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thinking about gendry, with his build and his strength, how everyone is always trying to make him a soldier, trying to recruit him to all of these causes, to ‘put a sword in his hand’, even the brotherhood, where he thinks he can be a soldier for the dispossessed, and it all ends up the same, thinking about how he resists and resists and resists, he’s not going to be anyone’s soldier, knows that people look at him and see that soldier, knows that he FEELS like that soldier inside, angry and volatile and eager to prove himself, but still he resists it and resists it and resists it because that isn’t what he wants to be

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‘unite our houses’ NO abolish ur houses

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someone please adopt a very antagonistic gendry

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all right lads like this and i’ll send you memes

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this is what drives me nuts everyone is like ‘joffrey is evil’ but EVERY evil thing joffrey does is a child’s misinformed imitation of his father: he guts the cat and we’re supposed to think it’s a sign that he’s a ‘psychopath’ but he surely watched his father clean countless animals after the hunt and saw it as normal and encouraged behavior, note that his father then beat him instead of explaining why it was wrong, he abuses and humiliates sansa to make himself appear powerful just as he surely saw his father abuse and humiliate his mother, he behaves like a bombastic abusive bully and he is literally just imitating the behavior of his father in an attempt to gain said father’s approval, that’s it, he’s just acting like robert baratheon

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you are making ‘unite our houses’ gifsets, i am thinking about how the only time gendry has been within spitting range of his biological father was when he was a houseless orphan playing in the streets where he lived and robert baratheon almost crushed him (and countless other children and people) to death under his horse because he was racing through the narrow city roads drunk and the poor are invisible to him, we are not the same

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gendry is totally a himbo character model except most himbos are funny and lighthearted and charming even if unintentionally and he is absolutely none of those things

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MAL ORETSEV Shadow and Bone | 1.06

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to clarify: beric and thoros were very close to being gendry’s adopted gay zombie dads, but everything went to shit before the familial bond could form

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@inhej sent for a starter:  “You cannot fear and flee from death. You must face it.”

SHE SOUNDS LIKE THOROS. Like Thoros with Beric sitting silently behind him, still and suffering and breathing wetly through his broken body. It’s nonsense. It’s worse than nonsense. It’s the kind of dangerous thing they try to teach you while they’re pushing a sword into your hand. They say that running from death makes you a coward—but what they mean is that you running from your death makes it harder for them to get out of the way of their own. Thoros had meant that, even though Gendry had thought he might have loved him. He’d been trying to keep Beric alive. Throwing lives at the wall. Beric, too, who was always talking about death like it was a warm bath he wished he could fall into.

Thoros wouldn’t let him though. He said it was the Red God who wanted Beric, who wanted to keep him alive, but Gendry always thought it was just Thoros. Thoros who wanted him, Thoros who was keeping him alive. Scared to be without him. Scared to be alone.

He’s alone now, isn’t he? Beric had seen to it in the end.

Inej is right about some things—you can’t avoid anything forever.

Gendry screws up his face and turns his cheek to her, pressing his chin into his shoulder. The cart rattles over a rut in the road and his broad body rocks with the motion. It’s hard to avoid notice when you’re a head higher than a horse but, as though he were a boy still, Gendry tries to make himself small enough to fit amongst sacks of half-rotten grain. There’s a mist of cold rain and the ride is miserable, but they’ll be to a stop soon—an inn with a hearth and a bad meal that he can’t afford. He can see the lights ahead; blue and yellow in the bitter purple night.

He tries to think of what he’d do instead of dying. He’s run rather than fight plenty of times. When he was young, or when he had to carry one of the others. When he had other work to do. They like to make life or death of anything. Die for your Lord, die for your Gods. Die rather than let a plowman insult the colour of a Lady’s dress. Seven hells—

“If a horse was charging towards you, you’d be stupid not to step out of the way if you could,”  he looks back at her under a drawn and heavy brow. The way his face gathers in on itself makes him look confused, or in pain, but Gendry is certain of what he’s saying. Death is just a thing that happens. Everyone knows that, whether or not they’re willing to stop dressing it up in silks and stories.

“Facing death doesn’t make you a saint. It just makes you dead.”

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thinking about ang lee talking about heath ledger’s performance in brokeback mountain, how his character actually had the most lines and yet seems to never speak, how he’s a closed fist and the words have to be punched out of him like metal with an awl, and that’s just really a massive gendry vibe, the way he has to drag the words out of himself and the way they come bursting out blunt and and graceless

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anyways i love gendry who is /not/ a self-insert of the abusive, violent, hyper-misogynist father who literally never gave even a fraction of a sh*t that he existed.

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also growth is me acknowledging that i can’t have a ‘gendry joins the night’s watch’ verse because there is no way in hell after the brotherhood that gendry would join any organization of any kind again

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send me one of these and i’ll use it to write you a starter

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MAL ORETSEV | Shadow and Bone 1.01

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arya at 10 pulling on gendry’s poke-y out-y ears meanly when he’s being mean vs arya at 20 pulling on them still a little mean but also affectionately when he’s scowling at smthn this post directed at @lwbrn

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gendry will be sitting around a fire with a zombie knight with a caved in head and the guy who resurrected him and still say magick isn’t real