I love Stannis Baratheon, I love that all throughout A Game Of Throne, Ned "Ice Faced" Stark, level 99 Autism Warrior is going around thinking "oof, that Stannis guy, he's so fucking upright" and indeed the moment we meet Stannis he's going on about how Ned Stark was too normal
"The boar got Robert and I got Margaery. You’ll be pleased to know she came to me a maid."
"In your bed she’s like to die that way."
omg stannis you can't say that
westeros has an appropriately faux medieval (perhaps even excessive) maternal mortality rate but a suspiciously low infant mortality rate. like a couple like nedcat whose putting out five kids should probably have a dead baby or two in there.
Daily reminder that Catelyn’s last thought was about Ned and how much he loved her hair. She spent years worrying that passing on her Tully traits was a failure, but Ned adored her exactly as she was
sansa being forced to smile through her tears & make small talk with her father’s killers/her captors at the dinner table in order to keep them pacified as they openly talk about killing her brother too just constant psychological torture and physical abuse, this poor baby