Who should have been the king or queen?
Stannis.
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I wanted Tyrion and Sansa to end up ruling Westeros. They'd be the best rulers the country would have had in generations! I'd also have been okay with Gendry being the new Baratheon king, while the smart characters ran the country for him.
There was a rumor that GRRM had meant for Jon to take the throne and tell Jamie to do the Kingslayer thing again if he ever showed signs of Targaryan madness. I wouldn't put it past those coked-up douchbags D&D to change GRRM's ending!
Stannis, then pre-war criminal Daenerys, then Jon. Not Bran and definitely not Sansa.
shareSo that makes two votes for Stannis.
I just want to point out that even though Stannis was Robert Baratheon's rightful heir, he'd have made a godawful king. He was totally lacking in the ability to understand and deal with the kind of complex or ethically ambigulous situations a king is going to be faced with, AND he totally lacked the ability to delegate appropriately. With Stannis, it was his way, or being burned at the stake as a sacrifice to the Red God, because his top adviser was a witch who liked burning people at the stake, and whose real motives he never understood. The man was a nasty mixture of self-righteousness, rigidity, small-mindedness, and the below-average IQ that seemed to run in the Baratheons.
I like to think he would have gotten away from the Melisandre once he was sitting on the Iron Throne, and relied more on Ser Davos while ruling.
shareIsn't it pretty to think so? But the fact is he just kept getting in deeper and deeper with Mel until *she* had a change of heart, she had ten times his IQ, 100 times his life experience, and a bazillion times his people skills. As long as she wanted to control him, she'd control him.
But take her out of the picture, and he'd still be a crappy king, what with his inability to understand anything complicated or to think outside the box, his fondness for ruling through fear, his pledge to bring Red Goddism to Westeros (cue the religious civil war), his inability to delegate and his insistence on having full control of everything, and his low IQ. It's really just as well that his claim to the throne could never be proven, or enforced.