The 30 most heartwarming moments on Game of Thrones

14. Davos gives Melisandre a confidence boost (“Home”)

SARAH: Davos Seaworth wins my vote for greatest dad in Westeros. This is no mean feat, considering that—in the show, at least—he has no living children after Season 2. He’s given many in Westeros the benefit of his good heart and fatherly wisdom, and they should consider themselves lucky for the honor.

On the other end of the spectrum we have Melisandre, who’s inconsiderate of people’s feelings at the best of times and willing to burn children at the stake at the worst. A fanatic follower of the Lord of Light, she has always looked down on Davos with smug certainty. Unmoved by her beliefs (and her breasts), Davos despised her in return. Yet when Jon Snow was unceremoniously murdered by his sworn brothers, Davos demonstrates his wisdom once again, be shelving his hatred and asking her for help.

Melisandre is in real pain following the defeat and death of Stannis Baratheon. She truly thought she was saving the world, and that Stannis was her god’s chosen hero. If Davos understood nothing else about her, he understood this. Her heartache at the beginning of Season 6 is no act—she’s a lost soul, doubting her god and her ability to tell truth from fiction.

Although Davos dislikes her, he knows she is Jon Snow’s best chance at a revival. But he doesn’t believe in any god, and faith is the only language that Melisandre knows how to speak. So when he goes to her and asks her to bring Jon back, he reminds her that there is still someone left in whom she can place her absolute faith: herself. “Seven gods, drowned gods, tree gods, it’s all the same. I’m not asking the Lord of Light for help. I’m asking the woman who showed me that miracles exist,” he tells her. Davos’s frank assessment of her gifts is exactly what she needs to hear in order to give her life’s work another go.