#there's an entire subplot devoted to goosefat bill giving baelish an inferiority complex

[aces-to-apples]

yeah, I'm gonna hafta bug you for some Arthur/Sansa now, dear, because YES

listen not to knock *checks notes* all the stark boys, oberyn martell, and sandor clegane from three to five pm every other thursday, but arthur pendragon really would be the only man from westeros to asshai who talks the talk and walks the walk and that’s the tea folks.

he’s gorgeous, courageous, compassionate, cunning, and sassy as fuck.

he wrestled control of an entire kingdom out of the hands of his super fucked up on magic uncle, not because he wanted to rule, but because vortigern was hurting people. he walked his dissociating, traumatized ass into a castle full of people who wanted to behead him to save the people he cared about. he fought the literal embodiment of his nightmares and childhood trauma because who else was there to do it huh? brave, check.

“why have enemies when you can have friends?” and “where’s lucy?/she’s a good girl/a nice girl/she works here/see she’s a friend of mine” and “you lot have looked after me a lot longer than i’ve looked after you” and “he’s a good boy/an upstanding citizen/the law-abiding, proactive blue boy and his fun-loving dad”? gentle, check.

he’s spent a good couple decades learning to defend himself from corrupt blacklegs who probably never did a good, worthwhile thing in all their careers and went to bat against seven feet of viking beef for one of the sex-workers who raised him and wields excaliber, the magical semi-sentient sword of death. strong, check.

by god i think we’ve cracked the code here folks, the once and future king and the “traumatized to every hell and back again” queen of the north are the real endgame of GoT.

(bonus points if you include the mage)