#gerald dayne

[sanrixian]

Gerry "Darkstar" Dayne, I need him biblically

[lj-todd]

The Wolf of Dorne (GoT fanfic preview) From the day Jon had arrived in Dorne as a child they had become his family and friends, accepting him when all before had scoffed and scorned him. In Princess Arianne, Daemon Sand and Edric Dayne he gained siblings and closest companions. In Gerald Dayne he found the love to whom his heart would always belong. In Allyria Dayne he was gifted a mother’s love he had never known. In Daeron Vaith he gained a father who was proud to claim him and gifted him a true name and legacy. For all that Jon had been born to the North, for all that he had Northern blood in his veins, Dorne had become his home and its people were his family.

[sanrixian]

Some darkstar thirst for y'all

[theculturalvacuum]

Thoughts on Darkstar? Everyone seems to think he was just Martin trying to recapture the popularity of Oberyn and failing miserably.

I’ve heard people state in the past that GRRM, like, owned up to this, but I’ve never been able to find the source.

And I would be surprised to, to tell the truth. I’m not entirely convinced that you’re supposed to take Darkstar all that seriously. Maybe it’s him who’s trying to recreate Oberyn’s baddass persona and failing miserably, rather than Martin. I mean, it’s obvious that he’s actually physical dangerous, but it’s also obvious that he’s majorly envious of his more famous relative (and his famous relative’s giant sword…). And his behaviour to Arianne is kind of… he’s really wants her to know how cool he is too.

I definitely don;t think were supposed to like him, the way we’re meant to like Oberyn. Oberyn had a sense of humour. And he wasn’t into killing kids.

Clearly the author meant for us to consider this character from Arianne’s perspective, in both a Doylist and Watsonian way. He’s obviously supposed to be one of her mistakes. But that mistake isn’t that she was “fooled by him”. Like, read “The Queenmaker” he gives her the heebie jeebies. The fact that she spend all of her subsequent chapters beating herself up for that is just so… Arianne. 

But the mistake she made was that she thought she could control him, that this volatile chess piece that had its own mind and motive would just do as she said and no more, because she had Martell Faced him. 

Sound familiar?