The reason Athelnar is so fuckin great as a ship is that it’s almost ALWAYS the cute-little-twink tm who yearns over the big-brutish-hetero macho-mc-tm who never notices the way the soft, kind little guy looks at him nor would he ever consider anything beyond friendship- and these two hugely subvert that because it is so DAMN OBVIOUS that Giant Scary Viking King Ragnar is the one who so desperately yearns for his Tiny Little Viking Priest
















