5: Denys Mallister/Cotter Pyke: Hard to say no to a long-term long-distance hatemarriage between two grumpy old bastards. I love to imagine they write letters back and forth, Denys writes verbose, scathing essays. Cotter can’t read, so Maester Harmune is stuck being their go-between, however, when asked if he would like the multiple paragraphs of long-winded complaints and insults that clearly took hours to write read to him, Cotter just goes, “😏 No.” This is foreplay to them.
4: Alf of Runnymudd/Garth Greyfeather - I just love a barely implied, barely present tragic gay romance that has devastating effects on the plot. They were in love! Alf deserved to stab Jon and given the chance I think he should do it again.
3: Benjen/Jeor - Every day i thank you for coming up with the concept of them. Every time Benjen is in a situation where he might run into Jorah, he wears an, “I made your dad a bottom” t-shirt. When Mormont’s raven said “Ben-Jen!” when it doesn’t usually say two-syllable words, meaning Jeor probably taught it to say his name 😭. Jeor leading the biggest ranging in recent memory just to get his First Ranger back is unparalleled. Ben, and I cannot stress this enough, fucked that old man.
2: Qhorin/Mance - The ORIGINAL wall husbands. The simply immaculate friends to lovers to exes on opposite sides of a war. The lingering affection and understanding between them, but fundamental difference of belief leading them to be mortal enemies. It just cant be beat.
1: Pyp/Grenn - I couldn’t even do them justice by writing a paragraph about them. They are just the best
