#also not to have a cynic victim mentally but none of this shot would’ve happened if I was white�� :/

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SEASON EIGHT CANON DIVERGENCE BY EPISODES.

content:  !!!!  season eight is a wild ride, folks. but i’m tired of being angry? it’s okay, it’s a tv show;  so i hope that,  in spite of the icky writings that not all can agree with,  we’re all able to move pass it and make our own canon that suits our interest. with that said,  here is my version and adaptation of gendry’s interpretation that goes along with season eight   (  that can be slightly altered depending on my roleplaying partners of course  ).   i hope people are respectful of my decision regarding my writings of him !!

trigger warnings: got spoilers, sexual assault mention, rape mention, death mention, murder mention.

episode one.

that whole earth / baratheon undertone? amazing. brilliant. gorgeous. he walked right into winterfell with a horse and he looks STUNNING. moving past that, i do accept his interactions with both the hound and arya. i do believe he won’t really have much of a respond to the hound, not when he was only being proud of his handiwork, and should arya haven’t interrupted, he’ll probably just grunt and turn away. i wish his first interaction with arya has more — feelings into it. it’s been at least five years since he last saw her, and those are five years that he thought she passed away; even through the teasing, he would’ve looked - sad. disbelief, even. and he would’ve tried to ask where she’d been. but as is, 

conclusion:  i’m pretty okay with falling back into canon, with slight differences might be gendry’s expression and thought process having had the touch of melancholy and Concern(tm) since he is holding about five-years worth of guilt.

episode two.

i talked more about it over here. 

conclusion: gendry didn’t prioritise arya’s weapon (though he has every intention in completing it), he still put it out there that he worries for her because that was his job the whole time he knew her when they were kids, he did gave her the weapon in private. they didn’t have sex. gendry probably just wants to sit down somewhere and talk. he probably also wanted to properly apologise. they’re gonna be dead in a few hours, and he would want to spend few of those minutes telling her that he’d regretted not following her, that he should’ve listened to her, and that he knows he lets her down. if the conversation is cut short, gendry spent it sleeping. he’s been working non-stop towards that point. he’s definitely tired as hell.

( note: he didn’t [leave arya]. gendry leaving was never his choice. he was taken. if he’d followed the original plan, he was gonna oversee arya being returned to her family along with the brotherhood. however, from traumatisation of being victim of a sexual assault, kidnapping, attempted murder, gendry suffers survivor’s guilt and victim blaming. i don’t mind if your interpretation of arya stark still feels hurt by their parting, but i’d like to make it known that while gendry felt it’s his fault, it wasn’t. )

episode three.

hehehe i like this episode :) so much, you guys. talked it more over here. but i love it so we’re leaving this as is. 

the only additional point: gendry did search for arya in the post-battle. to him, she’s the closest thing he’s ever gotten to a family, even if he thinks he has long become unworthy of categorising himself as such. however, he met up with ser davos half-way, half-limping, and ser davos has had to help carry him to the godswood. the moment he saw arya, he fainted. it was only before they had to burn the bodies of the fallen was when he’s woken up.

episode four.

gendry did search for arya again. in my interpretation, jon and ser davos kept the fact that he was robert’s bastard lock down for his safety. but, for the sake of following canon, i don’t mind the news of it being slipped to daenerys. she made him a lord, and his argument is still the same ( “but i’m a bastard” ), and named him properly anyway. gendry isn’t - as happy. or glad. mostly, he’s confused, but he would accept the title. see: me referring to him not being able to refuse cause his announcement was in a public place, and in front of a council of Very Important People in “tl;dr”.

however, i think he has a feeling that the title won’t stick? his argument would’ve been, “i’m no lord. there are no folk of stormlands out here to name me. just a queen that’s yet to sit on a throne.” one of gendry’s main trait has been that he’s fairly sensible and witty. if he can see reality as it is in his cynical way when he’s a kid, he won’t see it differently as an adult. i think he would’ve had an idea that the queen only wanted to name him for alliances: she made a title out of him, and he’ll exchange his and his men’s loyalty. it won’t be that easy. i think, being around the common folk the way he had been, gendry would anticipate that just putting a name and giving him a castle won’t win people’s heart and it definitely won’t make him, a foreigner to stormlands, a figure to lead the people there just because he carried robert’s surname.

still, he accepts the title - and waits for what will happen. in his head though, mentally, gendry doesn’t think he is lawfully legitimised and has every anticipations that the title will and can be taken away anytime.

regardless of that, i think arya still and will be the first person he breaks the first news to. if we’re following this process of thought though, he won’t - again - be as happy. he’d be more concerned, and discussed it pretty diplomatically with her. but he will mention that, if he takes the lordship, that they will be equal finally. gendry won’t propose — not the way he did in tv show canon. but i think he would imply? that he may want her by his side if it’s ever truly legitimised one day. he’d ask her to “be with me” and mention “none of it will be worth anything if you’re not with me.” and not even romantically, if that’s not your cup of tea. he just ... really wants her by his side, you know? this time, it’s him asking her to be his family — in any way that could mean to her.

if he gets rejected still, then yeah. so be it.

conclusion: the legitimisation happen. gendry is wary of it - and doesn’t trust the title will stick. his name is just gendry in my interpretation. he searches for arya actively, and he will ask arya to be with him — either as a platonic or a romantic partner, it doesn’t matter — he’s lost her once, and he wants her back. he gets shot down, and leaves arya to her archery.

episode five.

gendry is absent during the episode. to explain his absent, he is actually travelling to storm’s end to deal with his legitimisation with the current house rulers, house estermont. here is more insight on what i meant.

conclusion: gendry was dealt to leave with the legitimisation and is corresponding via ravens to storm’s end from winterfell, with the help of sansa and brienne*. upon acceptance that gendry may have a claim, house estermont invites gendry for a small hearing among the storm lords to see through the legitimisation. conflicts arise. he’d only arrived for a few days when news of king’s landing burning came through.

episode six.

i talked about it more over here.

conclusion: gendry returns to the show as a lord. if we’re following the preferred canon for this blog, there is no longer a throne / a king / a queen to rule over the seven kingdoms. instead, they created a high council where all seven rulers of the seven kingdoms, at an equal power, can come together to discuss the betterment of the overall of westeros. in this circumstances, gendry is made the king of the stormlands. however, if we’re following king bran canon, gendry will demand stormlands to have an independence, as well — mainly to tame the political unrest and riot within the land from dissatisfaction of gendry, who, upon legitimisation, has a legal right to the throne, is not made to be king of the seven kingdoms.