pray harder

getting so sad during both their POV chapters where one just wants a home and the other wants a fairytale prince because they’re LITTLE GIRLS

[Closing my eyes] [smiling peacefully] I like to make bad things happen because I'm a bad person and my blood is not unlike a corrosive poison.

No one’s gonna remember to write anything about rhaelle targaryen in canon so I’m free to make up that she was doing daena defiant things in her mind. fifteen married for a year looking at that ten pound newborn baby like there there one day we are going to kill them all

rhaelle extremely bitter she was sold off sent away age eleven the only one in her family actually forced to be a pawn for her dad’s politics making a token appearance at court to watch the little girl that her siblings who broke their betrothals to elope with each other named after her get married off against her will at twelve to her own brother. For what. A dream? Worst of both worlds and it is only ever going to get worse. King Aegon and Ser Duncan presiding. Wondering at what point she started raising her son to kill theirs and realizing it has long since passed.

nedbert is so pseudo-incestuous its great

theres something about using one another to replace the blood brothers you’re not close to. Robert being eager to marry into ned’s family so they can be bound by blood. ned telling catelyn over and over that robert loves him like a brother. i know westeros is fine with cousin marriage, but the idea that they don’t act on their obvious desires because of 1) robert’s betrothal to lyanna and 2) the almost sanctity of their relationship if that even exists. They grew up closer than brothers and shared a father figure, and at least for ned it might feel genuinely incestuous to think of robert in any way but platonically

theon ii acok of course is infamously the breastmilk and groping chapter but if you think about it for more than two seconds it literally makes you want to tear your skin off. this was not the pyke he remembered. or did he remember? he had been so young when they took him away to hold hostage. he’d looked for a few of the friends he’d played with as a boy, but they were all gone, dead, or grown into strangers. i liked you better when you were nine. what if the prodigal son’s return was actually a humiliation ritual and also he kind of isn’t even a prodigal son because everyone hates him and also his sister is fondling his dick like the whole time.

egg did summerhall is already a devastating realization that haunts the narrative but personally i do not think i will be recovering from the lord commander dunk was also almost definitely complicit in the kingsguard’s violent neglect of rhaella targaryen realization

dunk and egg really does cover the best most interesting generation of targryens where they are just regular humans desperately clinging onto any veneer of of legitimacy before they inevitably succumb to the doomrot bloodcurse poisoning that’s been in them from birth.

Killing the boy and letting the king be born is itself an act of blood sacrifice. To say nothing of the fratricide and the suicide and the grotesque accidents and the cannibalism and the prophetic-avoidant alcoholism and the abomination and the self-immolation and and the final desperate calculus of summerhall and the blood in the mortars of the keep and the trees and the grass on which you are holding a shitty parking lot tourney and losing your fucking grip.