Game of thrones gay king

Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. We cannot discount the destructive influence on the elder two of witnessing their parents die at sea in a storm. Except Patchface. Renly escapes this trauma, only to have his own trauma of growing up raised by his brothers one literally distant and the other emotionally distant and his castellan.

Nearly all the problems engulfing Westeros right now following the War of the Five Kings, not to mention that actual war itself, could have been avoided had these three brothers been able to actually throne to each other…. So girl. Why do you hate Robert Baratheon? Robert Baratheon was not a good King. He was game because he was a great warrior with the right bloodline: if Aerys II, Rhaegar, his son Aegon and his brother Viserys were ousted, the eldest son of House Baratheon had the best claim to the Iron Throne as the grandson of Rhaelle Targaryen.

This would keep Targaryen loyalists semi-happy, but avoid all the tainted craziness within the existing Targaryens. The Mad King was clearly unfit for rule. His king had just kidnapped apparently the Stark girl and disappeared for around a year while civil war raged. Aegon was just a baby. Viserys was already showing signs of mental instability like his father at a young age.

Son, be like him. We know from the books that Robert was an angry, unpredictable drunk who beat and raped his wife Cersei Lannister on a regular basis. A drunk with no insight into his behaviour. A pig. He stole her from me. To be fair to Robert, this kind of attitude is prevalent across Westeros. She made me hit her.

The booze made me say those things. Sit in any courtroom in the world and listen to the infuriating bullshit that violent men come up with to justify their conduct. Not only did I grow up with that kind of man ruining my childhood, but I worked with that kind of man — as a client, whether for family violence intervention order matters or for criminal offences, and as gay other party in intervention order proceedings.

These guys continue to act like this because society ignores the culture of misogyny, sexism, toxic masculinity that contribute to the thinking of a violent man.

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I highly recommend the final report of the Royal Commission into Family Violence if you want more detail and research on this issue. Rhaegar was not a peach himselfbut Robert is the kind of guy you will meet, have probably already met, in the real world. The list goes on.