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one of the unfortunate side effects of splitting AFFC and ADWD into separate narratives is that Jon threatening to burn an infant alive and Jaime's baby-in-a-trebuchet threat don't happen in the same book.
#and jon's scene happens first chronologically
#anyway this βfuck them kidsβ parallel isn't commented on nearly enough. like practically never that i can recall???
i'm going to pin this on most readers not being as revolted by Jon's treatment of Gilly as i am.
#there was no reason Jon couldn't have treated Gilly like an equal. #no reason why he couldn't have said to her 'look βΒ this baby's life is in danger. please. i beg you. help me save him.' #instead he uses his power over Gilly #someone who has been treated like an object her whole life #to coerce her into giving up her child AND her bodily autonomy #and the reason he does this is partly his inexperience as a leader yes but also his sexism and classism.
Yes.
But you're not alone. I recommend these posts on the subject: @bitchfromtheseventhhell's comparison of Jon's two encounters with Gilly, @lyannas's meta on Jon's treatment of the one woman with lower social status than him., and @dwellordream's comparison of Gilly's speech vs Val's. Also, Celia's Jon and Gilly and Jon and women tags have some other excellent posts on the subject. And I would be incredibly remiss if I didn't mention @asoiafuniversity's Gilly tag, where many of the above posts are reblogged, among others.
But it was just fascinating to me that within all the metas I've seen about Jon's horrific treatment of Gilly - which to be fair there aren't nearly enough in proportion to all the puff pieces declaring Jon the Most Feminist character in asoiaf - I've never before seen anyone comparing Jon βkilling the boyβ in his Gilly confrontation with Jaime acting as βTywin's sonβ in his Edmure confrontation? Not once in 14 years on this site reading meta since ADWD. Even though in retrospect the scenes are obvious parallels.
"And if I will not yield?" Must you make me say the words? Pia was standing by the flap of the tent with her arms full of clothes. His squires were listening as well, and the singer. Let them hear, Jaime thought. Let the world hear. It makes no matter. He forced himself to smile [...] Jaime got to his feet. "Your wife may whelp before that. You'll want your child, I expect. I'll send him to you when he's born. With a trebuchet."
Jon closed the fingers of his sword hand. βTake both boys and the queenβs men will ride after you and drag you back. The boy will still burn β¦ and you with him.β If I comfort her, she may think that tears can move me. She has to realize that I will not yield. βYouβll take one boy, and that one Dallaβs.β [...] βYou will make a crow of him.β She wiped at her tears with the back of a small pale hand. βI wonβt. I wonβt.β Kill the boy, thought Jon. βYou will. Else I promise you, the day that they burn Dallaβs boy, yours will die as well.β
"I'll leave you to enjoy your food. Singer, play for our guest whilst he eats. You know the song, I trust." "The one about the rain? Aye, my lord. I know it."
βMen say that freezing to death is almost peaceful. Fire, though β¦ do you see the candle, Gilly?β She looked at the flame. βYes.β βTouch it. Put your hand over the flame.β Her big brown eyes grew bigger still. She did not move. βDo it.β Kill the boy. βNow.β Trembling, the girl reached out her hand, held it well above the flickering candle flame. βDown. Let it kiss you.β Gilly lowered her hand. An inch. Another. When the flame licked her flesh, she snatched her hand back and began to sob.
And of course the fan reactions: the way Jon's threats to Gilly's baby aren't taken seriously, where "kill the boy" is interpreted that he's being cruel as a show to convince Gilly, that his heart is not in the threat and he wouldn't go through with it, that βour hero would never burn a child!β and theories that it's Val who will burn the baby to resurrect Jon (???). Whereas Jaime is taken seriously re his threats to Edmure's baby even though he has the same kind of βforcing himself to say thisβ thoughts, and thus this scene is treated as recidivism to his villain status and the main reason βit's not a redemption arc it's an identity arcβ etc. It's just... interesting, that's all.
Thank you so much for the links!! I look forward to reading them.
Going kinda off topic, it seems like the existing framework focuses on intent, rather than considering the threats themselves to be acts of violence or the first step in self-fulfilling prophecies. Personally I think thatβs the more fruitful way of looking at it. Like, letβs say that both Jon and Jaime are 100% bluffing and neither of them intends to go through with it. That assumes that theyβre going to be around to stop the events their actions set in motion. Letβs say that, in an incredibly unlikely series of events, Jaime Lannister disappears and is incommunicado for an extended period of time while Roslin remains in Lannister custody. Jaimeβs threat was heard by his men, who have every reason to believe that putting that baby in a trebuchet was their Lord Commanderβs wish should things go south for them. Jonβs got the opposite problem - nobody else heard his threat besides Gilly. If, in another unlikely series of events, Jon is killed and the Wall is thrown into chaos with multiple competing factions vying for control, Jon has created a situation in which the burning of Gillyβs child is the very predictable outcome. The damage is done, both Roslinβs and Gillyβs babies are going to die, as a direct consequence of Jonβs and Jaimeβs actions.Β
Leave it to the Theon stan to argue this, but it seems clear to me that GRRM is preoccupied with the question of how much responsibility you bear for the unintended outcomes of your actions. Thatβs where the interesting bit lies, not in βwhat does this say about the contents of these charactersβ souls.β
i'd argue gilly's baby is in a more precarious position than roslin's despite nobody else hearing jon's threats. jaime's threat was conditional, not just on IF edmure refused to surrender but also IF roslin gave birth while they were still storming the castle. everyone misses the context of that exact line, what he said about what definitely would happen if edmure refused him was bad enough: that riverrun would be stormed, reduced to ruins, and all its defenders killed, with the first attackers including edmure's own bannermen (kinsmen of his wedding guests forced into fighting for the enemy by the captivity of their missing relatives who were edmure's friends), but idt he's saying that if the castle falls and then roslin gives birth sometime later that jaime would have to return from kl with a new trebuchet to kill the baby, just "your wife may whelp before then" (ie, before jaime's done at riverrun). the possibility of his child's death in such a manner, on top of the certainty of everything jaime said before, is enough of a risk to sway edmure and make him accept that family, duty, honor actually allows for his submission in those circumstances.
