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thinking about gendry, with his build and his strength, how everyone is always trying to make him a soldier, trying to recruit him to all of these causes, to ‘put a sword in his hand’, even the brotherhood, where he thinks he can be a soldier for the dispossessed, and it all ends up the same, thinking about how he resists and resists and resists, he’s not going to be anyone’s soldier, knows that people look at him and see that soldier, knows that he FEELS like that soldier inside, angry and volatile and eager to prove himself, but still he resists it and resists it and resists it because that isn’t what he wants to be

‘unite our houses’ NO abolish ur houses

someone please adopt a very antagonistic gendry

all right lads like this and i’ll send you memes

this is what drives me nuts everyone is like ‘joffrey is evil’ but EVERY evil thing joffrey does is a child’s misinformed imitation of his father: he guts the cat and we’re supposed to think it’s a sign that he’s a ‘psychopath’ but he surely watched his father clean countless animals after the hunt and saw it as normal and encouraged behavior, note that his father then beat him instead of explaining why it was wrong, he abuses and humiliates sansa to make himself appear powerful just as he surely saw his father abuse and humiliate his mother, he behaves like a bombastic abusive bully and he is literally just imitating the behavior of his father in an attempt to gain said father’s approval, that’s it, he’s just acting like robert baratheon

you are making ‘unite our houses’ gifsets, i am thinking about how the only time gendry has been within spitting range of his biological father was when he was a houseless orphan playing in the streets where he lived and robert baratheon almost crushed him (and countless other children and people) to death under his horse because he was racing through the narrow city roads drunk and the poor are invisible to him, we are not the same

gendry is totally a himbo character model except most himbos are funny and lighthearted and charming even if unintentionally and he is absolutely none of those things

to clarify: beric and thoros were very close to being gendry’s adopted gay zombie dads, but everything went to shit before the familial bond could form

thinking about ang lee talking about heath ledger’s performance in brokeback mountain, how his character actually had the most lines and yet seems to never speak, how he’s a closed fist and the words have to be punched out of him like metal with an awl, and that’s just really a massive gendry vibe, the way he has to drag the words out of himself and the way they come bursting out blunt and and graceless

also growth is me acknowledging that i can’t have a ‘gendry joins the night’s watch’ verse because there is no way in hell after the brotherhood that gendry would join any organization of any kind again

send me one of these and i’ll use it to write you a starter