Post by elifsu on Nov 22, 2019 10:35:05 GMT
welp Ned/Benjen switch will stay as crackpot for now - but I do not believe Jon is Ashara's child even if he is Ned's son, I believe Allyria "Dayne" is Ashara's daughter instead.
However, if Dawn is supposed to belong to the Stark's but somehow the Dayne's ended up with it, which I think is a viable option, then Jon's hints that lead to Dawn make sense. There is something about how how the sword is "alive with light" when Eddard looks upon it that almost makes me think the sword was attempting to alert Ned to something. I think Ned could have been meant to wield it, but he gave it back to the Dayne's and therefore, would the sword recognize that as a rejection? That imagery of a "alive with light" sword and a sad looking Arthur Dayne makes me think that SAD recognized his time was up!
As for the grumpkin of Stark family, I think Sansa is like her siblings. She likes knights, Robb, and Jon uses their new while training and Bran wanting to be a knight and meet Barristan. She just accept she is a female and can't fight with swords, Arya is wilder and challenges gender norms. Both seem to be Starks and it's true Ned would realize if Arya was conceived when he was away. Btw I admit Arya is not Lyanna's twin in looks because Lyanna's hair and eye color is never given in text.
I tend to lean toward all six of the Stark's raised at Winterfell as being Ned's bio-children based on them all being gifted with direwolves. Jon had to earn his with his sacrifice, but he get's the most unusual wolf of all, based on his actions. IF Arya is a half-sibling, my tinfoil (and I admit this is far fetched) is that Arya was a bastard of Ned's that replaced a dead child of Ned and Cat's, probably with Luwin's help. There is something off about Lady Dustin's hatred of Ned. If it's true, her reasoning doesn't really feel right to me, all that nonsense about her husbands bones. But if she and Ned had a child (I said this was far fetched) then Ned took that child, her anger toward him fit's the same kind of anger that Gilly seems to feel for Jon Snow. A mother who's child was taken from her. And Barbrey Dustin shows quite a bit of interest in fArya/Jeyne, housing her before the wedding and keeping an eye on her after the wedding. She might not recognize her own child, but she might also think Arya is possibly her child. My previous thought was that Lyanna could be Arya's mother, but that was when I still thought that Lyanna lived years longer than most people suspect. I find that unlikely now.
As for Tywin, I started to suspect his parentage because his uncle's womanizer description and how he is described as tall with long legs when Kevan and old Genna are like their father in looks? Even Gerion, but I am affected by the Gerion/Illyrio theories I read.
However, it's fun to toy with the idea that Tywin could be a cuckoo in the nest, mostly because it would just piss him off so much! There is nothing in the text that shuts down this idea as far as I can see, and his children could get the Lannister looks from their mother.
Huh, Barbrey and Ned, that wouldn't be too far fatched because I always believed she tought she could marry Ned after Brandon engaged to Catelyn? There is also the fact her husband's love for breasts and a certain Dornish wetnurse but I am not going into the rabbit hole of Dustin/Darry switch.