Tell me about your Jon & Bran feels.
ahhhhhhh, thank you for sending me this!!
They are such an underrated relationship and y’all need to stop sleeping on them. They have a lot of parallels (books and show) and have similar storylines in regards to the white walkers but they also love each other a whole lot.
I mean look at them-
Part of him wanted nothing so much as to hear Bran laugh again. - Jon IX, AGOT
*cracks knuckles* get ready for the feels.
When we’re first introduced to Jon Snow, it's through Bran’s eyes and immediately you can feel the damn love. Jon takes himself out of the count for his brother who loves him so much.
He loved Jon with all his heart at that moment. Even at seven, Bran understood what his brother had done. The count had come right only because Jon had omitted himself. - Bran I, AGOT
And Jon’s goodbye to Bran?? It's so heartfelt and the first and only time he stands up to Catelyn (which we know took a lot of courage on his part). The show did us dirty by not showing us Jon’s tears.
“He’s my brother,” he said. “You can’t stop me from seeing him.”
“Bran,” he said, “I’m sorry I didn’t come before. I was afraid.” He could feel the tears rolling down his cheeks. Jon no longer cared. “Don’t die, Bran. Please. We’re all waiting for you to wake up. Me and Robb and the girls, everyone . . . ” - Jon II, AGOT
Leaving Bran behind like this literally breaks Jon’s heart. And he also tells Robb to take care of Bran.
He remembered how excited Bran had been at the prospect of the journey. It was more than he could bear, the thought of leaving him behind like this. Jon brushed away his tears, leaned over, and kissed his brother lightly on the lips. - Jon II, AGOT
And then his reaction to realizing Bran has woken up is so precious. We see even Ned and Catelyn struggle with Bran’s new disability but all Jon cares about is that he’s alive. And fact that he cries again when Bran’s fate is unknown.
He looked at the words, but they didn’t matter. Nothing mattered. Bran was going to live.
Jon ran down the stairs, a smile on his face and Robb’s letter in his hand. “My brother is going to live,” he told the guards. They exchanged a look. He ran back to the common hall, where he found Tyrion Lannister just finishing his meal. He grabbed the little man under the arms, hoisted him up in the air, and spun him around in a circle. “Bran is going to live!” he whooped. Jon III, AGOT
Even though he can’t be there for Bran physically, he makes sure to tell Tyrion to help him in some way.
“I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him, Tyrion.” - Tyrion III, AGOT
also, precious Jon giving his fish to Bran when he couldn’t catch one. And then Bran asks the heartbreaking question of whether he’ll see him again and the feels, y’all, the feels.
“I didn’t catch anything,” Bran said, “but Jon gave me his fish on the way back to Winterfell. Will we ever see Jon again?” - Bran IV, AGOT
Plus the ongoing foursome (robb, jon, arya, and bran) playing and doing activities together.
he was a man grown now, a black brother of the Night’s Watch, not the boy who’d once sat at Old Nan’s feet with Bran and Robb and Arya. - Jon VII, AGOT
Playing, Jon thought in astonishment, grown men playing like children, throwing snowballs the way Bran and Arya once did, and Robb and me before them. - Jon XII, adwd
And when Jon deserts the night’s watch for Robb, he knows that even if he’s a deserter, Bran would most probably let him in. Bran, who knows deserters are killed, would probably break that rule for his brother even if maester luwin wouldn't.
Jon knew he would find no safe haven. Not even at Winterfell. Bran might want to let him in, but Maester Luwin had better sense. - Jon IX, AGOT
lmfaoo Bran’s hatred for the Freys and him thinking a bastard can hold a keep. He and Arya are both super defensive of Jon’s place and it reminds us of how neither of them see Jon as anything less than their actual brother.
Ser Rodrik decreed that they would share Jon Snow’s old bedchamber, since Jon was in the Night’s Watch and never coming back. Bran hated that; it made him feel as if the Freys were trying to steal Jon’s place. - Bran I, acok
“Then let Lord Hornwood’s bastard be the heir,” Bran said, thinking of his half brother Jon. - Bran II, acok
Jon admiring Bran’s bravery and literally not caring what happens to him as long as Bran was safe.
They were close now, though. Jon could sense it. Even so, he did not think of the foes who were waiting for him, all unknowing, but of his brother at Winterfell. Bran used to love to climb. I wish I had a tenth part of his courage. - Jon VI, ACOK
And Bran activating Jon’s warging ability. Like that connection y’all, deep as hell.
The weirwood had his brother’s face. Had his brother always had three eyes?- Jon VII, ACOK
My heart broke a little when Jon refused to believe Bran was dead.
“There’s some mistake,” he insisted. “At Queenscrown I saw a direwolf, a grey direwolf... grey.. . it knew me.” If Bran was dead, could some part of him live on in his wolf, as Orell lived within his eagle? - Jon VI, ASOS
Bran risked Summer to save Jon’s life. Summer, who is a part of Bran, two and one, and yet Bran did it anyways and he doesn’t regret it.
“You helped your brother, if that was him in truth, but it almost cost you Summer.”
Bran was terrified that Summer was off dying in the darkness. Please, you old gods, he prayed, you took Winterfell, and my father, and my legs, please don’t take Summer too. And watch over Jon Snow too, and make the wildlings go away. - Bran IV, ASOS.
Jon’s bitterness at knowing Tommen lived but Bran didn’t even though according to Jon, Bran was much more of a survivor.
"At Winterfell Tommen fought my brother Bran with wooden swords. He wore so much padding he looked like a stuffed goose. Bran knocked him to the ground." Jon went to the window. "Yet Bran's dead, and pudgy pink-faced Tommen is sitting on the Iron Throne, with a crown nestled amongst his golden curls." - Sam I, AFFC
Bran not forgetting his pack, but especially remembering Ghost aka Jon.
No, the boy whispered, we have another pack. Lady's dead and maybe Grey Wind too, but somewhere there's still Shaggydog and Nymeria and Ghost. Remember Ghost? - Bran I, ADWD
and BAM! the most underrated relationship of the stark sibs. I can’t wait to see them reunited in the books! Thanks again for indulging my feels.
