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Scrunkly scrunkly scrunkly— i want to give him tattoos still but half of them are gonna be hidden anyway hcnshsn

I've been obsessed with MK and Nero. I know canon x oc is sometimes frowned upon but eh, it's just art and it makes me happy.

Hi! Thank you so much for your lovely gift. It did funny things to my heart. I don[t really have a preference between gifs and fic. I know I’ll love either so whichever is easier for you is great for me.

I do like platonic Stark relationships and my favorite is Jon/Robb. I always have the softest spot for familial relationships where love is entangled with some negative emotion that makes the relationship as complex as it is compelling. I find Jon/Robb so interesting because it’s a relationship that had all the necessary ingredients for an implosion. Two brothers of the same age growing together, one enjoying every advantage, privilege and honor available and the other fighting against stereotype, distrust and mistreatment. They grow up on top of each other, the only difference is the circumstances of their birth which neither had any control over, but one is awarded for it and the other punished.

It would have been so easy for Jon to hate Robb as this figure who had everything that Jon was deprived of and yearned for. It would have been easy for Robb to absorb his society’s viewpoint about untrustworthy bastards and his mother’s resentment of Jon. But while the unequal ground they were standing on did seep into their relationship, the love they harbor for each other and the faith they have in each other remains the core of their relationship. Jon’s hurt over Robb pronouncing him a bastard that can not be Lord of Winterfell is still so vivid in his memory specifically because who it came from. It’s a sentiment that Jon must have heard some variation of plenty of times but to hear it from his best friend and constant companion is a different story. They were just children playing but Jon clearly trusted Robb enough to vocalize something that I’d reckon would earn him censure if otherwise heard. And I wonder about that moment, that inadvertent breach of trust that Robb, young as he was, didn’t realize he caused by telling Jon “this is your place. Do not overstep”, that distance that incident must have caused even if Jon tried to push it down and forget about it. I really wish we knew Robb’s view of that incident and if he remembered it. Did it shape his growing awareness of Catelyn’s treatment of Jon? We saw him clearly worried for Jon when he questioned him about Cat’s reaction to Jon’s farewell to Bran. Did he remember it when he decided to make Jon his heir? We’ll never know but I’m certainly looking forward to the reveal of Robb’s will and the emotional response it will provoke in Jon.

I’m also quite fascinated and attached to the relationship between Ned and Jon. We got so little of it but it’s one of my favorite relationships in the whole series.  There is a lot of trauma underlying it on Ned’s part and a lot of internalized shame and anger on Jon’s part, but the source of it is just so pure. Ned just wanted to protect his sister’s child in a world that limited his choices and exacted such a toll from the entire family, especially Jon and Cat, for it. I’m very protective of this relationship and of Ned’s place as Jon’s father. I think of how Ned prayed for closeness between Jon and Robb and wonder what he might have done to encourage their relationship and how he balanced that with Cat’s displeasure. When I’m feeling especially angsty, I think of how everyone saw Ned in Jon’s features but how Ned saw Lyanna and how that might have been both a blessing and a curse in the early days after the rebellion. In the aftermath of Ben’s departure for the Wall and Cat’s anger and hurt at Jon’s existence, I like to think of baby Jon and baby Robb as a source of healing and hope for Ned. He’d lost nearly his entire family but those two babies were safe, were home and growing up together.

Rounding up my top three is Lyanna’s relationship with her brothers. Fandom argues a lot about Lyanna and Rhaegar, and Lyanna and Robert, but it’s her relationship with her brothers that are at the heart of her story. Those three are the ones who loved Lyanna as she was. Not what they could get from her, not their idea of her, but the wolf-blooded unladylike girl who would have carried a sword if her father had allowed. Brandon dropped everything and hightailed it to King’s Landing in defense of her. Ned lied to the world at a personal price to protect her son. Ben was clearly her partner in crime and confidante. They are the ones who loved the real Lyanna fiercely and protectively just as she loved them. That’s why I can’t buy a scenario where Lyanna just shrugs at Rickard and Brandon’s murders and Ned’s endangerment because love uwu. I agree that love is a strong factor in Lyanna’s story but it’s familial love that is engraved in the DNA of what we know about her, and while most of it shows through Ned because he is the PoV character, the glimpses we have of her relationship with Benjen and Brandon appear just as warm and loving. Recognition of the importance of Lyanna’s familial relationships is a hill I’m absolutely willing to die on.

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I made more of him. Goodness how i love him- In my opinion, fucked up characters are one of the most interesting ones!