#boromir x catelyn

[ass-deep-in-demons]

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Lord of the Rings:

Under Our Darkening Skies - A peek into Boromir's life before the War of the Ring. Ch. 1 - Boromir's Day in Minas Tirith; Ch. 2 - Defense of Osgiliath; Ch. 3 - Boromir in Rohan. Here's some related Boromir headcanons.

Seeing White - a slice of life comedy with Faramir, Boromir and Eomer, rated G, oneshot.

Healing Touch - Boromir x OC, awkward bedsharing, canon setting, rated T+, oneshot.

Speaking Tongues - Boromir x OC, smut, canon setting, rated E (minors DNI!), oneshot. Link to some bcg-info.

A Song of Ice and Fire:

Never the Same River - Ned x Catelyn Stark, Nedcat Week 2024, prompt "I want you to feel at home".

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BOROMIR X CATELYN AU

READ FROM MY RIVER TO YOURS (Boromir x Catelyn fanfic):

https://yerevasunclair.tumblr.com/post/617743439922167808/from-my-river-to-yours-lord-of-the-rings-game

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Sortinghatschats Comparison with MBTI and Enneagram - List Pt 2

Based on a post by @arisruby I decided to compare the sortinghatchats system with MBTI and enneagram types and see if there's any correlation. The summary post is here and the analysis post is here.

Below is the full list of sortings and enneagram types. For the list of sortings and MBTI types see here.

ENNEAGRAM:

One:

George Knightley ESFJ 1w2 Emma. — Snake/Badger

Albus Dumbledore INFJ 1w9 Harry Potter — Lion/Snake

Galadriel INFJ 1w9 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Elrond INTJ 1w2 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Bird

Anthony Bridgerton ESTJ 1w2 Bridgerton — Badger/Lion

Bree Van De Kamp ESTJ 1w2 Desperate Housewives — Badger/Bird

Hermione Granger ESTJ 1w2 Harry Potter — Lion/Bird

Matthew Crawley INFP 1w2 Downton Abbey — Bird/Bird

Luke Skywalker ISFP 1w2 Star Wars — Bird/Lion

Mary Margaret Blanchard ISFP 2w1 Once Upon a Time — Badger/Lion

William Turner ISFP 1w9 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Badger/Lion

Robb Sark ESFP 1w2 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

Steve Rogers ISFJ 1w2 Avengers — Lion/Badger

Catelyn Stark ISTJ 1w2 Game of Thrones — Snake/Badger

Chris Argent ISTJ 1w9 Teen Wolf — Badger/Bird

Eddard Stark ISTJ 1w9 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

George Washington ISTJ 1w9 (Hamilton) — Badger/Badger

Harry Greenwood ISTJ 1w2 Charmed — Badger/Bird

Richard Gilmore ISTJ 1w9 Gilmore Girls — Snake/Badger

Inspector Javert ISTJ 1w2 Les Miserables — Bird/Lion

Chloe Decker ISTJ 1w9 Lucifer — Lion/Lion

LP: 4

BiP: 4

SP: 4

BaP: 9

LS: 9

SS: 1

BiS: 6

BaS: 5

Badger/Lion = 5

Snake/Badger = 3

Badger/Bird = 3

Bird/Bird = 2

Bird/Lion = 2

Lion/Snake = 1

Snake/Lion = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Badger/Badger = 1

Lion/Lion = 1

Two:

Bonnie Bennett ENFJ 2w1 The Vampire Diaries — Lion/Lion

Charles Xavier ENFJ 2w1 X-Men — Badger/Badger

Jasmine ENFJ 2w1 Aladdin — Lion/Snake

Emma Woodhouse ENFJ 2w3 Emma (2016) — Lion/Lion

Regina Mills ENFJ 2w3 Once Upon a Time — Snake/Bird

Alice Cullen ESFJ 2w3 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Bird

Boromir ESFJ 2w3 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Clark Kent ESFJ 2w1 Smallville — Snake/Snake

Daphne Bridgerton ESFJ 2w1 Bridgerton — Badger/Snake

Emily Gilmore ESFJ 2w3 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Lion

Esme Cullen ESFJ 2w1 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Badger

Gwen Pendragon ESFJ 2w1 Merlin — Badger/Badger

Margaery Tyrell ESFJ 2w3 Game of Thrones — Snake/Badger

Peter Pevensie ESFJ 2w3 The Chronicles of Narnia — Badger/Lion

Sam Gamgee ESFJ 2w1 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Badger

Sam Wilson ESFJ 2w1 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Badger/Lion

Hope Mikaelson ISFP 2w1 Legacies / The Originals — Snake/Lion

Scott McCall ISFP 2w1 Teen Wolf — Badger/Badger

Cosette ISFJ 2w3 Les Miserables — Lion/Snake

Eliza Schuyler Hamilton ISFJ 2w1 Hamilton — Snake/Badger

Padme Amidala ISFJ 2w1 Star Wars — Lion/Snake

Robert Crawley ISFJ 2w1 Downton Abbey — Bird/Badger

Molly Weasley ESFJ 2w3 — Snake/Lion

LP: 7

BiP: 1

SP: 10

BaP: 6

LS: 8

SS: 5

BiS: 2

BaS: 9

Snake/Badger = 4

Lion/Lion = 3

Badger/Badger = 3

Lion/Snake = 3

Snake/Lion = 3

Snake/Bird = 2

Badger/Lion = 2

Snake/Snake = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Three:

