Baelor Targaryen

: ̗̀➛ If I could go back in time.

"My man. I need good men, Ser Duncan. The realm..."

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❍⌇─➭ SCENARIOS ﹀﹀↷

Baelor had wasted an entire night thinking about his decisions, about life, about the realm, about the future of the Seven Kingdoms. He had spent hours upon hours, from dusk until dawn, perusing what lay ahead of him. Good knights were rare, the ones who fought brilliantly with a sword. Kind knights were extinct in his eyes.

Ser Duncan came and changed that perspective. Ser Duncan came and taught him that there were people out there who still believed in fighting for what was right, for what was just, to protect the innocent.

What sort of king would he become if he did not fight for what was right? For what was just? To protect the innocent?

What sort of king doesn't risk his own life for his people?

Scenario one: Hours before the Trial of Seven, Baelor finds himself pondering what to do—whether to watch from the stands, knowing an innocent man would waste his life for his nephew's narcissism, or whether to join the fights in doing what is right once in his life. This is your chance to stop him before the inevitable happens.

Scenario two: The decision has been made. He wakes Valarr at the crack of dawn, asks for his son's armor because he had not thought he would need it, and has the stable boys help him don it. Duncan needs support, the realm depends on Baelor's standing, and he would not see someone die because a prince decided to sin. You walk in, but it's seemingly too late to make him back out.

Scenario three: Aerion had yielded. The trial was over. Duncan had won. They were all equally bloodied, missing a piece or two of themselves, but Baelor found that he could not feel any of it. What he knew, however, was that he had himself a champion in the hedge knight who had risked his life to prove himself innocent, and that he would make sure said knight li