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daynes 💜 (pretend Dawn is pretty)
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“He’s me, Jaime realized suddenly. I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivalry. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young,” jaime viii, a storm of swords
Ser Loras Tyrell of the Kingsguard
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Can we HOTD fans all get together, team green, team black and neutral, alike and appreciate this.
THE FACT THAT FABIEN FRANKEL/CRISTON COLE IS SO FINE
LIKE WHAAAA
THE LACK OF CRISTON FICS IS CONCERNING
I CAN HEAR THE WHAA WHAA HES AN INCEL COMMENTS
BUT CONSIDER THAT HES ALSO so bbg ✨
just look at HIMM
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The way they get you is telling you “it’s an honor to serve” and you’re doing your duty “for the realm” and all of a sudden they’re putting a white cloak around your shoulders and a sword in your hand and you’re standing outside the door of the idiot prince and making sure he doesn’t sneak out into the Street of Silk and break his neck riding a horse but before breakfast you have to give a therapy session to the second son who you’re pretty sure is trying to seduce his older brother for the succession and become the first case of gay valyrian incest and also you’re sleeping in the same room as six other men for the rest of your life and you don’t even have dental
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i love how jon joins the nights watch because he thinks that’s what he deserves. jon so obviously wanted to be a knight. he was obsessed with the songs of knighthood and gallantry but he isn’t a true born son. he isn’t brandon stark who has people encouraging him and feeding into his fantasy of being a knight. so he joins the watch and fucking hates it.
jon joins the bastard version of knighthood, the nights watch. he takes the same oaths he would’ve taken as a member of the kingsguard chastity, protect the realm, protect the innocent but instead of having songs sung about you and having a legacy to leave behind you sit on a cold wall and wait till you die.
this just makes me think if he had a little more self confidence and self worth he wouldn’t have gone to the wall and he could’ve helped robb win the war.
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the lion of lannister
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WIP of my current Jaime illustration, I can’t motivate myself to finish it but I’m super proud of how he turned out so here it is…. (he has long hair long I think it suits him more)
I’ll post the finished version at some point, peace and love on planetos ✌️
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Brienne is a true knight because she is both Warrior and Maiden. Her role as a fighter is informed by her uncorrupted idealism - it's not virginity in a sexual sense, it's a refusal to let go of her inner convictions. A refusal to violate that state of striving for her inner truth.
Being a warrior maid is integral to that because she never could be initiated into the corrupting influence that is knighthood as an externally conferred status. Because that is all bound up in upholding patriarchy.
When Jaime is annointed a knight, the imagery is deliberately sexualized, a play on being deflowered by the sword that breaks his skin. Nothing about this knighthood or the brotherhood of the kingsguard that follows it has anything to do with inner convictions. The vows are contradictory and the practice was to give precendence to male hierarchy over anything else. He was never "pure" in the way Brienne is, but his relationship with knighthood and honor is all about that inherent hypocrisy. Kingsguard chastity is entirely physical, if it exists at all, while their inner value system is entirely corrupted. Honor is defined as loyalty to men. He can barely identify what honor may look like to himself alone, what his inner truth truly is. He has no connection to the Maiden in this way anymore.
Similarly, Jon feels ashamed of his refusal to help Gilly and finds no comfort in upholding his vows to the Watch that he considers his reason for doing so. Every question of honor leads him back to Ned, so honorable - but what about his mother? The irony is that Ned's true honor lay in protecting Jon over any male hierarchy or friendship, for his sister. A choice informed by love. Love that maester Aemon claims is antithetical to the spirit of the Watch. It's an inherently misguided and corrupting stance that likely has little to do with the initial purpose of this order - if it was ever intended to be one. Women can't serve the Watch - Danny Flint serves as a cautionary tale as if it isn't a wholesale condemnation of the institution - but from ASOS on we see women serve there. The prostitutes of Mole's Town (and the way they reveal yet more hypocrisy), the wildling women who join up - all of it is effective and all of it dismantles the idea of honor within a brotherhood.
Honor and duty tend to be framed as separate from doing "what is right", and that is why Brienne is uniquely capable of upholding an ideal of knighthood that is otherwise a polite fiction. She can't rely on vows of initiation to define it for her. She has to choose for herself every time.
If she really does end up being knighted, I expect her vows to be at least altered in a way that reflects it and takes a stance against inherent contradictions toward inner accountability.
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Ser Arys Oakheart, The Queenmaker
"I will not be remembered as Ser Arys the Unworthy. I will not soil my cloak."
Cut to Always Sunny title card: Ser Arys soils his cloak. My second take on the white knight, this one more focused on his time in Dorne. As I've said before, I think I'm in the minority for enjoying Arys' slightly random one chapter - I've always viewed the core idea of ASOIAF as a fantasy story told by the people usually pushed to the margins - eg instead of Robb Stark, avenging warrior hero, we get the story of his mother balancing worry and pride. I view Arys' chapter as the most literal take on this - we get "boring white guy in scary exotic orientalist locale", then he gets killed off and we see the much more complex story from the perspective of characters he wrote off as stereotypes. Of course the counterpoint to this gambit is that it puts a lot of pressure on you to not lean into any orientalism in the rest of the story which... well.