Aleskander Kirigan ENFJ 3w4 Shadow & Bone — Badger/Badger

Maggie Vera ENFJ 3w2 Charmed — Badger/Badger

Marcel Gerard ENFJ 3w2 The Originals — Lion/Badger

Marisa Coulter ENFJ 3w2 The Golden Compass — Snake/Snake

Gertrude ESFJ 3w2 Ophelia — Snake/Lion

Georgiana ESFJ 3w2 The Great — Snake/Snake

Petyr Baelish INTJ 3w4 Game of Thrones — Snake/Snake

Tom Riddle INTJ 3w4 Harry Potter — Lion/Bird

Denethor ENTJ 3w4 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Bird

Mary Crawley ENTJ 3w4 Downton Abbey — Snake/Snake

Palpatine ENTJ 3w4 Star Wars — Snake/Bird

Blair Waldorf ESTJ 3w4 Gossip Girl — Snake/Badger

Cordelia Chase ESTJ 3w2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Lion/Lion

James Norrington ESTJ 3w2 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Bird/Badger

Lydia Martin ESTJ 3w2 Teen Wolf — Bird/Bird

Paris Gellar ESTJ 3w2 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Lion

Percy Weasley ESTJ 3w2 Harry Potter — Lion/Bird

Catherine the Great ENFP 3w2 The Great — Lion/Bird

Joffrey Baratheon ESFP 3w2 Game of Thrones — Lion/Lion

Draco Malfoy ESTP 3w4 Harry Potter — Badger/Snake

Jackson Whittemore ESTP 3w4 Teen Wolf — Bird/Lion

Napoleon Solo ESTP 3w2 The Man From UNCLE — Lion/Snake

Scarlett O’Hara ESTP 3w2 Gone With the Wind — Snake/Lion

LP: 8

BiP: 3

SP: 9

BaP: 3

LS: 6

SS: 6

BiS: 6

BaS: 5

Snake/Snake = 4

Lion/Lion = 3

Lion/Bird = 3

Badger/Badger = 2

Snake/Lion = 2

Snake/Bird = 2

Snake/Badger = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Bird/Bird = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Lion/Snake = 1

Four:

Loki ENFJ 4w3 The Avengers — Snake/Bird

Morgana Pendragon ENFJ 4w3 Merlin — Snake/Snake

Elphaba Thropp INTJ 4w5 sp/sx Wicked! — Lion/Lion

Edith Crawley ISFP 4w3 Downton Abbey — Bird/Badger

Edmund Pevensie ISFP 4w3 The Chronicles of Narnia — Bird/Snake

Jess Marino ISFP 4w5 Gilmore Girls — Bird/Snake

Rosalie Hale ISFP 4w3 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Lion

Ron Weasley ESFP 4w3 Harry Potter — Lion/Lion

LP: 2

BiP: 3

SP: 3

BaP: 0

LS: 3

SS: 3

BiS: 1

BaS: 1

Bird/Snake = 2

Snake/Bird = 1

Snake/Snake = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Snake/Lion = 1

Lion/Lion = 1

Five:

Obi-Wan Kenobi INFJ 5w6 Star Wars — Badger/Snake

Varys INFJ 5w6 Game of Thrones — Snake/Snake

Alec Hardy INTJ 5w6 Broadchurch — Snake/Bird

Brandon Stark INTJ 5w4 Game of Thrones — Bird/Badger

Mr. Darcy INTJ 5w4 Pride & Prejudice — Snake/Badger

Mr. Gold / Rumple INTJ 5w4 Once Upon a Time — Snake/Bird

Michael Corleone INTJ 5w6 The Godfather — Badger/Bird

Mycroft Holmes INTJ 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Lion/Bird

Victor Frankenstein INTJ 5w4 Victor Frankenstein — Bird/Bird

Milena INTP 5w6 Black Widow — Bird/Bird

Milo J. Thatch INTP 5w6 Atlantis: The Lost Empire — Bird/Bird

Twelve INTP 5w4 Doctor Who — Snake/Bird

Dan Humphrey ISTp 5w4 Gossip Girl — Lion/Badger

Evie Carnahan ISTP 5w4 The Mummy — Bird/Lion

Sherlock Holmes ISTP 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Badger/Snake

LP: 2

BiP: 4

SP: 5

BaP: 2

LS: 1

SS: 3

BiS: 8

BaS: 3

Snake/Bird = 3

Bird/Bird = 3

Badger/Snake = 2

Bird/Badger = 1

Snake/Snake = 1

Snake/Badger = 1

Badger/Bird = 1

Lion/Bird 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Six:

Gandalf INFJ 6w7 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Bird

Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto INTJ 6w5 X-Men — Lion/Lion

