



I never asked for this. No more than I asked to be king. We do not choose our destiny, but we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty. What’s one bastard boy against a kingdom?

favorite endgames * the seven queendoms | (3) Shireen Baratheon, the Queen of Steel, Protector of the Stormlands and Lady of Storm’s End.
Shireen was but a little girl cowering behind veils and the protection of her mother when her father died and she had to step up to his claim. When she took what was rightfully hers as the last trueborn Baratheon she took off her veil and turned her weakness into her strength. The Queen of Steel, they called her when they put a crown on her head. After her stubborn nature, her ruthless determination and the streaks of death on her cheek. Queen Shireen led her men into battle, not as a whimpering child, but as a woman grown, with conviction in her mind and a thirst for victory in her blood. Shireen taught the realm that the Baratheon name was not at its end. And that hers was the fury.
that’ll teach him

♞ FACELESS: Songs for the Faceless Men of Braavos, the worshipers of the Many-Faced God and the most deadly folk in all the Free Cities. Silent, skilled, merciless, they are master assassins and unparalleled in their training. Valar Morghulis, they say, for all men must die and Valar Dohaeris is their reply, for so also must all men serve. {Featuring the soundtracks of Man of Steel, Pirates of the Caribbean & Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Click crown for link to 8tracks}
We’re all human. Oh, we all do our duty when there’s no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. Yet sooner or later in every man’s life there comes a day when it’s not easy. A day when he must choose.You must make that choice yourself, and live with it for the rest of your days.

You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles.
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”