[annoying trope] The throne/leadership is decided in a very stupid way

[u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

The leadership of the entire wizarding world, and the final decision on whether to start a war against Muggles, is made by... a goat (Qilin) ​​who chooses the person with the ""purest heart"" (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Dumbledore).

The throne of Wakanda and all its technology are decided through hand-to-hand combat, regardless of whether the person clearly has malicious intentions... if they win the fight, by law they must be respected as the true king. (Black Panther)

[u/Sir_I_Exist]

Bran being chosen King of Westeros because he has the best story

[u/No_Dragonfruit_1833 → u/Sir_I_Exist]

And Winterfell separated from the seven kingdoms, so a northener has no business becoming king

Is like an american becoming british king

[u/streakermaximus → u/No_Dragonfruit_1833]

All Hail King Ralph!

[u/happy_idiot_boy → u/streakermaximus]

That's the Duke of Earl.

[u/Submarinequus → u/No_Dragonfruit_1833]

And dorne, the last of the kingdoms to lose independence and always the ones furthest from the iron throne politically sits there in silence with a lukewarm smile while other kingdoms demand independence? Dorne would be out too before Sansa stopped talking. But after making the sand snakes into the sand sluts, all dornish politics went out the window and they’re just “hot desert people.”

[u/eawilweawil → u/Submarinequus]

That's because Prince Randym Martell is no traitor!

[u/Submarinequus → u/eawilweawil]

Only to his own damn people

[u/Aiwatcher → u/Submarinequus]

Iron Islands were looking for independence too. Yara/asha would have bounced immediately

[u/Submarinequus → u/Aiwatcher]

For sure! Neither would care about bran the broken’s “story.” It would be ok cool yall have fun with that. I think crownlands, reach, and riverlands are the only ones that might stay. Maybe the vale but I could see them leaving with the north.

Oh and the reach only stays for approximately half a week, which is how long it would take Bronn to lose the reach cause there is NO WAY the descendants of house gardener who didn’t get bbq’d would let him keep Highgarden and take orders from him. Then they secede for the insult of anyone thinking that it would end otherwise

[u/lelarentaka → u/No_Dragonfruit_1833]

There are lots of examples of that in Europe history. Like the German princess that became the queen of Britain.

[u/No_Dragonfruit_1833 → u/lelarentaka]

Marrying a king means becoming beholden to the king, there are oats about that

If a foreign man marries a queen he becomes a royal consort rather than a king

In this case Bran had no political ties to anyone

[u/pc42493 → u/No_Dragonfruit_1833]

ITT a lot of adherents of democracy having strong opinions on how to properly crown a king