#jon con

"A bride for our bright prince. Jon Connington remembered Prince Rhaegar's wedding all too well. Elia was never worthy of him. She was frail and sickly from the first, and childbirth only left her weaker. After the birth of Princess Rhaenys, her mother had been bedridden for half a year, and Prince Aegon's birth had almost been the death of her."

- A Dance with Dragons - The Griffin Reborn

The bile that this raggedy useless absolute failure ginger white man has for a woc r*pe and murder victim, who was tortured with having to witness her children's butchery, all because he simps/lusts for the even bigger failure fuckboy husband she unfortunately had, who lost the only battle he ever fought in...

And to think this malicious mole is raising a kid he thinks was birthed by Elia. He's never told Young Griff a single good or kind thing about Elia Martell beyond her being the woman who birthed him, while lamenting Rhaegar the Loser's loss to high heavens.

He says Elia sacrificed her already frail health and nearly died to give Rhaegar two kids, one of them a male heir, he knows Elia was rap*d and murdered because Rhaegar couldn't keep it in his pants, and still he says SHE was never worthy of the husband who used and discarded her.

And then he immediately turns around and asks for military help from her brother IN HER NAME!

"To Prince Doran of House Martell, You will remember me, I pray. I knew your sister well, and was a leal servant of your good-brother. I grieve for them as you do. I did not die, no more than did your sister's son. To save his life we kept him hidden, but the time for hiding is done. A dragon has returned to Westeros to claim his birthright and seek vengeance for his father, and for the princess Elia, his mother. In her name I turn to Dorne. Do not forsake us."

The Winds of Winter - Arianne I

"I knew your sister WELL." He writes.

"Elia was never worthy of Rhaegar." He thinks. (So what he really wants to say, but can't, is 'I hated your sister well.')

"I grieve for them as you do."

No, you don't, you lying jealous ginger sty scum. (Demonic to compare a man losing his only sister and her children to r*pe and murder, to Jon Con's loss of the married man he lusted for, who didn't even bother to count Jon amongst his closest friends.)

"In HER NAME I turn to Dorne, do not forsake us."

If this is not THE BIGGEST example in the series of how evil misogynistic men will keep using women for all they are worth, all the while internally cursing and hating them, even AFTER women have been long dead due to getting r*ped and murdered, I don't know what is.

In ASOIAF, we have male characters who beat women, male characters who r*pe women, male characters who murder women, male characters who do all three, and male characters who make their wives risk their lives in childbed repeatedly in the span of two years only to move on to the next younger thing while the postpartum wife is struggling to stay alive, only to STILL let the wife be held hostage with her kids by her father in law just to get her homeland's army for a battle to save the husband's family dynasty.

And then we have Jon Connington.

A man who will not even leave the woman he unfairly despises alone in death.

Because, well, he still needs her. 🤷‍♂️ Can still use her. WILL use her.

Oberyn Martell died saying "SAY HER NAME!!"

in here, the captain of the golden company relays that illyrio's first plan was to use dany to gain an army for viserys. we have known this since the first book from daenerys, but by planning to merge dothraki and the golden company, i think a few arguments on faegon might fall short and some musings on illyrio as well.

first, if viserys was legimately intended to be crowned, then there is no point for young griff to be raised this way unless he really is aegon. first i thought maybe illyrio planned on getting him into the family by marrying him with dany, but he married dany to drogo, so that falls short. crowning viserys and then usurping him with aegon would also be a dumb move after giving viserys the dothraki. maybe illyrio was just banking on gaining some gold and new positions through faking aegon? idk

Because Jon Connington only has two chapters so far and in like every other paragraph he thinks about how the sound of bells makes him want to commit arson

If Aegon is really Elias son, then he would be Rhaenys' younger brother.

Maggy: Aye. Queen you shall be... until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

"Younger and more beautiful", nowhere does it specify that the person to take cersei down will be a woman.

Cersei is 30+ years old, Aegon is not even in his 20s. So he's younger than Cersei.

Now unto the "more beautiful" part of the prophecy. Cersei says this about Jaime.

Next to Rhaegar, even her beautiful Jaime had seemed no more than a callow boy.

We also have this:

"Everyone says that Prince Rhaegar was beautiful. Was Viserys beautiful as well?"

And finally the most important one:

Many a night she had watched Prince Rhaegar in the hall, playing his silver-stringed harp with those long, elegant fingers of his. Had any man ever been so beautiful? He was more than a man, though. His blood was the blood of old Valyria, the blood of dragons and gods.

Cersei considers Rhaeger to be the most Beautiful. I don't think the gender matters.

When she had been presented to him, Cersei had almost drowned in the depths of his sad purple eyes.

And who else looks like rhaegar.

This beardless boy could have any maiden in the Seven Kingdoms, blue hair or no. Those eyes of his would melt them.

(I could have put up more quotes showing the similar appearance between rhaegar and young griff but I think you get it. Also, I'm lazy 🤫)

Aegon will also be the only character who fits the prophecy to be in Kingslanding other then margaery. But I see margaery as a red herring.

And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.

MAYBE Jon Connington will die at some point during the seige of Kingslanding. A grief-stricken aegon could be the one to kill cersei. He will also have tommen and the soon to arrive/or had already arrived myrcella. I'm not sure whether he would kill them or not. I would hope that he doesn't but you never know. George could make Aegon go mad but I'm really hoping he doesn't.

Another option is that Jon Connington has Myrcella and Tommen killed and then maybe Cersei has the mountain kill Jon Con. And THEN Aegon kills her.

I think Jon killing the children would fit better because he would see them as a threat to aegon. It would also parallel to what Tywin did to rhaenys and aegon/(f) aegon.

The girl had been recognizably the Princess Rhaenys, but the boy ... a faceless horror of bone and brain and gore, a few hanks of fair hair. None of us looked long. Tywin said that it was Prince Aegon, and we took him at his word.

We know Jon Con is already going to be acting a lot more ruthlessly like Tywin.

For years afterward, Jon Connington told himself that he was not to blame, that he had done all that any man could do. His soldiers searched every hole and hovel, he offered pardons and rewards, he took hostages and hung them in crow cages and swore that they would have neither food nor drink until Robert was delivered to him. All to no avail. "Tywin Lannister himself could have done no more," he had insisted one night to Blackheart, during his first year of exile.

"There is where you're wrong," Myles Toyne had replied. "Lord Tywin would not have bothered with a search. He would have burned that town and every living creature in it. Men and boys, babes at the breast, noble knights and holy septons, pigs and whores, rats and rebels, he would have burned them all. When the fires guttered out and only ash and cinders remained, he would have sent his men in to find the bones of Robert Baratheon. Later, when Stark and Tully turned up with their host, he would have offered pardons to the both of them, and they would have accepted and turned for home with their tails between their legs."

I wouldn't put it past him.