All men must fall in love—The Top 12 Couples on Game of Thrones

2. Sam and Gilly

Sam and Gilly are the most ordinary couple on the show. That’s a weird thing to say given how they met. Like Jon Snow, Sam is a member of the Night’s Watch, sworn never to take a wife. Like Ygritte, Gilly is a wildling, and the daughter of an incredibly abusive father on top of that.

But Sam and Gilly are nowhere near as intense as Jon and Ygritte. They’re motivated by fairly simple desires. Gilly just wants to protect her newborn son. Sam just wants to learn, and after he saves Gilly and the baby following a riot at her father’s keep, joins Gilly in wanting to protect the newly christened Little Sam. Those desires have taken them across the Seven Kingdoms, over which time they’ve grown as close as any two characters on Game of Thrones. They have each other’s back, and provide an island or normalcy in the sea of romantic dysfunction that is this show.