Violet Crawley ESTJ 6w5 Downton Abbey — Snake/Snake

Veronica Mars ENFP cp 6w7 Veronica Mars — Badger/Snake

Stiles Stilinksi ENTP 6w7 Teen Wolf — Snake/Bird

Hamlet INFP 6w7 Hamlet — Bird/Lion

Hamlet INFP 6w7 Ophelia — Bird/Lion

Susan Mayer INFP 6w7 Desperate Housewives — Snake/Lion

Alina Starkov ISFP 6w7 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Lion

Dean Forester ISFP 6w7 Gilmore Girls — Snake/Badger

Éowyn ISFP cp6w7 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Jon Snow ISFP 6w5 Game of Thrones — Lion/Lion

Anakin Skywalker ESFP cp6w7 Star Wars — Snake/Lion

Arya Stark ESFP cp6w7 Game of Thrones — Snake/Lion

Xander Harris ESFP 6w7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Lion/Badger

Malyen Oretsev ESTP 6w7 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Badger

Ygritte ESTP cp6w7 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

Macy Vaugn INTP 6w5 Charmed — Bird/Bird

Bucky Barnes ISTP 6w7 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Bird/Bird

Emma Swann ISTP cp6w5 Once Upon a Time — Snake/Lion

Montgomery Scott ISTP 6w7 Star Trek (New) — Bird/Snake

Mulan ISTP 6w7 Mulan — Lion/Bird

Natasha Romanoff ISTP cp6w5 Black Widow — Badger/Snake

Adalind Schade ISFJ 6w7 Grimm — Snake/Snake

Allison Argent ISFJ 6w7 Teen Wolf — Bird/Lion

C-3PO ISFJ 6w7 Star Wars — Bird/Bird

Edward Cullen ISFJ 6w5 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Snake

Neville Longbottom ISFJ 6w5 Harry Potter — Lion/Badger

Peter Pettigrew ISFJ 6w7 Harry Potter — Lion/Badger

Aragorn ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings — Snake/Lion

Brienne of Tarth ISTJ 6w5 Game of Thrones — Badger/Lion

Illya ISTJ cp6w5 The Man From UNCLE — Snake/Lion

Katniss Everdeen ISTJ 6w5 The Hunger Games — Snake/Lion

Luke Danes ISTJ 6w5 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Badger

Rupert Giles ISTJ 6w5 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Badger/Lion

Susan Pevensie ISTJ 6w5 The Chronicles of Narnia — Bird/Bird

Théoden ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings — Badger/Lion

Jacob Black ESTP 6w7 Twilight — Snake/Lion

LP: 7

BiP: 9

SP: 16

BaP: 6

LS: 19

SS: 6

BiS: 6

BaS: 5

Snake/Lion = 10

Bird/Bird = 4

Lion/Badger = 4

Badger/Lion = 4

Snake/Snake = 3

Bird/Lion = 3

Lion/Lion = 2

Badger/Snake = 2

Snake/Badger = 2

Snake/Bird = 1

Bird/Snake = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

Bird/Bird = 1

Seven:

Elizabeth Bennet ENFP 7w6 Pride & Prejudice — Snake/Lion

Henry Mills ENFP 7w6 Once Upon a Time — Lion/Lion

Lorelai Gilmore ENFP 7w6 Gilmore Girls — Lion/Snake

Tenth Doctor ENFP 7w8 Doctor Who — Lion/Lion

Darcy Lewis ENTP 7w6 WandaVision — Bird/Lion

Eleven ENTP 7w6 Doctor Who — Snake/Snake

Jonathan Carnahan ENTP 7w6 The Mummy — Bird/Snake

Lyra ENTP 7w8 The Golden Compass — Lion/Snake

Merry Brandybuck ENTP 7w6 The Lord of the Rings — Badger/Bird

Moist von Lipwig ENTP 7w6 Going Postal — Snake/Snake

Tyrion Lannister ENTP 7w6 Game of Thrones — Bird/Snake

Logan Echolls ISFP 7wcp6 Veronica Mars — Snake/Lion

Amelia Pond ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who — Lion/Lion

Jesper Fahey ESFP 7w6 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Snake

Pippin Took 7w6 The Lord of the Rings — Lion/Snake

Rose Tyler ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who — Snake/Lion

Serena Van Der Woodsen ESFP 7w8 Gossip Girl — Bird/Lion

Sirius Black ESFP 7w8 Harry Potter — Lion/Lion

Tony Stark ESFP 7w8 Avengers — Snake/Lion

Emmett Cullen ESTP 7w8 The Twilight Saga — Badger/Lion

Gabrielle Solis ESTP 7w8 Desperate Housewives — Bird/Snake

Han Solo ESTP 7w8 Star Wars — Snake/Lion

Jack Sparrow ESTP 7w6 Pirates of the Caribbean — Lion/Snake

Peter ESTP 7w8 The Great — Snake/Lion

Rhett Butler ESTP 7w8 Gone With the Wind — Lion/Snake

Rick O’Connell ESTP 7w8 The Mummy — Snake/Lion

Scott Lang ESTP 7w6 Ant Man & the Wasp — Snake/Bird

Selena Kyle ESTP 7w6 The Dark Knight Trilogy — Badger/Snake

Thor ESTP 7w8 The Avengers — Lion/Lion

Gaby ISTP 7w8 The Man From UNCLE — Lion/Bird

Spike ISTP 7w8 Angel / Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Snake/Snake

