Yes, and I love that moment at the end of the third book -- have I said this? I'm v. v. tired -- where someone calls him on how he's totally been faking his body shame. I loved loved loved that, because he was so ruthless about the way he used it.

Someone else said on goodreads that, for him in particular, the loss of a hand was really bound up in the physicality of it, because he was a thief, and she was totally right.