![]() Grey Wind leapt up atop King Tristifer’s crypt, his teeth bared. “No more than Theon Greyjoy would harm Bran or Rickon?” Here is where it gets interesting and is possible foreshadowing for how the Stark succession is finally decided. That his heir Lyn Corbray is more trustworthy than Jon Stark’s future children…. If we take Lyonel Corbray as the Vale cousin, then Catelyn is saying Should he wed and breed, any sons you may If you make Jon legitimate, there is no way Targaryens for five generations, until Barristan the Bold slew the last Trust his sons? Or their sons? The Blackfyre pretenders troubled the His children of bastard blood are destined to be untrustworthy compared to trueborn Why? Is it because Jon is a bastard and therefore Templeton or a Waynwood’s future sons will be more trustworthy than This implies that she thinks a Corbray or a Then argues that a legitimate Jon Stark’s sons would be a threat to “ Jon’s more a Stark than some lordlings from the Vale who have never so much as set eyes on Winterfell.” She had not forgotten she had not wanted to look at it, yet there it was. Wants a temporary heir until Jeyne has a son (I love how confidentĬatelyn is that Jeyne will have a son!) and she thinks the distant ValeĬousin - a Waynwood, Corbray or Templeton - whom she has never met, is the logical choice here. My father had four sons.” - Catelyn V, ASoS “Mother.” There was a sharpness in Robb’s tone. Youngest … it might have been a Templeton, but …” Siblings, but his father had a sister who married a younger son of Lord Gives you a son.” She considered a moment. “You must name another heir, until such time as Jeyne So there is literally no benefit in naming them heir to Winterfell and the North.Ĭatelyn agreed. Especially remarkable when the knights of the Vale under Lysa Arryn refused to fight for Robb and the North. To get an idea of how unreasonable Catelyn’s hatred and prejudiceĪgainst Jon Snow was, remember that Cat would rather have some unknown, distant cousin from the Vale get Winterfell rather than Ned’s son who grew up in As in he is surprised to be missing even Sansa! And the distance between them is highlighted when he quantifies his missing her with ‘ even’. Jon notices this difference enough to comment on it and specifically calls her out on this. ![]() It does not matter if Sansa is courteous and polite and has good manners if underneath it all she thinks that Jon is somehow less of a person by nature of his birth. The point of Jon’s comment here is not about what Sansa specifically calls him, but that she treated him differently once she understood what being a bastard meant. Implying that readers who point out the flaws in a literary character is ‘assuming the worst’ of that character. I think this post highlights the fundamental disconnect between how Sansa is interpeted by her fans - or those you say see her in a favorable light - as opposed to readers who call out her flaws - which you describe as those of us who ‘assume the worst of her’. ![]() He missed the girls too, even Sansa, who never called him anything but “my half brother” since she was old enough to understand what bastard meant. I’ve noticed that this particular jon quote is something of a rorschach test wherein your reading of the line is colored by your view of sansa:
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