Allyria Dayne

Allyria Dayne

aegon nation when he is visibly distressed and hurting for the entirety of s2

i think a lot of why i find it hard to predict arya’s ending is simply because i want her to do everything. i want her to have what lyanna didn’t, what so many other women and girls like her didn’t which is OPTIONS. which is FREEDOM. i want her to have a seat on a council and then change her mind and go sailing. i want her to work within the system, realize she hates that actually, and become a bandit like the brotherhood. i want her to build ships and raise castles and reject marriage proposals and have crazy love affairs and sail beyond the sunset sea and come back home whenever she wants and know that she is always welcome, that no matter how improper she is and how far she travels, she can always just turn around and come back home, sit by the fire and tell Sansa and Harwin and Jeyne and Beth and Gendry about everything she’s seen.

It's funny how the colors of the green team in the show are exactly Tyrell's colors in the books, green and gold.

It's incredible how no one thought that Maegor accidentally killed himself in an attack of anger and frustration.

Yeah, Jon's plain looks and overall countenance (bless him, I do love it) is why they're so desperate that Jon comes back a completely changed, violent, possessive man with white hair and red eyes, because it's the only way Dany will be interested in him. This came up in the new Jon video by Alt Shift X btw. I find it so incredibly silly.

I do think Jon will be changed in personality, and that's where Sansa figures in as significant-- it would be ironic if the sister he was the least close to is what makes him human again!-- but... losing Lyanna in his face? Isn't there the perfect set-up for him realising that his mother has been staring back at him in the mirror this whole time?

They really think his Stark side is just a sort of parking space where GRRM put him until he could (finally) upgrade to Targaryen, don't they?

The idea that Lyanna, who parallels Jon not just in her suffering (sexually coerced by a captor, freed by a wolf and bleeding out, dying at 16) but also in her heroics (facing off against three opponents to defend a weaker person, going 'undercover') is the less important parent compared to the prophecy-obsessed deadbeat? Ridiculous.

GRRM isn't playing "spot the hint!" with their shared looks in order to take them away before they were ever relevant. He didn't create Lyanna in order to make her a passively enthusiastic vessel for Rhaegar's prophecy boy. Lyanna is the point.

Jon is who he is because of Lyanna. The girl who begged for the life of a child she had no choice in having. He looks like her, acts like her, lives because she was a wolf and her brother loved her and the pack survives. His Targaryen side is not a fulfillment of purpose. I still predict GRRM will not make Jon a magical key to anything, specifically to defy Rhaegar's egocentric logic. Jon is no destined hero. He's a human person muddling through and making hard choices with personal integrity. Negotiating. Planning. And counting the damn beets so people can eat.

His Targaryen father is a(nother) challenge to Jon's sense of identity, a dark and painful one, that can only be overcome through love - for Lyanna the person, for his pack and by his pack for him. (And a special treat enabled only by not being Ned's son...)

It's like you said, she (and in consequence his own self-worth) has been staring at him in the mirror all this time. No shame, but love in spite of it all.