☾ — a paper moon .

Freddie Fox as Gwayne Hightower & Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Daeron Targaryen

It’s not always charming, though. Oftentimes, when Peter feels safe, everything he usually represses comes out. His bitterness, fear, self-loathing. Ed usually softens when he feels safe, becomes more prone to laugh and more open about himself. Less confrontational and more complimentary (almost to a sappy degree before he catches himself). He knows people well and so knows what gifts to give them. Loves to see their faces light up when he remembers something they like. Peter is the opposite. He becomes critical or melancholy or resenting in that initial safety following conflict. All his anxieties come forward and he begins to deliberately neg or annoy people, as if wanting a fight. Wanting to be told all his worst fears are true. He starts putting all his worries and anxieties in other people’s mouths. “You think I’m stupid, don’t you? That you’re smarter than me?” “You think I’m a bad king, right? That I don’t do enough. I’m never doing enough for you. You’re spoiled.” “Why are you drinking at this time? Spit that out.” Edmund is just the most skilled at not giving that fight to him. Because he’s used to it. Peter acting that way after a battle, however it goes. He knows what Peter wants is a reprieve from his own crown. His own authority and reputation. From high expectations. He wants assurance that he never fully believes anyway. So Ed lets him act the arse to him, part of him thinking he deserves it anyway, and then waits for Peter to apologize because he always does once the poison’s out. Transforming into a doting, sappy, loving dog. Eager to kiss and hug and please. To make up for it a hundred times over. Because he’s always anxious to let his siblings but especially Edmund know he loves them. Because he blames himself somewhat for Ed running off with the White Witch. Blames it on him being too harsh and critical so that Ed had to run away. Doesn’t ever want Ed to feel so scorned or unappreciated again.

There’s a few people who Peter can truly unravel around. Those are Ed, Oreius and Susan. Oreius is like Edmund except he’ll give Peter a stern talking to that snaps him out of it while Ed will usually let Peter ride it out himself. Oreius acts as a mentor to Peter, someone who’s seen more war than he has. Who guided him through planning for the Battle of Beruna. Oreius is good at using Peter’s emotions to sharpen him for battle. For kingship. As for Susan…well, more on that later bc I find his relationship to her very complex. But the long and short of it is Susan provides Peter with a sense of home (while Lucy provides him with a sense of freedom). Home is wherever Susan is, and that’s where he strives to return to. Always making his way back to her with the unwavering conviction that he should be there.

" i arrived in this country as a fifteen year old girl who could not speak the language and was a piece of property. i am now the queen of an expanding empire and a wealthy woman in my own right. if you think that I am incapable of my husband’s interests and my own, you do so at your own peril. "

Aerion + that little headshake he does when asking questions verbally or non-verbally

+Bonus body language: Reacting to Baelor's glare with a non-verbal 'What?'

Freddie Fox as Gwayne Hightower