(note: I wrote another Euron Greyjoy note recently but on Tuesday, GRRM read a new Aeron Greyjoy featuring our favorite one-eyed madman pirate and this reflects that)
Euron is crazy and ambitious.
Joffrey was a little crazy, too. He only wanted the power to be cruel when he wanted because it got him off or because internalized his mother’s admonitions to ‘be strong’ in a weird way. Not that smart though.
Ramsay is a little crazier and a little smarter. He wants to play with people’s mind. Destroy them and kill them in horrific ways. He takes care of threats. He’s pre-emptive, pro-active.
Various other people have displayed ambition, yearning for the the power of kingship, for various reasons:
- Stannis for his right and for justice
- Renly because he looked good in a crown
- Robb for Northern nationalism
- Mance Rayder for survival of a people
- Balon Greyjoy because it’s just fun to mess things up when you get a chance.
- Daenerys for glory, vengeance and a dream of human rights(at least at the beginning.)
Euron is different.
Euron says he’s going for the Iron Throne. But he’s not.
Euron wants to rule the world. Euron wants to be God. Euron wants to bring on the bloody apocalypse and laugh like crazy when the world dies bleeding, flaming, drowned or frozen at his feet. Euron wants to take the bleeding red comet and shove it up the world’s arse.
Euron takes your rational ambition, your reason, eats it, shits it out and feeds it to his own bastard sons, whose tongues he’s ripped out. Euron eats his own kind because that is the kind of thing that makes him laugh.
Then he pumps you full of LSD, ties you up, flays his girlfriend alive in front of your face, demands that you bow down and worship him and calls forth Deep Ones from the bottom of the sea to take over the universe.
Dude is nuts.
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