Mar 11
Spearhedge is fundamentally two men who are pretty much instantly and intensely devoted to one another and don’t really question it until Baelor dies and Dunk spends his whole life ruminating on it and mourning Baelor like a girl who was widowed on her wedding day
The point here is that there is no way that relationship doesn’t rapidly descend into Dunk and Baelor both yelling “SEVEN HELLS SIT DOWN AND LET ME TAKE CARE OF YOU!”
#essay in tags because i lost my mind BUT#‘but baelor is the prince/hand/king’ would not matter to dunk#he’s more loyal to ideals and people than positions or power structures#(which is why his hands are rated ‘E’ for ‘everyone’#so i think he could pull a ‘this is for your own good’ on baelor if he genuinely felt it was needed#because dunk’s admiration of baelor isn’t really about him as a prince#but because baelor is good and just and fair and is especially those things to dunk#and people dunk cares about (egg and tanselle)#and that isn’t the kind of loyalty that demands unquestioning obedience#whereas baelor is very aware of how shit everything is and here’s this hedge knight who has no reason to be so good but HE IS#and baelor’s immediate impulse is ‘must protect and maybe keep forever?’#and in a universe where baelor lives but loses his father and his sons you can bet this goes right up to eleven#he has this one good thing who is still his and if ser duncan would PLEASE just let baelor make sure he’s fes#*fed#and adequately clothed#and maybe some new armour#SER DUNCAN PLEASE I AM THE KING#dunkbaelor#spearhedge#baelor x dunk#dunk x baelor#ser duncan the tall#ser duncan#baelor breakspear#baelor targaryen#akotsk#a knight of the seven kingdoms
