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As we prepare for winter to come for Game of Thrones,Rebekka Armstrong Archives its stars are preparing for careers after their iconic roles on the massive hit. In particular, Kit Harington seems to be in the throes of a post-Thronesexistential crisis.

And we have some #thots for him to consider.

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"I’d like to step away and enjoy the obscurity, cut my hair, make myself less recognizable as the character, and go do and some other things with a completely new look and tone," Harington recently told Entertainment Weekly. "I’ll need to get rid of Jon Snow." In Variety, he also said he doesn't want to be the next Bruce Willis action hero type, preferring the more "fun" stuff.

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"I'm not really driven by wanting to play heroes right now," Harington said in the Chicago Tribune. For a long time on Thrones, he struggled with the role of self-serious, steady, understated male lead. "They're not your Joffreys; they're not so showy. And there was a sort of feeling in me, in the middle of when the show was going on: 'I'd love some sort of character thing.'"

Kit, we hear you. And we want you to have fun. But Kit, for the love of god, don't leave us stranded in a desert of thirst once you've hung up your King in the North furs.

We can all have our beefcake and eat it too!

In his Saturday Night Livemonologue, Harington joked about his other most recognizable lead role, in the disastrous Pompeii. Then he used the variety hour to experiment with ways of playing everything but the Hot Protagonist. After briefly appearing in the Game of Thronesskit, he instead stripped down (literally) as an Undercover Bossgetting a rectal exam and then again as a burlesque dancer.

And our plea to Kit Harington is: Gurl yaaaas! Use that bod as a canvas for comedy!

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Like other lads who left leading male roles in massively popular fantasy stories, Harington sounds like he wants to pull an Elijah Wood or Daniel Radcliffe, with a hard left turn into the weird. But unlike Wood and Radcliffe, Harington is also cursed with Chiseled Leading Man syndrome.

But we can all have our beefcake and eat it too!

In the mold of Channing Tatum's cameo in This is the Endand Chris Hemsworth in Ghostbusters, we're pitching Hollywood on turning Kit Harington into the next thirst trap with a funny bone. And we've already got some good data points to prove he fits the bill.

Arguably, Harington's most successful roles outside of Game of Thronesso far have been How to Train Your Dragonand the HBO tennis mockumentary 7 Days in Hell. In both, Harington leans into his strengths as the Pretty Boy Who Knows Nothing. But with the added dash of self-awareness and deft comedic timing, he becomes a hilarious subversion of the exact trope he fears becoming.

But in his more serious roles, like in the spy thriller MI-5,Western period piece Brimstone, or Toronto Film Festival flop The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Harington's performances are still haunted by the ghost of stony-faced Jon Snow. Well that and one of the worst American (let alone Southern) accents to ever cross the pond.

We understand why Harington is ready to shed his winter furs and leave the sexy silent type behind. Actually, we fully support him never wearing that much clothing in any role ever again.

We don't need him to play the hero anymore, and it's a disservice to his under-explored talents to keep him pigeon-holed there. But the solution to Kit Harington reinventing his relationship to his audience after Jon Snow is not taking on "more interesting, darker, more characterful roles," as he suggests in the Chicago Tribune.

He doesn't have to go all Christian Bale on us, because we don't need more attractive men doing the "brave" work of playing "ugly" roles to prove they're more than a pretty face. We already know Kit is more than just a pair of sad eyes and killer abs.

But he can't run from his destiny.

So promise us, Kit. If you swear before the old gods and the new to remain shamelessly yummy for the rest of your career, we promise to support you in having all the fun you want.

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