#tysha and shae imo while they play similar roles the thing is the boogeyman in that story is TYWIN not the girls which is interesting!
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jon/ygritte is very interesting bc even tho their situation was pretty fucked up jon did love her! gendrya is cute but arya is too young and the books are never being finished so yeah
yeah those are both very fair. i think if we got the finished books, gendrya would be in that category of “genuine good love story” bc right now it’s like the beginning and middle build up but, especially from gendry’s end, no real climax. i don’t think arya is aware she has romantic feelings for gendry, i’ve said before i think he’s aware of her feelings and just didn’t know how to handle it, and now feels some extreme guilt over ~rejecting~ her unknown crush. and i think that’s very typical sort of romance novel misunderstanding that could come to a very lovely conclusion. but right now arya is still an eleven year old completely unaware of the romantic undertones of that entire thing while gendry is (i always forget his age is he 15??) just like, trying not to die in the riverlands while he stews in his guilt lol.
jonygritte meanwhile is VERY much one of those toxic romances but i think people are really silly about it. there’s significantly more romanticism in this relationship than other ones, and i think it’s silly to ignore that aspect for the hardline anti ygritte takes the same as like, ignoring those toxic elements really takes away how interesting this relationship is. on the one hand, there’s very much a reason that this romance serves a similar narrative purpose as like, dany/drogo, tyrion/tysha and tyrion/shae, sansa/sandor, etc, and it’s bc there’s some FREAKY consent issues going on here lmao but on the other hand….jon’s feelings for ygritte have impacted not just his own feelings on romance but also his entire leadership arc re: gender & culture it’s so stupid to pretend like she’s ONLY there as a negative influence (this is how i feel about sandor too).
#i’m not sure drogo should be considered on their level bc he is not deep as a character even slightly. but i do think we are meant to see#dany’s feelings for him as real and genuine even if they are a coping mechanism. i think the point there is that just bc he was awful doesnt#mean that those small moments of paternalistic kindness weren’t important to dany. both sandor & ygritte are given more sympathetic#backgrounds and that’s a race thing with george that we can all clearly see lol lmao it’s fine he’s the same age as one of my grandmas#(the older grandma too lol)#tysha and shae imo while they play similar roles the thing is the boogeyman in that story is TYWIN not the girls which is interesting!#bc drogo is obviously the bad guy in that one & sandor/ygritte play similar ‘victim who victimizes someone they have control over to ~help’#asks#anons#anyways once again i think people see ygritte as significantly more stupid and sadistic than she actually is & also as much less aware of#the dynamic that’s going on. whenever people are like ‘she doesn’t know jon is gonna flip on her’ it’s So clear she knows guys#that’s why they fascinated 16 year old me!! they both know it’s gonna end badly!!!!! they jump in anyway!!!!!!!
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