#headcanons !

the offense of jon's birth only increased as he got older. born to a devil and lord stark while he was away at war, jon was raised as an unwanted addition to a large family. he was loved by his half siblings and father, but his stepmother was less than thrilled he existed. catelyn didn't try to hide her dislike for him, but jon did his best to please her. he worked hard, he fought harder, he studied and learned to read.

things changed when he was coming into his teenage years, and he started to grow the tell-tale horns of a tiefling. it was decided eventually that jon would be sent away to stay at a temple of helm near elturel.

it was there he stayed for the next few years, until elturel fell. he was there when the city was dragged into avernus. he tried his best to protect all he could, but it was a disaster. chaos consumed that time, and that part of his life, desperately trying to get whoever he could out of avernus before diving into the filth and battle once again.

it's all that life will be with him. that is, until a nautiloid comes crashing through avernus. what happens next is the stuff of legends....

JON AS TAV

jon follows the classic path of the tav in the campaign as the primary non-origin companion.

JON AS A RECRUITABLE COMPANION

jon is thrown off the nautiloid and is found and collected by the tieflings from the rubble. many of them recognize him, and they take him to the emerald grove. tav or one of their companions has to pass a DC 15 medicine check to bring him back to consciousness. he shares his story of what happened on the ship, and reveals that he was not tadpoled but overheard a lot of things while he was on the ship. jon will part with the party after the goblins are defeated so that he can lead the tieflings to baldur's gate.

in act 2, jon is found in the cells in moonrise tower. once rescued, he vows to join the party, and becomes a recruitable companion for the rest of act 2 and act 3. he is a beastmaster ranger-oath of the crown paladin multiclass, originally leveling up as a ranger before shifting to a paladin in his later years taking care of the survivors of elturel.

JON'S COMPANION QUEST

so Neil speaks (in order of fluency) english, german, french, russian & japanese. He was brought up in balitmore by his british mother & american father so even as  a kid he said some words british way, and others the american way. ( e.g to-may-to to-mah-to ) Then when he was forced to go on the run with his mother at eleven, he had to fit into the citys, he had to pretend to be from other places ?     so his mother taught him how to change his tones & wording to fit like he was from other american places, then when they went to europe, it was all over again, so from eleven till 19 he was forced to never speak in his natural tones ? add in the multiple languages and his tongue gets really confused ? Not to mention the languages he knows, they confuse him some days. Some days he can only remember the french or german words, not the english and it frustrates him to no end. He tends not to speak much on those days, too humiliated by the fact he can’t remember the english words.

so like, he will generally fake a british or american accent unless he knows someone well or is super tired, then his accent becomes untraceable, some words come out american, some brititsh, some french some german, like he just cannot naturally form a sentence all in one tone without faking it. 

she’s probably had at least five big crushes on girls in her class or female friends that she mistook for strong platonic affection. that, and her admiration and love for shoujo manga comes partially from a place of being attracted to the girls featured in it, though she thinks she loves it because she wants to BE those girls w their shitty boyfriends or w/e.... no girl, u wanna kiss them

her favorite sailor scout is ami, but she was super starry eyed over uranus and neptune when she first found out about them but she got rly shy saying they were her favs bc she didn’t want anyone to think she was gay

it’s because she’s always been told she’s exceedingly normal that she believes there’s no way she could be gay. she holds no resentment towards other lgbt people and is fairly respectful (she might say some ignorant things out of internalized homophobia at times but she never means anything by it) but. she’s in that closet pretty deep

this might be an unpopular opinion, but i've got no issue with dany losing her shit in the bells. with some minor tweaks, i do think they could've made this work. the change? put the blame where it belongs-- with tyrion. tyrion, who was supposed to be her hand. tyrion, whose tactical plans lost her several powerful allies. tyrion, who she relied on for his wisdom while he constantly made bad choice after bad choice. you wanna call dany the tyrant for burning a couple people who defied her and "turn against her" because you think she's a bad choice for ruler based on that? look at the shit the l.annisters have done. the b.aratheons. fuck, the boltons.

dany honored her only reliable advisor's final words and burned the place down. her torching the city was wrong and she realizes that once it's done. she's horrified by her own rage and violence. she's certainly not opposed to that level of violence, but her anger and grief blinded her.

where i diverge from show canon: dany tries to figure out a way to make up for what she did during the bells. her speech about breaking the wheel turns into something softer-- she came into westeros as a conqueror, but that's never what she wanted. she tried to break free of her family's past but did the same thing viserys did when he came to westeros. she resolves to make up for what she's done.

more tba as i figure this out but it's very important to me that my opinion on tyrion is clear when it comes to my portrayal of dany.