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Jon: I love Sansa like a sister

Jon: *Is a Targ*

Jon: Pretty sister

What do you think about the leaks? Bran becoming King, Sansa ruling the north and Jon spending the rest of his life at Castle Black. That's a sad ending.

Hm… I honestly don’t know. I’ll break it down for points in favour of this outcome, and points against this outcome as I see it.

Most in Favour - Sansa Ruling the North Alone

In this episode, we had three points that I think might support these spoilers. The first, is Sansa’s betrayal of Jon. I’ve seen people defend it left and right, and I agree with a lot of that. I agree that in the long run, it was the right thing for Sansa to do. However it was still a fundamental betrayal of Jon’s trust. Not only was it a fundamental betrayal of trust, but there was a lot of emphasis placed on it. Jon begs Sansa and Arya to keep his secret, begs them to swear to him, that they will say nothing. We see so much emphasis put on Sansa’s response here, the look on her face, the look on Jon’s face. This to me feels like Robb marrying Talisa, an important moment that will have long lasting negative affects on the characters.

I think that this could very easily lead to a place where Sansa gets what she wants but at a price. She’s gotten what she wants, and likely what’s best, but she’s gotten it at Jon’s expense. I can see a coldness forming in their relationship from that, a distance between the two. I can see her, all alone at Winterfell, mourning the ghosts of her family and the relationship with the man she loves.

The scariest part is that it fits in with the Jenny of Oldstones parallel. I keep seeing people celebrating the parallel between Sansa and Jenny, because of Jenny’s love for a Targaryen prince, but people also keep ignoring the fact that Jenny of Oldstones is a tragedy. In the end, Jenny is all alone in her castle, dancing with her ghosts and wishing for a return to the past. People say that it doesn’t have to be an exact parallel, and I agree, but discounting it as a possibility is just us sticking our heads in the sand like so many j0nerys shippers/D4ny stans have.

Least in Favour - Bran on the Iron Throne

Bran has stated multiple times that he can never be any kind of lord. Not only does he not want it, but he seems to believe that it is not possible for him. Bran also has absolutely no claim to the Iron Throne. Of course, neither does Cercei, however I don’t think Cercei would have ever been able to hold the throne for long, nor do I think she intended to, really. More and more I think Cercei is using what she knows is temporary power as a sort of cosmic suicidal temper tantrum (look it up on TV tropes), but I digress.

My point is, I don’t think Bran would be able to take and keep the throne, nor do I think he would want to. While I can see Jon giving in to the demand that he take the throne and trying to govern, simply because he sees it as his duty, I see Bran flat out refusing because he doesn’t see it as his duty.

I can maybe see some foreshadowing in 8x04 when Tyrion asks why Bran doesn’t rule.

The Wild Card - Jon Back in the Far North

So when I first saw this leak, it was before episode 4 came out and I immediately discounted it because it had Jon restarting the Night’s Watch. I said before, and I will say it a thousand times more: this makes absolutely no fucking sense.

The Night’s Watch Will Never Come Back Because There Is Nothing For It To Fucking Watch.

So I was absolutely convinced that this was a bogus fake leak… and then Jon spoke to Tormund in 8x04. That was obvious and blatant foreshadowing, however if it’s a fake leak, then right before episode 4, when this obvious foreshadowing appears, would be exactly when I leak it. It’s almost too convenient that this leak appeared when it did.

That being said, I will not follow in the path of J0nerys shippers/D4ny stans and bury my head in the sand when things aren’t looking my way. From watching episode 4, a picture formed in my head for how all three of those leaked endings could happen:

Jon doesn’t want to be King. He desperately doesn’t want to be King. He knows D4ny isn’t the best choice, but he believe’s that as long as he and his family aren’t threats to her, her fundamentally not-evil nature will allow them all to survive. Then he goes to lay siege on Kingslanding and everything changes when the Fire Nation D4ny attacks the Red Keep, murdering hundreds, maybe thousands of innocents. He’s horrified, he doesn’t know what to do, then at some public place, Varys reveals to the world who Jon really is, and urges him to take his rightful place on the throne.

This gets Varys killed and spurs Jon and D4ny against each other. Jon defeats D4ny and executes her for her war crimes. But then he’s so tired. He’s just executed his aunt, he’s just had his trust betrayed by the person he trusts most, he’s just been forced into this position that he never wanted, something that’s always caused people pain. He doesn’t want this, he just wants it to be over.

Then he remembers Aemon, remembers how he gave up the throne, and for once in his life goes fuck duty. He shoves a stewardship onto Bran and just leaves. Leaves behind all his duties and all the manipulation and the backstabbing and the lies and the fighting. He’s out, he’s done. He heads up north to the wall and becomes a lumberjack or something.

TL;DR: The Starks are alive and well, there is finally peace. But D4ny has let her inner demons take over and suffered the consequences, Sansa has played the Game and won but at the expense of all her relationships, Bran has fulfilled his magical destiny but is a shadow of himself as a result, Jon has finally had too much and turned away from duty and Arya is so obsessed with vengeance and death that she can never be happy. I can see that as a viable ending. I hate it. I hate it so fucking much. But I can see it happening.

Can someone please argue with me, please.

jonsateaparty

Wow. So with the outline for what was going to happen at the end I still managed to make a better ending for game of thrones than D&D

jonsateaparty

Bringing this back because my ending that I threw together in 5 minutes STILL MAKES MORE SENSE THAN THE GOT ENDING. Like, sure, let's have Bran on the Iron Throne - as a steward! Like what pissed me off the most about the ending was how it took all the established rules and pissed them away. Bran has NO CLAIM for kingship! But he doesn't have to be king, just have the power of one! Also Jon can go to the far north WITHOUT joining a non-existent nights watch. I mean, it still has the flaw of Dany going dark side and killing innocents when it was more likely that she would freak out about Jon's lineage and start a fight over that where he was forced to kill her. But fuck. How can I, a random twenty something with no writing experience, manage to put together a more cohesive ending than the professional and experience writers on the show? Using the same basic outline that they were insanely given to follow?

Gah!