#god gives his toughest battles (loving rhaegar AND elia. together or apart) to his strongest soldiers

[fruitageoforanges]

saw a post about how rhaegar was the best-placed person to stand up to aerys and how he failed, and now i have brainworms about it.

because he was (short of… well, robert, it turns out), and he did fail. he was too weak when it counted to ultimately save his wife and children. there are no heroes. grand designs always fail at the level of a man. and men are weak and fallible.

(side note: not anti-rhaegar. clown on this post at your peril.)

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #rhaegar targaryen #hate having to always add a disclaimer #god gives his toughest battles (loving rhaegar AND elia. together or apart) to his strongest soldiers #but i LOVE the idea that plans and justice and whatever people feel *should* happen #crumbles at the level of human fallibility #in some ways i think rhaegar could never have stood up to aerys. not in a way that mattered. #he was his father. when that’s the man who raised you. who controlled your life — #the fic ‘rubicon’ gets this so well #it’s a moment of immense failure #it’s the WRONG DECISION #but was there any alternative? #i mean there was but he never would’ve taken it #anyway now i’ve well and truly kicked the hornet’s nest i guess i’ll scamper off