Fred Weasley ENTP 7w8 — Lion/Snake

George Weasley ENFP 7w6 — Snake/Bird

James Kirk ESTP 7w8 Star Trek — Lion/Snake

Lucifer Morningstar ESTP 7w8 so/sx Lucifer — Badger/Snake

Eve ESFP 7w6 Lucifer — Lion/Badger

LP: 14

BiP: 5

SP: 13

BaP: 4

LS: 15

SS: 16

BiS: 3

BaS: 1

Snake/Lion = 7

Lion/Snake = 7

Lion/Lion = 5

Snake/Snake = 4

Bird/Snake = 3

Bird/Lion = 2

Snake/Bird = 2

Badger/Snake = 2

Badger/Bird = 1

Badger/Lion = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Eight:

Alexander Hamilton ENTJ 8w7 Hamilton — Snake/Lion

Gale Hawthorne ENTJ 8w9 The Hunger Games — Lion/Lion

Kaz Brekker ENTJ 8w9 Shadow & Bone — Snake/Snake

Leia Organa ENTJ 8w9 Star Wars — Lion/Lion

Lynette Scavo ENTJ 8w9 Desperate Housewives — Snake/Snake

Adora Belle Dearheart ESTJ 8w9 Going Postal — Snake/Snake

Angelica Schulyer ESTJ 8w7 Hamilton — Snake/Snake

Cersei Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones — Snake/Lion

Donna Noble ESTJ 8w7 Doctor Who — Lion/Lion

Éomer ESTJ 8w9 The Lord of the Rings — Lion/Lion

Hector Barbossa ESTJ 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Snake/Badger

Marial ESTJ 8w9 The Great — Snake/Lion

Tywin Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones — Lion/Bird

Victoria Argent ESTJ 8w9 Teen Wolf — Lion/Lion

Elizabeth Swann ESFP 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean — Lion/Snake

Imhotep ESFP 8w9 The Mummy — Snake/Bird

Mel Vera ESFP 8w7 Charmed — Lion/Lion

Yelena Belova ESFP 8w7 Black Widow — Snake/Lion

Chuck Bass ESTP 8w7 Gossip Girl — Snake/Bird

Dean Winchester ESTP 8w7 Supernatural — Badger/Bird

Ginny Weasley ESTP 8w7 Harry Potter — Snake/Lion

Kate Argent ESTP 8w7 Teen Wolf — Lion/Snake

Derek Hale ISTP 8w9 Teen Wolf — Snake/Bird

Ginny Weasley ESTP 8w7 — Snake/Lion

Jean Valjean ISTJ 8w9 Les Miserables — Lion/Snake

Mazikeen Smith ESTJ 8w7 Lucifer — Snake/Lion

LP: 10

BiP: 0

SP: 15

BaP: 1

LS: 13

SS: 7

BiS: 5

BaS: 1

Snake/Lion = 7

Lion/Lion = 6

Snake/Snake = 4

Snake/Bird = 3

Lion/Snake = 3

Snake/Badger = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

Badger/Bird = 1

Nine:

Carlisle Cullen ENFJ 9w1 The Twilight Saga — Badger/Badger

Mr. Bingley ESFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice — Badger/Badger

Cora Crawley ESFJ 9w1 Downton Abbey — Snake/Bird

Nate Archibald ESFJ 9w1 Gossip Girl — Badger/Lion

Peeta Mellark ESFJ 9w1 The Hunger Games — Snake/Badger

Aaron Burr INFJ 9w1 Hamilton — Snake/Snake

Drusilla INFJ 9w1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Lion/Snake

Faramir INFJ 9w1 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Bird

Samwell Tarly ENFP 9w1 Game of Thrones — Bird/Bird

Frodo Baggins INFP 9w1 The Lord of the Rings — Bird/Snake

Lucy Pevensie INFP 9w1 The Chronicles of Narnia — Lion/Badger

Sybil Crawley INFP 9w8 Downton Abbey — Badger/Lion

Wanda Maximoff INFP 9w8 WandaVision — Snake/Lion

Bella Swan ISFP 9w8 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Bird

Fantine ISFP 9w1 Les Miserables — Snake/Lion

Gregor ISFP 9w8 The Great — Snake/Lion

Harry Potter ISFP 9w8 Harry Potter — Bird/Lion

Inej Ghafa ISFP 9w8 Shadow & Bone — Bird/Bird

Jaime Lannister ESFP 9w8 Game of Thrones — Lion/Snake

Jasmine ESFP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) — Lion/Snake

Aladdin ESTP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) — Snake/Snake

Luna Lovegood INTP 9w1 Harry Potter — Bird/Badger

Vision INTP 9w1 WandaVision — Badger/Bird

Jasper Hale ISTP 9w1 The Twilight Saga — Snake/Badger

Nick Burkhardt ISTP 9w1 Grimm — Bird/Lion

Jane Bennet ISFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice — Badger/Badger

