IMO Stannis would make a truly lousy king. Maybe he would have done a good job before he sulked for twenty years about all the many wrongs done to him and fell in with the Lord of Light to finally get the respect he is due. Now, he is thoroughly corrupted, and entirely in the hands of the priestess to boot.
And he always would have done a horrible job of diplomacy and dealing with nobles, which is also a very important aspect of kingship, so... no. Can't see it going well even if he'd gained the crown as a young man, still free of religion and bitter resentment (and the resulting surety that any crime he commits is justified in the name of the greater good).
For example: IMO Stannis would not team up with either Varys (a contemptible turn-coat spy he would regard with disgust) or Yara (Greyjoy traitor scum who rebelled against their true lord and should be put to the sword).
He is very judgmental, extremely rigid, and these days also a raging hypocrite because he himself has resorted to extremely contemptible methods that he would condemn in others.
He might starve alongside his people in some situations, but he won't lift a finger to help them if doing so would compromise some theoretical point of pride for him personally, or if it were inconvenient for some reason (he's busy gaining the crown, starving people are less important), or if the Creepy One God says it's fine that they all starve, or if they are unworthy unbelievers anyway, or... any of a million other things, really. And he won't care if they starve because all ressources are going to a war effort, or because war is destroying the crops, or...
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Date: 2015-04-15 11:33 am (UTC)And he always would have done a horrible job of diplomacy and dealing with nobles, which is also a very important aspect of kingship, so... no. Can't see it going well even if he'd gained the crown as a young man, still free of religion and bitter resentment (and the resulting surety that any crime he commits is justified in the name of the greater good).
For example: IMO Stannis would not team up with either Varys (a contemptible turn-coat spy he would regard with disgust) or Yara (Greyjoy traitor scum who rebelled against their true lord and should be put to the sword).
He is very judgmental, extremely rigid, and these days also a raging hypocrite because he himself has resorted to extremely contemptible methods that he would condemn in others.
He might starve alongside his people in some situations, but he won't lift a finger to help them if doing so would compromise some theoretical point of pride for him personally, or if it were inconvenient for some reason (he's busy gaining the crown, starving people are less important), or if the Creepy One God says it's fine that they all starve, or if they are unworthy unbelievers anyway, or... any of a million other things, really. And he won't care if they starve because all ressources are going to a war effort, or because war is destroying the crops, or...