#Ned secretly raises a Targ bastard and this fandom will call him bastardphobic

[eddardofthehousestark]

I find it funny how last week due to a tweet joking shipping Ned/Rhaenyra a bunch of green stans decided to "defend" Ned's honor by saying he is bastardphobic.

Personally, I don't care about the whole debate of which side would Ned join, because it's pure crack AU fanfiction. You could make good arguments for him siding with either faction, and many green stans did make good arguments for why he might side with the Greens. Ned doesn't hate bastards, he isn't 'bastardphobic'. His character is a bit more nuanced than that. I do think Ned would care about Rhaenyra's, I just don't think he would care as much as a lot of this fandom thinks he would. To say Ned would care as much about Rhaenyra's bastards as he would Cersei's bastards, ignores a lot of other factors that make Rhaenyra and Cersei's circumstances different. And they are very much different. Honestly, these "Ned Stark is bastardphobic" remind me of all the old "Catelyn Stark hates bastards" arguments, both arguments ignore the whole character and hyperfocus on one small part of them. I could go write more about this, but I won't because I find the whole debate stupid. I just really hate how this fandom removes all nuance from Ned Stark. Last thing I will write is that a lot of people need to learn to lighten the fuck up. A person made a joke about Ned/Rhaenyra and you dumbfucks take it so seriously that they get hundreds of quote tweets insulting for not "reading the books". I have read the books, and Rhaenyra is fossilized dragon shit by the time Ned is even born. It was a tweet about a crack ship where the OP was joking about Rhaenyra having no bastards because Ned would give her a dozen kids and a breeding kink.