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⌈ Secret Post #2259 ⌋

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Yeah Jon and Dany and Tyrion are almost certainly endgame, unabashedly his favourites, and (at least Jon and Dany) are some of the most stereotypical fantasy protagonists.

Especially Jon. He is everything my fantasy-reading male friends from junior high wanted in a character, from the token angst yet being the awesomest at sword fighting, to being meant to lead in his ultrahonorable but maybe futile cause of FIGHTAN MONSTERS, right down to the spirited red-head fridged for his man feels and the (nonsensical) black clothing.

Dany, the purple-eyed magic princess, is only slightly better, really. Maybe worse with all of the blatant one-handed typing.

And ADWD pretty much ruins Tyrion, so... hurray. I'm totes super stoked about where the series is going.

...Brienne and Jamie for King and Queen?

Oh god, good, you see it to. That's exactly how I feel. I started getting annoyed that Jon just gets away with everything. It's almost like I'm reading a different book when I read Jon chapters. I mean, they're well done and all, but they feel so much more like classic fantasy than any other part.

Have you read ADWD? If not, what I have to say about Jon might go into spoiler territory, so...

...(SPOILERS)

There's no freaking way he's dead. I wasn't even worried. GRRM has been so unabashedly favouring him that it became readily apparent books ago that "kills the ones you love" didn't apply to Jon or Dany or Tyrion. They've gotten themselves into situations where other characters would surely have died and miraculously survived. Jon either lives through the stabbing, or comes back as a wolf/undead. I'd put cold hard cash on it.

I've read it, and, oh yeah. I'm 100% positive he's alive. It wasn't even a question for me--not just because of the favoritism, exactly, but also because there had yet to be any payoff for his arc. Every character either had build-up and pay-off before they died, or had no build-up at all.

Although it was nice seeing an actual (as far as I can tell) consequence for his upstart-ness.

I like the way you think. Brienne and Jamie it is.

The way Dany tends to throw her allies overboard over every slight, and how this hasn't bitten her in the ass yet, bothers me the most. Everyone else would have been stabbed in the back by now. I'm hoping that the dragons decide to make a meal out of any army she manages to gather.

Hasn't Dany already been stabbed in the back? Poisoned snack food that her tubby bodyguard whose name escapes me ending up eating (and just managing to survive)? And whatsherface...Mirri Maz Dur?, who Dany tried to get to save Drogo?

Spoilers

Don't forget Jon's most likely royal descent. And the distinct possibility that he's the reincarnation of a legendary hero, complete with a magic sword. He is basically every fantasy hero cliché ever. Not just some of them, all of them. I have some shred of hope that GRRM is setting him up to be a cliché only to somehow subvert it massively in the end, but I don't really believe that.

... Myrcella for Queen, Wyman Manderly eats everyone else.

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