#another big issue of fandom missing the narrative forest for the tinfoil theory trees for me is the duality at the core of jon's story

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also with all the damage the show did to jon's reputation as a good northern lad and wildling i hope germ comes out with like. yeah he's rhaegar and lyanna's son and the name she gave him while bleeding out on the birthing bed alone but for her big brother holding her hand in a tower with no way to know that baby aegon had been murdered leaving the title of Egg 6 up for grabs was like. howland.

#another big issue of fandom missing the narrative forest for the tinfoil theory trees for me is the duality at the core of jon's story #and centering targ vs stark when he's spent all the books fighting his identity as a stark vs a watchman #and Finally coming to a point where he can deny stannis and say i have a name. being satisfied with being a snow bc it does not matter #at the wall nor beyond it. and his fatal flaws in adwd are 1. he can't lead the way westerosi feudalism demands 2. he loves his family #two things that point very far away from him being a secret targaryen as something actually consequential beyond its role on history #and in places where his parentage matters is about wondering who his mother is. and his mother is lyanna and she loved him. #and ned promised her. who gives a shit abt rhaegar he is literally ned stark's son! and arya and sansa and bran and rickon's big brother! #at this stage what he is to the Greater North (wall & beyond) and the Westerosi North (thru his siblings) is more important than anything #and if he's destined for anything in THAT duality it's king beyond the north though i recognize that that is my tinfoil hill to die on #anyway. if the show confirmed anything abt targ jon as far as i'm concerned its how vital young griff/egg6 is gonna be going forward #mawdop #asoiaf