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The crown will suit me, as it never suited Robert and would not suit Stannis. I have it in me to be a great king, strong yet generous, clever, just, diligent, loyal to my friends and terrible to my enemies, yet capable of forgiveness, patient.
modern baratheons: exactly the same but with TECHNOLOGY
Even as a boy, Renly had loved bright colors and rich fabrics, and he had loved his games as well. “Look at me!” he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm’s End. “Look at me, I’m a dragon,” or “Look at me, I’m a wizard,” or “Look at me, look at me, I’m the rain god.” The bold little boy with wild black hair and laughing eyes was a man grown now, one-and-twenty, and still he played his games.
Look at me, I’m a king.
..and these days kings are dropping like flies.
Just thinking about Renly and him dancing with Brienne and I’d always chalked it up to him being quite a conscientious and courteous man and knowing it would help her
But I wonder how much it actually hit quite close to home, he faces a fair bit of mockery for being gay and seeing someone else being laughed at behind their back and made fun of might have been quite personal, hence him taking it upon himself to dance with her
#team dragonstone hell
like please picture Stannis thinking it is His Duty to give teenage Renly The Talk
please picture Stannis coming up to Davos, informing him briskly that Renly has come out, and asking stiffly if he knows where Stannis could procure information about sexual health to pass on to Renly
please picture Stannis attempting to verbally convey to Melisandre that he is going over to Davos’ house to research sex and romance
please picture Renly Baratheon having to deal with Stannis Baratheon giving him The Talk twice
once with Renly finding the whole thing hilarious and a little bitterly ironic, so he baits a clearly uncomfortable Stannis the entire time. The other with Renly really quiet and awkward and stunned when Stannis begins with “Ahem. When we last spoke on this subject, the description I gave you was rather cis and hetero normative, I apologize.”
please picture the awkward hug Stannis gives Renly when its over before leaving the room as briskly as he can. Imagine Renly smiling a little to himself.
modern au stannis keeps an itemized list of the things he hates about renly’s boyfriends and reads it to him every time renly gets dumped.
for the boy he was, not the man he grew to be… but i did love him. i know that now
renly being lame during the siege of storms end. stannis was so young wegh
Renly Baratheon, A Game of Thrones (via incorrectgotquotes)
i love you you little shit (via greenqueer)