Thrones of bones and citadels

They meet Aragorn in Bree, turns out he’s Friends with Gandalf, then makes Friends with the hobbits, then they arrive at Rivendell and what a twist he’s also Friends with the Rivendell elves! especially Arwen and Elrond! There’s an elf from Mirkwood in their fellowship who was already his Friend, but he also quickly becomes Friends with the dwarf from Ered Luin who hates that elf’s guts.  Boromir of Gondor initially WANTS to hate him but within a couple weeks he’s calling Aragorn his brother. The Fellowship arrives at Lorien and oh  Aragorn didn’t bring it up but he’s also Good Friends with Galadriel and Haldir and Celeborn and all them too! They travel to Rohan and Aragorn’s like “oh yeah I didn’t mention it before but I’m Friends with the people of Rohan, I knew King Theoden as a kid, and–”. He even makes Friends with his horse

And they’re totally ridiculous enough that one of them actually USED THE RING IN PUBLIC and the other went OUT FOR A WALK, ALONE, AFTER DARK.

Every time Aragorn has the OPTION of being cheerful and friendly, he actually is. Even in THAT situation, he’s as friendly as he can be, and reassuring as he can be, but he’s kind of in a shitty situation and he’s kinda under stress.

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