Targaryen's Traditional Look Of Light Hair And Purple Eyes Is Nice And Makes Them Stand Out. However,

Targaryen's traditional look of light hair and purple eyes is nice and makes them stand out. However, it gets a little repetitive that all Targs who became Rulers had that look. We should spice things up with adding some Targaryen rulers with darker looks.

Here is my top 3 ( not in order of preference but in historical order)

1. Jace Velaryon:

Compare him to the other royal boys around his age ( Aegon II, Aemond, Daeron the Daring) and it's easy to see why he would make a fine King. Brave and a good politician. Plus, he's the first IT bastard boy. Jace being so much more capable leader than his "trueborn" uncles proves that bastardy is just a social construction

2. Duncan Targaryen

I'm a Dunk & Egg fan, so it me "King Duncan" sounds so good. Moving on Duncan himself, kudos to him for marrying his not noble sweetheart. Far better choice than his brother who ended up King who was in love and married his sister. We need more Kings marrying the common folk ( and caring about them) and less marrying their siblings.

3. Jon Snow

He continues the IT bastard boy trend Jace started. Started from the bottom so even if he made it to the top it would be unlikely he would forget the less fortunate. He's the most capable person in Westeros for that role. While the other candidates fight over who is gonna sit in the most uncomfortable chair ever, Jon prepares to fight Westeros biggest threat, the Others. The only thing against him is that he's currently dead but a mere thing as death is not enough from preventing Jon from returning.

guy who is "going to be okay"

Friendly reminders that Robert Baratheon

did not go to war for Lyanna Stark’s pussy. He went to war because Aerys demanded the heads of himself, Ned and Jon after killing his best friend’s father and brother unlawfully and cruelly. He was done with this mad asshole. He did nothing to start war when Lyanna was kidnapped. 

was strong, handsome and a fearsome fighter. Was just generally fucking amazing. 

made people love him instead of hate or fear him. He would make friends of his enemies instead of imprisoning them or y’know, burning them alive. This is what true rulers do. 

trusted his friends and people who worked for him. He let Ned go on ahead to take the Throne for him and he trusted Jon Arryn to be wiser than he was.

told his Maester to attend Barristan Selmy, despite the fact that Robert himself was so grievously wounded he couldn’t travel to take the Throne and Barristan had fought on the other side: the side of Rhaegar who he apparently hated ‘beyond reason’. Sounds like it, huh? 

never actually wanted power. He had no want to be the King but he was the only one who started the rebellion and the one everyone wanted to take the Crown. He hated his reign and yet, it was an amazingly peaceful time for the Realm. He just wanted the realm safe from the Targaryen’s tyranny. 

Hating the Throne turned him bitter, to a drunk who had no time for his wife or children, and who could be abusive towards them and servants. He wasn’t a bad guy at all, and he wasn’t some insane love-sick asshole either. 

Robert Baratheon is amazing, thank you. 

Finally

I recently wrote a post asking if any of you think Jon Snow is actually dead. I got likes but no response. I had to be sure I wasn't the only one thinking this way, so I copied a comment from RyanBarnes13 on Reddit, and I agree with him and a few others as well.

He’s alive. Aemon has that dream vision on the trip where he wakes up and is almost desperate to tell Jon cold preserves. The first was a non fatal neck cut. 2nd was a belly stab, depending on where could miss all vitals. 3rd stab was in the shoulder blades. So into the bones, not organs. He fell to the snow. And never felt the 4th blade. Could be he wasn’t stabbed a 4th time.

The key thing is the snow, it actually freezes and stops the blood loss which is what actually kills most stabbing or shooting victims. People have laid in snow for 12 plus hours and recovered from what should be a very fatal wounds.

Yes he wargs into ghost, and he is probable unconscious and in a coma like state. Jon has to finish the crypt dream of Winterfell he continues to have and wakes up from. This time he will finish it and will talk to the wolf he saw in the last iteration.

And yes the regular science will confound everyone and after sewing or burning his wounds, Melisandre will light a fire, put Jon there and the rapid warmup will help Jon recover and voila!!!!!!! A miracle!!!

Edit: actually if you look at the very last sentences, he falls first, does not feel a fourth stab, cause there is no stab, he does not warg, he only feels the cold. He is laying in snow. So he is still in his body.

“Jon fell to his knees. He foun

d the dagger’s hilt and wrenched it free. In the cold night air the wound was smoking. “Ghost,” he whispered. Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold …”

— George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set by George R. R. Martin

That belly punch is the big if. If he hit organs yeah it’s a slow septic death if Jon survived the initial stabbing. But it reads like it wasn’t near as bad of a stab. Bowen Marsh is crying unlike the others. Reads like he still isn’t quiet 100% on doing it. And definately is lacking the fighting skills. He punched Jon. And the dagger stayed when he let go. That says it went in deep enough to stay in. But who the hell stabs a guy and it is described as a punch????? Seems off.....

But unlike nowadays they stabbing into lots of muscles. Not fat. It’s a lot harder to cut through.

We actually had a soldier in Iraq that worked out all the time in our free time, he got shot in the abdomen. Turns out working out saved his dam life, the bullet hit the ab muscles and it actually stopped the bullet before it penetrates to the organs. Honestly we all worked out after that. Protein shakes and weights for the whole platoon.

But that’s what I’m seeing described more in this stabbing.

*This last comment comes from: BowTiesAreCool86

"Oh, you think he's dead, do you?" - GRRM.

Also, from another interview

I: "Getting stabbed to death by one of his friends?"

GRRM: "Wait til the next book"

I think he'll be pulled back from the brink, a more successful spell than was worked on Khal Drogo, but it will cost him part of his "soul" in one way or another.

* I personally think Jon will be in a coma like Bran was and he will Warg his wolf. From there Jon will learn of his abilities with the help of Bloodraven and Bran. I also think Jon is more powerful than Bloodraven AND Bran. Jon will probably be allowed to leave the wall when Rob's WILL surface which is SOON, or the Northerners will come together and will be Jon's "get out of jail free" card.

As far as they know he is the last living son of Ned Stark, and they would rather see a Stark in Winterfell than the Bolton's or Stannis. They are bidding their time, but Jon is in grave danger even at the wall as we already know. I'll say this until the books prove me wrong: Satin had something to do with Jon's stabbing. He is "the hidden dagger."

Things will change BIG TIME once Sansa Stark makes it to Castle Black as well. These are my thoughts on Jon Snow. Everyone automatically assumed he died and the theories I read of his return are totally unbelievable. YES, he will be a changed man and NO he will NOT be some zombie who can't communicate or stuck in Ghost.

No one ever talks about Jon's unnatural super strength. They showed a little in the show, but not enough. Jon has the blood of the 1st men and old Valyria. He is full of ancient magic that he isn't even aware of. His near death experience and being in Ghost's skin will change EVERYTHING. I also happen to believe that Jon is a greenseer and will find out of his heritage himself.

Jon might die later in the series and be brought back, but as for now; Jon lives. Any thoughts? 😊