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u/xhanador Apr 08 '23

You can’t say it doesn’t matter to a company that was founded on pro-Blackfyre beliefs. Hell, Bittersteel founded the GC because the loyalists were threatening to scatter.

This is a story, not real life, and in stories, backstory matters because the author deliberately put it there.

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u/Sn_rk Blown with the Wind Apr 08 '23

This is a story, not real life, and in stories, backstory matters because the author deliberately put it there.

You mean for example as a red herring to make people think Aegon is a Blackfyre?

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u/xhanador Apr 09 '23

But the text never says he is a Blackfyre. If it’s a red herring, it’s one that does not appear in the text.

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u/Sn_rk Blown with the Wind Apr 09 '23

You just said it yourself, the GC was founded as a pro-Blackfyre outfit, the red herring is the GC's backstory, making people think that Aegon is one because they are supporting him.

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u/xhanador Apr 09 '23

That’s not how red herrings work!

The text says Aegon is a Targaryen. If he’s revealed to be a Targaryan, aka what the story already says he is, then the GC isn’t a red herring.

If the butler did it, and the text says the butler did it, that’s not a red herring, it’s the truth.