#「ˢʰᶤʳᵉᵉᶰ ᴮᵃʳᵃᵗʰᵉᵒᶰ」ˢᵃᵈᵈᵉˢᵗ ᶜʰᶤˡᵈ ʰᵉ ᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵏᶰᵉʷ

[killthebxy]

does Jon feels the need to protect Shireen?

          nonnie, that is the understatement of the century. though they don’t have much interaction in book!canon (and in show!canon i believe they have exactly….. zero?), i have no doubt Jon looks at this child and 1) it breaks his heart, because no child should ever look so sad, and 2) it infuriates him slightly because Selyse mostly treats her like a block of ice, and 3) it makes him sad because it is so nostalgic and looking at her is the same as recalling he will never see his little siblings again, and 4) for all of these he wants to keep her safe and warm and make sure she knows she’s loved and that she is so much more than just the rightful heir to some ugly chair made of a thousand melted swords. 

          though, at the same time, he would never approach her first nor so informally because, again, she is the heir and not only he is a bastard himself, but the Night’s Watch takes no part in the politics of the realm — and also he kind of pissed off her father by refusing to take Winterfell for him, and also sweet-talked him into letting him have the free folk to the point where Stannis Baratheon, of all people, tells him that he haggles like a crone with a codfish. and let me just conclude by mentioning that brief scene where Val is terrified of Shireen because, to her people, greyscale is absolutely dreadful, and Jon (who even canonically has a little crush on Val) has a moment of being like wth is wrong with you this is a little girl you’re talking about if you don’t wanna snuggle her i will???? — so, yes, he is very much protective of Shireen even if openly he may not always show it.

ft. @scldsouls & @thekingstrueheir