Starks Arent Ugly

Starks aren’t ugly

I think a big part of equalling "Stark looks" with plainness or even straight up ugliness is because THE in-house remaining Stark for the sake of reference is Ned, and Ned is notably plain. But the thing about that is he seems to have been an outlier at that. He and his siblings all had the "Stark looks", coming from a marriage of two Stark cousins.

Truth be told, Ned is rather ascertained by Catelyn as merely "shortER and plainER" than Brandon, but Brandon was the desirable fuckboi of the North back in the day. Lyanna, likewise, isn't only described as pretty only by Northern relatives, but also by a Southern marriage pretender with notable wandering eyes for anything pretty, and even an indifferent Lannister just putting it out there as some off-handed, irrelevant fact. No one cares enough for Benjen to note on his looks because he is an irrelevant figure to the outer world, gone to the NW since near childhood, so statistically Ned remains an outlier as a "plainER" (again, not even ugliness which the author is never shy to outright point out in a character) guy among the Stark family, while simultaneously being the only reper for "Stark looks" among anyone alive.

It would make sense that even not necessarily ill meaning fans would be blindsided by not looking at the full picture. But the fact is "Stark looks" aren't inherently unattractive or even merely plain or indifferent, and that Jon is of course logistically likened to Ned from the outside by default (as "father" and only Stark reference around for most people), but he himself is Lyanna's son (with a notably handsome man), and a young Lyanna is mistaken for Arya in a vision memory, not merely assured by an indulging father.

But, most importantly, at the end of the day, AGAIN, "looking like a Stark" is statistically/historically associated with attractiveness, particularly as ascertained by the other sex.

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A pyre for snow, i rather like this title.

If I were an ASOIAF book, what would my title be?

Birth Month:

Jan = The Blood of

Feb = A Tryst with

Mar = The Tower of

Apr = The Farce of

May = A Sword for

Jun = A Time for

Jul = A Promise of

Aug = A Season for

Sep = The Mists of

Oct = The Shadow of

Nov = A Pyre for

Dec = The Music of

Birth Date:

1 = Fools

2 = Fortune

3 = Steel

4 = Snow

5 = Crypts

6 = Cradles

7 = Truth

8 = Hope

9 = Ashes

10 = Skulls

11 = Roses

12 = Ravens

13 = Revelry

14 = Madness

15 = Sacrifice

16 = Tears

17 = Stars

18 = Knights

19 = Mystery

20 = Memory

21 = Dreams

22 = Sorrow

23 = Widows

24 = Princes

25 = Queens

26 = Carrion

27 = Beasts

28 = Krakens

29 = Wolves

30 = Dawn

31 = Night

Truly the greatest of books

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