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i just feel like “what if the trauma we go through is usually not noble but purposeless and terrible and the things we develop to keep us alive often change us for the worse” is one of the most important realizations you can come to in terms of like. empathizing with your fellow man and yet whenever that theme shows up in fiction so many people are immediately like its either PERFECT VICTIM OR IRREDEEMABLY EVIL. open the door and walk out of the dichotomy

what DID it do to the targaryens’ minds to get told their entire life that the way that they look is due to their super unique special magic dragon blood from being the last precious people of a home that they can never go back to because it was all exploded and gone and then centuries later running into someone who looks like them in Dorne and are not related to that at all and have been living in westeros for thousands of years. Dayne jumpscare

probably actually worth noting that one of Viserys, a king who famously stood for nothing and whose greatest flaw was inaction and refusing to use his power to do anything’s only consistent uses of his monarchical power was to occasionally kick Daemon in the teeth using the full force of the state when Viserys got sick of him, seemingly not to actually banish his brother but so that he could get to call him back. so that viserys could look at the door and see daemon curled up on the threshold again like a loyal dog. what was up with that

if i were a fantasy protagonist i would NOT be seduced by promises of power but i WOULD be seduced by an illusory life of peace and tranquility. an evil wizard would go like "give up on trying to kill me and you can chill in this beautiful magic meadow for the rest of eternity" and i'm already nodding yes. "IT'S NOT REAL!" my companions would scream, but i don't care. i'm in the wizard mind prison eating grapes, soaking up a sunbeam. someone else can fight a dragon. it's literally not my business anymore.

This is the exact urge Davos Seaworth is having an internal battle with

absolutely iconic how even in the first Reek chapter Theon is like “Ramsay is ugly also what the fuck is he wearing”