#onion dad

[joycreeper]

[kittyandco-archive]

wait a minute wasn't the female cat in the Puss in Boots movie named Kitty... I can just smell these terrible jokes from a mile away, like idk the timeline but let's pretend it's before Shre/k 2 and Puss immediately feels some type of way for me because my name is Kitty too. -w- And Shrek constantly has to scold him for being clingy lol

also i want to know what That Other Guy™ thinks

[aegcn]

Okay everyone, remember to tell your dad Happy Father’s Day and by that I mean, Ser Davos Seaworth the Onion Knight. 

[musical-chick-13]

Ser Davos too XD

YAY ONION DAD I LOVE HIM (also, sorry these are so late, grad work is...how you say...a Bitch™)

Send me a character and I’ll tell you the following:

• Did they live up to their potential? / In what ways was their potential unachieved?

-Obviously I’m talking show here because. Again. The books aren’t finished. Lmao. I’m not completely sure how to answer this one. Because, as I mentioned in the Melisandre ask, there was never any kind of...actual wrap up to his conflict with her? She just...laid down and died. Mainly I’m kind of sad that he was kind of reduced to a Jon Snow hype man in the later seasons. There were some tiny threads of his continued fight for doing what he considered to be the right thing, through his outburst at Melisandre after finding out about Shireen and trying to prevent Grey Worm from executing the prisoners in season 8, but he really kind of stopped having his own arcs after Stannis died. And...Stannis was also involved in Shireen’s death? That was never addressed, and considering Davos’s actual, mostly consistently decent moral compass, the conflict between honoring the memory of a much-loved friend and holding that friend responsible for the death of, essentially Davos’s surrogate child, was something that we needed to see for a satisfying through-line of his characterization. The narrative ignoring that was a crime, honestly.

• How they negatively and positively affected the story.

-The thing about Davos is that he injects (most of the time) a sense of realistic good into the story. He’s not perfect, but he does earnestly try to do the right thing and stick to his morals and save people, even if he has to anger people he cares about or respects in the process. It’s a much-needed relief from all of the duplicitous power plays and extreme violence almost everyone else engages in. His goodness isn’t bound to honor like Ned (and Jon tbh), or to absolute justice like Stannis, or to gaining the respect of/lessening the ostricization from his peers (like Jaime sort of attempts to do sometimes), or to The Greater Good™ as a whole (like show Varys or like Melisandre tries to do). He simply does what he feels is right, and this provides a touchstone of hope and groundedness to the story.

-As I mentioned above, in-show he kind of...existed later on primarily to support Jon, and I never really understood why? I didn’t see anything that provided proof of some sort of unbreakable bond or deep friendship, and I felt like there was no real catalyst for him attaching himself to Jon in anything other than a mutually beneficial allyship? This in and of itself isn’t something I’m going to quibble over a great deal, but it didn’t help in regard to the at times overdramatic, heavy-handed painting of Jon as The Savior of the World Who Is Always Right Always. Which, in my opinion, any work is going to suffer from building up any character in that manner.

• What my favorite arc for them is.

OH no question about this one at all, it’s when he blames Melisandre for the failure at Blackwater, gets thrown in jail for trying to assassinate her, later gets released for giving sound advice to Stannis (while bonding with Shireen 😊), and then RISKS HIS NEWLY-FOUND FREEDOM AND POSITION AS HAND (THE MAN. JUST. GOT OUT OF JAIL. BY WAY OF “EVERY ACT MUST HAVE A JUST™ RETRIBUTION BECAUSE RULES” STANNIS) TO SMUGGLE OUT EDRIC STORM (Gendry in the show). In either case, he rescues a bastard child, a class of people most dismiss as worthless and embarrassing, because it’s the right thing to do. He gives into violence (granted, he is doing what he sees as eliminating a dangerous threat) with his attempt on Mel’s life, and then directly disobeys his best friend, king, and person he loves and respects to stop further violence from entering the world. Which is especially poignant after witnessing Mel’s shadow assassin baby and seeing the violence that wrought. After everything done to him and his giving into violent impulse, he could have completely lost himself and gone full Dark™, but he doesn’t. He pulls himself back and saves a young man’s life, even at great risk to himself, because that person’s death would be unfair. And, for once in this miserable setting, he isn’t killed off for it. He provides valuable information to Stannis about the White Walkers through his newfound literacy, (which, in the show-can’t remember if it was mentioned in the books or not, it’s been awhile-is further corroborated by Melisandre, gaining her support) and is allowed to live. GOD that line where Stannis asks what is the worth of a bastard’s life against a kingdom and Davos answers, “Everything”???!!!! IT GETS ME!!! EVERY TIME!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• What I think of their ending.

