YASSS BAELORNATION WE UPPPP ✊🏻
WE ARE INDEED 🙂↕️ i haven't quite finished part two to pornstar!baelor, but i'll still leave you with some baelor musings!
i’m rewatching downton abbey and i can’t help but think of reader, who’s the eldest of three daughters and should, really ought to be the heiress of her family's estate upon the passing of her older brother. but she's not. she's not, because she's a woman, and because the world has decided that women do not inherit. women marry. and so marry she must.
and in, of course, comes lord baelor targaryen.
he's the perfect suitor. his family line is just as ancient yet nowhere near as rich, because somewhere along the centuries they spent contending for power between each other, the targaryens were left only with a name to echo their former grandeur. by the seven, did you hear they've even lost dragonstone? yes, really, it was in the papers!
and he’s, of course, paraded around like some sort of savior because, upon his marriage to reader, he promises to care for their castle as if it were his own. because it will be. and her parents love him. not only is his name just as prestigious, but he's also polite. he's a gentleman. i mean, even her sisters cannot help but be a little envious. it's a good marriage, and he seems to be a good man. and, on top of it all, he's handsome, they say.
and reader just cannot stand it. cannot stand him. cannot stand the way he’s sweet, and gentle, and considerate. cannot stand the sound of his voice, always soft and kind, and cannot stand the look in his eyes, forever patient and tender. her sisters would say he's only that way when he's around her, but she would all but perish at the thought. he, after all, only wants her for her fortune, does he not?
no. no, she absolutely cannot stand him. even less so when he seems certainly besotted, completely enamoured by her.
as if he wanted her. for her.
