no blood no problem

yield. learn to let go.

but if he's not a knight he's not entitled to a trial by combat, so he resigns himself to a normal trial and probably losing a hand and a foot, and maybe worse bc he lied too

and baelor is conflicted bc like bro just straight lied to his face, but also he thinks of Egg lying to be Dunk's squire, and how Dunk would've been completely alone in the world after Ser Arlan died, and despite lying about it Dunk's been a truer knight than most, and is just good in a way that people often aren't.

so then baelor is like you know what, fuck it we ball. and he's like okay kneel. and Dunk is so scared and miserable and guilty that he's like holy shit I know I did wrong but this guy is just going to take my head off right here and now. so he's freaking out, thinking he's about to die but is trying to be a man about it, like well this is what I deserve I guess, bc Baelor is fair and just and if he says I should die for this then that's that.

and then Baelor knights him

and Dunk's is like aren't I going to be punished for lying

and baelor is like you've still got to do a trial by combat tomorrow, I think you're being punished enough

hasty swing.

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i think a fun little detail in a fic would be if baelors war horse was a mare instead of a stallion. haters would sort of titter about it, like it implies something about his masculinity/sexuality, like oh baelor only prefers mares on the tourney field or whatever. (I have more on this but I'll talk about that later)

anyways, baelors not a horse girl like dunk, just because I feel like really loving your animals would be seen as sort of common (again I can say more about this if anyone is interested), but he definitely has a favorite and it's this mare.

the mare is like low key rank tho, like a fearsome war horse and all, but is just evil to deal with. like the squires and grooms live in fear of this animal, and nobody can ride it except baelor. but baelor won't hear anything bad about his girl, he's like this thing has carried me in a hundred battles she can bite the grooms if she wants, stay mad about it.

and where I think this could be fun in a fic is like imagine the whole gang getting ready for a battle (or a tourney), and dunks like saddling up thunder and he hears people being like "oh someone has to go get the wench for baelor" and they are talking like mad shit on his horse like she's willful and a pig, and nothing with a cunt should have that many opinions.

but Dunk doesn't know about the horse, so he thinks they're talking about a woman. and he's like first of all since when does baelor have a lover (he's definitely not jealous), and second I can't believe they talk about the princes girl like that, like that surely is not chill. but then baelor rocks up and he's like alright where's the bitch and Dunk is like I've never heard the prince talk about a woman that way and is like a little disappointed in baelor bc that's not chivalrous.

anyway, dunk would figure it out eventually and he would absolutely fall in love with the horse (and also baelor), and I just imagine later down the line there's another battle and baelor gets tossed, and is maybe like gravely injured and dunk is like trying to get to him to rescue him, but he's already fallen of thunder and he took off so he's gotta just hop on some rando horse, and what do you know it's baelors mare, and usually nobody else can ride her but she's like I'll allow it just this once for a good cause.

and I think it all ends with the horse basically playing matchmaker between dunk and baelor because they're the only two people in the world the horse tolerates

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so one idea that I really love, but would be a massive undertaking to write, is after the trial of seven baelor is basically comatose, and everyone thinks he's going to die, so we proceed on like cannon but then when the second blackfyre rebellion is going on at whitewalls, instead of bloodraven showing up, it's baelor, who has been presumed dead by literally the whole realm. And because he's basically just returned from the "dead" everyone is like this guy is basically a god, but dunks like way ahead of you there, ive worshipped this guy like a god since Ashford meadow.

Ideally this would be served with a large helping of knightly pining, bc dunk thinks he's not good enough for a prince let alone someone who's straight up been saved by the seven, but also baelor being like blessed by the seven? this is a damn curse, half my family died when I was out, and now everyone has insane expectations of me bc I'm supposed to be some great king favored by the gods

also, I would make the second blackfyre rebellion have a battle instead of just a sad surrender, bc I really enjoy the idea of dunk getting severely injured fighting, then seeing baelor and being like oh I died, oh fuck no Im not dead he's alive

also! Baelor would live in constant doubt whether bloodraven worked some sort of blood magic to revive him, and maybe even wonders if he sacrificed valarr to keep baelor alive, and bloodraven is like I didn't, it truly was a miracle, but baelor will always have doubts and feel extra guilty bc maybe his soon is dead instead of him