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Ser Arys Oakheart knows what’s up
A Feast for Crows page 194
Oh god there’s two of them
A Feast for Crows page 198
Beautiful figurine and excellent take :)
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.
Areo Hotah & Arys Oakheart watercolor
The Dorne plot line is kind of half baked but I always liked the scenery and side characters it introduced, The Queenmaker chapter is a highlight from Feast and Oakheart’s death was admittedly kind of dumb but at least he went out with a bang. Yeah everyone talks about how Hotah absolutely wrecks his shit but that’s after Arys kills a handful of guys and is thrown from his horse, not really a fair fight. Put some respect on Arys Oakheart he’s the most slept on kingsguard knight. Anyways don’t forget: stan Dorne stan Arianne stan Darkstar all day everyday
A FEAST FOR CROWS POVS + PLOTS
❛ 𝖒𝖞 𝖘𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉, 𝖒𝖞 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊, 𝖒𝖞 𝖍𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖗, 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖍𝖊𝖗... 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖞𝖔𝖚, 𝖒𝖞 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙'𝖘 𝖉𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙. ❜
DORNE&UNKNOWN AREA, 300 AC.
* ᵃʳᵗ ʳᵉᵠˢ ᵒᵖᵉⁿ. ☼ + 𓄃 .〃
the dornish plot would've been better if they all survived and myrcella baratheon would become the queen of the seven kingdoms with arys oakheart as commander of the queensguard and arianne as her hand + ruling princess of dorne (with trystane somewhere in the background as prince consort)
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓 & 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓. ☼ + 𓄃 .〃