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Thank you💜 Ben's wet cat energy is unmatched. What a guy.

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In honor of this comic getting 10 000 views (!!!) in my dART gallery, I present you a slightly remastered version of Prof. Javert’s lesson on stalking.

stannis more than anything else wants to be loved and respected by his brother robert. that's it. the burning core of insecurity before robert's death comes from the fact that his big brother chose ned over his actual brother, despite holding out a siege for him, despite everything. robert passing over stannis and giving storm's end to renly is about stannis feeling unacknowledged for his loyalty to his big brother, despite everything stannis does.

stannis is not a fundamentally hard and cold person. he's someone who'll nurse an injured goshawk back to health because he feels it's right. stannis lives in a world where he's told that in order to be a man you must be cruel; in order to be a falconer you must cast aside your beloved goshawk; in order to win a war you must kill your brother; in to save the world you must kill a bastard boy.

the tragedy of stannis is that everyone misunderstands him as iron, thinking he'll break before he bends. but stannis constantly bends. he bends over the sacrifice of edric storm between the counsel of mel and davos. he bends to davos' advice to go north beyond the wall. the thing about stannis is that he doesnt even much like the idea that he's azor ahai (r'hllor picks strangely, he says). but deep down he is that sad sullen boy that cressen once knew, and he wants to believe that he is the chosen. and the thing about prophecy is that it twists you into someone worse. this is why jon and dany are the heroes in a way stannis can't be: because in pursuing the prophecy that mel tells him about, stannis feels compelled to make decisions 'for the greater good' that will ultimately corrupt him and take him away from the path of justice.

• old ass father figure

• boybestfriend's wife's weird incel friend

• lannister boot licker maester

• the most influential spy in the world who definitely cannot be trusted

• hated repressed younger brother

• hedonistic teenage gay brother as master of laws (??)