Stannis FINALLY meeting Davos in a Storm of Swords broke my hearttt. Stannis is consumed by Melisandre and his defeat, but Davos helps him remember himselfâŚDavos and Stannis truly are such incredible foils of one another and Stannisâ motivation to sit the Iron Throne remains my favorite of all the claimants, because he does not want it, he understands the weight of it, and he admits, ADMITS, it is still out if a sense of duty to his daughter, to ROBERT BARATHEON, who did not love him. Because he thinks his brother deserves justice despite EVERYTHING? INSANE. His sense of duty to his family at the cost of HIMSELF...AHHH. Itâs why he betrayed Aerys in the first place. HOWEVER.
The level of delusion heâs in to believe Melisandre and himself innocent of Renly and Penroseâs assassinationsâŚMelisandre knew Stannis needed plausible deniability of not being a Kinslayer in order to move through the world, by his own code, but dreams of their deaths were already plaguing him in A Clash of Kings.
Stannis is introduced as an agnostic, perhaps an atheist, but by A Storm of Swords he seems taken by firey visionsâŚhis defeat has left him so vulnerable and his physical description made me so sad. Itâs as if heâs been beseiged in Stormâs End all over again. FUCK! BUT DAVOS IS BACKâŚDAVOS EXPECTING TO BE KILLED BUT STANNIS IS STILL STANNIS, listens to Davosâ honesty and prizes it and MAKES HIM HIS LORD HAND??? I YELLED.
I will never recover from this fucking line:
Trying and failing to be normal about Stannis being appeased by Davos telling him his tongue belongs to Stannis. Alright. Okay.
FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME. STANNIS REALLY SAID ITâS YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD DAVOS. IT IS THE LEAST DAVOS DESERVES AFTER THE LOSS OF HIS SONS IN THE WARâŚ
I am on the floor. Finally my favorites are reunited. AND THEYâRE GOING NORTH??? JON SNOW???
LAST NOTE: Stannis draining his own blood to spare little Edric from Melisandreâs pyreâŚHim insisting he could never see harm come to Edric despite Westeros being a place that cares little for bastards, because Edric is still Stannisâ blood, he is still his brotherâs son, and he is innocentâŚI am relieved Stannis maintained a measure of himself and seems to remember himself even more with Davos at his sideâŚfor nowâŚ
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