Pyp And Grenn Got That Troy And Abed Energy If U Know What I Mean

Pyp and Grenn got that Troy and Abed energy if u know what i mean

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The Heddles may be descendants of a landed knight, but it’s been a long time since then, and it is very clear that in the present, they don’t have much. They have a building, and that’s it. So that makes Jeyne and Willow Heddle two of the only smallfolk characters with goals of their own that have absolutely nothing to do with what’s convenient for the main characters. They’re not there to be an obstacle; they’re not there to drop everything to help. It is extremely, extremely important that we meet Willow both first and at the point in the story that we do - she is younger than her sister, and even though Jeyne is the innkeep, it’s Willow that’s been left in charge when we get there. She’s nine or ten years old, sheltering children even though she’s a child herself and she could have easily done what Quincy Cox did - bar the doors, hide away, care only about herself and hers. Instead, she pulled an Edmure, only with much fewer resources and much less obligation, and took on the responsibility that the lords abdicated by sheltering others when no one in their right mind would fault her and her sister for prioritizing themselves. And all these kids are working together to keep each other alive because the people that ought to be supporting them are not doing it - mutual aid is all they’ve got.

Their inn is at the crossroads. Obviously, there’s the symbolism of diverging choices, which we see from the very moment we meet Willow - Gendry wants to send Brienne, Hyle, Pod, and Meribald away, but Willow allows them to stay because they brought food and the little ones are hungry. And we see Willow continuing to make extremely brave and difficult choices to protect even younger children that can’t protect themselves - she repeatedly puts herself physically between those younger children and danger. Before she can be sure Brienne’s party isn’t a danger, she pushes the toddler she’s holding behind her skirts. And later, she could have hidden away and focused on keeping herself safe - instead, she leaves the inn to confront a band of notoriously brutal sellswords, knowing damn well that they have zero motivation to not kill her. It’s a staggeringly courageous and compassionate thing to do. That’s where it becomes important that we’re seeing this through Brienne’s eyes, because Brienne has choices, too.

Just a few pages before, Brienne was nearing her breaking point. For the first time, she was seriously considering giving up her quest and going home.  Maybe if the Brave Companions hadn’t showed up, something else would have motivated her to keep going. But as it was, what stopped her wasn’t thoughts of Sansa or Arya, wasn’t the desire to fulfil an oath, wasn’t any of that -  it was Willow. Brienne’s thought that she has no chance and no choice is a powerful sentiment in part because these people that she feels she has no choice but to protect? They’re nobodies. Orphan children from the Riverlands. And Brienne is a lord’s daughter from the Stormlands. So she very much does have a choice. No one with any power would have expected her to do anything. She could have walked away. She was already thinking about going home anyway. But little Willow Heddle - ten years old - walked out of the inn to stand up to a man threatening her with rape, mutilation, and death, for the sake of other children, even though she was so afraid Brienne could see her trembling. Once she saw that, Brienne knew immediately that she had a moral obligation to them - she had no more chance of stopping them than Willow did. But she had to do something. And so because of Willow, Brienne is in a position to prove she believes what she thought to herself earlier in the book, when Septon Meribald asked what Quincy Cox could have done - he could have tried. He could have died. Willow proves that first, and Brienne does the same.

This obligation to fight for others that can’t fight for themselves is one of the ideas at the centre of Brienne’s story, and it only works as well as it does because it’s Willow that drives her to act - this absolute nobody matters every bit as much as all these lords and ladies and knights around which the story we read revolves. Willow Heddle and the other children she protects deserve as much protection as all the nobility whose perspectives we actually get. It’s the same idea that makes Baelor defending Dunk in The Hedge Knight so powerful - Baelor chooses to do what’s right over what’s easy, and what’s right is stepping in to defend the absolute nobody that no one would have ever expected him to defend in a duel against his own brother and nephews. What Brienne faces isn’t difficult for the same reason, but it still took a huge amount of courage. And this is the kind of brave act that matters most. Not grand quests, not picking and choosing who is worthy of assistance, but doing whatever you can for whomever you can. Sansa and Arya are great, obviously, but this theme absolutely does not apply to them - of course they deserve protection, too, but they’re highborn. There are people that will fight for them because of their name. People will be judged for not trying to protect them. All of that will be remembered in a way protecting Willow Heddle will not. Remember when Baelor is brought up in the main series? Nothing about how his death had been in a trial by seven against his own family in defence of a hedge knight who had also defended a commoner against the prince of the blood. No, Baelor Breakspear, the heir apparent and Hand of the King, was merely “slain in a tourney mishap”. And he was the goddamn crown prince, and Dunk became Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. If that noble action can’t be remembered, what chance does Brienne, the heir to a relatively minor seat, fighting outlaws to defend a little girl have? None at all. And it matters still. It might be the only thing that does.

