#because its LARGER than it is. its all the hurt and trauma and suffering gendry had endured
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forgaeven1 · 1 year ago
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"you wouldn't be my family. you'd be m'lady" spoken from gendry to arya was never supposed to be romantic. it's supposed to highlight how much hurt and trauma gendry has had to suffer or watch people suffer from the treatments they received at the hands of those of noble birth and having had his status as lowborn or bastard or an orphan ( with essentially no money ) always be embed into his knowledge as being lower than that of high society when?? they've done basically nothing but exist. it definitely isn't arya's fault to want gendry as a companion, but it isn't wrong for gendry to assume that, had he followed arya, his worth wouldn't be any different in the traditional north than it was in king's landing. if he'd followed her, he really couldn't be her family—he's lowborn. he would be serving her, thus, m'lady.
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