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KINGMAKETH : THE STORY OF SER CRISTON COLE. as seen on hbo's 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍  and first introduced in grrm's 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 & 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 — heavily divorced  from the fandom and asoiaf rpc. rewritten as an original creation, leaning on the original sources as a base point. knighted by melanie, she/her, thirty3, latina. originally established in 2024. ✨ while show canon is recognized here to an extent with sprinkles of novel inspiration, my headcanons and overall lore focus is heavily interwoven with crownednight.

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if you condemn the greens and praise the blacks. both sides are incredibly flawed and as a pro-green capable of seeing the rights and wrongs on both sides, i won't allow that skewed narrative in my space.

it is with pride swallowed so deeply and past qualms forced to be forgotten that he stands before his enemy. that he should regretfully bow his head. those he has deemed family has turned on one another during war that proves not to be fruitful. but of endless loss and pain. and so he kneels before her, a promise that this is not trick – that he simply wished to meet and whatever may come of it, so be it. ser criston, the kingmaker, finds himself at the mercy of the one he's spent well over a decade loathing.

❝ i betrayed you? ❞ a scoff follows and he knows it to be a mistake. (it seems bygones are rather difficult to let be – old habits die hard.)  ❝ i would not be here if i didn't see the truth for what it was. this war does no good for either side. the people suffer while sibling is at war with sibling … and it is my duty, it is my oath, to protect the realm. ❞ 

he stands, deciding that this is enough kneeling before her to last him a lifetime. he meets her head on, dark gaze once shrouded with anger and hatred, softening just enough to expose his true plea: to end this war, to allow the family he's served clemency.

he's been walking beside his horse, guiding her by the reins – beyond the keep, past the walls that protect king's landing and fleabottom and even further still. until at last he stops, his eyes focuses upon the black mare free of her armor. ❝ i simply wished for a peaceful ride – but have been met with steps louder than the hooves of my horse. ❞ a joke, seldom offered, yet so freely given as he runs his palm from forehead to muzzle of his companion before ultimately turning to find one of the newer faces recently invited to the keep. (he assumes the queen is as superstitious as she is devout with her faith.) ❝ if it's stealth you seek, you are terrible at it ... do you mean to share with me good fortune? – if the gods frown, i do not wish to hear it. ❞ 

re: harwin vs criston. my takeaways from this scene include the following:

once again, everything is a response to being provoked. criston had been focusing his attention on training the boys that mattered to him. he was upholding his duty of training the king's sons. harwin decided to speak up and question his training methods for neglecting the sons of rhaenyra. again, his focus was the king's sons. the the sons of the princess who scorned him. overall he had been ignoring these boys and instructing aegon and aemond in how to sword fight.

recall that i've compared criston to a dog in the past. he's either the loyal dog or the attack dog -- and when cornered, an attack dog will bite. to be publicly questioned on the training field where the king is overseeing everything, criston feels slighted. his response is to give into harwin's demands but under his own terms. (that said, i do not condone criston's approach and find his actions shameful.) criston's response was to place aegon against jacaerys and in turn, bully the younger boy.

which plays into my next point: everything criston does is calculated. while he couldn't outwardly strike, his use of verbal jabs come into play. he is the type to provoke to produce an outcome and questioning harwin's interest in rhaenyra's boys, implying he's the father without stating the treasonous words provoked harwin into attacking him.

i did some digging around, it's been stated that dorne is inspired by a variety of cultures, including but not limited to: moorish spain, wales, palestine, and mediterranean vibes. but then you look at who's been casted as dornish characters and we're given an even broader range of ethnicities and cultures, right?  (pedro who is latino. indira varma, part indian. jessica henwick, chinese-singaporean, alexander siddig, sudanese-british – just to list some examples.)

rpc culture would say that we have to change all the faceclaims and match them blood to blood. to which i'm gonna blatantly state right now: no. 

here's why this take is incredibly wrong: i don't believe the creators of the any of the series meant anything by a mixture of culture. there's no erasure happening here. for one, these people are acting out a fictional culture that's inspired by a multitude of cultures. to make this extra clear: dorne is not real. its people are not real. the concept of such a world and their cultures take inspiration from cultures and concepts of our world, yes absolutely! but dornish people are not indian or moorish spaniard or palestinian, chinese – etc. does that make sense?

i've seen posts saying that the characters of this world are technically hispanic, indian, chinese etc and that can't be further from the truth. the problem with the rpc is that people will stand on a hill and try to dictate that we have to align fictional settings to our real life world, faceclaims have to match up, our real cultures have to be respected in these settings where they don't exist. but in this case, it's incredibly goofy to me because all of the worlds of westeros and essos are inspired by bits of our worlds, but none of their practices, beliefs, cultures apply to our real life world. hispanic, latino, asian, indian – none of that exists in that world.

all this long-windedness to say: i've honed in one one aspect of fabien's ethnic makeup and will continue to expand on it, yes. however, i will now be taking inspo from all of the cultures that make up dorne. i wanna include latin aspects, i want to learn more of the moorish spaniard culture, wales, palestine, chinese-singaporean, sudanese-english. i wish to commemorate bits of the actors into the culture they brought to life on screen.