#especially since Jon believes the myth that Ned Stark was the most honorable man alive

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I’ve always maintained that Jon is as much like Catelyn as he is like Ned. There’s a ruthless practicality they both share, and a lot of their chapters are back to back in order to highlight this, I think. Jon is willing to do the dirty, terrible thing, or the “cowardly” option, if it means at the end of the day that someone is saved, and it’s so much like Catelyn, who cares more about her family and people being safe than the honorable method. They both are “the ends justified the means” if the ends are important enough. I really do think that Jon follows the words “Family, Duty, Honor” in that order the most out of the Starklings, which is ofc ironic for obvious reasons, since Jon’s treatment is like the ultimate culmination of Catelyn’s ruthless practicality and her house words. (Since she rightly views Jon as a threat, but can’t do anything about the actual perpetrator of both her and Jon’s situation.) Thats why I think Jon’s approach where family and duty supersedes honor, is like his ultimate legacy from Catelyn, or something. And also “Family, Duty, Dishonour” sounds very cool.