#jon arryn

[motorway-south]

enough with the "who haunts the narrative?" olympics. let's talk about who doesn't haunt the narrrative. jon arryn's death kickstarts the entire plot and STILL no one gaf

[daemonwaters]

Always go nuts thinking about Jon Arryn's relationship with Ned and Robert. Rose in rebellion rather than betray them to Aerys. Ned and Robert thought of him as a second father and visited him constantly. Ned ended up naming his bastard after him. Jon named his own son after Robert. Jon gave Robert a hunting knife once as a boy, and Robert only ever used that one knife until the day he died.

[asoiafpalestine]

Our 98th art piece is...

A young Robert Baratheon with Jon Arryn, by @kingslayerstew here on tumblr!

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[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

“Yet when the jousting began, the day belonged to Rhaegar Targaryen. The crown prince wore the armor he would die in: gleaming black plate with the three-headed dragon of his House wrought in rubies on the breast. A plume of scarlet silk streamed behind him when he rode, and it seemed no lance could touch him. Brandon fell to him…” —A Game of Thrones

Rhaegar Targaryen defeats Brandon Stark at the Tourney at Harrenhal by Mark Smylie

created for the 10th anniversary of The World of Ice & Fire

[hauntedsaladeagle]

Rowena Arryn is Jon Arryn's second wife and his cousin.

[averageestrogenenjoyer]

Cool how Jon Arryn's last words were talking about Bobby B's cum. If I was him I'd be super embarrassed ngl. That must have been the real reason Pycelle let him die, the sheer awkwardness

[amber-laughs]

robert’s rebellion series but in keeping with GRRM’s “no king pov policy” we watch robert’s rise through jon arryn’s eyes a parallel to catelyn’s horror in watching her son’s royal rise and fall but this time robert rises and rises while jon gradually realizes they picked the wrong man for the crown

no rhaegar or lyanna pov either. we’re stuck between whatever they see fit to tell elia, arthur and benjen. all contrasting in what they think they know or how much they believe what they were told. the readers are as confused as the realm.

[jaehaeryshater]

“You’ll have others”, he said. “Sweet babes, and trueborn.” Lysa had miscarried five times, twice in the Eyrie, thrice at King’s Landing.

Lysa and Jon Arryn, 284 AC, art by @sofikiii

“Her Lord Husband had told her it wasn’t her fault, that the baby didn’t make it. It was the first time Lysa had heard that, that something that happened wasn’t her fault.”

This, of course, is not a real life out of A Song of Ice and Fire, but the general sentiment got stuck in my head about a month and a half ago. After Hoster forced a miscarriage upon Lysa, I doubt that she had heard any words of comfort like that and that wrecks me. I couldn’t get it out of my mind, so I asked my good friend Sofia who I have worked with before if I could please commission this from her.

Lysa, for starters, is not the most morally upright character in A Song of Ice and Fire. Whether or not she realized it at the time, she did have two non consensual encounters at a young age with Petyr Baelish, she ends up killing her husband and aiding to the mental stunting of her young son, and she is very volatile and cruel with Sansa. She’s obviously not in her right mind, although that is not an excuse for all those actions, but there is an interesting story to tell as to why she’s not in her right mind, what led her to her current state of mind when we meet her. The most surface level answer to this (although of course this does not explain her action towards Petyr prior to this) is that her father Hoster Tully forced her to have an abortion because she got pregnant by Petyr Baelish, and then married her off to Jon Arryn, who was 20 years older than him, essentially old enough to be her grandfather. She was around 14 years old at this time. We learn from the text that she is consistently pregnant over the next 14 years and of her children, only Robert survived. With this art, depicting her first stillbirth, I hoped to show a moment in time leading up to her mental decline. My goal is not to justify the things she did because she suffered, but to show a moment in which she is a victim as part of a broader statement of how woman and, quite frankly, girls are treated in Westeros. I also did not want to romanticize her and Jon’s relationship, but given what we know about him, he probably comforted her and that must have been hard for her to internalize and healthily understand because he’s a person that is victimizing her, is older than her father, but she has to cling to in a way, both as a husband and potentially for this love that she is not currently getting from her family. She’s a very young girl in this and that was something else that I wanted to make sure to implement, that she has just gone through a pregnancy so is looking more mature, but she still has baby fat and a lot of childlike elements to it because in a modern sense, she’s still a kid. A kid that is grieving a baby.

