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diaryofanobsessivefangirl · 7 years ago

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Petelyn and Narkik: A Parallel

This is dedicated to my friend @narkik. Since we have so many similar ships, I thought I would parallel our two OTPs. I always thought Petyr x Catelyn was the Narkik of ASoIaF, so...

Identity:

Naraku was born from the fusion of many Yukais and the spirit of the thief Onigumo, thus causing him to have a fragmented identity. It consists in a human heart and pure evil energy. It was created after Onigumo, with a disabled body and incapable of obtain the woman he feel in love with, surrenders himself to darkness. Naraku, nonetheless, constantly deny the influence of his human heart in his actions, but fails to get rid of it.

Petyr has two identities mixed up: Petyr Baelish and Littlefinger, as pointed out by Sansa Stark. Petyr is his emotional side that once had dreams and loved deeply Catelyn Tully; Littlefinger is a schemer, liar, and unscrupulously ambitious. It could be said Littlefinger is purely evil and petty. He was born after the character was mortally injured (thus becoming disabled for a short time) in a failed attempt to win his beloved’s hand. Besides the physical recover he had to go through, creating a new personality uncaring of anything besides his own success helped him to keep moving metaphorically as well. Petyr uses Littlefinger to deny his vulnerability to everyone, including himself, incapable of admitting how his past love still influences him and avoiding to nurture hopes of recovering it. These identities mix and get confusing even to him. He is not very self aware of his fragility. Instead, he focus on a final goal of unlimited power without quite knowing what he will do with it afterwards.

Kills the woman he loves:

Naraku directly, twice.

Petyr starts the conflict between Lannisters and Catelyn’s family, thus indirectly causing her dismiss at the Red Wedding.

Replacement Goldfish:

Naraku admits to himself his wish to be with Kikyo after she is already dead. Then he tries to drag her reincarnation, Kagome, with him into the jewel as a imperfect substitution.

Petyr fights his feelings towards his past love as well, but gradually gives in as he becomes closer to Catelyn’s daughter and reflection, Sansa. Is not certain when he will completely succumb to his romantic feelings towards her and try to make her his queen, but by the time he reaches that point, Cat will have already been long gone.

Beloved resurrected:

Kikyo is brought back from the dead with a brand new body. She dedicates herself from then on to her revenge against Naraku.

Catelyn is resurrected as a walking, decomposed corpse. She is avenging her death and her son’s in the Red Weeding, hanging one Frey by one. If my favorite theory is confirmed, Lady Stoneheart, as she is know now, will meet Petyr Baelish, and either kill him for his crimes or drive him mad, thus paralleling with Kikyo in the matter of leaving the grave to haunt her killer.

Drags her to the pit with him:

It’s interesting to notice that Naraku and Kikyo share this trait of being unable to bond while the other characters have companions. Best thing is that was Naraku who caused Kikyo to be as lonely and afraid of attachment as he was.

Before him, she was a priestess with a big responsibility at a early age. Maybe she was more stoic and willful than most, but she was still a young lady who wished for nothing more than the chance to be one.

Naraku took her hopes and dreams, and when he was done, he took her life.

In that sense, they understand each other more than anyone could. He is also wrecked by her rejection and the need of her he can’t suppress. He might have brutalized her motivated by vengeance, but part of him might as well be relieve to have someone understand the loneliness and anger.

And even if she now embraces that new identity, that stoic, merciless and isolated mess he made of her, even if she agrees she could only be with him bc no one else could comprehend... She still won’t come to him.

Doesn't matter if he has got what he wanted. Wasn't Naraku's first interest on Kikyo to break that calm demure of hers? He got it. Didn't he wanted to separate her from Inuyasha? He got it.

But even when she has nowhere else to run, she won't go to him.

I see Petyr and Catelyn the same way.

She was the daughter of the system that broke him. The eldest Tully fitted perfectly in the society that stripped her father’s ward from his ideals and the placed he called home.

It was fitting of him to, 20 years latter, start a war that would do the same to her, throwing lords against lords and taking her dear ones away. When she becomes blood thirsty like him, they become a broken match doomed to end each other.

Overlooked reason behind the whole plot (or at least a big part of it)

Most of the scenes between Naraku/Onigumo and Kikyo are given by flashbacks. They have few encounters during the current events of Inuyasha. Since Naraku won’t admit his feelings, mentions of each other in an emotional perspective are also rare. There are so many other characters and subplots during the war that is easy to forget what started it wasn’t plots or ambition, but love.

Petyr and Catelyn barely interact as adults. Most of what we know about them comes from Catelyn’s bittersweet memories of their childhood in the books and Petyr’s rare moments of openness in the Show. We will never know how it would have been played out if Petyr never created friction between Starks and Lannisters. Some argue war would inevitability come either in the form of dragons or white walkers. But the one that burned half the country for six seasons and extinguished dynasties has definitely Petyr Baelish to blame the most. All because he dared to love the trout daughter.

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