Bran didn’t just fall out a window and say weird shit
that is not the extent of his story, seriously these kinds of tweets and comments are just really bothering me now with how dismissive and ableist people are getting and it’s just...really really nasty
i get he didn’t get the flashiest storyline or constantly use his magic to murder people and get cool epic moments of revenge
but how did we somehow forget that this little boy who was innocent and just loved to climb lost everything that was his dream? he wanted nothing more than to be a knight of the kingsguard and that dream was stolen from him and he was TEN YEARS OLD and just had to learn to deal with it without any parental help because both of his parents were gone???
this ten year old boy was so sad and depressed that he literally told his brother “I’d rather be dead” because everything that he loved and wanted to be was taken from him???
this ten year old boy who was left behind to take care of a fucking castle of people and essentially rule the North while his brother and mother were gone
this ten year old boy who had to deal with not just losing his father and having no one to go to, but also having to look after his little brother?
and then Theon comes back and takes their home? and Bran has to just watch this happen and yield the castle because it was his responsibility to take care of his people? and he has to watch as Theon beheads Ser Rodrik even as Bran is screaming and begging in the rain for it to stop?
or what about Bran, still a child himself, finding out about the orphans that HE sent to help the farmer is dead because of him? because they were killed since Theon couldn’t find him and Rickon?
or Bran losing Maester Luwin and having to see his home burned and then having to go on the run and not just think about himself but also how to look after his little brother?
why is it we refuse to think about how a boy had to step up and be the adult, to have to think about responsibilities that should never even be his? did we forget that Bran had to make the choice to send Rickon to the Umbers because he couldn’t just assume that Castle Black was safe if he’d just seen Jon trying to escape from wildlings?
and how many times along the way was Bran tested to turn back yet he doesn’t? how they got trapped at Craster’s with the mutineers and he had to kill Locke to escape? or he could have run to Jon but he knew that he had to find the Three Eyed Raven and he literally gave up safety to go into the unknown?
how many lives were placed in a young boy’s hands and he had to bear their loss but still forge forward?
he never asked for this destiny to be thrust upon him and yet when it did, he bears the weight of it all and did what he was suppose to do even when it was hard
Bran Stark gave up his mind and his identity because he knew he had to be ready when the Night King comes, he had to be ready to protect the world
Bran Stark gave up himself and “died in that cave” so that the world could be saved
but okay sure, he’s apparently just useless, lazy, pointless, not worthy, doesn’t have a great story, just fell out of a window and says weird shit
OR maybe y’all just weren’t paying attention