[asoiafbran]

Welcome to the #CANONBRAN challenge! Continuing with the prompts from Branoween, and our previous Bran Stark Month from 2022, we hope this challenge inspires others to post their own book Bran art, meta and edits. There are no restrictions: you can post anytime you want as much as you want. Make sure to use the #CANONBRAN tag so we can find and reblog your works!

You can find the prompts under the cut:

Favorite: arc, chapter, moments and quotes.

Personality traits and overlooked qualities.

Strengths and flaws.

Childhood and ambitions.

The Hero’s Journey.

Summer.

House Stark: ancestors and heritage.

Familial relationships.

Friends and allies.

Mentors and advisors.

Antagonists.

The Stark in Winterfell: The North, Winterfell and its people.

Politics and leadership.

Duty.

Magic: greensight, warging and skinchanging.

Religion and The Old Gods.

The Children of the Forest.

The Last Hero.

Subversion and deconstruction.

Disability, trauma and fears.

Bravery and bravest moments.

Soft and humorous moments.

Future and endgame speculation.

Anticipated relationships and meetings.

Parallels and foils to other characters.

Parallels and foils: mythological, historical and literary.

[weirwood]

aunt and niece

[cardo-de-comer]

finished that old sketch I had lying around, so glad to draw them all together <3

[bookhousestark]

Rise, she thought. Rise and eat and run with us.

[gaya-the-k]

Forgotten Arya & Egg parallel wip

[lizzienoodles]

guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home

[ghostinwinterfell]

asoiaf fans: jon is a stark. jon is a targaryen. jon is a dayne. jon is a secret prince. jon is a blackfyre. jon will be legitimized.

the actual books: never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. I scream that I'm not a stark, that this isn't my place, but it's no good, I have to go anyway, so I start down, feeling the walls as I descend, with no torch to light the way. tyrion lannister had claimed that most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it, but jon was done with denials. he was who he was; jon snow, bastard and oathbreaker, motherless, friendless, and damned. was ever a name more ill-omened? we look up at the same stars, and see such different things. and if it did trouble me, what might I do, bastard as I am? you should look behind you, lord snow. the moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall. I offered you a name. I have a name, your grace. “snow,” the bird kept screaming. “snow, snow, snow.”

[winterosiee]

Bran and Summer yayayay

cmsn by @insaneption <3

[animusrox]

The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery

[weirwood]

the only extremism this fandom needs is bran stark extremism.

[weirwood]

daenerys targaryen & bran stark

[weirwood]

can you guys kill asoiaftwt already, i’m sick of hearing about that place.

[sayneedle]

“needle was jon snow’s smile”

art by cj_khalifp, commissioned by me

[madeforsecrets]

[bookhousestark]

CANON BRAN CHALLENGE ↳ Parallels with Ned Stark

"I never asked for this cup to pass to me." "Perhaps not," Catelyn said, "but Brandon is dead, and the cup has passed, and you must drink from it, like it or not."

Catelyn II, A Game of Thrones

Bran had never asked to be a prince. It was knighthood he had always dreamed of; bright armor and streaming banners, lance and sword, a warhorse between his legs. Why must he waste his days listening to old men speak of things he only half understood? Because you're broken, a voice inside reminded him. A lord on his cushioned chair might be crippled—the Walders said their grandfather was so feeble he had to be carried everywhere in a litter—but not a knight on his destrier. Besides, it was his duty.

Bran II, A Clash of Kings

[tonyloom]

Despite everything, it's still you

[madeforsecrets]

when arya gives water to the dying karstark men in ASOS, it’s one of the clearest moments that shows she’s growing into a leader. she instinctively steps into authority, and her disgust at the violence inflicted on those men immediately leads the BWB to choose to end their suffering, without even needing to issue commands.

she’s leading the very men her father once sent out to do justice, an action that in itself led the mountain to start terrorising the riverlands. she’s trying to right the wrongs being done to the smallfolk as a direct result of the war her mother and her brother are participating in. and in the process, she chooses mercy over senseless vengeance even though the men in question were the worst of the worst. this is arya acting as ned, catelyn and robb’s narrative heir.

and once she returns to the riverlands, she will choose mercy again, which will be highlighted in her confrontation with LSH, who is herself terrorising the riverlands in the name of vengeance. and after LSH’s death, arya will be the one to unite the people of the riverlands in a way neither ned, robb, nor catelyn ever could, just like nymeria united all the wolves of the riverlands into a single pack.

arya is poised to assume leadership of the BWB, reintegrating them into society and restoring their original purpose as protectors of the smallfolk. she is poised to lead the people of the riverlands, who have suffered more than anyone else in these wars, and she knows it all too well. and in doing so, she will repair the damage left by ned, robb and LSH/catelyn. she will keep her people safe.