Writing / roleplay prompts collected from the POV chapters of Jon Snow in A Game of Thrones , the first book of the ASOIAF saga. Feel free to adjust pronouns / etc. as needed.
tw: dark & mature themes, death, violence, suggestive / sexual content
❝ This is what a king should look like. ❞
❝ Is this one of the direwolves I’ve heard so much of? ❞
❝ Summerwine, nothing so sweet. How many cups have you had? ❞
❝ I believe I was younger than you the first time I got truly and sincerely drunk. ❞
❝ He’s not like the others. ❞
❝ He never makes a sound. ❞
❝ Don’t you usually eat at the table with your brothers? ❞
❝ She thought it might give insult to the royal family to seat a bastard among them. ❞
❝ My brother does not seem very festive tonight. ❞
❝ The queen is angry, too. ❞
❝ He took the king down into the crypts this afternoon. The queen didn’t want him to go. ❞
❝ You don’t miss much, do you? ❞
❝ We could use a man like you. ❞
❝ Take me with you when you go. ❞
❝ Father will give me leave to go if you ask him, I know he will. ❞
❝ Bastards grow up faster than other children. ❞
❝ Someone should have told him that war isn’t a game. ❞
❝ You don’t know what you’re asking. ❞
❝ We have no families. None of us will ever father sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. ❞
❝ A bastard can have honor too. ❞
❝ I am ready to swear your oath. ❞
❝ Until you have known a woman, you cannot understand what you would be giving up. ❞
❝ I don’t care about that! ❞
❝ If you knew what the oath would cost you, you might be less eager to pay the price. ❞
❝ Come back to me after you’ve fathered a few bastards of your own, and we’ll see how you feel. ❞
❝ I will never father a bastard. Never. ❞
❝ Is that animal a wolf? ❞
❝ What are you doing up there? ❞
❝ Why aren’t you at the feast? ❞
❝ You can touch him now. He won’t move until I tell him to. I’ve been training him. ❞
❝ If I wasn’t here, he’d tear out your throat. ❞
❝ You have more of the North in you than your brothers. ❞
❝ Let me give you some counsel. ❞
❝ Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. ❞
❝ Make it your strength, then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. ❞
❝ What do you know about being a bastard? ❞
❝ All dwarves are bastards in their father’s eyes. ❞
❝ I don’t even know who my mother was. ❞
❝ What are you doing here? ❞
❝ You’ve said it. Now go away. ❞
❝ I told you to leave. We don’t want you here. ❞
❝ Shall I call the guards? ❞
❝ You can’t stop me from seeing him. ❞
❝ I’m sorry I didn’t come before. I was afraid. ❞
❝ I wanted him to stay here with me. ❞
❝ I prayed for it. He was my special boy. ❞
❝ Sometimes prayers are answered. ❞
❝ It wasn’t your fault. ❞
❝ I need none of your absolution. ❞
❝ It should have been you. ❞
❝ Leaving is harder than I thought. ❞
❝ You Starks are hard to kill. ❞
❝ I have one more farewell to make. ❞
❝ I was afraid you were gone. ❞
❝ I have something for you to take with you. ❞
❝ Be careful you don’t cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with. ❞
❝ You’ll have to work at it every day. ❞
❝ First lesson, stick them with the pointy end. ❞
❝ I wish you were coming with us. ❞
❝ Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows? ❞
❝ Put down the sword first. ❞
❝ I can only stomach so much ineptitude in any one day. ❞
❝ How often must I tell you no? ❞
❝ I’ll break the other one for you if you ask nicely. ❞
❝ Look at me when I’m talking to you. ❞
❝ They hate me because I’m better than they are. ❞
❝ I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you; put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat. ❞
❝ You shame them. Does that make you proud? ❞
❝ You do want to know what’s on the other side, don’t you? ❞
❝ It’s nothing special. ❞
❝ No one cares where you sleep. Most of the old keeps are empty, you can pick any cell you want. ❞
❝ It’s better that I’m by myself. ❞
❝ Look, if you want, I can show you how to defend that. ❞
❝ There’s no honor in beating a fallen foe. ❞
❝ I’ve been bruised before. ❞
❝ If a bear attacked you in the woods, you’d be too stupid to run away. ❞
❝ Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. ❞
❝ I never thought it would be like this. ❞
❝ Last night I woke up in the dark and the fire had gone out, and I was certain I was going to freeze to death by morning. ❞
❝ I never saw snow until last month. ❞
❝ I’ll die if I have to climb that. ❞
❝ I don’t like high places. ❞
❝ Sometimes I dream about it. ❞
❝ I’m afraid of what might be waiting for me. ❞
❝ The old Kings of Winter are down there, sitting on their thrones with stone wolves at their feet and iron swords across their laps. ❞
❝ Please do not imagine that it will truly be that easy, should you think to defy me. ❞
❝ I don’t know what you did, but I know you did it. ❞
❝ I’ve never had a friend before. ❞
❝ We’re not friends, we’re brothers. ❞
❝ You planning to drink that all yourself? ❞
❝ You did all you could. ❞
❝ I would not disturb your rest if it were not important. ❞
❝ I can stand here all night if I must. ❞
❝ The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion. ❞
❝ Why kill one, to no end? Make use of him instead. ❞
❝ It makes no matter. All that is past now. ❞
❝ The penalty for desertion is death. ❞
❝ Might I go as well? To say my words at this heart tree? ❞
❝ Why would you forsake the gods of your father and your house? ❞
❝ The Seven have never answered my prayers. Perhaps the Old Gods will. ❞
❝ And what will my duties be? ❞
❝ Do you take me for a servant? ❞
❝ Don’t you see what they’re doing? ❞
❝ He wanted to shame me, and he has. ❞
❝ I never asked for this. ❞
❝ Dark’s falling, and there’s something in the smell of the night that I mislike. ❞
❝ Tell me how they died. ❞
❝ The Others are only a story, a tale to make children shiver. ❞
❝ The things we love destroy us every time. ❞
❝ This could not have happened at a worse time. ❞
❝ I hope you are not thinking of doing anything stupid. ❞
❝ Whatever they do in King’s Landing is none of our concern. ❞
❝ Be strong. The gods are cruel. ❞
❝ I will not sleep tonight. ❞
❝ Gods, he’s dead, he’s dead, I saw him dead! ❞
❝ A dead man tried to kill me. How well could I be? ❞
❝ You do not look well. How is your hand? ❞
❝ The maester says I’ll have scars, but otherwise the hand should be as good as it was before. ❞
❝ It was my father’s sword, and his father’s before him. ❞
❝ I would not be sitting here if not for your. ❞
❝ Honor the steel with deeds, not words. ❞
❝ You’re the one who deserves the honor. ❞
❝ You told him, didn’t you? ❞
❝ Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. ❞
❝ What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? ❞
❝ We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. ❞
❝ We all do our duty when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. ❞
❝ You must make that choice yourself, and live with it all the rest of your days. ❞
❝ Please, you must not do this. ❞
❝ You can’t. I won’t let you. ❞
❝ I would sooner not hurt you. ❞
❝ I am doing the right thing, so why do I feel so bad? ❞
❝ I belong with my brother. ❞
❝ You don’t have to tell me the words, I know them as well as you do. ❞
❝ So here are your choices. Kill me, or come back with me. ❞
❝ I won’t run, if that’s what you mean. ❞
❝ The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. ❞
❝ Was your moonlight ride so tiring? ❞
❝ They killed my father. Did you expect me to do nothing? ❞
❝ I ordered a watch kept over you. ❞
❝ My place is here. Where is yours? ❞
❝ When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne? ❞