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mummer · 2 years

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Also, re: Bran I in AGoT. GRRM uses the imagery of Ned taking off the face that he has as a father and putting on the face of the Lord of Winterfell. So there’s that.

here are the three places my mind immediately went to upon reading this:

1) taking off your real face and wearing your lord's face is itself a beheading. ned beheads himself twice over

2) arya quite literally taking off her face. seeing ned get executed and in turn becoming the executioner, becoming her father, sworn to kill for an inscrutable (amoral?) code of honour, where everything is black and white

3) So no head?

#actually 4. bran skinchanging wearing new faces itself a violation + aberration just kidding unless #5. cat trying to claw off her own face during the red wedding #guys lets keep talking about the agot prologue and bran i it's fuelling me i WILL write the essay!!!#many face things. surely im forgetting some!#sansa looking at sandors real burned face properly. vs looking and not seeing ned's head on the walls. Maybe #THOMAS CROMWELL VOICE. ARRANGE YOUR FACE #quite literally arrange your face and doom yourself #mmmm it's all so fucked.... it's sooooooo sad...... CYCLES......:((((#the boltons SKINNED starks. but now they do it to themselves.#is it relevant that roberts rebellion all started with aerys calling for ned's head or am i just. spinning WILDLY out of control #asoiaf

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