The North remembers. We know no king but the King in the North whose name is Stark.

Jon Snow alphabet → B for Brothers

Most of the time it doesn’t fully process in my mind that Jon Snow has a bastard name, and that bastard names are truly this Really Terrible Thing, but then I am reminded that in the ASOIAF Spanish translation he is known as “Jon Nieve".

It bothers me that Jon doesn’t even...

favourite asoiaf characters; Jon Snow

“You know nothing, Jon Snow,” 

Bonus: 

OkAY I NEED TO GET THIs OUT OF ME

THIS IS MOSTLY CONJECTURE ABOUT GAME OF THRONES BUT GOES HEAVILY INTO THE LORE AND HISTORY

this is the theory that Jon Snow is actually the bastard of Lyanna Stark (Ned’s deceased sister) and Rhaegar Targaryen (the deceased Targaryen Prince) and HERE’S WHY I’M UTTERLY CONVINCED LET’S START FROM THE BEGINNING

Okay so FACTS:

1. We know Eddard to be an honorable fucking dude. Like. Insanely so. He does not change his moral code for anyone.

2. Lyanna died during the rebellion, claimed to have been kidnapped by Rhaegar. No one knows what happened to her during that time, but she came back to the north a corpse.

3. Rhaegar is described by those that worked for him (including Barristan Selmy, who’s also an Honorable Fucking Dude) to be valiant, brave, kind and just. In the books he’s described to have loved studying books, the arts, and was just generally a gentle soul.

4. In the books, Promise me, Lyanna’s last words, are almost a mental mantra to Ned, especially near the end of season/book one. She has been associated with a blue rose. Ned recalls her dying in ‘a bed of blood’. 

5. King Robert was in love with Lyanna, to the point that they were to be engaged and wed after the war. 

6. Ned was alone with Lyanna when she died, save possible midwives, guards, and most likely Howland Reed, Robert was either off fighting and being crowned.

7. Jon Snow was associated with a ‘blue rose growing from an ice wall’- or something along those lines. The wording might be different.

CONJECTURE AND THEORY:

Lyanna was not kidnapped by Rhaegar. Maybe she was at first, but after a while, they fell in love, as Rhaegar was a valiant, kind man. She became pregnant. When she was retrieved by her brother, she went into labour on their way home. Whether it was stress from the trip, another wound, grief from Rhaegar’s death, she died giving birth to Jon. Her last words are Promise me, as in Promise me that you won’t tell Robert that I was with another man, especially a Targaryen, because he’ll kill my son and it will cause a rift between our houses. Promise me that you’ll raise him and keep him safe. 

Now, if you were the Honorable Ned Stark, what would you do? What is more honorable- to protect your own honor or the honor of a family member- a DEAD one, nonetheless? Knowing Ned, he would have chosen to discard his honor to keep the honor of his sister intact. After all, it wasn’t rare for a lord to come back to his lady with a bastard made in war.

In Game of Thrones, the first season revolves around a plot involving, at its core, dominant and recessive genes. The Targaryens have silver hair and (most often) violet eyes, both of which are VERY recessive. The inbreeding in the family is the only thing that kept those traits intact. If a Targaryen were to make a child with a dark haired, dark eyed person, however? They would end up with a dark haired, dark eyed child, much like Jon.

The series is called A Song of Ice and Fire- 

Ice = Starks

Fire = Targaryens

ice + Fire = Jon?

I AM ALSO CONVINCED JON IS RHAEGAR AND LYANNA'S CHILD.

But he doesn't necessarily have to be a bastard. Aegon the Conquerer had two wives - it's perfectly possible that Rhaegar married Lyanna during the time she was "captured", whether it was known to anyone else or not.

The reason I think that Jon is trueborn rather than a bastard is because when Daenerys is in the house of the undying in ACoK, she sees Rhaegar saying something about how the dragon must have 3 heads (or something to that degree, correct me if I'm wrong). Rhaegar's wife Elia gave him two children and couldn't have any more. Rhaegar was also apparently infatuated with Lyanna so it would make sense to have her bear his third child.

ALSO. Lyanna was found in the Tower of Joy (what a name), which was being defended by 3 members of the Kingsguard. Rhaegar also spent much of the war there with her. If she was pregnant, that makes perfect sense.

Also, thank you for that bit about Targaryen hair/eyes vs Jon's hair/eyes because I was wondering about that and what you said makes sense so yay

now tell me jon snow is not their child which ned stark promised to take care of and pretend is his own to avoid robert killing him.

 #winter is coming but jon snow sure isn’t

“The direwolf graces the banners of House Stark,” Jon pointed out.

“I am no Stark, Father.”