asoiaf characters

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”

sansa stark moodboard

I saw a tiktok about Jon and Theon and it made me remember how fuking insane their dynamic is

They're broken mirrors of each other: both of them just want the starks to see them as family, they want to feel wanted, they envy and hate each other.

Theon is a trueborn son of a great house, an heir even, but at the same time he's treated as a squire and a ward when convenient, (he helps Ned and Robb), he's also seen as a hostage and a threat, never quite trustworthy. He says repeatedly that he never felt wellcome by the Starks and that the only one to have any affection for him was Robb. Theon dreams to be wed to Sansa, not because he loves her, but because them he would be a son for Ned. He envies Jon because even being a bastard he's loved by Ned (ln a way neither Ned or his actual father loved him), his sibilings (all of them) love him, even if Lady Stark doesn't like him, he is family in Theon's eyes.

Jon is a bastard, he's a shame that must remain hidden, it doesn't matter how much Ned or his sibilings love him, he will never be a true Stark in the eyes of westerosi society. He is trusted but his loyality is always at question, Jon is a threat to Robb's claim in many peoples eyes, like he wants his brothers birthright, and the worst of it all is: he does. He desperately wants to be a trueborn son, but he loves Robb deeply, more than he could ever wish to be legitimate. He envies Theon because he is a trueborn son, he is an heir, he will get to have a wife and children of his own, legitimate children that won't be called names.

Truely insane dynamic of hatred and envy that culminates with both of them trying to one up each other on everything.

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

"I will never be a son."

Viserys made Rhaenyra feel second-rate to an imaginary son all her life growing up, until the one moment he had no choice and made er his heir. Suddenly she herself mattered.

Then he immediately went and took it away, made it conditional on his whims, created several spares that could displace her. He made the initial trauma worse by seemingly repenting only to double down on the message that she herself can never be enough.

It's entirely logical that she would spend the rest of her life both clinging to that title that proves daddy loves her and testing the boundaries to which Viserys will defend her by deliberately flaunting all limitations this title imposes on her life choices. If she gave up that title, even if it would make her both safer and happier in the long term, those imaginary-turned-real sons win and Rhaenyra will truly only be second best forever. And she can't work for it, can't prove herself worthy of it, because that means accepting the title (and his regard) is conditional. She has to have it specifically in spite of every outrageous transgression.

Viserys trapped her in chasing after his love the same way he trapped his children by Alicent into a life of conflict. They exist to put pressure on Rhaenrya as rival spares, and they exist to prove he loves her by choosing her over them at every opportunity. There is no option where they can ever be at peace, ever be safe.

I kind of hate that the show didn't lean into that more. Viserys is such a slithering slime of a father and he deserved the worst.

I think nothing new is THE song for asoiaf women

Im starting to read asos and god Jamie is so delulu and fucking sad at the same time, the way he fantasizes about Cersei in the same breath he says she wont like him not looking like her anymore

i'm having nedcat brainrot!!!!!!!

I want to read a slowburn fic about how their marriage for convenience turned out to be the biggest love story on Westeros, someone please help me 😭😭😭

i just want to see them falling for each other over time and realizing that they're each other rocks

asoiaf quotes (1/?)

“You are the gentle sex,” said Lord Karstark, with the lines of grief fresh on his face. “A man has a need for vengeance.”

twitter said book accurate robb stark if HBO wasnt gingerphobic and they're right

"my lady" Ned whispered in wonderment.

inspirado na cena do começo do primeiro livro, em que eles se encontram embaixo da árvore-coração. eu me afeiçoei tanto aos starks e a dinâmica familiar deles enquanto eu lia, e a relação desses dois foi bonita e triste tudo de uma vez.

inspired by the scene at the beginning of the first book, where they meet by the weirwood. i was so endeared with the starks and their family dynamic while reading, and these two were lovely and sad all at once.

"I want to fight for Winterfell, Lady Sansa".

Today I bought the three asoiaf books that were missing from my collection!!! I'm so happy

Ned loves my hair.

No one will ever love me like you again

I saw you like Evelyn Hugo and Taylor Swift and I've just gotta ask you: have you heard of Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins? It's a fictional memoir abt the 1st woman president and her secret sapphic relationship/bearded marriage with her mlm best friend (ala Evelyn Hugo) and has massive Taylor Swift vibes (especially anti hero, last great American dynasty, gold rush, illicit affairs, I Did Something Bad, and champagne problems). It also has a subplot about arson at the White House, ft. An entirely queer main cast and really fleshed out characters, and has a really satisfying ending!

omg how did I never heard of this???? where can I read it??

"You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"

I posted this on twitter a couple months ago, but I thought I might as well crosspost onto here. Rhaenicent has quickly become my favorite ship of all time and thinking about how their story ends makes me a little feral.

Refs: this painting by Gerald Moira + Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë