#Hodor

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“Are you the three-eyed crow?” Bran heard himself say. A three-eyed crow should have three eyes. He has only one, and that one red. - Bran II, aDwD

Bran Stark meeting Bloodraven

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dancing like this since the clinton administration x

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i’m not really sure what to post so here’s behind the scenes of game of thrones🎀

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a shoot I did with a scruffy fella who loved meatballs

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"Queenscrown" by Michael Komarck

[nulnoildrinker]

On the question of who the descendants of Dunk are, the answers seem pretty clear cut.

Brienne is his spiritual successor. She is abnormally tall, a defender of the downtrodden, and a true knight, despite the role society tries to force upon her. Also Evenfall Hall had Dunk's shield lying around in a very "grandpa's old stuff"-type of way.

Hodor, a giant of a man, whose grandmother could have been in the perfect time and place to have been ✨️dunked✨️.

And last of all the Lannister siblings. Because Dunk was at his most Fabio-esque when around Tywin's grandmother, Rohanne Webber.

I'm not saying that Tywin necessarily descends from a bastard line of house Lannister, but what I am saying that Tywin shared Grandma Rohanne with his cousin/wife, Joanna. As such, the chances that our favorite trio of siblings descend from our favorite Lunk is twice as big.

But why, you might ask?

Because "The Giant of Lannister", the nickname given to Tyrion by Shae is an obvious clue left to us by GRRM himself. It is known.

Because banging his sister was deemed "sinful", Jaime would have to look for a more distant relative. In his defence, thie case of incest between him and Brienne would be less severe than the one between his parents.

Because much like Dunk, Cersei's head always was thick as a castle wall; but as the books have progressed, the rest of her has followed suit. 😳

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She hated the way he talked, always so harsh and angry. "Does it give you joy to scare people?"

- Sansa IV, ACoK

I'm sorry, but what? Sansa hates how Sandor is always so harsh and angry?

Let's give a brief recap of just one of Sansa's interactions with Arya, shall we?

It was running down her nose and stinging her eyes. Sansa wiped it away with a napkin. When she saw what the fruit in her lap had done to her beautiful ivory silk dress, she shrieked again. "They should have killed you instead of Lady!"

Sansa threw her head back in disdain. "You?" You couldn't sew a dress fit to clean the pigsties."

"It won't be so bad, Sansa," Arya said. "We're going to sail on a galley. It will be an adventure, and then we'll be with Bran and Robb again, and Old Nan and Hodor and the rest." She touched her on the arm.

"Hodor!" Sansa yelled. "You ought to marry Hodor, you're just like him, stupid, and hairy and ugly!" She wrenched away from her sister's hand, stormed into her bedchamber, and barred the door behind her.

And this brief moment between the sisters doesn't even compare to the years of Sansa calling Arya ugly and stupid, being ashamed of her appearance, wishing she was a bastard like Jon, wishing Sansa could have someone else as her sister, and looking down on Arya's friends because they're commoners.

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Bran and Hodor by Miguel Regodon

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Hodor vs. Groot

[theladymeera]

I am having thoughts about Bran, Hodor, and skinchanging that I must write down now, while they're still fresh.

There's a whole line of fandom that theorizes that in TWOW Bran is going to step up his violation of skinchanging no-nos by doing sex stuff (rape) via Summer. Aside from Bran not having been taught skinchanging in any traditional way, (so he wouldn't know the rules,) and being 10, it's always coming from that part of fandom that hates Bran (and the other main characters).

So here's the thing. Skinchanging into another person is established as taboo in the prologue of ADWD specifically so the reader can know exactly how horrible it is for Bran to do this to Hodor. Skinchanging in this story opens the door for there to be a whole new and particularly horrifying breach of agency and consent that has nothing to do with sex.

It's touched on in other stories, and rape happens a lot in asoiaf, but skinchanging into another person, especially without their consent or being able to consent, is asking the audience a lot more than rape does.

Bran's use of Hodor is horrifying. Based on what's in the books, warging with Summer is totally different from skinchanging with Hodor. Humans and wolves or dogs can bond and the experience seems to be consenting or exhilarating for the pair. Hodor is unable to express himself, being cut off from language, and so it makes it very easy for Bran to dehumanize Hodor in the earlier books. - Here I am going to note that Bran is far from the only character to dehumanize Hodor. The only character I can think of who makes a point of Hodor's personhood is Maester Luwin.

And again, Bran is ten years old, depressed, and without any parental figures to guide him anymore. Meera and Bloodraven are the closest he has to authority figures. Bloodraven doesn't seem to care about how Bran treats Hodor, not that there was much opportunity for that kind of interaction in the one chapter we have where he's training Bran. And Meera is technically subordinate to Bran due to their society (class and gender). Not to mention that she's distracted by Jojen's condition and that Bran hasn't been broadcasting what he's doing to Hodor.

The question of mind control more often comes up in sci-fi, which is where GRRM comes from as a writer. And learning that controling someone like this, taking away their agency and using them because he's upset and jealous about his disability, is so so horrible, is Bran's dark night of the soul. It's his villain arc. Learning that breaching someone's consent and autonomy, refusing them dignity or humanity, and perceiving them as lesser because of a disability, is evil, is so important. (And connects to the main enemy of the story, using the bodies of the unconsenting dead to do their bidding to destroy all life.)

It's also particularly poignant because Bran himself is diminished and dehumanized because of his disability, and he can talk and express himself and unlike Hodor, he can't be used like a mule.

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