#*modern

so yes this blog’s default verse is modern but it’s important to me that y’all know that there is still magic / weird sh*t in gendry’s life.   he still has a crazy religious coot for a boss who tells people that he resurrected gendry’s /other/ boss through prayer all of the six times that he’s been killed   ( in the military once,   and four times while playing the hero in random mundane scenarios,   and once in a targeted attack )   and   your character obv doesn’t have to believe it   ( gendry’s not sure he does )   but beric is there and he   /does/   have a half-collapsed skull and one eye and pretty difficult to look at scars all over his body and he does say weird sh*t and thoros is still in the parking lot with a trash can fire drunk and crying about sunsets.   and,   if the verse is relevant,   after beric’s final death,   there may or may not be a secret leader of the ‘gang’ that no one ever really talks about above a whisper that your character will never see or get a straight answer on but you’ll know   :   something’s up and it’s sinister.   after the shift in leadership everything gets a lot more dangerous,   a lot more volatile,   a lot more violent.

the only thing that I’m currently praying for is peace.

friendly reminder that gendry spends the majority of his time when he’s not at work helping to run the brotherhood’s makeshift underground ‘home’ for orphaned / homeless children who have been forgotten or abused by the state care system : walking the younger kids to school to make sure they’re safe. walking the older kids to school to make sure they /go/. heating up bottles. cutting up hot dogs. folding laundry. braiding hair --- and probably sitting through frozen at least nine times in one week.

   friendly reminder that, though i do use waters as a generic last name for gendry in modern verse, his surname is NOT waters in canon. bastard surnames are given to acknowledged highborn bastards and, in some rarer cases, to lowborn bastards who are acknowledged. gendry is both lowborn and unacknowledged. he has no surname, he is simply gendry. in my modern verse, waters is a random last name assigned to him by a social worker when he enters the foster system after his mother is found dead when he is five years old. he does not consider it a part of his identity. it should also be noted that, in any verse, gendry does not know his nameday or exactly how old he is   ---   though, in modern verse, he does have a vague and indistinct memory of his birthday being a hot day, perhaps sometime in the height of summer.