#carabbit

[lyannas]

@carabbit i just laughed until i cried omg. honestly if you told me i would go from obsessing over asoiaf to crying over anime characters i would have probably wondered what the fuck happened to me too

[hylialeia]

Small question: if the others hate iron, why does waymar royce sword shatter? They ain't seem so bothered by it.

I believe Waymar Royce’s sword was steel, in keeping with his notably more extravagant knightly attire that Will describes, in detail, in AGOT’s prologue:

Ser Waymar Royce was the youngest son of an ancient house with too many heirs. He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife. Mounted on his huge black destrier, the knight towered above Will and Gared on their smaller garrons. He wore black leather boots, black woolen pants, black moleskin gloves, and a fine supple coat of gleaming black ringmail over layers of black wool and boiled leather.

It doesn’t mention specifically that his sword is steel, but traditionally that’s what the finer, more expensive weaponry of Westeros is made of. Iron is heavier and more brittle, but steel is a knight’s metal.

Personally, though, I think the Other’s sword has him beat.

The Other slid forward on silent feet. In its hand was a longsword like none that Will had ever seen. No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor. (AGOT, Prologue)

I can’t find where it says the White Walkers dislike or are weakened by iron, though. Dragonglass, yes, since dragonglass is “frozen fire” and GRRM isn’t being subtle about the fact that dragons are needed to defeat the Long Night.

(If they do dislike iron, though, it could be a pretty clever homage faerie mythology, and the fact that faeries and their magic are vulnerable/weakened by iron! The Others pretty consistently mirror Fae in terms of immortal carelessness and cruelty.)

[lyannas]

carabbit replied to your post “i would not mind an age of heroes miniseries where each ep centers...”

I would watch the shit out of valyria getting blown up

similarly, i would watch the shit out of bran the builder spending the 1 hour tv slot just building things

[hylialeia]

choose violence 16!

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

the sort of unquestioning reverence for Val as a wildling princess/cool girl love interest for Jon Snow perplexes meee. it's not as prevalent now but for a while there they were SUCH a popular ship and no one could conceive if Val as anything other than the perfect badass woman. it felt so antithetical to everything about asoiaf and the depth of povs

[glamaphonic]

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[ellieellieoxenfree]

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