#kingslaying

[saintstars]

Blood, Guts, and Dior

[agentrouka-blog]

Do you think Jaime killing the mad king is foreshadowing Jon killing a mad queen Dany?

Once upon a time, I would have said that it well could be, but the show really had to contrive so many improbable character distortions to place Jon and Dany in an even remotely similar scenario that I just can't see it happening in the books that way.

Jon killing Dany would not be shocking or especially tragic given all the characterization we have been presented so far. What would it add to either of them?

And it's not like sharp and pointy betrayal is an especially unique way to die as a king. Aerys, Renly and Robb were all unexpectedly killed by a traitorous sword. Balon and Robert had treachery involved. (Robert really stands out here as doing himself in, essentially. While a teenaged Lannister held a wine jug instead of a blade.)

Jaime gives us a precedent for the kind of vulnerability that a mad despot actually has. Dozens of armed adults let Aerys commit atrocity after atrocity, and one boy impulsively lifted the veil of delusion and blind obedience and showed Aerys for what he was: a fragile old mad man that should not have had the power to kill anyone but for the complicity of everyone else.

(And he is villified for it. He is also not a good person who commits his own evil deeds. But he is the only one who actually acted against a tyrant at that moment.)

The knowledge of this vulnerability is established in the books now and it is something Dany is well aware of. If anything, she would specifically try to guard against her father's fate. She has been the target of assassination several times already. She and the reader will certainly tensely wonder who might try it when. There will likely be many qualified candidates by the time it this becomes relevant.

I think the more interesting question at the time, though, will also center around who has the opportunity and doesn't. To kill her, or just to stop her, and why. That damning complicity of those around her either blinded by hypocritical rules or their own sense of advantage.

When the catastrophe happens, will some single person get the (dis)honor of dispatching her when it's too late? Or will Dany be the source of her own demise and a bunch of people will be left standing and making excuses and pointing fingers at everyone but themselves?

[margueritedanjou]

DEATH OF AN ANOINTED KING:

THE ASSASSINATION OF HENRY VI OF ENGLAND.

“The Croyland Chronicle condemned the 'tyrant' who 'dared to lay sacrilegious hands on the Lord's Anointed' and by June word had reached France that Edward had 'caused King Henry to be secretly assassinated in the Tower... He has, in short, chosen to crush the seed.’

The Warkworth Chronicle, written no later than 1484, noted suggestively that when Henry died he was kept company in the Tower by 'the duke of Gloucester', Edward's youngest brother and the man who had only a few weeks before condemned most of Henry's surviving commanders to execution in Tewksbury. But Gloucester was certainly not alone in the Tower.

At one point during Fauconberg's rebellion, the lieutenant of the Tower, the septuagenarian Lord Dudley, was commanding a hundred soldiers there and thirty-six men are named as being in attendance on Henry during his last imprisonment. Any one of these men might have been Henry's murderer.

Even the exact cause of Henry's death was unclear. A legend soon arose that Henry had been stabbed. However, when his body was exhumed in 1910, the skull was found to be 'apparently matted with blood' and broken in several places. He may therefore have died from a blow to the head.

What is certain is that in spite of the legends that later wove themselves around Richard, duke of Gloucester, connecting his hand with Henry's death, the ultimate responsibility for it lay with Edward IV.

As constable of England, Gloucester was responsible for imparting royal justice and may have carried a royal command for Henry's death. But that order had to come from Edward.

Whatever befell Henry the night before, on the morning of 22 May 1471 his body was embalmed with wax and spices, then wrapped in linen for burial.

But before he could be laid to rest there was one last forced procession he had to make. To prove, once and for all, that the House of Lancaster was defeated, Henry's corpse was loaded on to a wagon to wind its way through London's streets to St Paul's Cathedral, surrounded by torchbearers and soldiers.

For a few days he was left on display in the cathedral, his unseeing face open to public scrutiny. As his body lay on the pavement of the church it was seen to bleed, a sign that was generally understood to indicate that Henry had been murdered.”

JOHNSON, Lauren. “Shadow King: Life and Death of Henry VI”

[elwenn-dreaming]

The difference between G. R. R. Martin and J. R. R. Tolkien

Is the G that fell off.

The G between kingslaying and kinslaying.

[leonum-matrem-blog]

     Did I just catch a glimpse of the Native American Host I’ve been praying to the Media Gods to give me?

[undauntedlioness]

❝  MYRCELLA BARATHEON was a princess born. And a LANNISTER, despite her name; as much JAIME’S blood as CERSEI’S. ❞

independent MYRCELLA BARATHEON written by MEL independent JAIME LANNISTER written by KRISTEN independent CERSEI LANNISTER written by MELODY

[podstye]

Check yourself before you Shrek yourself || The Shrekening

Charming | Puss in Boots | Gingerbread Man | Shrek | Donkey | Fiona | King Harold | Queen Lillian | Godmother

[wildlingflowered-blog]

JUST US AND THE WORLD BURNING BEHIND US. // CERSEI + JAIME + CERENNA POLYSHIP AESTHETIC. 

@kingslaying + @wineinthewidow ( ft. @cerseilionesslannister ); All three of you are perfect together or apart but your polyship is the polyship of all polyships and  is the true queen of them all. ♡