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we are wild, we are like young volcanoes
A face took shape within the hearth. Stannis? she thought, for just a moment … but no, these were not his features. A wooden face, corpse white. Was this the enemy? A thousand red eyes floated in the rising flames. He sees me. Beside him, a boy with a wolf’s face threw back his head and howled.
“I love jon and ygritte. please tell me that they have a happy ending,” my mother says. I burst out laughing, heaving with cackles, rolling on to the floor and across the house and down the street with tears in my eyes before choking and promptly suffocating. the next morning the newspaper article reads ‘girl dies laughing over the pain of a book series. is george rr martin to blame?’
“I told you. I have no sister. We put aside out kin when we say our words. I cannot help Arya…”
tv!robb is ??? wow i don’t even understand what’s going on. in the books, i loved robb, i was like ‘aww baby let me hug you’ bc i could understand that he was /trying/ and didn’t really know what he was doing?? but still he’s a likeable character in the books imo??
but tv!robb is completely different. he’s arrogant — way too arrogant to my taste. i understand he’s older than he is in the book and i would have accepted a little more confidence than book!robb, but i can’t agree with what we have right now??
him //laughing// at the funeral, right next to his mother? fuck no. i was furious. i don’t know why the writers are doing it this way, is it to spare the poor roob fans and make sure they all hate him when the red wedding comes?? or is it just because they can’t write a decent boy king??
i also would like more cat!! i love cat so much <3 i was ~~glad~~ she had a conversation alone with the blackfish. i like cat without robb. when she started talking about her kids i was afraid she’d mention jon snow but thank god they didn’t go there.
so yeah cannot wait for jaime’s regards. good riddance tbh gtfo tv!robb no one likes u
edit: but speaking of OOC can we talk about stannis for a minute like WOW STOP THIS ASAP
Just need to say something (though I’m hardly a Stannis expert):
When people say Stannis puts the needs of the realm before himself, they’re talking about the time he was the only person who responded to the Night’s Watch’s pleas for help to fight the White Walkers. (Maybe not everyone has read that far in the books, but uh if you haven’t it might be wise to put your judgments of characters aside until you have. Or at least put them out of the tags.)
Robb Stark ignored those pleas. Balon Greyjoy ignored them. Joffrey ignored them. Renly ignored them (or probably would have, if it got to him before he died. I don’t think he was alive when they sent those letters so idk). Dany might have ignored them too? We don’t really know, she wasn’t in Westeros at the time.
The point here is that Stannis is the only one to recognize that the realm is in serious danger from the Others, and that the War of the Five Kings won’t mean shit if everyone is a blue-eyed zombie.
Did he make selfish choices before that? Sure. Did he make mistakes? Sure.
But none of those things negate the fact that he’s the only one who is able to put their stupid war aside and deal with a real problem.
Not to mention the fact that he’s really the only one of the people fighting over the throne who wants it not because he wants it, but because he believes in the law and the law says it’s his, so he has to fight for it whether he wants to or not.
Balon, Joffrey, Renly, probably even Dany to some degree although I think she thinks she has to fight over the throne because it’s her birthright - they all want power for power. Even Robb Stark is fighting a war over vengeance, not for the good of the realm.
So it’s actually not “bullshit” to say he’s the only one who cares about Westeros, because when the biggest actual threat to Westeros in thousands of years is brought to his attention, he’s the only one who actually bothers to do a goddamn thing about it.
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