Melanie Wilkes ISFJ 9w1 Gone With the Wind — Badger/Snake

Rory Gilmore ISFJ 9w1 Gilmore Girls — Bird/Bird

Mando ISTJ 9w8 The Mandalorian — Badger/Lion

Arthur Weasley INTP 9w8 — Lion/Bird

LP: 5

BiP: 8

SP: 9

BaP: 8

LS: 8

SS: 7

BiS: 8

BaS: 7

Bird/Bird = 4

Badger/Badger = 3

Lion/Snake = 3

Badger/Lion = 3

Snake/Lion = 3

Snake/Bird = 2

Snake/Badger = 2

Snake/Snake = 2

Bird/Lion = 2

Bird/Snake = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Bird/Badger = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Lion/Bird = 1

So:

Aleskander Kirigan ENFJ 3w4 so/sx [Shadow & Bone] — Badger/Badger

Charles Xavier ENFJ 2w1 [X-Men] so — Badger/Badger

Emma Woodhouse ENFJ 2w3 [Emma] so — Lion/Lion

Jasmine ENFJ 2w1 [Aladdin] so/sp — Lion/Snake

Loki ENFJ 4w3 [The Avengers] so/sp — Snake/Bird

Maggie Vera ENFJ 3w2 [Charmed] so — Badger/Badger

Marcel Gerard ENFJ 3w2 [The Originals] so — Lion/Badger

Mr. Bingley ESFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice so — Badger/Badger

Boromir ESFJ 2w3 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Snake/Lion

Clark Kent ESFJ 2w1 Smallville so/sp — Snake/Snake

Cora Crawley ESFJ 9w1 Downton Abbey so — Snake/Bird

Daphne Bridgerton ESFJ 2w1 Bridgerton so/sp — Badger/Snake

Gertrude ESFJ 3w2 Ophelia so — Snake/Lion

George Knightley ESFJ 1w2 Emma so/sp — Snake/Badger

Georgiana ESFJ 3w2 The Great so — Snake/Snake

Guenevere Pendragon ESFJ 2w1 Merlin so — Badger/Badger

Peter Pevensie ESFJ 2w3 The Chronicles of Narnia so — Badger/Lion

Sam Wilson ESFJ 2w1 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier so/sp — Badger/Lion

Molly Weasley ESFJ 2w3 so — Snake/Lion

Aaron Burr INFJ 9w1 [Hamilton] so/sp — Snake/Snake

Faramir INFJ 9w1 The Lord of the Rings so/sx — Bird/Bird

Gandalf INFJ 6w7 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Bird/Bird

Brandon Stark INTJ 5w4 Game of Thrones so — Bird/Badger

Elrond INTJ 1w2 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Bird/Bird

Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto INTJ 6w5 X-Men so — Lion/Lion

Alexander Hamilton ENTJ 8w7 Hamilton so/sp — Snake/Lion

Denethor ENTJ 3w4 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Snake/Bird

Gale Hawthorne ENTJ 8w9 The Hunger Games so/sp — Lion/Lion

Leia Organa ENTJ 8w9 Star Wars so — Lion/Lion

Mary Crawley ENTJ 3w4 Downton Abbey so — Snake/Snake

Adora Belle Dearheart ESTJ 8w9 Going Postal so/sp — Snake/Snake

Angelica Schulyer ESTJ 8w7 Hamilton so — Snake/Snake

Anthony Bridgerton ESTJ 1w2 Bridgerton so/sx — Badger/Lion

Blair Waldorf ESTJ 3w4 Gossip Girl so — Snake/Badger

Bree Van De Kamp ESTJ 1w2 Desperate Housewives so/sp — Badger/Bird

Cersei Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones so/sp — Snake/Lion

Cordelia Chase 3 ESTJ w2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer so/sp — Lion/Lion

Donna Noble ESTJ 8w7 Doctor Who so — Lion/Lion

Éomer ESTJ 8w9 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Lion/Lion

James Norrington ESTJ 3w2 The Pirates of the Caribbean so — Bird/Badger

Lydia Martin ESTJ 3w2 Teen Wolf so/sx — Bird/Bird

Paris Gellar ESTJ 3w2 Gilmore Girls so/sp — Lion/Lion

Percy Weasley ESTJ 3w2 Harry Potter so — Lion/Bird

Violet Crawley ESTJ 6w5 Downton Abbey so — Snake/Snake

Catherine the Great ENFP 3w2 The Great so — Lion/Bird

Elizabeth Bennet ENFP 7w6 Pride & Prejudice so — Snake/Lion

Tenth Doctor ENFP 7w8 Doctor Who so — Lion/Lion

George Weasley ENFP 7w6 so — Snake/Bird

Darcy Lewis ENTP 7w6 WandaVision so/sx — Bird/Lion

Merry Brandybuck ENTP 7w6 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Badger/Bird

Frodo Baggins INFP 9w1 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Bird/Snake

Lucy Pevensie INFP 9w1 The Chronicles of Narnia so/sp — Lion/Badger

Susan Mayer INFP 6w7 Desperate Housewives so/sp — Snake/Lion

Sybil Crawley INFP 9w8 Downton Abbey so/sp — Badger/Lion

Edith Crawley ISFP 4w3 Downton Abbey so — Bird/Badger

Edmund Pevensie ISFP 4w3 The Chronicles of Narnia so — Bird/Snake

Harry Potter ISFP 9w8 Harry Potter so — Bird/Lion

Hope Mikaelson ISFP 2w1 Legacies / The Originals so — Snake/Lion

Inej Ghafa ISFP 9w8 Shadow & Bone so/sp — Bird/Bird

Arya Stark ESFP cp6w7 Game of Thrones so — Snake/Lion

Elizabeth Swann ESFP 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean so — Lion/Snake

