The Official Nonsense Thread

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There's a few more I forgot about for my list of fatal flaws:

Petyr Baelish

Best summed up by Varys as someone who would see the whole country burn if he could be king of the ashes. Unlike Varys who came from nothing & appreciates the feat of reaching the top (& that you can always fall off if you get too cocky), Baelish was a minor noble & reaching the top only means seeing a bigger peak on the horizon he wants to conquer next, those older & more powerful noble families that have what he wants, & what he wants is whatever they have.

He has one fatal chip on his shoulder that's played a major part in him causing much chaos, & that's Catelyn Stark, his unrequited love. Baelish betrayed Edd because he saw it as removing the competition for Catelyn, & could never understand it meant she would hate him forever, never mind the idea of preferring Joffrey on the throne instead of Stannis was lunacy (driving Stannis in turn into selling his soul to the Red Priestess).

With Catelyn dead, what's the betting he want Sansa as the next best thing to having Catelyn? Only problem, Tyrion is in the way. More to that, the Lannisters & Freys responsible for Catelyn's death would have to be insane to trust him as he's a motive until the day he dies to spend every waking hour looking for an opportunity to screw them over (& what better way to win over Sansa than by avenging her dead parents?). Taking on the Lannisters might be one bite more than he can chew, but something suggest he won't be able to help himself sting them.

Sansa Stark

Sansa Stark is one big fatal flaw. Unlike Arya, she never learns from her mistakes & spends her entire time like a rabbit trapped in car headlights. Even having realised she is stupid & naive, she still does nothing to improve her situation. She has been lucky beyond belief to have survived unscathed so far, but I don't see that lasting forever.

Arya Stark

Her impatience & desire for revenge against an ever growing list of bad ones may be her undoing, but she's the one standout character in Game Of Thrones for learning from her mistakes fast (note how she saved Gentry by using the helmet he made & had dropped as "proof" that Joffrey's soldiers had killed the boy she claimed was him), as the events at Harrenhal showed. She is the one Stark that has survived because she deserved to, not by luck.

Sandor Clegane

The Hound's permanent chip on his shoulder over his face spurning potential friendships & lovers wherever he goes means the moment he's too weak to fight, there's not going to be a single person that will raise a sword to defend him.

The infuriating part about him is for all his talk, he is an honourable man at heart (defending the Knight of the Flowers when his treacherous brother tries to stab him in the back having lost at the joust, warning Tyrion about Joffrey, & finally abandoning Joffrey & the Lannisters while offering to help Sansa escape when he realises they're not worth fighting for), yet seems obsessed with playing out his "look at me, I've dead evil, so I am" routine. He also saves Arya from certain death at the Red Wedding, even though with all the Starks apparantly slaughtered, she is now of no ransomable value & therefore of no use to him.

Bronn

Being too bloody clever for his own good. Eventually someone like Cersei or Tywin will see that as a threat.

Lysa Aaryn

A loopy pervert throwing out wild conspiracy theories at a moment's notice to cover up her VERY unhealthy love for her child (ironically, it was her accusation by letter that Cersei murdered her husband to prevent him blabbing about her incestuous relationship with Jaime that played a major part in kicking off the whole chain of events that led to the war), whom she has made mentally ill in the process.

You may as well turn an eggtimer on how long before she's dead considering it was only respect for her sister Catelyn Stark that stopped half the kingdom from bumping her off & having her son made a ward of Tywin Lannister or Stannis Baratheon before the people in the Vale rebelled against her. Even Blackfish Tully (he that takes over shooting the burning arrow at the Tully funeral) - considered the most honourable knight in Westeros - had walked out on her before this despite being appointed Warden of The Bloody Gate in the Vale (a prestigeous position)

Brienne of Tarth

A knight errant character, unable to distinguish between idealistics & pragmatics, despite all evidence to the contrary. In particular she believes in the chivalric code & the sanctity of oaths despite everything Jaime has demonstrated to her is something those meant to uphold it only do when it suits their purpose. Eventually she's going to find herself caught between two fires from her rigid thinking - probably trying to slay a dragon single handed or something equally as daft.

OK, that's the last one, I promise!