The mini is a Golden Company one, I love it for the mix of armour and fabrics. Kingsguard white, white, and more white is always a challenge to get looking good, but I'm happy with this one. A little bit of red Dornish sand on his cloak to tie him in to the setting.
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Kingsguard armor through the ages
Ser Harrold Westerling, Ser Criston Cole and the twins Ser Arryk & Erryk Cargyll
Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning & Ser Gerold Hightower at the Tower of Joy
Ser Meryn Trant, Sandor Clegane the Hound, Ser Jaime Lannister the Kingslayer, Ser Gregor Clegane the Mountain & Ser Barristan Selmy
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it makes sense in-world that the Kingsguard are modeled after the Night's Watch, but the changed context that the Kingsguard are put in adds so much to the meaning of those vows.
the Night's Watch demands this inhuman level of austerity—no lands, no wives, no children, no lives other than their dedication to the Watch. This makes sense, because they had to be inhumanly dedicated to guard against an inhuman enemy north of the Wall.
The Kingsguard, though, have no such threat. They demand the same inhuman dedication to the ascetic warrior lifestyle, but as Barristan points out, most of the job is standing still in the background, intentionally hearing nothing while the ineffectual and petty dramas of court life play out.
the differences there really point out what the Night's Watch was founded for, and why the Red Keep is never going to be fit to face the real problems there
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“What of your magic?”
“Died with the king.”
“So, what are you now exactly? Except a conceited immigrant with no reinforcements, land, or power and lusts after women beyond his reach?” Nyx swallowed, he didn’t know how to answer to that.
“Yeah… You summed it up pretty well, I guess.”
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Day 7: Hopes and dreams - The white cloak of the Kingsguard
Old Nan said they were the finest swords in all the realm. There were only seven of them, and they wore white armor and had no wives or children, but lived only to serve the king. Bran knew all their stories. Their names were like music to him.
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Let's say that after Jaime kills Aerys, there is a trial in which he is judged for killing the king. If he said that he did it to save the city, showing everyone where the Wildfire is, do you think he would be pardoned? And If so, could that open a precedent for future kingsguards in situations where their vows as knights are in conflict with the kingsguard vows?
I think everyone involved would blue-screen. Medieval ethics based on oaths and honor aren't really equipped how to process "what happens when the king is bugfuck nuts and tries to mass-murder half a million people?" In fairness, medieval societies in general were incapable of mass-murdering half a million people in an instant, that was something that wasn't really possible until the advent of modern industrial warfare and the atomic bomb, so they never even had to consider an act of man doing this, such matters were strictly acts of God and thus not for mere men to judge. Our own history, by the time we were capable of that, we had had centuries of philosophical, ethical, and moral thought to build from comparatively speaking.
The big thing that would unnerve future kings is what criteria does a Kingsguard use for saying "Knightly vows over Kingsguard vows" and opening up their throats? Many a royal bodyguard ended up becoming kingmakers, the Praetorians, the Janissaries, etc. That would require a legal code and codified guidelines which would be tough to lay down and interpret. Most people would say: "Yes, it's absolutely right that Jaime stopped the king from doing this thing?" but also say "I need to protect myself from my own bodyguards doing things like this for lesser offenses."
Hence, everyone blue-screens.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King
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Please tell me someone else sees it (under the cut if you don’t)
I’ve been going insane for at least 24 hours now so forgive the bad handwriting
#I really wanted to put this out there#it’s the same kind of cross pattern!!#I want to make a longer post about how this connects to their relationship#and their relationships w Rhaenyra#but not tonight#alicent hightower#criston cole#kingsguard
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i love how jaime and barristan are in their own way dismantling the idea of knighthood.
okay call me crazy but aerys kingsgaurd was the last good kingsguard. now i know that they blindly followed orders that hurt others and that doesn’t exempt them from being bad people just because they followed orders but take away the white cloak and those are good men. even jaime he was a cocky asshole, but i’d be too if i was him. he’s like 17 is a member of the kingsguard and one of the best fighters of the time, he was golden and beautiful. AND HE ALSO KILLED AERYS. so he isnt completely brainwashed. but barristan and jaime are both put into positions where they are no longer a white cloak/ the white cloak doesn’t matter.
barristan is kicked out of the white cloaks and has to rethink his whole life. he goes to daenerys and reflects on his past mistakes and how he can change that.
jaime is captured by the starks and his white cloak doesn’t matter. he had already been mulling over the fact that the kingsguard is a lie since he killed aerys. he is scorned and forgot what it means to be honorable and good. he see that in brienne and is reminded of the stories of honor from his childhood. he comes back to kingslanding and sees how the kingsguard lacks all honor that he was reminded of with brienne. this is of course excluding loras (i’m about to make a post about loras and jaime’s relationship).
anyways i just wanted to yap really quick.
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