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sternflammenden, yay! I'm wasting way too much time on memes lately.
Give me a pairing and I'll tell you:
1. When or if I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:
sternflammenden, yay! I'm wasting way too much time on memes lately.Give me a pairing and I'll tell you:
1. When or if I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:
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Re: spoilers for ADWD (if anyone else reads these comments)
Date: 2011-10-03 01:24 pm (UTC)Yes yes yes yes. I love how what Robert did to him (and to a lesser extent Renly) just makes Stannis feel like a bastard. Like he's somehow not a "real" brother. And for Stannis that's almost worse because Jon IS a bastard, Jon always knew he wouldn't get Winterfell, wouldn't get anything his brothers had, but Stannis grew up as a trueborn son, expeccting to be treated the same as his brothers. Definitely mirrors here.
Didn't you like Stannis prior to ADWD? Who did you want on the throne before that? Because there are many characters I like in this series, but not many I can see ruling well. Other than Stannis I can only think of Tywin. I'm so jealous of people whose parents read ASOIAF, btw. I got my brother to read it, but he's only a mad Greyjoy fan, it's kind of funny. He randomly comes to see me and says WHAT IS DEAD CAN NEVER DIE!!!!
I can't really ship Jon with many people. My OTP there is Jon/Wall, and now Jon/Stannis. I'm okay with Jon/Satin for some hurt/comfort, but not as a long-term relationship. I kind of ship Jon/Aegon in my own crazy AU, but that's about it.
Haha, I just love the Bastard of Nightsong for having such an epic nickname. Also, he'S a king's man and Stannis seems to trust him a lot, so he must be a real badass. I hope we'll get to see him again.
I'm not a huge fan of Jon as his Hand either, because the whole point of making someone other than Davos his Hand would be to have someone more respectable, someone his lords would accept. Ned Stark's bastard may be a bit better than a former smuggler, but not exactly fancy either. ;) But Kingsguard!Jon would be amazing. If only so Jon can object that he isn't even a knight, and Stannis in a typical fit of grumpy irritation would just tell him to STFU and kneel so Stannis can knight him.
Re: spoilers for ADWD (if anyone else reads these comments)
Date: 2011-10-03 01:42 pm (UTC)Exactly! They're both overshadowed by their brothers and have been placed outside of the line of succession - and, yes, less justly so in Stannis' case. Each of them has had to fight for a place of their own (Stannis for Dragonstone, captured from the Targaryens, and Jon for the Wall and the respect of his brothers).
I liked Stannis before ADWD but I just couldn't really get behind him as king. Until he showed up at the Wall toward the end of ASOS I didn't even really see him as much of a candidate because his plot seemed so periforal. I don't think I had any real preference about who ended up on the throne before I got behind Stannis though.
I love that your brother is a Greyjoy fan! I hope to meet him one day IN THE DROWNED GOD'S WATERY HALL! Haha. I'm so pleased I got my mother into the books though. :D
I ship Jon/EVERYTHING. I can't help it. I don't even know why.
So digging the idea of Stannis knighting Jon just to make him shut the hell up about his objections. Stannis would be all: "You will be an asset to my Kingsguard and you will kneel as I tell you to." And Jon's response would be something like: "... *kneels*". XD
Re: spoilers for ADWD (if anyone else reads these comments)
Date: 2011-10-03 01:48 pm (UTC)Poor Stannis, feeling like a bastard now. :(
It took me some time to get behind Stannis, but I think he won me over when he first said that he didn't want the throne, that he thought of it mostly as a duty and an obligation (it was either in ACOK or in ASOS). And he's the only character so far who is NOT mostly about wanting power, but about the responsibilities of power. Well, Ned too, but without being as naive as Ned. Also, I loved how very early on, Stannis gets real moral depth. He's one of the few characters who seem to think about what's right and wrong, about the consequences of their action, what is acceptable and what is not. And he's not even a POV character.
My mother doesn't like fantasy, nor my father. But I got my brother to read it, even though he doesn't like Stannis. Unfortunately he ruined one of Aeron's quotes for me when he misspoke and said, "no godless man shall shit the Seastone Chair." I can't say it properly anymore. -.-
I ship Stannis/everything. ;) It's compulsive.
It's hilarious, isn't it? Stannis is so wonderfully matter-of-fact. "Oh, you're not a knight? Mhm, k, then I'll knight you."
Re: spoilers for ADWD (if anyone else reads these comments)
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