if they were going to elect a king, i would’ve found a beautiful irony in gendry being on the throne.
trust me when i say i know it’d be anticlimactic and i know it’d make no sense as to why.
but just think. the events leading up to the beginning of the series was robert’s rebellion, overthrowing the targaryens and a baratheon was on the throne when all was said and done. they could’ve literally had the same kind of ending, in a sense, and it would’ve been ironic as hell