sometimes I can't decide if your favourite house is the starks or the targaryen ?
I mean it's so obvious that's you're interested in the targaryen history - like most of us lol - but in the same time you gave me the starks vibes ??
This made me laugh so hard because yeah maybe so 😭
Look, the Targaryens interest me greatly. Always have, always will. Genuinely one of the most insanely fascinating family trees in fiction and there are very few characters in it I wouldn’t be open to writing about or discussing. Like, the generational trauma? The incest creating both magical affinity AND madness? The way dragons are both their greatest strength and the symbol of their inevitable downfall? I’m snorting them like a line of coke.
That being said? Yeah. I’m a Stark loyalist through and through.
Not sure if it’s because I’m an older fan/book reader (I’ve genuinely been thinking of rereading the books actually, now that it’s been years and my English is better), but my favourite thing about the Starks is that despite being the “honourable” house, they still have so many layers to them. They’re not just goodie-two-shoes running around being Perfect Northern Lords™.
“The man who passes the sentence must swing the sword” is such a perfect encapsulation of that because it’s about honour, yes, but it’s also about taking responsibility for violence. About not hiding behind executioners or propriety when you make the choice to end a life. It’s a deeply moral philosophy but it’s also harsh. Uncompromising. There’s steel in it, not just nobility. And that duality—that capacity for both honour and ruthlessness, that ability to be deeply moral while also being willing to do hard, ugly things when necessary—that’s what makes them so compelling to me.
If you can see my love for the Starks in anything, it’s definitely in how I write Barthogan. And Lady Stark herself, obviously, but him especially. Barth is everything I love about the Starks distilled into one character basically: the unwavering sense of duty, the protection of family above all else, the willingness to be politically pragmatic without compromising core values, that particular brand of Northern justice that’s both fair and absolutely unforgiving. He’s not soft. He’s not particularly warm to outsiders, either. He’s good in the way that matters, in a way that keeps his people safe, his daughter protected
So yeah. Targaryens are endlessly fascinating and I’ll write about them forever probs. But when it comes down to it? Winter is coming, and the lone wolf dies but the pack survives, baby!!!!