that is a scenario i daydream about with jon @jonsnow-creative lady arya and the turncloak get delivered to the wall. the disappointment that it is not arya; the worry. where is she? the need to protect jeyne anyhow. a confrontation with theon finally but that’s the state he’s in. theon smiling at ghost like go on eat me i won’t mind.
jeyne jon interactions i never thought much about before but your interest is contagious & i agree; especially if jon is in a position of power in his pretence. generally the thought of jeyne keeping up the fake arya identity for a sustained time is very interesting to me; it’s part of why i stalled in my daydream(-made-fic) about post escape jeyne+theon that having her reclaim her name was pleasantly cathartic for about 5 minutes but then it’s “ok and now what? obv. if what you start playing from is the canon timeline all this is complicated by jon’s death & presumed resurrection and how changed he will be after that (substantially, i hope). i also wonder where arya will come in with this, since i very much don’t want her & jeyne to have an antagonistic relationship & want them to collaborate instead (i particularly hate the theory that arya will kill jeyne to reclaim her place).
ooh thank you for the reply. I have so many thoughts that were inspired by this about the whole pass the parcel of identity that is going on with asoiaf young team (Theon has had his identity physically removed from him (in a sense) but he has reclaimed it, Jon and Young Griff-Aegon’s identities are being foreshadowed as a mirror image (I should probably write a whole thing about this but I won’t and by tonight I’ll have forgotten half of it), do Arya’s and Jeyne’s taking on of other identities work in mirror image too? In Harrenhal Arya not being Arya keeps her safe (to some degree), in Winterfell Jeyne being Arya keeps her safe (to an even lesser degree)?? and then? this could be interesting to explore in parallel with the Jon Young Griff-Aegon mirroring because of some in fandoms use of the lowercase f. just how important is the truth of your identity? And does sometimes the experience and the way things appear hold more power than the ‘truth’?). the fact that it’s often the younger characters who are swapping identities, or having to take on aliases gives this theme a parallel, surely, with adolescence experience, with the twist and discovery of who we are that goes on for many people through the ages these characters are at?
So to Jon and Jeyne. For me, I’ll be disappointed if Jon doesn’t retain most of his humanity post resurrection, (if he becomes very single purpose in the way Lady Stoneheart appears to be to me, I’ll feel I haven’t got the payoff on so many things I want explored, the way he is closing off from his friends in adwd, the identity chaos that is surely the response to being fucked up about being x almost your whole life and then finding out that was actually a lie by your caregiver and you are in fact y ). If Jon retains his humanity and his position of power and he chooses to protect Jeyne by pretending she is his beloved sister, that’s an interesting dynamic. Plus I am always interested those who have had power taken from them (as Jeyne has) then finding they have other power and seeing how the powerful can also feel powerless, so if Jeyne gets to help Jon deal with that whole I’m not x I’m y situation, because she has an understanding of identity and the impact of his childhood, I’ll find that very satisfying.
This went on (it could totally have gone on longer)
It’s been a crazy couple of days and posting everyday at a certain times is a little much but I have just kept drawing and paiting and thats all that really matters at the end of the challenge.
Her, and Winterfell, and my lord father’s name. Instead he had chosen a black cloak and a wall of ice. Instead he had chosen honour. A bastard’s sort of honour.
