[ SECRET POST #2293 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2293 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think that Cat's situation was different from this more modern conception (as another commenter points out, it was not a marriage made from love at first, and they were practically strangers). However, the thing that makes me love Cat is that she actually *feels* for Jon, it's just complicated and messed up, because he's the living reminder of Ned's one moment of dishonor, and she's forced into this position of being insulted and having to just *take it* when he brings the bastard home. Not to mention her worries about her own children's inheritance, etc. It's not like she hates Jon himself; she acknowledges that the child shouldn't have to bear the weight of her frustrations. But human emotions are much more complex, and Jon is frankly pretty fortunate that Catelyn, despite her feelings, is still much more patient and tolerant than we could expect a lot of the women of Westeros to be in the same situatin.

[aubry]

The reason I love Cat and Jon's backstory so much, is because Catelyn isn't the evil stepmother some fans want to make her out to be. She's highly moral and very self-aware. But the specific situation with Jon is so fundamentally painful to everything that makes her the person she is that she is incapable of getting over it. There's no way for her to resolve it, or move past it.

So she does her best to minimise it. You can see from the text that all the rational decisions Cat makes are in Jon's best interests. But anytime they're actually thrown together, emotion comes into it and you can't hide from the perceptive eyes of a child. So it gets to Jon anyway.

Ned's the one I have most difficulty forgiving in the whole situation, tbh. I mean, he's not a big emotional communicator. And by the time he's sure enough of Catelyn to trust her (if R+L=J is true) there's already so much bad feeling surrounding Jon that perhaps he doesn't know how to go about it. But the honorable Eddard Stark is the one who fucked up on this, IMO.