Maybe this is a stupid question but I was rewatching AKOT7K and I noticed that, after the Tria,l Baelor immediately sends the maeseters to tend to Maekar, specifically stating they will tend to Dunk after. No mention of Daeron and Aerion at all. Now I know those aren't his kids, but it is still family, and even moreso, after fighting for Dunk and seeing how bad he looks he still sends the maesters to Maekar first? Despite the fact that they fought against each other? My question is, why? I have not read the books so maybe I'm missing context but like... despite ALL THAT he still sends the maesters to his brother first?
Here are my best guesses:
Despite what a coup it was for Baelor to participate in the trial against his own family members, he’s still quite rule-bound (“Aerion would like your head, with or without teeth. He will not have it, I promise you, but I cannot deny him a trial”) and thus sending his maester to attend a hedge knight before a prince of the blood was likely a step too far
Despite their issues, I think it’s safe to assume that Baelor does indeed love Maekar. Perhaps there’s also something of an implicit apology here for fighting against him and his sons, even though Baelor knows that defending Dunk was the right thing to do
As its patriarch, Maekar is to an extent a synecdoche for his household, and thus it may well go without saying that the maester’s care extends to Daeron and Aerion
There’s also the elephant in the room that this calculus occurs after Baelor had received a fatal head wound
Finally, on a storytelling level, it ensures that not only does Baelor fight and die for a hedge knight, but he dies in said hedge knight’s arms (while Maekar is not even present. Compounded suffering for the Prince of Summerhall, etc.)
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