Sometimes I just want to reach through the screen and punch Ned Stark in the fuckin mouth💀 Bro was so fuckin honorable that it literally killed him. He was also dumb as fuck, unbelievably so..if he'd listened to Cat, he would've lived, or, at the very least, if he'd kept his damn mouth shut about Cersei and Jamie until he had actual proof of the incest..I know he wanted to save the kids (though gods know why anyone would want to save Joff but that's neither here nor there), keep Robert from killing them, but he did not have to summon Cersei and tell her he knew, he did not need to do that..dumb as all hell that decision.
Like at what point did he think that was a smart decision? Absolutely never, because even he knew he was a fuckin idiot for that..except he couldn't take it back by then because he was already doomed. His first goddamn sign that he should've kept his mouth shut should've been Jon Arryn LITERALLY DYING conveniently after he found out the truth..like, yes, it wasn't even the Lannisters that killed him, it was Lysa and Petyr, blah blah, but they would've if he ever let them know that he knew...and at the time, nobody knew it was actually Lysa who did it, so Ned believed Jon was killed by the Lannisters because of what he knew, and yet he still pulled that goddamn stunt
What a fuckin idiot..I love the man, I do, he's one of the few men in this show who is actually a good guy without having any ulterior motives, like bro just loves his land and his wife and his kids and his honor ofc, but my gods is he stupid as HELL
ALSO, still makes me MADDD that he never told Jon the truth of his birth..like WE don't even know the truth, is he a Targ, is he a Dayne, is he a Stark???? WE DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE NED DIED BEFORE HE COULD TELL JON BECAUSE HE'S A DUMBASS WHO CAN'T KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT..will we ever know??? Idk! If GRRM would GET HIS ACT TOGETHER AND GET THE LAST TWO BOOKS OUT MAYBE WE WILL!
I personally believe he's a Targ, the product of Lyanna and Rhaegar, and it is hinted at in the books, and the show took that road too, but we may never actually know for sure who he is or where he came from..all because Ned can't keep his damn fool mouth shut
Ned is also stupid for trusting Petyr with literally anything, like why would you tell that man the truth of the twins?? WHY?? He's smart, he's vile, he plays the game the best imo, but I would never trust that man with a damn thing, especially that kinda secret
AND WHO SENT THE ASSASSIN AFTER BRAN???? Because it wasn't Cersei, it wasn't Tyrion or Jamie or Petyr or Varys..Joff is the suspect, because it was a sorta kinda smart plan, except the man was armed with a Lannister dagger, and Joff is a stupid stupid twelve year old child who would do smth like that, but we won't ever really KNOW because he's dead and so is the assassin (all hail Summer, we love Summer)
Speaking of wolves....do they give the Starks their warg powers or are the Starks already wargs and the wolves just act as a link? Because I'm dying to know..I assume it's the former, because all the kids have wolf dreams at least once except for Sansa because Lady is dead, but only Bran and Jon know that they're wargs rn...but we also don't know for sure. Were they just normal ass kids and then they became wargs because of the wolves? Or were they born wargs and the wolves are what unlocks that power?? LIKE I NEED THE LORE SO BAD😭😭😭
Maybe that's already smth everyone else knows and I'm just late to the party, if so, somebody help a guy out and lemme know, but as far as I'm aware, the truth of it all is not presently known...GRRM needs to drop a whole series of books just on lore, but I'm not gonna hold my breath on that because he hasn't even finished the actual series yet💀💀
I genuinely just came here to rant about Ned Stark...because he's a moron💀