#swordgate

Though people who ship him and Lute have something to drool over, that be a twilihgt zone though . Can you imagine Lute and Peter ? 🤔🤔🤔

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omg is that maybe they are not there ? They both overslept ?! Or are on a date ?!

Orym telling himself he isn't enough, thinking he needs to be more than he is to be good enough for others.

Laudna telling herself she's always been a lot, thinking she needs to be less herself for others to like her.

Thinking about how after swordgate it really seemed like Orym doesn’t see Laudna as a person sometimes. It’s interesting how people have approached swordgate but I will never get over the fact that if i was KILLED not just wounded but KILLED by a sword which then caused me to be trapped by my abuser, I would 100% relate that sword to this traumatic event, and if my supposed friend wanted to KEEP the sword??? I would be rightfully pissed.

Idk I feel like Laudna had a lot of valid crashouts and was not treated fairly at all because of it.

We’ve seen Rhaenyra use a weapon to defend herself against a boar in S1.

We saw in S2 how she was left defenceless during an assassination attempt, so it’s understandable she’d want a weapon to make her feel safer. Also, she was concerned that the men on her council saw her as more of a daughter or a mother saying; “They will see me as a ruler, and my symbols of authority won't be jewels and gowns but the shield and sword.” During the same scene she says she tires of being protected by others and not being able to do it herself. We saw her briefly holding a sword and lamenting that if she were born a boy she’d have been trained to use it as soon as she could walk. Rhaenyra is also an admirer of Visenya, who had Darksister. Although Aegon has it currently, the catspaw dagger should be Rhaenyra’s and it has significance to her character with the prince that was promised prophecy.

Emma did suggest they wanted a weapon so they had somewhere to put their hands (and it seemed like they were kind of joking and not adamantly demanding one), but it’s seems like the build up to Rhaenyra having one was already laid. It’s entirely possible they were going to get one whether they suggested it or not.

It’s not even a horrible, huge storyline changing thing to have the Queen carry around protection during a civil war. Sure, Rhaenyra isn’t said to have one in the book, but like come on, it’s just a sword, is it really that deep? Out of all the other changes and writing blunders a sword is the hill people want to die on?

SwordGate (don’t worry, they made up 😅) at Anime Midwest 2024 (and submitting for next month’s cosplay gallery )