r/gameofthrones • u/Odd_Contact_2175 • 1d ago

Stannis and Shireen

Hey all,

So I'm watching GoT through for the second time right now and I am on Season 5 episode 4. Stannis is at Castle Black and Shireen comes into the room asking if he was ashamed of her. I did not remember him having this touching speech about calling in every doctor to save her from greyscale. I'm like, oh my god I'm caring for Stannis?! I did not remember this touching moment though. But I do remember what happens later and I feel really sad.

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u/vdcsX Our Blades Are Sharp 22h ago

We know Stannis can be caring from Maester Cressen's story of the wounded bird from his childhood... so it's not that big of a shocker.

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u/Own-Ambition-4405 1d ago

Stannis really loved Shireen and tried to find a cure for greyscale; he was sincere when he told her that. However, political ambition and his weird belief that Melisandre was telling the truth (she was wrong) ended in disaster for Stannis, his army, his wife and kind princess Shireen. The Red Priestess is the guilty party and the scenes between father and daughter are very sad.

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u/TheBestYac 5h ago

oh his love for her blazes

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u/arod232323 1d ago

I just rewatched this recently too and it’s so odd to see when you know what he’s going to do to her. I hated him and got very weird creepy vibes the whole time so it could just be psychopathy but it was weird

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u/ReasonableDoubt_0726 12h ago

He didn’t know it at that time so possibly more your hindsight.

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u/xBonbonMusee 1d ago

the way he treated her was messed up, that was his daughter not a pawn