Jasmine ESFP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) so/sp — Lion/Snake

Jesper Fahey ESFP 7w6 Shadow & Bone so/sx — Snake/Snake

Robb Sark ESFP 1w2 Game of Thrones so/sx — Badger/Lion

Serena Van Der Woodsen ESFP 7w8 Gossip Girl so — Bird/Lion

Sirius Black ESFP 7w8 Harry Potter so — Lion/Lion

Tony Stark ESFP 7w8 Avengers so/sx — Snake/Lion

Draco Malfoy ESTP 3w4 Harry Potter so/sp — Badger/Snake

Ginny Weasley ESTP 8w7 Harry Potter so — Snake/Lion

Jackson Whittemore ESTP 3w4 Teen Wolf so/sp — Bird/Lion

Malyen Oretsev ESTP 6w7 Shadow & Bone so/sx — Snake/Badger

Napoleon Solo ESTP 3w2 The Man From UNCLE so/sx — Lion/Snake

Scott Lang ESTP 7w6 Ant Man & the Wasp so/sp — Snake/Bird

Ygritte ESTP cp6w7 Game of Thrones so — Badger/Lion

James Kirk ESTP 7w8 Star Trek so — Lion/Snake

Luna Lovegood INTP 9w1 Harry Potter so/sp — Bird/Badger

Milo J. Thatch INTP 5w6 Atlantis: The Lost Empire so/sx — Bird/Bird

Arthur Weasley INTP 9w8 so/sp — Lion/Bird

Bucky Barnes ISTP 6w7 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier so/sp — Bird/Bird

Derek Hale ISTP 8w9 Teen Wolf so/sx — Snake/Bird

Evie Carnahan ISTP 5w4 The Mummy so — Bird/Lion

Nick Burkhardt ISTP 9w1 Grimm so/sp — Bird/Lion

Allison Argent ISFJ 6w7 Teen Wolf sp/sx — Bird/Lion

C-3PO ISFJ 6w7 Star Wars sp — Bird/Bird

Jane Bennet ISFJ 9w1 Pride & Prejudice so — Badger/Badger

Melanie Wilkes ISFJ 9w1 Gone With the Wind so — Badger/Snake

Padme Amidala ISFJ 2w1 Star Wars so — Lion/Snake

Robert Crawley ISFJ 2w1 Downton Abbey so — Bird/Badger

Steve Rogers ISFJ 1w2 Avengers so/sp — Lion/Badger

Catelyn Stark ISTJ 1w2 Game of Thrones so — Snake/Badger

Susan Pevensie ISTJ 6w5 The Chronicles of Narnia so/sp — Bird/Bird

Théoden ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings so/sp — Badger/Lion

Jean Valjean ISTJ 8w9 Les Miserables so — Lion/Snake

Inspector Javert ISTJ 1w2 Les Miserables so — Bird/Lion

LP: 23

BiP: 24

SP: 29

BaP: 19

LS: 34

SS: 20

BiS: 19

BaS: 18

Snake/Lion = 11

Lion/Lion = 10

Snake/Snake = 8

Bird/Bird = 8

Bird/Lion = 8

Lion/Snake = 7

Badger/Lion = 7

Snake/Bird = 6

Badger/Badger = 5

Snake/Badger = 4

Bird/Badger = 4

Lion/Badger = 3

Badger/Snake = 3

Lion/Bird = 3

Badger/Bird = 2

Bird/Snake = 2

Sx:

Regina Mills ENFJ 2w3 [Once Upon a Time] sx/so — Snake/Bird

Margaery Tyrell ESFJ 2w3 Game of Thrones sx — Snake/Badger

Nate Archibald ESFJ 9w1 Gossip Girl sx — Badger/Lion

Peeta Mellark ESFJ 9w1 The Hunger Games sx — Snake/Badger

Drusilla INFJ 9w1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer sx/so — Lion/Snake

Galadriel INFJ 1w9 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Snake/Lion

Varys INFJ 5w6 Game of Thrones sp — Snake/Snake

Mr. Darcy INTJ 5w4 Pride & Prejudice sp/sx — Snake/Badger

Elphaba Thropp INTJ 4w5 sp/sx Wicked! sp — Lion/Lion

Veronica Mars cp ENFP 6w7 Veronica Mars sx — Badger/Snake

Eleven 7w6 Doctor Who ENTP sx — Snake/Snake

Ophelia 6w7 Hamlet INFP sx — Bird/Lion

Alina Starkov ISFP 6w7 Shadow & Bone sx/sp — Snake/Lion

Éowyn ISFP cp6w7 The Lord of the Rings sx/so — Snake/Lion

Fantine ISFP 9w1 Les Miserables sx — Snake/Lion

Logan Echolls ISFP 7wcp6 Veronica Mars so — Snake/Lion

Mary Margaret Blanchard ISFP 2w1 Once Upon a Time so/sx — Badger/Lion

Scott McCall ISFP 2w1 Teen Wolf so/sx — Badger/Badger

William Turner ISFP 1w9 The Pirates of the Caribbean so/sx — Badger/Lion

Anakin Skywalker ESFP cp6w7 Star Wars sx — Snake/Lion

Imhotep ESFP 8w9 The Mummy sx — Snake/Bird

Jaime Lannister ESFP 9w8 Game of Thrones sx — Lion/Snake

Rose Tyler ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who sx — Snake/Lion

