#muse (renly)

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[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” sentence starters [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @outlawiism​ [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: Renly (I’ve also moved Renly to a sideblog, if you are interested @bestofthem​ [𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄]:  ❝ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ❞ 

❝I could not agree more.❞ He will not pretend that he does not love the attention he is getting from people, nor will he pretend that he does not mostly get positive attention ❝Has anyone been talking about you, Peter?❞ He likes the boy, he is fun and much like Renly he does not seem to ruminate on what has happened in the past. Not with Renly, at least. So he gives him a grin, ready to listen to whatever the other has to say.

[illfatedpartners]

[𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑]: plotted [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: Renly [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: Stannis ( @tymptir​ )

Who would have thought that he would lose like this? And he wouldn’t have if…If what? He is still not sure what had happened. They had the numbers. His warriors were gallant, they were strong. And yet in just few moments, they had lost and everyone seemed as baffled as Renly was. At least Loras had been alive by the time he was captured and he hopes that Renly’s “it’s okay” would stop the knight from trying to escape, from trying to get Renly out. He had to think of his family now, who Renly is not sure whether they had already made a deal with Stannis or ran to the Lannisters. But what if Loras refused to? What if Stannis killed him as an example? Renly could beg him to spare Loras’ life, to tell him how he had only been loyal to Renly just like Stannis had once been loyal to Robert. But what begging ever did for Stannis? It never made him stay. Begging only worked for people with great ego or people that loved the beggar, and Stannis belonged to neither category. He can point out how an alliance with the Tyrells would help him defeat the Lannisters, but he will leave that for later. As for his own life...he already knows what is going to happen.

So as Renly is led to Stannis, he does not look like a man that has lost everything, something that takes a lot of effort, right until he is left alone with Stannis. Without consciously realising it, he has pretended everything was okay all his life as a Lord, and perhaps this is the only way he knows how to act around the man ❝Your Grace.❞ Renly makes a dramatic bow — as dramatic as his small injury on his side allows him to before flinching ❝Thank you for granting me audience today. Granted, I did not ask for one. Even so…❞ he can’t help but laugh and he does not make considerate attempt to stop. For the first time since before the battle, he takes a look at his brother. When was the last time they spoke in private? It had been years it seems. Renly continues, ignoring Stannis if he said anything. His tone is light, careless as if is here for a social visit to someone he does not like and he is certainly going to judge. ❝First of all, I did not expect you to gloat, because I have come to the conclusion that you are incapable of smiling…or feeling joy, but I thought you would not be as solemn as you usually are.❞ he clicks his tongue and glances around ❝Second of all…this place looks awful. You could have at least made an attempt to decorate it. Bright colourful fabrics and good furniture can transform a room, you know.❞

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[𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑]: here [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: Renly [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: @goldenkingslayer​

❝I think what you did was very brave.❞ the boy whispers to the knight when Robert walked away, calling Jaime ‘the Kingslayer’. Renly isn’t sure why Robert doesn’t seem to like Jaime Lannister or why he calls him that way, since in the end, his actions helped Robert take the throne. He knows better than to ask, however. Unlike his brothers, Renly does want his new family to like him, and if he knows something well, is how to be nice, how to compliment people.

❝I knew that Robert would defeat Rhaegar, but...I was still worried that the Mad King would burn us all. Were you not afraid?❞

[illfatedpartners]

[𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑]: here [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: Renly [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: Sansa // @hiddensteel​

Renly never liked the Lannisters and they never seemed to like the Baratheons either, which was evident in Robert’s marriage, in the way Jaime stood in the room, in Tywin’s not so subtle comments. Why should they tolerate them for much longer? If Margaery is to marry his brother, then Sansa Stark can marry Garlan. With the Starks by their side, they can get the Lannisters and those spawns of Cersei out of King’s Landing. And of course, if Sansa is to marry Garlan, she will surely be saved by a lifetime of unhappiness with his beloved nephew Joffrey. He is doing her a favour, really.

❝I hope I am not interrupting anything.❞ he says softly as he approaches the girl in the gardens with a smile.  ❝I have never been to Winterfell, but I am assuming all these flowers do not grow up there.❞ he pauses briefly, as if he wants to examine the flowers before him and continues, his gaze on Sansa  ❝Yet nothing matches the beauty of the flowers in Highgarden. You have not visited the place, have you?❞

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[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]: Send 💬  for me to make you a starter with a random line of dialogue [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @kingalfrcd​ [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: Renly

If every other Lord and Lady, Renly meets are exaggerating about their experiences, why can’t he? He is allowed to complain too, and who wouldn’t, after spending half a week in the woods with Stannis, Robert, Jaime and a couple of boring servants? He is not sure if Alfred wishes he could have joined them, but hopefully his story would save the man from accepting any future invitations ❝But this is the only thing that made the last three days bearable.❞ His brother Robert would have showed his favourite wine, but Renly never quite enjoyed alcohol, and instead he presented a perfume to the other man.  ❝Whenever my brothers started fighting, I opened this bottle and pretended I was somewhere else. It is made with ingredients only found in Highgarden. Trust me...❞ he holds it out for Alfred to take and smell ❝this is the best perfume in Westeros.❞

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@musenssang​ cont.

