this is the asoiaf fan in me being too loud, but arya early on in the story and the part where sansa is exasperated that her sister befriends anyone + margaery taking the time to personally talk to people and hear about their problems and buy from local merchants and bakers and such and go to orphanages and all the stuff the tyrells do for pr except i think as much as her family would be trying to benefit from it she just genuinely cares and wants to be around these people and know them and their troubles as well as possible and firsthand if she's to be their queen
i think the ellerians, in general, were ambitious (not all of her brothers were, but certainly the last one alive who'd be head of the house after the wars; he wanted the connection to the throne and place in the house of nobles, and he'd have been the one to ensure varian fulfilled the promise to marry tiffin, since it was made by their parents originally). they probably didn't approve of her befriending commoners as a child, nor did her genuine care reflect her family's thoughts. which is all just a rant to say i don't think she ever wanted to be queen, but if she was going to be anyway, she'd always have been determined to use that power for the good of common people as much as possible. no, that didn't make her many friends among nobility and she wasn't popular with the house of nobles.
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this was supposed to be a celebration of me finishing the show but i forgot to post it, so i present... a gen kill playlist
you done too much, been too unkind
so rally up the demons of your soul
all the things you wanna kill will give you spite
the boy who fell into the sky, had no one there to watch him cry
tell me what i'm supposed to think, when the bullets start to pour, lie about some greater good, when you ship me off to war
and when we go don't blame us, we'll let the fires just bathe us, you made us oh so famous, we'll never let you go
we at war, we don't know what for, they made up a reason behind closed doors
maybe they would listen to me one time, if i died on the frontline, as a martyr in the bloodline, instead i'm singing in the sunshine
they will blame us, crucify and shame us
they all followed me down here, to an alleys dirty end, oh i had nothing to give them, i just thought they were my friends
what does your sworn enemy regret?
i don't believe in anything, they tell me's set in stone, they say that we're together, but i'm sat here on my own, in the company of strangers, this trigger happy scene, i see them now and then, still spitting out those lies, strange it doesn't bother me, i've got my own disguise
and i hope for your sake that you're on our side
look what you've done to yourself, yeah, you've lost the will to do what's right again
no one gives two fucks about the values i would kill for, give them something to die for, give me something to die for / no one's too perturbed about the things i would live for, give me something to try for, give me something to try for
and i saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies
is there any good inside of me? losing sense of my morality, she's getting thirsty, my killer curiosity, my boredom with my own reality
and they sacrifice their lives and they're lying about those odds
i'm young and i'm hopeless, i'm lost and i know this, i'm going nowhere fast, that's what they say
and if i make it through today, will tomorrow be the same?
we lost this game so many times before
i'm just here flying off the deep end, i'm just here to become the best yet, i'm just here for the psych assessment
i'm just here for the fall, we've gone way too fast for way too long
and through it all how could you cry for me?
decide my past, define my life, don't ask questions, 'cause i don't know why
and there's nothing wrong with me, this is how i'm supposed to be, in a land of make believe, that don't believe in me
well, they encourage your complete cooperation, send you roses when they think you need to smile, i can't control myself because i don't know how, and they love me for it, honestly, i'll be here for a while / i gave you blood, blood, gallons of the stuff, i gave you all that you can drink, and it has never been enough, i gave you blood, blood, blood, i'm the kind of human wreckage that you love
the man who would be king goes to the desert, the same war his dad rehearsed, came back with flags on coffins and said "we won, oh we won"
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