Show Jaime:

Show Jaime:

“I know I just slept with Brienne who I have a deep attachment to, and I’m about six seasons deep into a redemption arch but Ima peace out and get crushed by rocks with my sister wife”

*Book Jaime literally in the middle of reading a letter from Cersei begging him to come and save her:

“I wonder what brienne is doing right now”

Is the toxic “Lannisters are better” mentality firmly intrenched only in Tywin and his line, or do you think it extends out to Kevan and Genna (as well as their own kids), Tyrek, Daven, etc?

Hmm, it’s a mentality that I mostly associate with Tywin but I think we see that it extends to others based on their relationship with him (if that makes sense)? Like Kevan and Genna seem to think big brother knows best. Genna’s talk with Jaime gives the impression that she’s got some Tywin tinted glasses on (talking about big brother protecting her and what not), and Kevan isn’t really challenging anything his brother does. Can’t really say that I’ve paid enough attention to the rest to give an answer on their mentality.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. - GRRM

“I can show you.” Melisandre draped one slender arm over Ghost, and the direwolf licked her face. “The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.” “Shadows.” The world seemed darker when he said it. “Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark. You should look behind you, Lord Snow. The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall.” (Jon VI ADWD) 

This passage has heavy Jonerys foreshadowing. 

First of all, Mel has a penchant for evoking dichotomies and binaries - light and dark, male and female, good and evil. We know that her dichotomous thinking can be and is harmful at times. However, it is interesting that she prefaces her point about the power of magic by framing it through a male/female binary, and rather than reifying the binary as oppositional forces, she, who so often reinforces a dichotomy, claims that the uniting of male and female creates power. I know she’s referring to a union between her and Jon when she says this, but it’s obvious that GRRM is referring to the future union between Jon and Dany. Mel says that this union has the power to make life and make light and cast shadows. 

Dany makes life and light when she births her dragons; Drogon is lightbringer, after all. Mel then points out that the union of male and female has the power to cast shadows, and then directly states that the moon has kissed Jon and etched his shadow up high on the wall. Twenty feet tall, a giant among men. 

We know that Dany is referred to as the moon; Drogo called her “the moon of his life” and both Doreah and Irri refrence the moon directly in their tales on the origin of dragons: 

“He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi,” the Lysene girl said. “Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.”The two Dothraki girls giggled and laughed. “You are foolish strawhead slave,” Irri said. “Moon is no egg. Moon is god, woman wife of sun. It is known.” (Dany III AGOT) 

In Doreah’s version of the story, the other moon will kiss the sun and then herald the return of the dragons. Part of Doreah’s version of the story has already come to pass with Dany’s birth of the dragons, but what’s interesting to see here is that the dragons will return upon the moon kissing the sun. The language GRRM uses in this passage is directly parallel to the language he uses in Jon VI ADWD; the moon kissed the sun and the dragons returned (Dany III AGOT), the moon kissed Jon and etched his shadow high on the wall (Jon VI ADWD). Dany is also the bride of fire, as per her HoTU prophecy, and in the last part of her bride of fire prophecy (which corresponds with the last part of each of her other prophecies), her final husband is represented by a blue flower growing from a chink in a wall of ice. The fact that the moon is kissing Jon and etching his shadow on the wall is a callback to Dany’s bride of fire prophecy, specifically the aspect of a blue flower growing from the Wall (hence Jon’s shadow looming tall on the Wall). Not only that, but Melisandre herself sees Jon in her flames, as a shadowed man: 

The flames crackled softly, and in their crackling she heard the whispered name Jon Snow. His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain. Now he was a man, now a wolf, now a man again. (Melisandre I ADWD)

Jon is referred to as a shadow, as a man and a wolf, clothed in flame, which aligns neatly with Dany the moon being the wife to the sun, and Dany the bride of fire. Also, this was foreshadowed in previous Dany chapters as well: 

Inside the tent the shapes were dancing, circling the brazier and the bloody bath, dark against the sandsilk, and some did not look human. She glimpsed the shadow of a great wolf, and another like a man wreathed in flames. (Dany VIII AGOT)

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Sometimes she would close her eyes and dream of him, but it was never Jorah Mormont she dreamed of; her lover was always younger and more comely, though his face remained a shifting shadow. (Dany II ASOS)

Dany sees the shadows of the dead dancing with Mirri Maz Duur behind the curtains of the tent; Mel sees Jon’s shadowed face behind a curtain, within her flames. They both witness the dead because Mel sees Jon’s death before it happens, and of course Dany is looking at the dead. Mel sees Jon’s face shifting in and out, between man and wolf, while Dany saw a man wreathed in flame and she dreams of a man whose face is dappled in shifting shadows. Dany thus first sees Jon in AGOT (though it’s likely the earliest foreshadowing for his death), her marriage to him is foretold in ACOK, she dreams of him in ASOS, and then she feels his death in ADWD. On the other hand, Melisandre explicitly tells Jon that the moon kisses him and etches his shadow tall upon the Wall, which matches the language of both Dany’s bride of fire prophecy and Doreah’s tale of the birth of the dragons and the potential of a Targaryen Restoration. 

Melisandre’s vision is a succinct prophecy of all the moon/shadow motif and foreshadowing that occurs for Jonerys. It is perhaps one of the biggest pieces of foreshadowing for Jonerys. Not only does it indicate that Jon and Dany will have a romantic union, but it very likely signifies that they will have a child (at the very least). 

destiel every season ↳ season 11