“Only Renly could vex me so with a piece of fruit. He brought his doom on himself with his treason, but I did love him, Davos. I know that now.
I swear, I will go to my grave thinking of my brother’s peach.”#i honestly have so many feelings about how this scene was done because i think stephen played it so beautifully #he’s standing there fiddling with his brother’s tiny soldiers and ships and they look like toys #they’re these little toys reminding stannis that renly was his little baby brother who played at war and died because of it #because of him #and it’s so subtly done you can just see stephen little by little retract back into himself and this is what it culminates in this #tiny #tragic moment #of loss
“He is a child still,” Stannis declared, his anger ringing loud in the empty hall, “a thieving child who thinks to snatch the crown off my brow. What has Renly ever done to earn a throne? He sits in council and jests with Littlefinger, and at tourneys he dons his splendid suit of armor and allows himself to be knocked off his horse by a better man. That is the sum of my brother Renly, who thinks he ought to be a king. I ask you, why did the gods inflict me with brothers?”
