#gared

[asalesbian]

Gared & Pree in Killjoys 2.02 & 5.10

for @killjoysmonth prompt 'endings / beginnings'

[classicasongoficeandfire]

Ned's Justice by Abe Papakhian

[selkiewife]

Hi there, I have a question related to this quote:

"The deserter died bravely," Robb said. He was big and broad and growing every day, with his mother's coloring, the fair skin, red-brown hair, and blue eyes of the Tullys of Riverrun. "He had courage, at the least."

"No," Jon Snow said quietly. "It was not courage. This one was dead of fear. You could see it in his eyes, Stark." Jon's eyes were a grey so dark they seemed almost black, but there was little they did not see. He was of an age with Robb, but they did not look alike. Jon was slender where Robb was muscular, dark where Robb was fair, graceful and quick where his half brother was strong and fast.”

Bran I, A Game of Thrones

My question is, in contrast to Robb Stark and Jon Snow, what do you think Theon Greyjoy’s assessment of Gared and how he responded to his impending death was? We saw Theon kick Gared’s head when it bounced over to him, but what was his private assessment, as well as his outward response to Ned, Jory Cassel and the other men, in your opinion?

This is a great question! I think that if he allowed himself to think about it, he would have a reaction closer to Jon’s and that is why he doesn’t allow himself to think about it. I think Gared’s plight is too close to home to him. I think that’s also why he laughs and kicks the head away from himself. His instinct is to get the head as far away as possible and to cover his discomfort with laughter- by making light of the situation.

It’s a delicious opening for Theon because we are encouraged to see him as an “ass” as Jon says. But then when we return to that chapter after ACOK, we realize that there is so much complexity going on in that first scene with Theon and his reaction to it. I mean even knowing that, it still seems so wildly disrespectful and inappropriate- yet weirdly, why is it THAT action that is considered so brutal and not Ned executing this poor man to begin with- a man who the readers KNOW is telling the truth. Or! Taking an 8 year old to witness an execution lol. I mean I get it. This is a GREAT introduction to this world and these characters and how harsh things are for them. But still it does make me laugh how Theon kicking the head is what really stands out as inappropriate lol.

When it comes to what he said to the other men afterwards, Bran describes him as “laughing and joking as he rode.” I think he would probably avoid conversation about the execution- diverting any serious discussion by making a joke or changing the subject. It also strikes me that he seems extra jovial… which makes me think he is using the laughter and joking and high spirits to show he is not afraid and to cope with his buried feelings of helplessness and fear. As we hear Dagmer tell him later: “The living should smile, for the dead cannot.” I’ve headcanoned that perhaps that’s one of Dagmer’s classic sayings and that maybe Theon heard him say as a boy. Maybe it’s part of the reason Theon smiles. It’s defiant in a way. With each smile, he shows that he is still alive and can still smile. That they haven’t gotten the best of him yet.

I also kind of love that he’s refusing to be somber about this like the others. He’s almost making a mockery of their solemness. And honestly, good for him.

I did write a fic about Theon and beheadings if you are interested. It does briefly feature Gared’s beheading:

Don't Lose Your Head

Thanks so much for the question, anon, and I’m SO sorry I took so long to answer it!

[lego-asoiaf-fan-minifigs]

Ser Waymar Royce (top) of the Night's Watch, along with fellow rangers Will (left) and Gared (right), the first characters to be introduced (and the first to die)

Here's my LEGO adaptation of alexandrokayart's Waymar Royce, Will, and Gared, linked below

[thenorthsource]

“…the real enemy is the cold. […] It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Bran I

The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement.

This was the first time he had been deemed old enough to go with his lord father and his brothers to see the king’s justice done.

It was the ninth year of summer, and the seventh of Bran’s life.

[spicy-cleanness]

I am asking so hard about Gary King / The Editor because I have so many questions 👀

OKAY, OKAY X)

I just got the fixation on the editor for a moment and my brain start analysing

and my thoughts was like:

editor is 1) a guy who's bad because he can get profit of it 2) a guy who is very used to get all information from the computer and know everything about everyone and understand and control everyone with it

where should I put him 1) to make him the most distracted and confused (because I want him suffer because he is bad guy :)) 2) to see how he would act in circumstances where he don't have profit from being bad and can't use information technologies to control anything (because I want to see him in different circumstances because he is my little meow meow :))

post-apocalyptic place where electricity (and IT as well) is dead? perfect.

also there is problem with blue blood guys with white light from their eyes, and editor is blue-white so it's funny too

and it would be weird to put him in post-canon of the world's end without him meet gary. or at least not so funny.

and the dynamic "serious guy who is used to understand know and control everything vs silly guy whom nobody can understand or control" caught me

(I mean editor became obsessed with doctor in one moment because he didn't know who he is, "wtf this guy is" works for him)

Ed and "I want to dissect you under a microscope and understand the fuck is wrong with you" vs Gary and "hehe funny guy with white hair :>>"

and then turns out they're really cute and funny together at least in my head.

[annemarieyeretzian]

look at this lil fam 🥹

[goodqueenaly]

It’s like poetry it rhymes but also Ned’s execution as the cruelly ironic bookend to his execution of Gared at the start of AGOT.

