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>>17335381
Giving different families or groups of people an easily identifiable characteristic makes Martin's sprawling cast of characters easier to keep track of. It doesn't really bother me.

>>17336229
>dumbing down your world
>stock characters with clothes from the hanger
glad I didn't waste time with it
>treating your readers like cattle
the absolute mark of a hack
>being ok with it as a reader
anon, I...

>>17336351
>dumbing down your world
>stock characters with clothes from the hanger
>glad I didn't waste time with it

If you didn't read it, how do you know that's what it is?

>>17336390
>all Baratheons have black hair, blue eyes
>all Targaryans have white hair, violet eyes
is this true or not?

>>17336465
no

>>17336465
Not all -- Rhaenys Targaryen, the daughter of Rhaegar, had brown hair; Daeron Targaryen, the son of Maekar I, also had brown hair. I think all of the identified characters who bear the surname "Baratheon" have dark hair, though some characters with a Baratheon mother (like Rhaenys Targaryen, daughter of Aemon Targaryen and Jocelyn Baratheon) have light hair.

Anyway, I think GRRM uses these signature physical characteristics (hair color, eye color, build, etc.) to make his sprawling array of characters easier to keep track of. They're also used, sometimes, to suggest whether a character takes after his ancestors. Cleos Frey, who's the son of a Frey and a Lannister, has the brown hair and lank build characteristic of the Freys, and his confrontation-averse personality is more typically Frey than Lannister.

The point was that the baratheon black hair gene was always dominant. It's obvious the fat fuck doesn't understand how genetics works and thought it made sense but you can just chalk it up to biology working differently in the books.

>>17336465
Re: eye color, it's really a toss-up. Violet eyes are considered characteristically Targaryen, though there are plenty of Targaryens who don't have them (Aegon the son of Rhaegar, Duncan the son of Aegon V) and there are even more Baratheons who don't have blue eyes (Jocelyn, Orys, arguably Renly).

>>17336465
Lol no, Baratheons literally branch from Targaryens and as you stated, have different characteristics.
Also the Blackfires had black instead of white hair.

>>17336990
Black hair seems to be dominant when the father is a Baratheon, though there are some characters with a Baratheon mother who have light hair.

desu I'm more puzzled by the way winemaking works in a world with unpredictable seasons than I am about the genetics.

>>17336992
Baratheons don't branch from Targaryens, Robert just had a distant unrelated Targ family member which they used as an excuse to legitimize his rule.

>>17337015
My mistake, i remembered some connection and i thought the baratheons had at least a good 30% of targaryen in them.

I developed some kind of fetish for black hair blue eyed women because of some weeb I knew back in high school

She looked like this and her breasts are much larger than I remembered

>>17335381
Who is this fat fuck?

>>17337033
You fell for the usurper's propaganda.

>>17336351
imagine spending your limited time writing "better than you" posts like this that dont even make sense. what a sad person this must be IRL

>>17337014
>complains about lack of tax policy
>makes wine with no explanation

>>17337113
I was baiting the fuck out of you. I'm sick and tired of getting only 1000 based posts as replies, because I'm so damn right all the time. haven't read a single page of Martin, but I'm still salty about the show. anyway thanks for the (You)s. I will continue to shit on ASoIaF with baits as the one above. Fuck GoT.

>>17337166
There is some exploration of Westerosi viticulture in the series, but there are also some large questions left unanswered.