As for the detailing in this art, we mostly have blue coloring for House Arryn. I wanted to do some pink on her walls, as this is her chambers instead of joint chambers with Jon (although historically, even if she had shared chambers with Jon, her confinement rooms would be completely separate anyway) and I wanted to really drive home the childlike aspect of it, that she’s girly and frilly and has this wonder about her that comes crashing down. However, we decided it wouldn’t look good with all of the blue detailings so we stuck with different shades of blue. Jon’s outfit is inspired by an outfit in the Princess Bride, I couldn’t tell you who wore the outfit because I have not seen the movie. It looks like this though, which I usually use a reference for Robert Arryn but it works well with Jon too.

The fish is a stuffed animal from Lysa’s childhood in Riverrun. I never decided if Minisa or Cat made one, but I would more so go with that Lysa and Cat had matching ones as children. I think Lysa would probably get rid of most of her things from the Riverlands because of how hurt she was emotionally, but I still liked the symbolism there and how she’s stuck between being a child and an adult. The portrait in the background is of Minisa. Although it would make sense for Lysa to shun most everything from her life before the Eyrie, seeing as Minisa was not involved in anything that happened to her that caused her harm, I do not think that would extend to her. There’s no reason for Lysa not to feel fondness towards her mother, and especially at the age she is in this depiction, it would make sense that she would want to feel her mother’s presence while in her confinement.

Lastly, this is the inspiration for the poses. The art is called Age and Infancy by John Opie.

Thank you for reading all of this and an even bigger thank you to Sofia!! Lysa is so interesting to me, Jon Arryn too just because of how long his life spanned. I love talking about them and commissioning things that I haven’t seen other people work on before.

[valyriansource]

JONS & JEYNES OF A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE

[daenystheedreamer]

yeah man i bet the 80yo guy was assasssinated. not that he fucking croaked it. cersei was 100% justified thinking he just died of his own accord and honestly nedcat are delusional for believing "lannisters killed an 80yo man who could die any day now" over "old man dies in bed"

[haunted-mindset]

One thing I would love to have seen in ASOIAF is all of the big players in the Game of Thrones finding out that Jon is actually a Targaryen and they got duped by NED FUCKING STARK OF ALL PEOPLE!? Can you imagine Tywin Lannister finding out and realising he got played and there was a Targaryen right in front of him. Or Olenna trying to marry Margrey to him. I know some of these characters are dead by this point but still, just imagine the chaos....

[iceywolf24]

It's interesting in ASOIAF where the line between duty and love lies and how characters choose between the two.

An example being Jon Arryn calling the banners to protect Ned and Robert, some might simply perceive it as him choosing his love for them over his duty to King Aerys.

But was there also an element of duty involved in that he felt had a responsibility to Steffon and Rickard to protect their sons when he agreed to have them fostered at the Vale.

[turtle-paced]

why didn’t Jon Arryn do anything when Joffrey was bullying even physically at least once- his son?

Because Joffrey's the crown prince, and if the king's not going to discipline him in any meaningful way... who can?

That's basically what it boils down to. True, Robert could have delegated parental authority and appointed full-time tutors etc to see to Joffrey's education (intellectual, physical, moral). It's also clear that doing so would a) be a job beyond the capability of Jon Arryn, who's trying to run the country Robert's neglecting, and b) result in conflict between Robert and Cersei that Robert wasn't interested in dealing with. Joffrey's unmitigated awfulness, and the failure of any and every adult around him to do anything about it, is there to highlight the failings of the monarchical system.

[hauntedsaladeagle]

I present to your attention Jeyne Royce, the first wife of Jon Arryn

(Although I don't particularly like the drawing, I plan to redraw it.)

[anameorsomthing]

We need a prequel of Stannis and Jon Arryn in kings landing uncovering the truth about the Lannisters. Shittiest buddy comedy of the year.

[cheryroseart]

Drawing of my oc Denisse of House Arryn in the new artstyle 🦭

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