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sometimes i think about how cat and ned were two grieving young people who felt like strangers to one another when they married, and how strained things were when he came home from the war with jon. only for them to grow to love one another and be each other's best friend anyway and. hh hhhhhhhhhhhh h

I've been seeing a ton of Game of Thrones content lately and I watched an edit of Ned and Jon and one of the comments on it was about how some people believe Ned didn't love Jon as much as his real children and I first completely disagree but also it got me thinking about how different Ned's feelings about Jon probably actually are to his real children. I don't think he loves anyone more than another but he probably feels a very different connection to Jon. 1.) he traveled for probably months with a newborn Jon 2.) him and Jon have this huge secret that granted only he knows about but he knows if it gets out the two of them are dead. He probably hopes he's saved his wife and kids by not ever telling Catelyn but he knows it would be over for Jon and I think having that anvil over their head (even with Jon not knowing about) would just make his connection to Jon that much deeper.

I can’t describe to you just how often I think about a young and very traumatized Ned Stark, who just fought in a rebellion in which his brother, father, and now sister have died, who suddenly finds himself with this newborn infant, the last piece of Lyanna, swaddled in his arms. He travels with this tiny newborn and just one other guy all the way to Starfall where only then !! does he finally acquire a wet nurse. And then they must begin their longgg journey all the way North, home, back to the wife he left for war, the whole time Ned is no doubt overcome with fear that someone might attack them on the road or Robert will find out somehow and he’ll lose the most precious thing he’s ever been entrusted with. Ned Stark you are the teen dad that stepped up!

I've been seeing a ton of Game of Thrones content lately and I watched an edit of Ned and Jon and one of the comments on it was about how some people believe Ned didn't love Jon as much as his real children and I first completely disagree but also it got me thinking about how different Ned's feelings about Jon probably actually are to his real children. I don't think he loves anyone more than another but he probably feels a very different connection to Jon. 1.) he traveled for probably months with a newborn Jon 2.) him and Jon have this huge secret that granted only he knows about but he knows if it gets out the two of them are dead. He probably hopes he's saved his wife and kids by not ever telling Catelyn but he knows it would be over for Jon and I think having that anvil over their head (even with Jon not knowing about) would just make his connection to Jon that much deeper.

modern au lyanna would loveee carrying baby jon around with her everywhere like she almost never puts him down or pushes him in his stroller because they’re codependent like that (side effect of her nearly losing everyone and everything she loves most). he’s always in her arms or cuddling with her, clutching her braid in his hand and chewing her shirt while lyanna yaps about her day like jon is her therapist. every now and then he babbles back and she listens very attentively because tbh he’s wiser than most people in her life. some weeks she barely sleeps so ned is like hey do you want me to watch him for an hour while you take a nap and she’s like NO. we nap together or not at all. or brandon will offer to babysit so she can have a girls day with her friends and she’s like it’s okay jon can come with us. flash forward to baby jon with cucumbers over his eyes as they chill in the spa. biggest mama’s boy ever.

modern high schooler jon snow who has a wolf cut and the world’s largest collection of mcr t-shirts. he uses cassette tapes and burns cds even though ned bought him and all the other starklings the latest iphone + airpods for christmas. he accidentally becomes important at his shitty job that pays below minimum wage and now he’s the manager at sixteen, and the unfortunate thing is he’s kind of good at it. he’s got crushes on the pretty girl in his art class who secretly brings her three bearded dragons to school and the pretty boy in the school musical who sings with the sopranos in all the songs. he smoked weed with robb and theon once and coughed up half a lung in front of the redheaded girl with crooked teeth who was his first kiss behind the bleachers in PE. his best friends are sam, who willingly stays after school to volunteer at the library, grenn, who is good at football and that’s pretty much it, pyp, who keeps begging him to try edibles, and toad, who owns an ancient car with duct taped side mirrors that makes concerning noises when he drives, but it’s jon’s only ride because he failed his license test four times.