As time passes, my opinion of Ned stark genuinely goes down. despite my natural affinity for Starks, and most of it has to do with Robert Baratheon
Robert Baratheon is an unequivocal POS, at every point in his life. He sleeps with anything which moves, literally ruins their lives, doesn't care at all about his bastards ( or the real ones), is obsessed and just wants to possess Lyanna, is abusive to his wife... And Ned sticks by him throughout. Yeah I can admit that Ned didn't have any power, Robert was the king BUT Need genuinely maintains the friendship. Even after he refuses to stop Lady's killing, knowing full well that Joffrey was the culprit no matter what happened.
And Ned genuinely still considers him a friend. People who are friends with such shitty people, are not as great as they think they're, even if they're not committing the same shitty stuff.

















