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* The fate of the Starks in a nutshell. Here is a family that clearly cares for each other with no ulterior motives. Yes there's sibling rivalry and Catelyn disliking Jon for being a bastard son, but they've got one of the healthiest family units especially in comparison to the other Houses. Ned Stark was the one who held the family together and encouraged everyone to get along, teaching them the values of honor and caring for their loved ones. His death drove them apart and set them into paths full of suffering and hardship. Rickon's age is still in the single digits with no parental guidance. Bran can no longer walk and has to run away from home due to raiding from Ironborn. Sansa is to be used as a political tool and has endured abuse from Joffrey then to Petyr Baelish and Lysa Arryn. Arya becomes a Faceless Man and slowly loses her identity. Jon is duty-bound to the wall, helpless to aid his siblings. Robb and Catelyn die in the Red Wedding, the latter being reborn as a vengeful woman driven by hate and vengeance. Here is a family that can truly be considered one of the good guys in the CrapsackWorld of Westeros, yet fate has dealt them the short end of the stick. It also serves as a RuleOfSymbolism, as before the Starks were separated, there still was a tense, yet workable peace throughout Westeros and they were one of the few who didn't play the Game of Thrones for the sake of ambition. Jon Arryn's death may have kicked things off, but Ned's death symboilzed the death of what little decency remained in the world, and cruelty and ruthlessness is what's needed to survive.
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-->''A queer troubled look passed across Baelor Breakspear's face, like a cloud passing before a sun. He raised his hand and touched the back of his head with two fingers, oh so lightly. And then he fell.''\\
''Dunk caught him. "Up," they say he said, just as he had with Thunder in the melee, "up, up." But he never remembered that afterward, and the prince did not rise.''
** What makes Baelor's death especially terrible is how ''good'' he was; he was universally beloved for damn good reason. He was every inch TheWisePrince, kind and gentle with the tongue-tied Dunk throughout their encounters even after Dunk lays a hand on a prince of the blood. Troubled realizing Dunk is pretty much sunk despite having done the right thing, he went to bat for the poor young hedge knight in his hour of need, championed for him, and saved his life. What is the outcome of the trial for this good, chivalrous, shining prince? He suffered a terribly gruesome, gory head wound that left him with only half a head, as horrifically revealed to onlookers when they removed his helmet. Though he got smashed in the head, his first instinct after the trial wasn't to get checked out right away, it was to check that his brother was getting treated and then that Dunk was alright, in the process saving Dunk one last time from a painful death by well-meant but deadly medical advice.
--->''"Get him drunk and pour some boiling oil into it," someone suggested. "That's how the maesters do it."''\\
''"Wine." The voice had a hollow metallic ring to it. "Not oil, that will kill him, boiling wine. I'll send Maester Yormwell to have a look at him when he's done tending my brother."''\\
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''The maesters and the boiling wine had done their work, and his wound was healing cleanly, though there would be a deep puckered scar between his left arm and his nipple. He could not see the wound without thinking of Baelor. He saved me once with his sword, and once with a word, even though he was a dead man as he stood there.''
''Dunk caught him. "Up," they say he said, just as he had with Thunder in the melee, "up, up." But he never remembered that afterward, and the prince did not rise.''
** What makes Baelor's death especially terrible is how ''good'' he was; he was universally beloved for damn good reason. He was every inch TheWisePrince, kind and gentle with the tongue-tied Dunk throughout their encounters even after Dunk lays a hand on a prince of the blood. Troubled realizing Dunk is pretty much sunk despite having done the right thing, he went to bat for the poor young hedge knight in his hour of need, championed for him, and saved his life. What is the outcome of the trial for this good, chivalrous, shining prince? He suffered a terribly gruesome, gory head wound that left him with only half a head, as horrifically revealed to onlookers when they removed his helmet. Though he got smashed in the head, his first instinct after the trial wasn't to get checked out right away, it was to check that his brother was getting treated and then that Dunk was alright, in the process saving Dunk one last time from a painful death by well-meant but deadly medical advice.
