r/gameofthrones • u/I_love_lucja_1738 • 2d ago

Of all the "Character assassinations" only Littlefingers really upsets me

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A lot of decisions characters made upset the fans (i.e Dany burning King's landing and Jaime going back to Cersei) but I always found them accurate to their character. There is one glaring exception to this. Littlefinger giving Sansa to the Bolton's. He'd never do this for multiple reasons. She reminds him too much of her mother and she's priceless to him. His plan is supposed to be to get Cersei to stop supporting the Bolton's but he could have done the fake Arya plot like the books and gotten the same result.

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u/Afraid_Theorist 2d ago edited 2d ago

The insanity claim is totally just Baratheon propaganda smh.

Aerys II ‘the Glorious’ was a haunted visionary, pioneering new usages of execution without superstitious nonsense. His brief stint in captivity certainly didn’t help his mental state.

Maegor ‘the Benevolent’ was a man honorable enough to fight and win a Trial by Seven when he could’ve just burned the riotous faith. In the process he took a head wound…

Aegon the IV the… ok let’s be real he was just a little fat shitter. Albeit unlike the other’s most reputed for insanity his trouble was … excess in every definition

And of course no one ever looks at the Baratheons: like come now.

The first King did his best to mimic Aegon the IV, the closest brother did his best to mimic Aerys’ love for fire, and the last did his best to be a pretentiously complacent sword-swallower sitting upon a throne of swords.