I just finished season 3 of vikings and i just KNOW there are dude bros out there calling athelstan and ragnar ✨️besties✨️ all over the internet and it sickens me
if anyone, anyone EVER thinks a person could EVER love another person more than ragnar loved athelstan then honestly we have nothing more to say to each other
*tries to calm down* *FAILs*
—GUY LITERALLY CONVERTING TO ANOTHER RELIGION HE ISNT SURE HE BELIEVES IN AND FORFEITING THE ETERNAL LIFE TOGETHER WITH ALL HIS OTHER LOVED ONES, FRIENDS, WIVES, FAMILY AND CHILDREN TO BE WITH THE ONE PERSON HE OBLIVIOUSLY LOVES MOST OF ALL AND CAN‘T BEAR THE IDEA OF SPENDING ETERNITY WITHOUT HIM?????????????????
Absolutely not. You must have NOT watched the show.
Media literacy is at an all time low but come on! Ragnar told Athelstan he loved him, straight up in the face and people will still say "he meant it as brothers/friends" how about the time he asked Athelstan to sleep with him? Can't remember him asking Rollo or Floki that!
In my opinion, it just proves that some people are homophobes. Yes, Ragnar was also married to Lagertha and later Aslaug, but there's this funny thing called Bisexuality and Ragnar was not all that known for never cheating.
Sure, he wanted kids, but if you seriously think he wasn't absolutely in love with Athelstan and only wanted these kids because of the way he was raised, in a culture where having children to remember him and make people remember him is everything!
Just because they never kissed of intercoursed (on screen, atleast) doesn't mean their relationship wasn't canon. He intercoursed with Aslaug multiple times, doesn't make them be all in love and shit but hell was Ragnar in love with Athelstan
Say what you will about Vikings: Valhalla but at least they're continuing the Vikings tradition of creating tension between two of the male leads that will go unresolved until one of them die. Faithful to its source <3