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I still don't know how to draw, so I used Picrew... yeah.

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you’ve been a prisoner of war since you were ten years old but the prodigal son is finally returning and this time you have a battle plan. you’ve been to war. you’re the trueborn son of a lord and your only living sibling is your older sister (notably a woman), so there’s no threat to your succession. basically? you have this lord of the seven kingdoms shit in the bag. there’s a red comet in the sky and that comet is YOU, baby! got your nice doublet on and everything. everything’s coming up theon everything’s coming up greyjoy this time for me. Unfortunately your dad is immediately pissed at you he says theon you look gay as fuck. theon i bet that necklace wasn’t even looted. theon did NED STARK turn you GAY during your CAREFREE YEARS LIVING IT UP AS A CHILD PRISONER OF WAR. Like omg i JUST got here. and to make matters worse while you were away everybody became a feminist so you aren’t even heir to pyke anymore you’re just somebody’s flop gay son. you’re just somebody’s flop gay son on a rock in the ocean foreverrr

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still crazy to me how George R.R Martin just woke up one day, told himself that it's time to ruin the lives of some bitches and wrote the character of Theon Greyjoy

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my favorite thing about theon greyjoy (books) is that he’s a fucking asshole. even after getting uber tortured for years and losing his identity and just generally being subjected to the worst shit ever, his inner monologue is still so bitchy. all that shit didn’t make him a better person it just made him quieter. he is really still out here talking like that in his head. okay theon. okay girl i see you

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Robb Stark and Theon Greyjoy

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Two weeks of Theon: day 3 - Lovers, friends, family & foes

Theon and Robb

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The thing with Theon is that he never had a chance, doesn't matter the scenario you put him in to, he's doomed from the start.

As bad as being taken as a hostage by the Starks was for Theon, I'd argue that it's the thing that saved his life, because every other post-Rebellion scenario – Theon remaining in the Iron Islands, Theon being fostered at King's Landing, Theon being fostered at Dragonstone – would have resulted in Euron bumping him off long before he reached adulthood. Being held at Winterfell, specifically, completely neutralized the political threat Theon posed to Euron's ambtions, while all the other options would have amplified it.

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Weather the Storm ❄️

Repost bc I forgot the watermark the first time 😾

and don’t mind the funky arm..

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The Night's King and his Corpse Queen

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theon is so tragic because he is dedicated to a dead man. he’s swaying on cue, mimicking you, and the way that you shake (gold- penny and sparrow) he’s from the destruction, out of the flame. you need a villain, give me a name. I'll be your friend in the daylight again. (salt and the sea, the lumineres) he’s i hope you know i grew my hair out long and your sister’s just fine. i keep burning my bridges down just to keep you alive. (carlo’s song- noah kahan) he’s but i’ll come around some day (the lament of eustace scrub- the oh hellos)

he’s giving all he has for robb and robb will give nothing back to him, not because he wouldn’t have wanted to, but because he’s already dead and theon loves a dead man and will forever tug his ghost behind him. robb will forever be bursting into the feast of the dead, bleeding from a hundred wounds, and theon will forever be staring at him as the doors swing open.

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The fact Jon and Theon didn’t like each other is kind of interesting, a lot of authors would’ve made them very close because what they have in common, i.e. trauma bonding about Theon quite obviously wanting to be a Stark, but is actually their hostage, and Jon wanting to be a ‘proper’ Stark but instead being a bastard Snow, but instead they both favour Robb as a brother despite being quite obviously jealous of him and his position as Ned’s heir. They both parallel each other when Jon dreams of being in the Stark cypts and thinking it’s not his place, and Theon going down to the cypts in adwd and thinking the exact same thing.

You could argue it’s more to do with their personalities not being compatible, but Theon and Robb are very different also. I think it’s more to do with the fact that both being at the bottom of the family hierarchy, or more accurately outside it, is what makes them resent each other.

Like from Theon’s perspective he he may think to himself ‘I may not be part of the family but at least I’m not a bastard’ but then he will see Jon and Robb behave like brothers, Ned treating Jon with affection, Jon getting a Direwolf, even if it is the ‘runt’. Whereas Jon may think ‘I may be a bastard but at least I am Ned Stark’s son, and Robb’s, Arya’s, Bran’s, etc brother’ but then he’ll see Theon being treated fairly by Catelyn, Robb and Theon’s friendship, and Theon being allowed to be part of the formal greetings of the King, and being allowed to sit a the high tables when they feast, and all this leading them to resent each other.

It is true that love him or hate him Theon is an asshole and downright mean a lot of the time, so some would assume that, if Theon being the elder had been kinder to Jon, then Jon would’ve liked him, but I don’t know, Jon may be kind, but he is also proud and I don’t know if his pride would’ve ever allowed him to like Theon Greyjoy.

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im aware this is an insane thing to say but i fucking. love characters that are just cockroaches. and i dont mean like. gross i mean they just do not fucking die. they can survive anything. they will outlive EVERYONE because they just will not die no matter what be it because they have a reason or because they literally cannot stop surviving the odds i love it i love it

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im a sheep and i love cat's acts of violence through out the books. she has hate in her heart and blood on her hands and thats exactly why ned and everyone else is so down bad for her,, she fights off the catspaw smashes a guys head in with a rock shanks a guy with a knife and her ghost is now on a murder spree,, if u do not see the appeal in the milf of all times consider urself dead

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Even without the shitty last seasons and character developments, asoiaf books take the W for the simple fact that the obvious young hero of the first book is like. 15. Like even in the pjo or hp series where there are fated young heroes haunted with tragedy something about robb stark just makes me want to sob.

He's 15 and his beard is just starting to grow, one day he's playing with his siblings and friends and the next day he learns that his father will leave for king's landing, and then his little brother falls from a tower and he is crippled. his father leaves his home and his men to his mother and him, but his mother does not leave his brother's side, doesn't eat, doesn't sleep. the whole castle and the region depends on him to function, he listens to everyone but it's not enough and he begs his mother for help, then he begs his mother so that she rests a little. His mother gets better but still leaves him, and now he functions fully as the heir of winterfell. he dislikes killing even the wildlings, but he recognizes the duty but he still sighs in relief when he's advised not to kill. He takes care of everyone and then he cries with his brother at night, his voice shakes when he defends his brother but his sword doesn't, even the ones he trusts the most does not run for his brother like he does. He's scared all the time but he keeps going and he keeps listening and he keeps caring and it's just not enough.

His father dies. he's the lord of winterfell now, and then king of the north. he's fifteen. no matter what he does, he's fifteen.

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lannister boys in asos are so funny genre-wise. tyrion is in his greek tragedy shakespeare play kendall roy succession richard lll frankenstein cain and abel abraham and isaac doomed from the start kind of narrative meanwhile jaime is on his coming of age roadtrip with buddycop enemies to lovers romance. a tragic hero and a teenage boy in his thirties.

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it has to be said i <3 characters who are victims of circumstances they created for themselves. especially when the bed they made for themselves to lie in is so horribly cruel and punishing that it interrogates the idea that anyone can be truly said to "deserve" anything at all.

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I've had an ideia for a fic stuck in my head since yesterday

It's been years since this happened. It's all supernatural fault