Kate Argent ESTP 8w7 Teen Wolf sx/so — Lion/Snake

Scarlett O’Hara ESTP 3w2 Gone With the Wind sx — Snake/Lion

Dan Humphrey ISTP 5w4 Gossip Girl sx — Lion/Badger

Adalind Schade ISFJ 6w7 Grimm sx/sp — Snake/Snake

Cosette ISFJ 2w3 Les Miserables sx — Lion/Snake

LP: 6

BiP: 1

SP: 16

BaP: 5

LS: 13

SS: 8

BiS: 2

BaS: 5

Snake/Lion = 8

Lion/Snake = 4

Snake/Badger = 3

Badger/Lion = 3

Snake/Snake = 3

Snake/Bird = 2

Badger/Badger = 1

Lion/Badger = 1

Lion/Lion = 1

Badger/Snake = 1

Bird/Lion = 1

Sp:

Sam Gamgee ESFJ 2w1 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Snake/Badger

Alec Hardy INTJ 5w6 Broadchurch sp — Snake/Bird

Mr. Gold / Rumple INTJ 5w4 Once Upon a Time sp/sx — Snake/Bird

Michael Corleone INTJ 5w6 The Godfather sp — Badger/Bird

Mycroft Holmes INTJ 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes sp/so — Lion/Bird

Petyr Baelish INTJ 3w4 Game of Thrones sp/so — Snake/Snake

Tom Riddle INTJ 3w4 Harry Potter sp/so — Lion/Bird

Victor Frankenstein INTJ 5w4 Victor Frankenstein sp/sx — Bird/Bird

Gerard Argent ENTJ 8w9 [Teen Wolf] sp/so — Lion/Bird

Kaz Brekker ENTJ 8w9 Shadow & Bone sp/so — Snake/Snake

Lynette Scavo ENTJ 8w9 Desperate Housewives sp/so — Snake/Snake

Palpatine ENTJ 3w4 Star Wars sp — Snake/Bird

Hector Barbossa ESTJ 8w7 The Pirates of the Caribbean sp — Snake/Badger

Hermione Granger ESTJ 1w2 Harry Potter sp — Lion/Bird

Marial ESTJ 8w9 The Great sp — Snake/Lion

Tywin Lannister ESTJ 8w9 Game of Thrones sp/so — Lion/Bird

Victoria Argent ESTJ 8w9 Teen Wolf sp/so — Lion/Lion

Samwell Tarly ENFP 9w1 Game of Thrones sp — Bird/Bird

Jonathan Carnahan ENTP 7w6 The Mummy sp — Bird/Snake

Moist von Lipwig ENTP 7w6 Going Postal sp — Snake/Snake

Stiles Stilinksi ENTP 6w7 Teen Wolf sp/sx — Snake/Bird

Tyrion Lannister ENTP 7w6 Game of Thrones sp/so — Bird/Snake

Fred Weasley ENTP 7w8 sp — Lion/Snake

Gregor ISFP 9w8 The Great sp — Snake/Lion

Jon Snow ISFP 6w5 Game of Thrones sp — Lion/Lion

Luke Skywalker ISFP 1w2 Star Wars sp/so — Bird/Lion

Amelia Pond ESFP 7w8 Doctor Who sp — Lion/Lion

Joffrey Baratheon ESFP 3w2 Game of Thrones sp — Lion/Lion

Pippin Took ESFP 7w6 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Lion/Snake

Ron Weasley ESFP 4w3 Harry Potter sp/so — Lion/Lion

Xander Harris ESFP 6w7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer sp/so — Lion/Badger

Yelena Belova ESFP 8w7 Black Widow sp/sx — Snake/Lion

Aladdin ESTP 9w8 Aladdin (2019) sp/so — Snake/Snake

Chuck Bass ESTP 8w7 Gossip Girl sp — Snake/Bird

Dean Winchester ESTP 8w7 Supernatural sp/so — Badger/Bird

Emmett Cullen ESTP 7w8 The Twilight Saga sp/sx — Badger/Lion

Gabrielle Solis ESTP 7w8 Desperate Housewives sp/sx — Bird/Snake

Han Solo ESTP 7w8 Star Wars sp — Snake/Lion

Jack Sparrow ESTP 7w6 Pirates of the Caribbean sp — Lion/Snake

Peter ESTP 7w8 The Great sp — Snake/Lion

Rhett Butler ESTP 7w8 Gone With the Wind sp — Lion/Snake

Rick O’Connell ESTP 7w8 The Mummy sp — Snake/Lion

Selena Kyle ESTP 7w6 The Dark Knight Trilogy sp/so — Badger/Snake

Macy Vaugn INTP 6w5 Charmed sp — Bird/Bird

Milena INTP 5w6 Black Widow sp/so — Bird/Bird

Twelve INTP 5w4 Doctor Who sp/so — Snake/Bird

Emma Swann ISTP cp6w5 Once Upon a Time sp/sx — Snake/Lion

Gaby ISTP 7w8 The Man From UNCLE sp/so — Lion/Bird

Montgomery Scott ISTP 6w7 Star Trek (New) sp — Bird/Snake

Mulan ISTP 6w7 Mulan sp — Lion/Bird

Natasha Romanoff ISTP cp6w5 Black Widow sp/so — Badger/Snake

Sherlock Holmes ISTP 5w4 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes sp/so — Badger/Snake

