I’m still just massively annoyed that in their determination to romanticise Rhaegar/Lyanna they keep painting the rebellion as being “a lie” about Robert’s feelings for Lyanna and the fact that he “loved someone who didn’t love him back”, when the rebellion had nothing to do with how Robert felt and he wasn’t even the one who started it - it only became known as Robert’s Rebellion after the fact, when he was proclaimed king
it was Brandon Stark that rode to King’s Landing to get answers and justice when Rhaegar disappeared with Lyanna without a word to anyone and Jon Arryn was the one who called his banners, after Aerys brutally murdered Brandon and Rickard Stark and Jon Arryn’s own son, and then demanded that Jon break guest right and kill Ned and Robert
Aerys had been growing increasingly despotic for years and when he murdered a Lord Paramount of the land and his heir and demanded the deaths of others, he was the one breaking the feudal contract between king and lords
and that’s not even touching the problem of the already married Crown Prince disappearing with a girl who is the daughter of one Lord Paramount and the betrothed of another and the dubiousness of Lyanna’s consent - she was fifteen years old and even if she initially went willingly with Rhaegar to escape her betrothal, I can’t imagine her staying willingly after learning of her family’s murders - or the fact that after being absent for a year Rhaegar returned to fight for his tyrannical father, thereby tacitly condoning the Starks’ murders
the lords of Westeros had every right to depose the Targaryens - nothing about their tyranny is or was a lie
frankly it’s emblematic of so much that’s wrong with the writing in GoT generally that D&D have taken this very complex political situation and keep boiling down to “Rhaegar and Lyanna were in ~love~ and Robert just couldn’t hack it”
