A day of pure disgust.The sheer biodiversity of internet species never ceases to amaze me.
We mourn characters who actually deserved better.We rage at how the good die young while the wicked thrive. Their deaths haunt us, their absences leave scars. Meanwhile, the roaches in the gutter snicker behind their hands, delighting in the suffering of those with actual virtue.
They mock over Elia and her children’s graves—“You’re dead, your bloodline’s gone, you get no screentime in the main story. But Lyanna? She gets hers.”
Need I remind you why Elia's legacy doesn't live?And whose lives were sacrificed for Lyanna being untouchable far away from battlefield and Jon's safe birth?
The way the show portrayed it was absolutely beyond disgusting which, of course, makes it beloved by thoseLyanna stans.Because it was a one-sided annulment and a secret marriage and pregnancy, Elia and her children were still recognized by usurpers as Rhaegar's wife and heirs.Rhaegar and Lyanna shamelessly used Elia and her children as human shields while they played house at the Tower of Joy, leaving them in the Red Keep as live targets for the rebels. Elia and her children bore the full brunt of the rebels' wrath,and they paid in blood for crimes they didn’t commit—they died screaming as the official Targaryen family, while Rhaegar’s real priority—his teen mistress and their song of ice and fire—lived in cozy obscurit.In fact they became Lyanna and Jon's scapegoats.
It’s obvious that show-Lyanna knew what was going on outside.Isn't this, in a way, a form of sacrifice,a form of blood magic—their suffer and deaths traded for Jon's birth. Even the Old Gods demanded less for miracles. Even Cersei was always trying to protect all her kids,Rhaegar couldn’t even compare with her.
Tell me,is she grrm's favourite?your favorite?Lyana stans are like a bunch of squeaky rubber chickens —the moment you point out that while they was whispering sweet nothings under the moonlight,Westeros was drowning in blood, they start screaming, “Stay away from her!”“Leave her alone!”
Like idol, like fandom.The internet is their perfect camouflage — it hides the cowardice behind the confidence.Lyanna stans shamelessly only mock Elia’s extinguished bloodline and gloated over how Lyanna's son the great Jon became such an important figure in the main story as if that justifies the blood spilled for his existence.
I’ve said it before — they’re not Alicent Hightower stans in Lyanna cosplay.What they truly love is the fantasy of replacing the dead wife with their own bloodline,then looking down from above and saying,“She’s dead. This isn’t discrimination, darling — it’s just the truth. She’s dead.”
They don’t grieve the cost — they celebrate it.They treat Elia’s annihilation not as a tragedy, but as an inevitable act of stepping aside amd a narrative convenience.To them, history is justified by survival, and survival is sanctified by plot relevance. But glorifying an origin story soaked in blood doesn’t make it noble.It just makes them complicit in the very cruelty they pretend not to see.
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