i archived, now at @lwbrn

some vibes while i work on rebooting

anyways a friendly reminder that the reason that gendry has no romantic relationships or repeated sexual experiences in the 8+ years between arya’s disappearance and her reentering his life is NOT that he’s ‘waiting for her’  or harboring romantic love for her  ---  it’s because he’s extremely emotionally closed-off, a self-isolationist, and a demi/graysexual who experiences levels of sex-repulsion.

in modern, the brotherhood is based out of a building owned by beric --- inherited by thoros, since beric is legally dead. the garage is beside it and the street entrance to the bar leads into the building’s basement. the building itself is small, undeniably sh*tty apartments that the brotherhood rents out at low rates to those in need. half of the top floor serves as the ‘orphanage’, home to children who’ve been abandoned there, failed by the system, or orphaned by crime / violence ( some by the brotherhood itself ). the brothers are mostly veterans and some ex-convicts, some work at the garage and maintain the building while others seems to do nothing but sit at the bar by day / dissappear by night. officially the group collects off of the garage, the bar, and the rentals ; but in truth thoros / beric’s altriusm results in none of the businesses being particularly profitable. the garage makes a little money, the bar breaks even, but the rentals are always a loss. in reality what keeps them ( not very securely ) in the black is the brotherhood’s real work : as vigilantes working for ‘donations’ and as fences for goods they’ve lifted from the rich / corrupt, and later as gunrunners  ---  though this scheme is conducted as a means to infiltrate wider criminal networks to serve the intelligence interests of their new leader after the final ‘death’ of beric, and thoros subsequent descent into grief and back deep into the bottle.