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eddard/catelyn and jon/sansa parallels
She might have overlooked a dozen bastards for Ned’s sake, so long as they were out of sight. Jon was never out of sight, and as he grew, he looked more like Ned than any of the trueborn sons she bore him. Somehow, that made it worse. - catelyn ii, agot
“I see it now,” the Lady Lysa said, as she set the core aside. “You look so much like Catelyn.” “It’s kind of you to say so.” “It was not meant as flattery. If truth be told, you look too much like Catelyn. Something must be done.” - sansa vi, asos
Ned had loved her with all his heart.
That night he dreamed of the feast Ned Stark had thrown when King Robert came to Winterfell. The hall rang with music and laughter, though the cold winds were rising outside. At first it was all wine and roast meat, and Theon was making japes and eyeing the serving girls and having himself a fine time…until he noticed that the room was growing darker.
Poor Ned (part 2)
Inspired by this: @elaena
I was reading a fanfiction on tumblr but ive lost the post, its a game of thrones ff possibly oberyn x reader.
It starts off with a part of the targaryen family going up north where the father of the main character marries a tyrell and the girl has two brothers but she only has the white hair and violet eyes like targaryens.
If anyone finds it pls tag me or send me it, i will be forever in your debt 🙏
Fuck the common people. Fuck the workers who might be using the library. Fuck the maester who might be in the library. Fuck my hand maidens or the helping boys who might be cleaning the library. Fuck the kids who might be hiding out or playing there
Fuck my own sons and daughters who might be in the library. My son Bran is safe here and the fire cannot reach this room. Anyone else can fuck off to hell and die.
That's literally the attitude of this benevolent mother. I can't make this shit up. Honestly
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.
Rip Brandon Stark you would have loved bouldering halls 😔🙏🏻🧗🏻♀️
