History Heartwarming / ASongOfIceAndFire

** First, Stannis cut tops of four of his fingers of Davos' non-dominant hand and then knighted him. Also making him his friend. Its the second time in his life 100% dutiful and lawful Stannis disregarded the law (punishment for smuggling is either cutting the dominant hand off and sending the offender to the Wall or execution by hanging or axe). The first time? Once his brother Robert started a rebellion against lawful king, Stannis chose to support his brother instead of the king. Leading to being besieged in Stoem's End for a long time.

* A meta example. [[http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/07/george-r-r-martin-responds-to-a-heartfelt-letter-from-13-year-old-fan-asking-to-die-a-grisly-death/ A thirteen-year-old fan tried donating all his £153 savings]] in order to get a grisly death in the books. Martin was touched by the man's effort, and instead of granting him a grisly death (since all the spots had been filled by that point) he donated $10,000 in the boy's name to a wolf conservation scheme, wishing him luck in his future endeavours.

** First, Stannis cut tops of four of his fingers and knighted him. Also making him his friend. Its the second time in his life 100% dutiful and lawful Stannis disregarded the law (punishment for smuggling is either cutting the hand of and sending the offender to the Wall or execution). The first time? Once his brother Robert started a rebellion against lawful king, Stannis chose to support his brother instead of the king. Leading to being besieged for a long time.

** First, Stannis cut tops of four of his fingers and knighted him. Also making him his friend. Its the second time in his life 100% dutiful and lawful Stannis disregarded the law (punishment for smuggling is either cutting the hand off and send the offender to the Wall or execution). The first time? Once his brother Robert started a rebellion against lawful king, Stannis chose to support his brother instead of the king. Leading to being besieged for a long time.

-->'''Sansa''': She remembered a summer’s snow in Winterfell when Arya and Bran had ambushed her as she had emerged from the keep one morning. They’d each had a dozen snowballs to hand, and she’d had none. Bran had been perched on the roof of the covered bridge, out of reach, but Sansa had chased Arya through the stables and around the kitchen until both of them were breathless. She might even have caught her, but she’d slipped on some ice. Her sister came back to see if she was hurt. When she said she wasn’t, Arya hit her in the face with another snowball, but Sansa grabbed her leg and pulled her down and was rubbing snow in her hair when Jory came along and pulled them apart, laughing.

** First, Stannis cut three of his fingers and knighted him. Also making him his friend.

* In Sansa's preview chapter, Lothor Brune nicknames Alayne's new betrothed Harry the Heir "[[{{Jerkass}}Harry the Arse]]" after he's been rude to Alayne calling her a bastard in her face. And Sansa is so grateful for this comment, that she hugs him. This moment is so similar in tone & content to a caring uncle comforting a distressed niece.... a role that the Blackfish once played to Sansa's mother, aunt & uncle. And it fits with Ser Lothor being one of the few men in Littlefinger's service who is a genuinely well meaning man.

* When Baelon, the second son of King Jaehaerys I, was born, everyone feared that he and his older brother Aemon would cause a repeat of [[CainAndAbel the tensions that had existed between their grandfather Aenys and their great-uncle Maegor]] that had ravaged Westeros...but Aemon and Baelon proved them all wrong [[BashBrothers by growing up to be utterly inseperable and the closest of friends]].
* Before she married Viserys I Targaryen and went full LadyMacbeth, Alicent Hightower was a simple maidservant for Viserys' grandfather, Jaehaerys I, being his primary caregiver during his last days. She comforted him, and he would compliment her, in the process [[WrongNameOutburst mistaking her for Saera]], his long-disowned daughter who went to Essos and never returned, even for her father's death. Years later, when Alicent started slipping into insanity during her imprisonment after the Dance of the Dragons, she would reminiscence about Jaehaerys' compliment.

* When Mad King Aerys demanded that Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark, the two young men who he helped raise, be brought to him and executed, Jon Arryn raised his banners and ignited the rebellion.

* During Aegon's Conquest, Queen Sharra Arryn returned to the Eyrie's throne room to find her young son Ronnel, the last king of the Vale, sitting on Queen Visenya Targaryen's lap, [[ChildrenAreInnocent asking his mother if he could go for a ride with the lady and her dragon.]] Not very heartwarming in itself, considering the AdultFear Sharra must have experienced, but the touching moment came after. Once the Vale surrendered to Aegon, Visenya actually ''did'' take Ronnel for that ride on her dragon, Vhagar. ''Three times.'' It earned him the nickname 'The King Who Flew'. It could be seen as a PetTheDog moment for Visenya. Her reputation in Westeros is one of a somewhat stern LadyOfWar with a manipulative streak who possibly murdered her nephew/stepson Aenys I to put her son Maegor (AKA [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Maegor the Cruel]]) on the throne. Yet she had enough of a soft spot to take a little boy for a fun ride through the sky.