Insomnia & Inspiration
20 year old English major, moonlighting as an 'artist.'
Sometimes I post drawings and things, but mostly I just reblog pictures of Joe Dempsie.
i FORgOT there are ALLERGIES outside
ugh EVERYTHING HURTS NOW
EXERCISE they said
IT WILL MAKE YOU HEALTHIER they said
wow okay i just tried to walk out of the house with my workout shorts on over my pajama pants
He is not Renly, Brienne realized.
Renly is dead. Renly died in my arms, a man of one-and-twenty. This is a only a boy.
A boy who looked as Renly had, the first time he came to Tarth.
No, younger. His jaw is squarer, his brows bushier.
Renly had been lean and lithe, whereas this boy had the heavy shoulders and muscular right arm so often seen on smiths. He wore a long leather apron, but under it his chest was bare.
A dark stubble covered his cheeks and chin, and his hair was a thick black mop that grew down past his ears. King Renly’s hair had been that same coal black, but his had always been washed and brushed and combed.
Sometimes he cut it short, and sometimes he let it fall loose to his shoulders, or tied it back behind his head with a golden ribbon, but it was never tangled or matted with sweat.
And though his eyes had been that same deep blue, Lord Renly’s eyes had always been warm and welcoming, full of laughter, whereas this boy’s eyes brimmed with anger and suspicion.Brienne, A Feast For Crows
But my heart always breaks at this part Q__Q
whereas this boy’s eyes brimmed with anger and suspicion.
When you think he actually smiled and even laughed before…
with Arya.I don’t want to turn this into a shipping moment because we don’t know what happened to him between ASOS and AFFC, but what if he’s angry and suspicious because what happened to Arya? I have the impression that it’s not Brienne causing this reaction, I feel like this is his standard setting, so to speak, at that point of the story.Of course it’s more probably that he feels this way because of the BWB hanging people like it’s nothing or maybe he’s disappointed with being a knight because most knights are not really honorable or fight to defend the weak.
We are “seeing” Gendry’s heart going dark here. In AGOT, it’s implied that he’s happy with his life (I mean, as happy as one can get since he’s not starving on the streets and he’s learning a craft). Then Harrenhal and the smith there says he’s good and he could just stay but he doesn’t. In ASOS we see him “relaxed”, laughing, playing with Arya. But then comes AFFC and he’s not like this anymore. He’s being dragged down like everyone else. I’m afraid for him. We might not hear from him again, but what if we do and we see him more broken? I honestly don’t know what could be worse.
Oh, this was supposed to be just one sentence. I’m sorry but I have a lot of Gendry feelings.
Don’t be. Let them all out.
You have valid points. I also don’t think he’s angry at Brienne, it’s just his default mode nowadays. What makes it sad in the first place. What happened to you, poor baby? Gendry turned so bitter and angry.
One of my takes IS the thing that happened with Arya. And the “irony of life”, let’s call it that, when you think about what happens further to the BWB and who will join them. Oh the irony. (It’s not the only cause, put it makes a big part of his vanished goals, his past and his future.)
The more I think about him, more I believe that his development should have come earlier in the story because now, with only two books to go (giant books, but still), GRRM will probably focus on the bigger points. But Gendry has the potential to be a very heartbreaking character, much like Jaime was to me when I read his chapters and understood his reasons to kill Aerys and how he dealt with being the Kingslayer, when he started to see Cersei in a different way (she was in the top of his priority list but he was kind of way down in hers).
Gendry would be maybe like Sansa, he would see that being a knight it’s very different in real life, it’s nothing like in the songs, that the world is cruel and hard. And he’s feeling it now. The weight of this war pushing him down, breaking him. It’s extremely sad, specially because this is only speculation, we don’t really know what he’s feeling.
I gave up a lot for this life. I could have had a good, simple life. But I wanted to play with the big boys. And if I miss, it means I’m just another dude with a bow. It means I’ve been fooling myself this whole time. And that’s why I never miss.
Ahhhh, I loved the season finale of Smash :D
