making criston cole a character in his own right and also nuts makes his symbolic role as the ambiguous kg legacy in affc infinitely funnier. arys oakheart westeros’ first and only feminist kingsguard thinking fuck fuck i’m a terrible knight i’m having sex and trying to fuck with the line of succession. that’s treason basically. criston cole did that and he was a kingsguard. he got a lot of people killed for the greater good maybe or misogyny. what if i get a lot of people killed? i’m kind of doing it in a nice way unlike him i support women. maybe it cancels out? historical precedent, moral ambiguity of knighthood, kingsguard as a corrupt institution… what constitutes- and criston two hundred years prior is cleaning some guy’s brain off his morningstar thinking i would have been soooo fucking good in the faith militant