#Milesandre

[groundrunner100]

For those complaining about there being only 2 choices on this list, I have simple tastes in entertainment.

[radioactiveoreoshake]

A Clash of Kings

I am reading 'A clash of kings' which is the second book in 'A song of ice and fire' by George RR Martin. In a chapter from the pov of Ser Davos, The Red Woman, Milesandre is describing Azor Ahai and clearly says that he is the son of fire. If not Jon then who? Of course in the chapter in context Stannis Baratheon is depicted with the sword on fire aka lightbringer but common it has to be Jon.

[hoist-the-colours]

k but how much angrier is Jon gonna be when he finds out that the only friend, companion, and semi-protector that his little sister Arya had when she went missing during the war had been taken away from her by Meli-fucking-sandre for his KING’S BLOOD? lol 

[sandor-clegane-spot]

:P

[cosmicsolo]

GoT rant pt.II on Azor Ahai (mega-huge-massive spoilers)

So one of the other things that’s really bothering me in the tv-show fandom post-S8E3, is the fact that so many are complaining that a certain murder-kid took out the Night King, since her story doesn’t add up to Azor Ahai: the prince/princess destined to defeat (or fight against) the great darkness. Here’s the thing, if you have been paying attention at all, in the show and/or the books, it should be clear that killing the night king has nothing whatsoever to do with Azor Ahai. It may be Arya and it may still be – which is more probable – Jon or Dany.

No matter the amount of dragons, magic, prophecies and other fantastical elements, like all good literature, GoT is about humanity. The night king is not the darkness, but a manifestation and personification of darkness from human conflict and pain. Created by the children of the forest to protect themselves against the first men. Here it is worth remembering that in the books, the white walkers are simply referred to as ‘The Others’, evoking other literary ‘others’ like the ‘barbarians’ J.M. Coetzee has written about. The ‘others’ are usually (in literature and in the real world) as much about the conjuring of a great and unambiguous evil enemy, as it is about actual evil. Only, in the fantasy-genre of GoT ‘the Others’ manifest as actual beings.

GRRM has always been very explicit, that attributing absolute evil to an external/non-human entity (as Tolkien did in LoTR) is a very basic human drive, but also too easy as an artistic move. It is much more difficult to contend with the complex dualism of humans being capable of bottomless love and unfathomable cruelty. And this is the reality reflected so brilliantly in GoT/A Song of Ice and Fire, and in each and every character. Whether it’s Cersei willing to do anything for her ‘true’ family or Arya with her monomanic focus on vengeance. The entire story is spun around the complex (and frankly, terrifying) reality that absolute good and evil is a thing of fairytales, and that humans have the capacity and constantly perform both. Though, some obviously lean more to one side than the other. That is why all evil acts in GoT is really the doing of humans. Is the night king not evil? No, he is something much much worse, he is indifferent. He is death, he is nothing, and the potential undoing of both good and evil. As Jon Snow said when Milesandre asked him about death; about what was on the other side. There was nothing.

So, back to Azor Ahai. We still do not know who this might be if it is anyone at all (prophecies are notoriously tricky in this world), but it was never tied to whoever killed the Night King, and this is why it was so important that Arya swung the knife. Had it been Jon or Dany, it would have undermined this central quality of the books and the show and we (the audience) would have been lead to believe that the Night King was indeed, the great darkness. I know that the Night King and his army of dead has been somewhat set up as the great enemy in the show and that the show and the books do not equate to each other one-to-one. But the complexity of good and evil is such a core theme in the books and what made them the phenomenon that became the show. Surely D&D are keenly aware of this.

In light of this Arya kind of had to be the one who took out the Night King. And he also had to be taken out before the actual and final battle against (human) darkness. Not only has Arya indeed been prepped for this since her very first encounter with Syrio Forel who taught her to use her advantages, to be “quiet as a shadow and light as a feather”. Her character-development, into the almost dispassionate killer she has become, make her the perfect counter to the Night King. Finally, she is unexpected from the part of the Night King who has his attention fixed to Jon, Dany and Bran. We already know he would be near impossible to defeat in Jon-style man-to-man combat and that he is unaffected by fire (really, Dany’s only weapon). This is where Arya comes in and where her training and skills make sense as more than a one-track tool for vengeance. Quite like Melisandre foreshadowed.  

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Grey Worm out here with missing parts bagging Milesandre and meanwhile I can't even get a text back #GoT

— Art Vandelay (@JediMind_Fck) July 24, 2017

[notxenathewarriorprincess]

The young are dumb and full of errors.

[reliveyourdarkestmoment]

There’s only one hell, princess. The one we live in now.

Melisandre’s words to princess Shireen.

Game of Thrones

[ironborrn]

I'm rewatching Game of Thrones from the beginning and I'm now at the part where Milesandre gives birth to that weird specter thing.

It's just as freaky and bizarre as I remember