--->''"Get him drunk and pour some boiling oil into it," someone suggested. "That's how the maesters do it."''\\
''"Wine." The voice had a hollow metallic ring to it. "Not oil, that will kill him, boiling wine. I'll send Maester Yormwell to have a look at him when he's done tending my brother."''\\
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''The maesters and the boiling wine had done their work, and his wound was healing cleanly, though there would be a deep puckered scar between his left arm and his nipple. He could not see the wound without thinking of Baelor. He saved me once with his sword, and once with a word, even though he was a dead man as he stood there.''
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* It's hard not to feel sorry for Princess Rhaenyra. Her stepmother, stepmother's father and half-brothers conspire to steal the crown that should have been hers. Her daughter is stillborn and deformed as a result of learning about the usurpation. Her three eldest sons die tragic deaths in the span of a few months and she dies thinking her youngest son is also dead. Two of the men she had raised from the dirt to the level of knights and dragon riders betray her cause. Her growing fear and paranoia from all these tragedies cause her to turn against those who do stay loyal to her. Her dragon is killed. Finally, she is eaten alive by her half-brother's dragon.
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* It's hard not to feel sorry for Princess Rhaenyra. Her stepmother, stepmother's father and half-brothers conspire to steal the crown that should have been hers. Her daughter is stillborn and deformed as a result of learning about the usurpation. Her three eldest sons die tragic deaths in the span of a few months and she dies thinking her youngest son is also dead. Two of the men she had raised from the dirt to the level of knights and dragon riders betray her cause. Her growing fear and paranoia from all these tragedies cause her to turn against those who do stay loyal to her. Her dragon is killed. Finally, she is eaten alive by her half-brother's dragon. Even written by a maester ambivalent at best to Rhaenyra, his last summation of her young life, once filled with promise, and her incredibly gruesome, traumatic death hits hard, especially the last line:
-->''The golden dragon devoured the queen in six bites, leaving only her left leg below the shin “for the Stranger.” The queen’s son watched in horror, unable to move. Rhaenyra Targaryen, [[UsedToBeASweetKid the Realm’s Delight]] and [[ShortLivedLeadership Half-Year Queen]], passed from this veil of tears upon the twenty-second day of tenth moon of the 130th year after Aegon’s Conquest. She was thirty-three years of age.''
-->''The golden dragon devoured the queen in six bites, leaving only her left leg below the shin “for the Stranger.” The queen’s son watched in horror, unable to move. Rhaenyra Targaryen, [[UsedToBeASweetKid the Realm’s Delight]] and [[ShortLivedLeadership Half-Year Queen]], passed from this veil of tears upon the twenty-second day of tenth moon of the 130th year after Aegon’s Conquest. She was thirty-three years of age.''
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** Falia's excitement over believing that Dany would become like her sister becomes very sad when one realizes that she ''did'' have sisters growing up, but because they were trueborn and she was a bastard, she was made a servant to her father's family, and she claims that her sisters forced her to wait on them at table. Whether she was actually telling the truth is unknown, but there was no love between her and the Hewett family--she hated them so much that when Euron's ironmen conquered Oakenshield, she took the first chance she got to humiliate them in turn. She wants herself and Dany to become as close as sisters, because she wants the love that her trueborn family never bothered to give her.
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** Falia's excitement over believing that Dany would become like her sister becomes very sad when one realizes that she ''did'' have sisters growing up, but because they were trueborn and she was a bastard, she was made a servant to her father's family, and she claims that her sisters forced her to wait on serve them at table.meals. Whether she was actually telling the truth is unknown, but there was no love between her and the Hewett family--she hated them so much that when Euron's ironmen conquered Oakenshield, she took the first chance she got to humiliate them in turn. She wants herself and Dany to become as close as sisters, because she wants the love that her trueborn family never bothered to give her.
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Loras: For Margaery? [''His voice was tight''] To be sure.
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!!Live-Action Television
* ''TearJerker/GameOfThrones''
* ''TearJerker/HouseOfTheDragon''
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