Shout-out to all my true Sandor Clegane homies who recognize that he’s more than just a walking badass catchphrase machine, who accept or at the very least acknowledge SanSan, and who don’t celebrate his drunkenness or just want him to come back and kick Gregor’s ass.
I also accept and acknowledge his huge cock.
I also accept the fact that he’s actually a giant cry baby who just needs some help in dealing with all the trauma he’s been forced to face.
Continuing this beautiful thread, I accept that Sandor’s arc has as much to do with redemption, as it does with a sense of belonging.
“The worst part is that my brother did it…”
That delicious, damaged bad ass just wants to be wanted.I accept, acknowledge and appreciate his emotional breakdowns and the fact that he cries at least three times in the books during those.
I accept and appreciate his secret desire to be a knight from the songs, since he was a little boy who wanted to play with Gregor’s unwanted wooden knight toy, to the scary adult warrior dude who talks nihilism all day long but secretly wants Sansa to sing him a song about Florian and Jonquil and wishes he could have saved and protected her.
I accept and acknowledge the fact that, left to his own devices after leaving the service of the Lannisters and while roaming the chaotic and war-torn Riverlands, this famous killing machine didn’t kill anyone except in self-defense or as a mercy killing.
I accept, acknowledge and appreciate the fact he showed on multiple occasion that he has brains and can use them to trick people and solve a problem (e.g. how to get the boatmen to take him and Arya across the river, how to get into the Twins unrecognized – his understanding of the arrogance of the highborn people helped him there).
I accept and acknowledge his feeling of contentment when he was briefly given a chance to work as a common field hand in a Vale village, and his disappointment when that was taken away from him and he was told in no uncertain terms that he cannot escape his reputation and infamy; and the fact that he simply asked for the wages he had earned through honest work and left (rather than, say, beating up and robbing honest farmers, as some prefer their version of the Hound to do).