Racist 1: Hey boss, you remember our plan to make House Velaryon Black?
Racist 2: Yes, stroke of genius, it's a nice and safe way to get diversity points while still keeping it white.
Racist 1: Well, not exactly. See I've been running the numbers, and we have an alarming situation on our hands. By the time we get to the Dance we're looking at six major black characters on our screens.
Racist 2: Six? We can't handle six!
Racist 3: It gets worse sir. Half of them are black women.
Racist 2, panicking: Shit. Three whole black women?
Racist 3: Actually four black women when you count Marilda-
Racist 2: Who the fuck is Marilda?
Racist 3: Addam and Alyn's mother.
Racist 2: Oh phew, we can just say she's dead. But what are we to do about the rest?
Racist 1: Well for Addam and Alyn there's a simple solution. It just so happens that there are two other white dragonseeds absolutely no one cares about, we could put the spotlight on them instead?
Racist 2: Perfect, excellent idea. Can we do the same with the black women?
Racist 1: Unfortunately no, but what if we tried merging two of the black women into one character?
Racist 2: That still leaves us with two black women. We couldn't possibly handle more than one. [Slaps hand on table] Think people, think, we're on the clock here.
Racist 3: We could put the other black woman in a half assed love triangle with her two uncles. That way we efficiently roll three storylines into one minor sideplot, and they won't take up the space we urgently need for Larys and Aegon's bro trip, or another Targaryen hallucinating fucking his mother in Harrenhal.
Racist 2: Promising, promising.. but is it enough?
Racist 1: Hmm... What we need is another white character to balance the scales. Audiences might accept two black women if we add a white.
Racist 2: Any existing characters we could work with?
Racist 3: Alysanne Blackwood?
Racist 2: Another woman? Good lord no, we're already asking too much of our audiences. It has to be a man.
Racist 3: Well there's Cregan Stark, Benjicot Blackwood, Rhaenyra's other sons Joffrey, Aegon, Viserys-
Racist 2: -Anyone from Team Green?
Racist 3: ...Ormund Hightower?
Racist 1: Hmm, we can make him a main too, the more whites the better, but on his own he's a little too mass murdery. We need a white male hero on team patriarchy so our conservative viewers don't feel personally threatened.
Racist 3: [triumphantly snaps his fingers] I've got it! Gwayne Hightower!
Racist 2: What does he do in the book?
Racist 3: Absolutely nothing!
Racist 2: Perfect! Make him a main character!
Racist 2: Drink up lads, crisis averted!
Racist 2: Wait, what if the woke crowd notice what we're up to?
Racist 3: Eh, imply Gwayne is gay and they'll forget all about it.