Individual people have inherent value, and the second you forget that, you’ve lost sight of the point. Individuals matter. That is a theme hammered in over and over and over again. Dunk is absolutely in the right for intervening when Aerion assaults Tanselle. Arya’s horror when she realizes that no one will speak up in Mycah’s defence and her demand that people acknowledge that this boy was murdered is the righteous stance. Davos deciding he could not allow Stannis to sacrifice Edric because Stannis has no right to decide who matters like that - that kind of utilitarianism only works if it’s your own life being put on the line - is a stand that matters. Tanselle, Dunk, Mycah, Edric all deserve life and defenders, no matter that they are all totally random people that came in conflict with princes or kings. And Willow, the way she is both protector and protected, for the sole reason that she’s a person? My god, that matters so, so much. This isn’t about knights, it isn’t about kingship or queenship or who ought to swear allegiance to whom. It’s about people, all people, helping each other, no matter who claims to rule. The smallfolk don’t need some benevolent overlord - it doesn’t matter who that benevolent overlord is. They don’t need to exist at the whims of a paternalistic lord who could soon be replaced by someone cruel. They need agency and support.

The smallfolk pay taxes and work the incredibly difficult jobs that keep the realm running and face the brunt of the consequences of war without getting an actual return on their labour at all. The main purpose of a castle is to shelter people in times of war - yet Edmure Tully is an outlier. His uncle not only expels the smallfolk Edmure sheltered from the castle, he picks the land clean of food to condemn those same smallfolk to starve. Jeyne and Willow opening their inn back up for business, loosely allying with the Brotherhood Without Banners, taking in orphan children that have nowhere else to go and obviously cannot pay is them taking back some agency. They don’t have all that many options, but they refuse to relinquish the ones they have. We’re always talking about leadership arcs and who has the skills to rule and all that. What Willow and the inn at the crossroads make incredibly clear is that the real answer is that no one, no lord or lady, king or queen, will ever know what the people need better than the people themselves. Willow fights for others in a variety of ways. She makes sure children are fed and have a safe place to sleep. She’s ready to shoot anyone that threatens them with a crossbow. She keeps the inn running smoothly. She is only ten years old, with her only resource being a building, and demonstrates just as much ability in household management as any of the nobles. Everyone is warring and fixating on who has the right to rule without caring about their obligations to characters like Willow, and the whole while, Willow keeps on doing the work to keep people alive.

The show made it very obvious how important Aegon is to the story when they excluded him - it straight up stopped making sense. And I think the exclusion of Willow also proves how important she is - maybe the plot made sense, but the characters that should have encountered her but didn’t felt hollow and empty. I mentioned a while ago that I found show Gendry mindnumbingly boring. I’m pretty sure that’s because of the Willow issue combined with the lessened focus on the “protecting the weak” element of the Brotherhood Without Banners - show Gendry was just there to be there. He had occasional moments of plot relevance, and he contributed to Arya and Davos’s arcs, but he had no arc of his own, and his decisions didn’t make sense. Compare book Gendry, with a lot more personality and choices that made sense - Willow is a part of that! Their contrasting attitudes, built on the same core protectiveness of the children in the inn, contributes to making book Gendry a much more interesting character than his show counterpart. And then, of course, we can see how important Willow is to Brienne’s story because without her, Brienne’s story felt completely drained of life.

From what I understand, people complain about Brienne’s chapters being boring because she doesn’t achieve anything. I obviously do not get that argument, because I love the meandering and the character focus, but also because her show arc removes all those interludes, and it clearly sucks. Those interludes matter. Her interiority matters. The people she meets matter. Without Brienne’s internal conflict, her struggle to know what the right thing to do is, her longing for home, her idealism and her weariness, what’s even the point of including her? Brienne is a defender of the innocent. She is far, far more than a bodyguard, and characters like Willow Heddle are at the heart of her story. Without Willow, we lost Brienne’s most powerful scene and a lot of her inner struggle. Without Willow, Brienne wasn’t Brienne.

TL;DR: In a single chapter, Willow Heddle demonstrates more courage, compassion, and capability than countless characters much older and more powerful than her; she, more than pretty much any other character, represents the theme of doing whatever you can to protect others for as long as you can; and Brienne’s story would feel so, so much less powerful without her.

watching Misfits is very surreal because a young Robert Sheehan is one of my Theon fancasts and,,,, you know,,,,,,,,,Simon