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melrosing · 1 year

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Kind of find it irritating the way people argue that Ned was right to seek to remove Cersei’s bastards from the line of succession, but everyone should leave Rhaenyra’s bastards alone. Like I agree, they should, but I also think the only difference between Cersei’s children and Rhaenyra’s is Joffrey, for whom Tommen and Myrcella end up treated as collateral.

Like Cersei is just as entitled as Rhaenyra to have children with someone she actually wants to have children with, and the person Cersei was married to was an abusive partner - so of course she didn’t want Robert’s. Throwing Cersei’s children to the wolves to get Stannis on the throne is imo as bad as it is for Alicent/Vaemond/whoever to loudly question the Velaryon boys.

#so what was the solution??? not an easy one. but I think Ned would have best benefitted from keeping things fucking calm #and working WITH the Lanns to the best of his ability. and would that be difficult to do? yes. the Lanns have hardly done right by Ned #and he’s still in danger so long as he’s with them #but he KNOWS who Robert truly was and he knows what he was to Cersei. and also Ned…. Robert has killed kids and would’ve killed #ur nephew if he could’ve! there is no good fight here #the only fight left imo would’ve been to get Joffrey’s behaviour in check and hope for an olenna/littlefinger collab sooner rather than #later if that’s not going to plan #plus get Sansa out of there on some thin pretext my god

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