I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head, but so long as I am the king, I have a duty … If I must sacrifice one child to the flames to save a million from the dark … Sacrifice … is never easy, Davos. Or it is no true sacrifice. - A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria to live out your short life with the Stone Men before the sickness spread through the castle. I told them all to go to hell. I called in every maester on this side of the world. Every healer, every apothecary. They stopped the disease and saved your life. Because you did not belong across the world with the bloody Stone Men. You are the Princess Shireen of House Baratheon. And you are my daughter.
For a long time the king did not speak. Then, very softly, he said, “I dream of it sometimes. Of Renly’s dying.”
Imagine Stannis Baratheon taking off his chainmail to reveal… more chainmail
“Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.” Stannis pointed north. “There is where I’ll find the enemy I was born to fight.”
Stannis Baratheon and Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones Season 5 x
where stannis dies in battle and davos returns to shireen to swear fealty to his new queen
color palette challenge: stannis and shireen + #75 (requested by grammarsaveslives)
Imagine Stannis Baratheon realizing he overtipped the pizza guy.
K i n g s have no friends,
only subjects and enemies.
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"but thats just my onion" says stannis baratheon, first of his name, hugging davos
The Iron Throne is mine by rights, but how am I to take it? There are four kings in the realm, and three of them have more men and more gold than I do. I have ships … and I have her.
the cool t hing about bowling AUs is that you can just be like “imagine [character] bowling” and thats…the whole joke. thats sufficient. like: imagine stannis baratheon bowling. i dont need to add anything to that
Three siblings, a lucky number…and yet I am the last.
“Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. And some will lose more than the tips off their fingers, I promise you. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that. “
