Post by wolfmaid7 on Oct 13, 2017 19:16:48 GMT
This could certainly be Lyanna's train of thought. But then I think she must have loved Brandon in a way that wasn't brotherly, and she worried about allowing herself to love a man like Robert, who would change his ways no more than she feared Brandon would change his. We know that Ned was not like Brandon or Robert. In all fairness, we don't really know that much about Brandon, so maybe he wasn't as like Robert as has been inferred so far. We can also assume the little we know of SAD makes him unlike Brandon and Robert in regards to chasing tail! But there is no doubt much more to be revealed, so almost anything is possible.
There is a lot of projection about Robert's character after meeting him 15 years after the fact. He's something of a broken man who is still in love with his first love. If anyone had opportunity and motivation for relations with Lyanna, it's Robert. Whatever doubts Lyanna may have had; she would have married him just like Cat married Ned and Lysa married Jon Arryn or Robert married Cersei. It's the marriage alliance between houses that is important and she would have done her duty.
Exactly and to reiterate Lyanna on hearing she was to marry had a natural,expected but albeit BS excuse.
And I think it is something missed.To make any claim that Lyanna was right about Robert is falling into the same trap of misdirection and preconception.
1.Cersie nor Robert loved each other so "love not being able to changed Robert's nature doesn't apply.If Robert loved Cersie and still cheated we can say.If Cersie loved Robert and he still cheated we can say.
What is crystal clear from the text is Robert changed after losing Lyanna.He was no longer the man Ned knew or even he himself recognized.
Robert wasn't going to be this way if there existed no relationship between him and Lyanna.