#but yeah every single baratheon in f&b is like *that*. breeds true along with the black hair and blue eyes i guess lol sigh

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Note that The Hedge Knight first established the historic fratbro gigachad Baratheon model wayyy back in 1998 (and then TWOIAF showed Lyonel was an asshole too). THK was also where Maekar first appeared -- and THK was written while GRRM was working on ACOK where Stannis first appeared. It's all coming together...

fire and blood establishing that every single baratheon is a frat bro gigachad asshole and robert is just made in the image of his forefathers while stannis is an extreme weirdo outlier who just happened to get the recessive visenyistical maekarpilled targaryen second son stoicism disorder makes their entire dynamic so fucking funny in hindsight