Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones is one of the most despicable characters in television history, there is no denying this fact, though the actor who portrays him, Jack Gleeson, has been known to embrace the hatred aimed toward his character and have fun with it.

But what if the character were actually the hero of the story told on HBO’s hit series instead of one of the villains? A new video shows what this story might look like, with Joffrey, much like Gleeson in real life, trying to fight through the negatives in his life to do good things.

You can check out the video below, but beware, spoilers for the show are included if you’ve not yet begun watching or are not yet caught up.

We all know that Joffrey Baratheon on HBO’s Game Of Thrones is a real bastard… in every sense of the word. The boy king is hated by audiences so much, that sometimes fans find it hard to differentiate between the loathed character and the actor who portrays him, Jack Gleeson. Just the mere sight of Gleeson’s face, which has provided the background to countless internet memes and novelty t-shirts, incites a negative reaction. Just search Twitter for “King Joffrey” to see what people post about the character and what happens if someone bumps into the 21-year-old Irish actor, who’s a student at Trinity College, Dublin, on the street.

But over and over again, Gleeson proves that he’s a nice guy and even a good sport about the whole thing. A photo posted to Reddit shows the actor smiling while holding up a drawing of King Joffrey with the words “There’s no cure for being a cunt” (a quote about King Joffrey from the show) in a decorative banner around it. Check out the photo here below.