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IN THE SHOW, BALON GREYJOY WON THE WAR OF THE FIVE KINGS
Sansa & Theon: *watches Myranda fall to her gruesome death*
Sansa & Theon: lol let’s jump from the top of a building
WHAT WAS THAT, WHAT WAS THIS MESS??? HOW DO YOU ADAPT SOMETHING SO BADLY?????
what she says: i’m fine
what she means: stannis letting melisandre sacrifice shireen to the lord of light was not only a hideous representation of d+d’s misogyny, but grossly out of character for stannis who burned a man for treason for even suggesting shireen marry a bastard and told one of his men that, in the event of stannis’s death, he should have his army avenge his death and seat shireen on the throne
Book Stannis: Davos, if I die you will do your best to fight in my name and put my daughter on the Iron Throne
Book Stannis: *has a man killed for treason simply because he suggested Shireen should marry a bastard*
D&D: …
D&D: Let’s just have him burn her to the fucking ground, watch her scream for her life and beg him to stop with a stone fucking face.
D&D: Why do book readers hate us?????
“Sire, Lord Florent meant no treason.”
“Do
smugglers have another name for it? I made him Hand, and he would have sold my
rights for a bowl of pease porridge. He would even have given them Shireen.
Mine only child, he would have wed to a bastard born of incest.”“It is not a question of wanting. The throne is mine, as
Robert’s heir. That is law. After me, it must pass to my daughter, unless
Selyse should finally give me a son.” He ran three fingers lightly down the
table, over the layers of smooth hard varnish, dark with age. “I am king. Wants
do not enter into it. I have a duty to my daughter. To the realm. Even to
Robert. He loved me but little, I know, yet he was my brother.Stannis Baratheon, A Storm of Swords
“It may be that we shall lose this battle,” the king said grimly. “In Braavos you may hear that I am dead. It may even be true. You shall find my sellswords nonetheless.”
The knight hesitated. “Your Grace, if you are dead —”
“— you will avenge my death, and seat my daughter on the Iron Throne. Or die in the attempt.”
Stannis Baratheon, The Winds of Winter
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