jorah is so insane having beef with ned for charging him with slave trading WHEN HE WAS LITERALLY SLAVE TRADING
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cersei | circe
George R R Martin clearly took some inspiration for the character of Cersei Lannister from the Greek mythological figure Circe. Aside from the obvious connection with their names, there are a few other links between the two characters that will be explored in this post. Circe was an enchantress in a Greek mythology who is often thought to be a witch.
She was the daughter of Helios, the sun god, and Perse, a nymph. The parallels drawn with the sun god are significant in that the first known Lannister, Lann the Clever, was described as having “stolen gold from the sun to brighten his curly hair”, a distinctive and renowned Lannister trait.
Circe’s brothers were Aeetes, keeper of the Golden Fleece (which could potentially be interpreted as the key to winning the Iron Throne, with Daenerys representing Jason in this example):
and Perse, who, interestingly, usurped the old king and killed him.
Circe was renowned for using magic to transform those who offended her into wild beasts.
She was also responsible for the death of her husband, the Prince of Colchis:
In some versions of the mythology, she destroyed her home on the island where she lived after she was punished for her actions:
This home was a beautiful mansion on an island:
and it was reputed to be surrounded by “strangely docile lions and wolves, the drugged victims of her sorcery”, which can obviously be interpreted as a foil for two of the great houses of Westeros, Stark and Lannister.
She was also said to drink from an enchanted cup as she wove her spells around her victims:
These are just a few of the more explicit parallels between the character of Cersei from A Song of Ice and Fire and the renowned figure from Greek mythology, but there are still others, such as their daughters being shipped off to be married and having their champions restored to life after having been killed (in Cersei’s case, this obviously refers to the Mountain).
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characters with prey animal rage
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time loop where i keep dying to save you but clearly the loop just wants me to accept your death. im not going to but i can tell that's what it wants
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Jon *chilling in the afterlife waiting for resurrection*: So I'm named for Jon?
Ned: Arryn.
Rhaegar: Connington.
Lyanna: -quil.
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men: i never cheated on you please believe me!
ned stark: i cheated on you please believe that! i cheated on you so hard look here’s proof of my adultery doesn’t he look just like me? that’s definitely my love child tell everyone you know
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i’m not saying that a ned/catelyn/lannister twins foursome in episode one would have solved every problem in westeros but i do genuinely think it would have handled a lot of them. it would cause some new ones but i think it was probably still worth a shot
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ned and cat dealing with the lannisters
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a little after Ned gets Jon he asks the wet nurse a bunch of baby questions and she casually mentions infants totally change eye and hair colors sometimes (Ned almost kills himself on the spot) so he and Howland end up frantically inventing mendelian inheritance genetics on the ride back home. except now Cat keeps catching him in the nursery with a tray of pea plants and a notepad staring at baby Jon with the intensity of One Thousand Suns and she’s like my lord is this some first men tradition? you do not perform this ritual for Robb :( and Ned just has to be like……aye tis a sacred offering to the old gods. for bastards only. no one else may witness, forgive me.
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its sooo devastating how the survivors of robert’s rebellion that we meet are all, at least in some ways, stuck at the age they were during the war. ned thinks of both lyanna and seeing the dead bodies of elia/aegon/rhaenys in the throne room constantly and it impacts so many of his decisions. cersei’s behavior— catty rivalries with teenage girls, whining at tyrion all through acok to make tywin come back to KL, etc— is more like that of a sixteen year old than a 32 year old. catelyn’s been pissed about ned bringing jon home for literally fourteen whole years at the start of the story. even lysa tully is still pining after petyr like a teenage girl in love despite barely seeing him for a decade and a half… tfw you will never get over the things that happened to you when you were seventeen
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stannis is gay blah blah davos blah ok but why are we as a society not talking about pathetic lesbian selyse and her insane obsession with melisandre. like she simply converted to a random religion and made EVERYONE else do it too and for what?? bc the priest was a hot lady??
a word from melisandre and she would walk into the fire and embrace it like a LOVER? a lover???? oh idk
(except they don't selyse WISHES)
like she just wanted to have dinner with her crush ok
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tywin doesn’t have a favourite child cersei and jaime constantly trade second least favourite and third least favourite depending on which of them has annoyed him more recently
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