Hi was hoping (if your asks are still open) if you have any thoughts about raymun with a lowborn!reader? (Love the highborn takes everyone has, just want to see more lowborn/working class reader)
From watching the show, and now reading what we have of him in the tales of dunk and egg, he's one of the few characters who would be down bad for someone (regardless of social class/leniage or lack thereof) when he sees them struggling/overcoming the status quo and rigid social structures.
Like imagine, he's just branched off to start his own fully realized branch of the fossoways after what his cousin does, the stress and toll of the consequences of standing by his own choices. Lossing and gaining family over the choice he made at the trial of seven, making ends meet when cut off from the red apple branch. He'd be absolutely star struck by someone who is also branching out and defying expectations. Someone who would choose him just as steadfast as he chooses them.
Hes also in this weirdly unique position where he's making something new for his family, not necessarily relying on his name or heritage like the other houses do and we see more of as time goes on in the seven kingdoms.
I just love me a ride or die, and will leave asks everywhere to get the raymun hype train going.
My asks are still open, and they’ll stay that way until something changes!
I totally see Raumun in a relationship with a person from the lower classes, or from any background, really. He does not care where they come from, just sees them and their hard work and dedication. His cousin thinks of him as a nobody and a right mess, even after the Trial and breaking out of the Red Apple branch. So why not fully embrace it and marry whoever he wants, regardless of what people say or recommend he do?
I see a reader who is a horse breeder (you cannot escape my horse girlyness, even if you try!). You own a ranch with your brother after your parents’ death, and he's a drunk who uses most of the earned money for alcohol. The business is not going great anyway, it hadn't been doing well even as your parents were alive.
Raymun purchases a few horses from you and heads to acquire more, as they are well-trained. He gets to witness the time you've come to your wits' end and throw your brother out of the house, and during the following weeks, he gets to see how you slowly build things back up with determination and work.
The moment he realizes he has fallen hard for you is when he meets you after a terrible storm, fixing the roof of the stables before your own house. When you get to know each other more, he falls deeper and deeper: the straw in your hair, the horse hair on your clothes, the mud stuck underneath your nails. Your determination that better times are ahead. And the way you always seem to infuse him with hope for such times.
Perhaps, when you've begun a relationship, and you might have servants and guards at your beck and call, he still finds you fixing rooves, wiping stains, washing dishes, and filling water thoughs yourself, and he could not love you more than in those moments.
