#lady melisandre

[nastygot]

#198

[aristetic]

Lady Melisande Modern Au!

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[novaursa]

You say show Alys and Aemond are Temu Melissandre and Stannis, and yet I feel they're not even that.

Melissandre is a gifted seer, even if she "aura farms" using simple smoke-and-mirror tricks. She has visions and genuinely believes Stannis is TPTWP. But she fails to interpret her vision(s) correctly. Despite her intimidating presence, Mel is, in fact, an ancient insomniac facing a mental breakdown. These mundane problems she has to deal with really himanizes her.

Show Alys, in turn, is supposed to be the most powerful seer ever. She'a capable of actually showing poeple what she sees. It happened with Daemon. But if I unerstand correctly, she didn't show Aemond the brilliant future of the dynasty they're gonna start. Instead she just tells him so. Interestingly enough, stuff Aemond learns from Alys sound like something he he wants, and always has wanted, to hear.

I agree. Alys is feeding Aemond precisely what he wants to hear and steering him toward whatever outcome benefits her, possibly with magical influence strengthening that control.

I think she tried something similar with Daemon, but changed tactics because he was not as psychologically vulnerable. Alys seems to tailor her manipulation around each victim’s deepest fears and weaknesses.

And this shitshow handles prophecy terribly.

Melisandre works because her visions are fragmented, uncertain, and frequently misread despite her absolute faith. HOTD treats visions like convenient spoilers delivered directly by the universe, which removes all mystery and makes its supposedly powerful seers painfully dull.

[braime-brainrot]

[lukreziaaa]

“You burned a little girl alive!” “I only do what my lord command.” “If he commands you to burn children, your lord is evil! […] I loved that girl like she was my own.

She was good. She was kind. And you killed her.”

[ser-shitpost-lannister]

Mance Rayder: please don't sacrifice me to the Red God

Melisandre: its ok i will only pretend, that will satisfy Stannis' men

Mance: oh thank the gods

Melisandre: i'll disguise you as Rattleshirt, you just have to act like him

Mance: no thanks i'd rather die

[songbirdsmelodies]

Lady Melisandre of Asshai.

«Lady Melisandre wore no crown, but every man there knew that she was Stannis Baratheon’s real queen, not the homely woman he had left to shiver at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.»

[sare11aa11eras]

Melisandre all dolled up