-I would have loved more introspection: how does he deal with not being able to bring Melisandre to justice? How does he feel about all the things Stannis did in the name of claiming his so-called rightful title? How does he cope with losing another authority figure he can no longer serve now that Jon has been exiled? Ultimately, I’m happy for him. I think his general sense of morality (including disputing authority figures for the sake of saving lives) will serve Bran’s small council well, and considering his smuggling background and resultant expertise with ships, rebuilding the fleet is a fitting end for him.

• When I wish they had died. / If I think they should’ve died.

I think it’s good that he didn’t die. One, I would be sad. Two, there would not have been any narrative reason for him to do so. I remember getting to the Red Wedding, and I went, “Yeah, I can see why GRRM wrote this in order to move the story along.” No such plot furtherance would have resulted from killing off Davos. It would have just been for shock value (like Shireen, which you KNOW how I feel about that...). And third, it’s good that basic decency gets a win. Brienne is very morally good, but is left heartbroken by Jaime. Dany was made out to be good (though I myself will dispute that idea), but went off the deep end and ended up posing a bigger threat to Westeros than anyone else. Jon felt forced to do the unthinkable and got exiled for it, which has to dampen Sansa’s victory at least a little bit. And plenty of good characters have already been killed off. Many of season 8′s survivors emotionally ended up in a worse place than they started, but Davos had already been at an emotional low. His ending served to lift him up to a higher place than he had been before. And for a show as bleak as this, it needed that glimmer of hope, that doing the right thing can give you an untempered victory and keep you alive.

[aegcn]

Why couldn't Davos be on your side?

RIGHT???? I thought Onion dad at least had some sense in him. But I guarantee he at least thought it was wrong to kill me. 

[aegcn]

❤️ (also your mobile header omfg)

Ah, Davos Seaworth,my favorite onion dad,I like your weird beard.(a haiku)

[aegcn]

@davosshorthand Onion dad,

I need advice from someone who has a PhD in House Baratheon.

Love,

Renly

[thebearofhighgarden]

✦ (for Jorah & Davos lbr)

Jorah: After getting to know him, Wylla would realize that they share more than a few mannerisms and tend to speak rather poetically, though Wylla would own that one to an even greater extent. This would no doubt amaze the both of them, seeing as they had never met until just recently, and only further proves to Jorah that she truly is his daughter (even if he never once doubted it). They would have the same taste in ale, the same tendency to think and speak with a wisdom beyond their years (Jorah having the greater deal of wisdom due to being much older and significantly more experienced). More than anything, Wylla would find that what Maege had told her was more true than she could have ever believed; that she had indeed inherited Jorah’s heart.Davos: After learning that Davos was still continuing to learn to read, Wylla would make suggestion after suggestion of books and stories and poems he should read. She would also encourage him to write stories about his life, partially as a way to help his learning sink in, but also because she’d be wildly interested to hear about all of his adventures from his days as a smuggler to his time in service to Stannis. She would half-jokingly, half-seriously tell him that he should write a memoir as she believes it would join the ranks of some of the most classic histories and personal accounts in all of Westeros. They would habitually write letters to eachother, and Wylla would come to confide in him through these letters as if he were also her father, in addition to Jorah.