Ned approaches Gared’s execution with a sense of solemn duty. This event is not a grand spectacle for House Stark but a matter of law, responsibility, and education for a relatively small, all-male party of key members of the Stark household; Gared is to be executed where he was caught, that “small holdfast in the hills” that lacks both a name and any sense of grandeur. (Only Theon inappropriately breaks the mood with his treatment of Gared’s head, earning him a quiet reproving from Jon.) Even the certain level of ceremonial here - the use of the Valyrian steel greatsword Ice and the final words of judgment against Gared - reflect not overweening pride in the Starks but their aristocratic position, ancient and modern; Ned is the agent of the king’s justice as well as the inheritor of centuries of Stark martial leadership in the North. However, while “[t]here were questions asked and answers given there in the chill of morning”, Gared is unable to admit the true reason for his desertion; in the words of the WOIAF app, Gared “is too mad with terror to be coherent”, and Ned himself later remarks that “the poor man was half-mad. Something had put a fear in him so deep that my words could not reach him”. This is at the heart of the horror and tragedy of Gared’s execution: literally driven mad by witnessing the Others, Gared has lost the capability to passing along this terrible truth. If his death is an immediate fulfillment of what the North considers local justice - because, in Ned’s assessment, “[n]o man is more dangerous” than a deserter, since he “will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile” - it is an unconscious failure of apocalyptic justice; Ned cannot, as he tells Bran he must, “hear his final words” and understand the awful truth Gared now knows, leading him to execute the unknowing herald of the Others’ return.

So as Ned himself is prepared for execution (though he himself doesn’t know it), the scene presents a cruel mirrored version of his very first appearance, at the last moments of Gared. As Gared had been “old and scrawny” and “bound hand and foot to the holdfast wall awaiting the king’s justice”, so Ned himself appears now “thinner than Arya had ever seen him, his long face drawn with pain” and is “not standing so much as being held up" by the watchmen at his sides. The public spectacle of this latter event is not only obvious, but in obvious contrast to the early morning, almost intimate gathering at that nameless northern holdfast: Ned’s judgment literally summons the masses of King’s Landing to the Great Sept of Baelor via city bells, Ned himself is positioned “on the High Septon’s pulpit outside the doors of the sept”, and around him is assembled “a knot of knights and high lords” as well as the High Septon, all richly attired in their court best. Where Gared had once been too mad with fear to admit the truth of his desertion to Ned, here Ned is forced to recite a false confession of treason (even being sharply prodded by Janos Slynt to speak more loudly, for the benefit of the crowds). Ned who had defended his right to execute Gared by formally stating that he was acting “[i]n the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm” now must begin his false confession by stating that he had “betrayed the faith of my king and the trust of my friend, Robert”. Instead of the all-male, largely silent attendance at Garedn’s execution,  Ned’s execution sees specifically female pleas for mercy from Cersei and Sansa, which Joffrey acknowledges (if only briefly and sadistically). Yet where Ned had approached the death of Gared with a sense of grim personal responsibility - “the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword”, as he intones, “tak[ing]no pleasure in the task, but neither ... look[ing] away” - Ned’s own death was a movement of both cruel glee and literal detachment for Joffrey - smiling at his mother and sometime fiancee before shouting for his headsman. (Even that sadistic smile, as well as the stones pelted by the crowd, recall Theon’s unseemly joking with Gared’s body.) Here again Ice acts as the headsman’s tool, yet not here would it represent the ancient dignity of the Starks; now it is a Stark who must feel the blade, at the head of the distinctly non-Stark Ilyn Payne and at the direction of the distinctly non-Stark King Joffrey. While Gared’s lack of words to explain the eldritch horror he had witnessed condemned him to the inglorious death of a mere deserter, Ned’s words - falsely proclaiming that “Joffrey Baratheon is the one true heir to the Iron Throne, and by the grace of all the gods, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm” - do no more to save him; Ned had had no chance to understand the truth of Gared’s apparent crime, but now Joffrey declares Ned a doomed criminal in spite of hearing the “truth” of his treason

[the-demon-cycle]

[raytoroapologist]

i miss them :(

[asalesbian]

Killjoys 5x10 - Last Dance

some stills from the rave (for @killjoysmonth prompt 'favourite scene(s)')

+bonus aftermath gif:

[pineappical]

yknow what. gar sona + a minecraft model

[emy-san]

A gift for you 💕🌹 [Happy Birthday @ria-neearts!]

[so-that-was-okay]

We all know how this truck romance will end.

[asoiafreadthru]

A Game of Thrones, Tyrion III

“I sent Benjen Stark to search after Yohn Royce’s son, lost on his first ranging.

“The Royce boy was green as summer grass, yet he insisted on the honor of his own command, saying it was his due as a knight. I did not wish to offend his lord father, so I yielded.

“I sent him out with two men I deemed as good as any in the Watch. More fool I.”

“Fool,” the raven agreed.

Tyrion glanced up. The bird peered down at him with those beady black eyes, ruffling its wings. “Fool,” it called again. Doubtless old Mormont would take it amiss if he throttled the creature. A pity.

The Lord Commander took no notice of the irritating bird.

“Gared was near as old as I am and longer on the Wall,” he went on, “yet it would seem he forswore himself and fled. I should never have believed it, not of him, but Lord Eddard sent me his head from Winterfell.

“Of Royce, there is no word. One deserter and two men lost, and now Ben Stark too has gone missing.”

He sighed deeply. “Who am I to send searching after him?”