#house bolton
Ramsey Bolton aesthetic.
“If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.”
House Bolton aesthetic.
“Our blades are sharp.”
Our blades are sharp.
The Night’s Queen’s Song
High in the halls of the kings who are gone,
The Night’s Queen would dance with her ghosts.
The ones she had lost, and the ones she had found,
And the ones who had loved her the most…
Walda Frey
You know those horror movies where you find yourself yelling at the screen? Where there’s like one chick left and you keep telling her to get out while she can? Doesn’t she see the weird skeleton hand torches and torture dungeons? Has she not noticed the scent of blood in the air? Run, girl! Run for your life!
That’s how I feel about Walda here. I imagine her as fluffy and blonde and sweet, just a young woman who made an advantageous match. I want her to live and migrate to another canon that would be gentler, like Pride & Prejudice or become a character in Bridgerton or some such thing. She’s way too close to, like, a focal point of violence.
Bethany & Barbrey Ryswell
Lady Bolton & Dustin! You know, I didn’t even clock the similarities in my rendering of these ladies until putting them side by side. I created Barbrey first and then made Bethany as an edit of her sister, so I guess I maybe should have gone farther to differentiate her portrait?
Note that Bethany is significantly younger than her sister here, not due to birth order, but because Barbrey outlived her by several years. Seems to be Lady Dustin’s curse.
Domeric Bolton
Ah, a young life tragically cut short by an opportunistic bastard (literally).
I think fans find Domeric interesting in the same way that Rhaenys, the daughter of Rhaegar, is interesting. What little we get of them is appealing, but they’re long dead. Asoiaf is chock full of characters like that, really.