Not that I want to nitpick, but Stannis choosing Robert over Aerys is in book-canon. It’s there in A Storm of Swords. “Aerys? If you only knew … that was a hard choosing. My blood or my liege. My brother or my king… It still angers me. How could he think I would hurt the boy? I chose Robert, did I not? When that hard day came, I chose blood over honour.”Stannis Baratheon (A Storm of Swords)And this is made all the more heartbreaking by the fact t