loras_renly | the man who would be king (Reply)

This is a Renly-centric picspam/commentary/thing from the "You Win Or You Die". Or a poor excuse to cap the hell out of my favorite Renly moment.

(my commentary is non-spoilery for the rest of the season and books! but spoilers are lurking in the comments)

THIS SHOW. THIS FANDOM. It's made entirely of feeeeeeeeeelings. The more I watch the show, the more I LOL; the more I read the books, the more I curl up in fetal position and envy 'Lost' fans. The best part so far (apart from Gethin Anthony's faaaaace") have been you guys <3

caps are mine | credit | don't repost / take as your own or Littlefinger will leak your nudies on Tumblr, Theon will start drunk-dialing you on Sunday mornings at 6am, Lancel will start buying you free drinks, and Ned Stark will JUDGE YOU, TBH

tl;dr

Caps and why I like them! Reason One: Renly looks hot all disheveled and breathless while he's concerned for his brother like that. D'awww. Reason Two: plot.

Please pay attention to the man behind the curtain: Varys's expression is priceless. As Ser Barristan is taking a quick nap, Varys is already two steps ahead in the game of thrones and who's in it to win it. He is the only one who doesn't miss the moment when Renly decides to join the big leagues. But not before Renly storms off (to the Tyrell school of motivational speaking) to wash off dirt and blood and to trim his beard - because no one should put forth a claim for a throne without looking like King Awesome! And while Renly looked all rugged and manly and unf before, he comes back looking like an enlightened head of state that he should bloody well be let be.

Renly tries EXTRA hard with Ned. He explains to him exactly how fast the shit's gonna get real. He lets Ned on the second biggest Baratheon family secret - Ned, we all know what Stannis is... A LOBSTER!!!. You can see that Renly isn't littlefingering Ned but sincerely trying to prevent the rest of the ASOIAF series from happening.

And yet Ned hides behind the protocol and questions Renly's BAMFness just because Renly didn't have a chance to murder anyone in his twenty-one-year-old life. Ned's expressions: 'Hmmm, to wake Joffrey from his sweet dreams of torturing kittens or to plunge the realm into a war where millions of people will die? I think I'll let Joff take his beauty sleep instead. Because the same people who threw my kid out of the window would let me shame them off the throne with my bare hands. What, Robert himself pissed on the order of succession and chose his little brother over his middle brother to rule his own lands? Meaningless coincidence. Once, Stannis ate rats for a year and drowned many Greyjoys; it was awesome. Renly, your common sense interferes with my afternoon brooding. KTHNXBYE. OH AND WINTER IS COMING.' I've never been so frustrated with the integrity of a character whom I love to itty bitty pieces but then this show would have been about something else entirely.

Too bad the writers cut out the book!Renly's parting shot to Ned's "Sometimes the gods are merciful." - "The Lannisters are not." ZING. And with this, Renly takes his charisma and his boyfriend the hell out of the Red Keep before the trap doors would snap shut.

And so the clash of kings has its first contender.

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In conclusion, can anyone without moral scruples (like me) please write us more Loras/Renly fic? You'll have lemon cakes for life.