He never really loved Robert. Did he? He doesn’t know him, not really, so how could he love him? Robert had been someone he once admired, someone Renly thought would come and rescue them, someone he wanted to be like. A couple of years later, and Renly found his brother to be extremely annoying at times, tolerable at others and occasionally, fun. And someone he had nothing in common with. Yet, as he saw that boar attack his brother, as he saw what it had done to him after, Renly finds himself not wanting Robert to die. It doesn’t make any sense, and he isn’t going to admit it to Loras. To the rest, let him be the grieving brother, but he doesn’t want to admit it’s real. And he will not cry, not to show people he is grieving, not in front of anyone, not on his own.

For the first time, Renly isn’t quick to mock his nephew, the king to be (if Joffrey makes it, if Renly and the world lets him). ❝No.❞ he shakes his head slightly and keeps his gaze at the view of the city out of the window. But your mother did, that is something everyone knows, but Renly doesn’t say it out loud. ❝But becoming a King is supposed to be a cause of celebration, is it not? A victory. But, as Robert himself said, this is not always the case.❞

[illfatedpartners]

[𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑]: plotted [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: Renly [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: @servinglies​

It has been a long day, a long meeting (even as an intern, he stayed there as much as he had to. Who said he’s irresponsible?) and he needs to blow off some steam. Unsurprisingly, neither of his brothers join him, with Robert trying to get laid and Stannis giving him a mini lecture about how they are not in London to have fun. One of these days, Renly is going to take a DNA test. Not only he cannot be related to these people, but he finds it hard to believe these two are related to each other too.

So Renly finds himself in a bar, and he knows he can find someone to hang out with before he has even finished his first drink. And who knows, maybe he shall follow Robert’s footsteps and flirt with someone as well. He orders himself a Mojito (which he will switch to virgin after this one), and sits at the bar. After having a friendly conversation with the bar-woman, he scans the place around him and he spots a man, no more than a decade older than him. Hopefully, the other man does not mind, as Renly decides to approach. Why not? If nothing else, this would be an experience ❝Well, hello there.❞ Renly gives him one of his most charming smiles  ❝I will not use a lame pick-up line and instead, I will ask you if I could get you another drink?❞

[illfatedpartners]

[𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊]: SEND ME SOFT THINGS FOR MY MUSES [𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒]: accepting [𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌]: @multimuse-rp​ | Brienne [𝐅𝐎𝐑]: Renly [𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄]: “Your Grace?” Brienne slowly entered his tent. For once, she wasn’t wearing her armor. She’d heard he was having a tough time lately, and with all he’d done for her, she wanted to do the same for him. “Are you alright?” She walked over to him, not wanting to overstep her boundaries, but still wanting to keep him company. “Do you want to tell me what’s wrong?” (You asked for softness, here ya go! <3)

His victory has been glorious, people say about his victory over Stannis. It is expected of course, his brother never had the numbers  — why in the Seven Hells he thought he could win, remains a mystery.  And he is glad he won, he proved himself not only to his brother, but to his entire army, he showed everyone that they rightfully believed in him. Yet...what is he to do with Stannis? Half of his council tell him to kill his brother and his red woman, the other half to send him to the wall. There are those that tell him to spare his life from both death and the black, and let him have Storm’s End, make sure he stays there, with no assets, no followers, of course. But why does this decision trouble him? None of Stannis’ decisions ever seemed to be a result of deep thought, devoid of emotion  — they are a product of a book, a set of rules he loves going by. Renly always hated it, but at the moment, it seems rather appealing. But what do the books say about situations like this?

Stannis had always been one of the very few subjects Renly is reluctant to talk about with Loras. His Knight of Flowers never quite the older Baratheon (and rightfully so) and Renly never wanted to show such vulnerability, such idiocy to him, to indicate that perhaps he still cares about the man that abandoned him fifteen years ago. Brienne’s words bring him back to reality and he blinks, making himself give her a small smile  ❝Brienne.❞ he greets her and he does not say anything else for a moment, debating whether he should express his concerns  — or at least a very small part of them  — or dismiss her questions. Renly has been resting his jaw on his hand and taps his fingers to his cheek, before leaning back to his chair  ❝My council has been devided, over my brother’s fate. ❞ Brienne loves him, he knows, so she is not objective. Yet she is much better than anyone from his council, she has nothing to gain from Stannis’ death nor from his life. And even though he would not admit it, Renly finds himself liking her more every time he sees her. So, he thinks to himself, why not? ❝ What do you think I should do?❞