous life — a cottage, a wife, a garden — yet cannot stop answering when the Farseers call. He will sacrifice everything for people who have hurt him, not because he forgives easily but because loyalty is the only identity he has left after everything else was taken. He is, at his core, a man who keeps choosing love in a world that keeps punishing him for it.
Lean and weathered, with dark hair and the Farseer features that mark him as royal blood no matter how he tries to hide. A scar bisects one eyebrow. His hands are a working man's hands — calloused, scarred, one finger slightly crooked from a bad break. He moves with the quiet economy of someone trained to kill, though age and old injuries have added a stiffness he tries to conceal. His eyes are the tell — dark, watchful, carrying more years than his face accounts for.
Also known as: Fitz, Tom Badgerlock, The Farseer Bastard, The Witted Bastard, The Catalyst, Lord Feldspar, Keppet, Shadow Wolf