One Of My Favorite Little Veins Of Pure Gold In Briennes Story Is How, Despite The Way She Feels Like

one of my favorite little veins of pure gold in brienne’s story is how, despite the way she feels like an outsider, she’s basically catnip to people who get to know her. people just kind of go crazy around her?

spend enough time with her and you’re essentially guaranteed to become obsessively convinced of the depth of her honor. you will also believe wholeheartedly in her sheer competence as a warrior. and you might start trusting her to complete outlandishly heroic tasks in defiance of what other people would call logic or common sense. almost like you’re under some sort of hallucinogenic influence

you start with renly who, whatever else he thinks of her, makes her his kingsguard.

next cortnay penrose is all: if brienne isn’t on your side, you’re on the wrong side. i’d rather die than join you

and you move to catelyn giving her the most important job in the world

and obviously jaime and pod being lowkey and highkey hero-struck by her. jaime throws quests and loot at her like a lovesick buffoon

and even hyle quits his fucking job defending her badassery

septon meribald, the elder brother, jeyne heddle. kinda loras. maybe gendry?

hell, you’ll never convince me that even thoros wasn’t starting to fall under her spell. five more minutes and she’d have had him

The Luke Skywalker comparison is very apt! Zuko will thrive as Fire Lord people. That kid wanted the thorne and he'll do his best to get that reign of peace and love he promised his people.

Also let's give up the trope that political power should go to people who don't actually want it? Such people usually fuck up!! Let Zuko want power and have it and use it wisely!

I’ll be honest, I don’t think Zuko gets a happy ending in the show.  His family is completely broken and the one person in it who he has a semi-decent relationship with abandons him and fucks off to set up a tea shop half the world away in a city he laid siege to for 600 days. Sure, Zuko’s made friends with the Gaang, but they have their own lives, responsibilities, and families, so they’re not going to stick around in the Fire Nation. This leaves Mai being the only person in a thousand mile radius who actually gives a fuck about Zuko, and we know how volatile the Maiko relationship can be.  

Zuko never really had chance to figure out who he was and what truly made him truly happy life, instead having Iroh dump the responsibility of Firelord on him and Zuko dedicating his life to it to please Iroh(the series even suggests that Zuko might be happiest as a humble waiter!).  And of course, not only his unprepared to be Firelord, but he also faces an incredibly difficult task–”fixing” the Fire Nation–which would try even the most capable and prepared of rulers. He’s not in for a good time at all.

I want Zuko to have a happy ending. I just don’t think he really gets one in canon.

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