gilly's baby is in danger from being seperated from the one person in the world who truly cares for his well-being and would protect him, leaving him in the care of jon, who made the threat, and val, herself a glorified hostage also under jon's protection. edmure/roslin's future child has more worth and more people to care about the baby's fate just by virtue of being highborn. the fact that roslin believes the baby's sex could determine edmure's death date shows that old walder frey still cares about having the next tully heir in his custody/bloodline, even if the lannisters have formally given riverrun to his second son (and the lord paramount title to baelish). lord walder does not value his children and grandchildren in a loving way, but he does in a family pride sense similar to tywin, housing all his descendants in need of it and bragging about how many men he'd sired, only willing to sacrifice one (developementally disabled) frey as the price for refusing to end his revenge and allow robb stark to go free at his mother's request. jaime himself could have the authority to summon roslin and her newborn child in the name of the crown, but any of his men acting in his absence would likely have a much stickier time getting roslin from their ostensible lordly ally, as she is still in her father's custody, yet to birth, at the end of affc.
i say all of this not really wrt jaime's blame level, but just to emphasize how jon's treatment of gilly is not treated proportionally, no matter his intent. his threat is unheard but unconditional, and, unlike baby trebuchet frey tully, jon's would-be baby!victim has no possible political protection in the absence of jon and gilly. even if the child died of natural causes, some childhood illness, or else was killed in a white walker-related death rather than killed by any living human at the wall, it's still on jon if he dies alone and gilly never sees her boy again after such a painful parting and everything she went through to escape craster's for her son's sake.
deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
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Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
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ralsei spending all the time to make elaborate rooms and tea parties and baking cakes for everyone that he doesnt even taste and then making nothing for himself. everyone say thank you toby fox for writing ralsei
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happy for you two but can you lock in kris is actively battling the dissonance between the player and avatar rn
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deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3
lol
ralsei spending all the time to make elaborate rooms and tea parties and baking cakes for everyone that he doesnt even taste and then making nothing for himself. everyone say thank you toby fox for writing ralsei
dont do this to me
happy for you two but can you lock in kris is actively battling the dissonance between the player and avatar rn
why do they keep bringing up it. what do they mean by this
asriel's retainer...in dess's room....hmm.....
deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3
lol
ralsei spending all the time to make elaborate rooms and tea parties and baking cakes for everyone that he doesnt even taste and then making nothing for himself. everyone say thank you toby fox for writing ralsei
dont do this to me
happy for you two but can you lock in kris is actively battling the dissonance between the player and avatar rn
why do they keep bringing up it. what do they mean by this

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deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3
lol
ralsei spending all the time to make elaborate rooms and tea parties and baking cakes for everyone that he doesnt even taste and then making nothing for himself. everyone say thank you toby fox for writing ralsei
dont do this to me
happy for you two but can you lock in kris is actively battling the dissonance between the player and avatar rn
deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3
lol
ralsei spending all the time to make elaborate rooms and tea parties and baking cakes for everyone that he doesnt even taste and then making nothing for himself. everyone say thank you toby fox for writing ralsei
dont do this to me
deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3
lol
ralsei spending all the time to make elaborate rooms and tea parties and baking cakes for everyone that he doesnt even taste and then making nothing for himself. everyone say thank you toby fox for writing ralsei
deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3
lol
deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
ok <3 yay <3

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deltarune playthrough chapter 3+
previous thread for undertale and chapter 1+2
right now kris is having a lot of fun being back in the dark world because it's an adventure for her.
i wonder when it'll stop feeling like fun
a game within a gameshow within a game. this is getting too meta
theres something going on genderwise with everyone here
rouxls kaard throuple. why not
Crazy line teasing kralsie throuple. you can tell how Tumblr this game is by the amount of shipbait there is between every major character pairing
chapter 3 was v fun. i feel like the story is just going to ramp up from here. a lot of time spent on tenna and what it means to spend your time in a nostalgia of the past, chasing the glory days that will never come back.
after chapter 3 deltarune is firmly a work of children's literature (positive) for me now, in how it spends a lot of time paying attention to what it means to be a kid growing up, the uncertainty of school and fitting in with peers, the growing pains associated with being too old for certain fantasies while still looking back to them for comfort, and the strangeness of looking back at your childhood while still being a child.
and now that toriel and undyne are out of the picture officially, and with susie's general attitude of not telling anything to a trusted adult, we've gone full into the roald dahl school of storytelling of "Get the adult out of the picture."
what does it all mean. what do the parallels mean
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