Spike ISTP 7w8 Angel / Buffy the Vampire Slayer sp/sx — Snake/Snake

Allison Argent ISFJ 6w7 Teen Wolf sp/sx — Bird/Lion

C-3PO ISFJ 6w7 Star Wars sp — Bird/Bird

Eliza Schuyler Hamilton ISFJ 2w1 Hamilton sp — Snake/Badger

Neville Longbottom ISFJ 6w5 Harry Potter sp — Lion/Badger

Aragorn ISTJ 6w5 The Lord of the Rings sp/so — Snake/Lion

Brienne of Tarth ISTJ 6w5 Game of Thrones sp — Badger/Lion

Chris Argent ISTJ 1w9 Teen Wolf sp/so — Badger/Bird

Eddard Stark ISTJ 1w9 Game of Thrones sp — Badger/Lion

George Washington ISTJ 1w9 (Hamilton) sp — Badger/Badger

Harry Greenwood ISTJ 1w2 Charmed sp — Badger/Bird

Katniss Everdeen ISTJ 6w5 The Hunger Games sp/so — Snake/Lion

Luke Danes ISTJ 6w5 Gilmore Girls sp/so — Lion/Badger

Mando ISTJ 9w8 The Mandalorian sp/so — Badger/Lion

Rupert Giles ISTJ 6w5 Buffy the Vampire Slayer sp/so — Badger/Lion

LP: 19

BiP: 11

SP: 24

BaP: 13

LS: 21

SS: 16

BiS: 22

BaS: 7

Snake/Lion = 9

Lion/Bird = 7

Snake/Bird = 6

Snake/Snake = 6

Badger/Lion = 6

Bird/Bird = 5

Lion/Lion = 5

Bird/Snake = 4

Lion/Snake = 4

Badger/Bird = 4

Lion/Badger = 3

Snake/Badger = 3

Badger/Snake = 3

Bird/Lion = 2

Badger/Badger = 1

[fedonciadale]

Sometimes scrolling through the Jonsa tag, I find anti tags that mention that Jonsa will never happen because GRRM has mentioned that the ending will be bittersweet which probably means that Jon will die. Coming from a Tolkien fan, even LOTR was bittersweet given Frodo has to leave middle earth. Does that mean that Aragorn and Arwen didn't get their happily ever after? Honestly why would people rewatch a series if it is not uplifting? (On a side note, a Denethor ending is inevitable for D@ny)

Dear nonny,

I’ve never understood GRRM saying that we’ll have bittersweet ending as meaning that it has to be a bitter end to everyone. In LotR we have Faramir and Eowyn, Aragorn and Arwen and Sam and Rosie for whom we can reasonably expect to lead a happy life. From the appendices we also know that Pippin married as well, that Merry was a content bachelor, that Legolas and Gimli both went to the Undying lands. And this is the ending that GRRM calls “bittersweet”. He explicitly refers the bittersweet ending of LotR.

And in a way it is bittersweet, because safe Boromir the fellowship survived, Sauron is defeated, Aragorn is king, and yet..... Frodo will never be healed, nor will the lands be fertile again the Sauron tortured. Mordor remains a wasted land, the brown lands will never see the ent wives again, and the Elves will leave. Many beautiful things will die or leave forever, and Sauron defeated means that he can’t enslave humanity and become an absolute evil tyrant, but it also means that the wisdom, magic and beauty of the elves will dwindle, vanish and leave. So, one is mingled with the other, and even though it might look like Frodo undeservedly got the bad end of the bargain, he also has the chance to heal in the land of the Valar.

So there is an uplifting side to the ending of LotR and we have to see that as well with ASOIAF. And some great sacrifice probably has to be made. But is Jon Frodo? I don’t think so. Jon is Aragorn, as I have argued in my Aragorn and Arwen meta. And if Jon dies, do we have a chance to see Aragorn’s tax policy? Why would it be Jon’s destiny to die again? And if you look closely at Aragorn and Arwen, there is also a moment of sadness. Arwen lives on for a long time after Aragorn’s death and as @julibf has argued we might see an old Jon burying Sansa as the last scene of GoT (x). And this could be as sad as Arwen mourning Aragorn.

And I agree absolutely. For a satisfying story, the end has to be consistent, has to tie up the lose ends, and a completely dark end with Jon dead and no uplifting after all the Starks have suffered would just not deliver this. And I do think that as  important as Jon is, he is not the key to the defence of the WW: that is Bran. And honestly it is not bitter enough yet, that the Starks have lost Ned, Catelyn, Robb and Rickon and that Winterfell probably will burn a third time? What do these people want? A nihilistic book that ends with the WW roaming Westeros? Well, newsflash, GRRM is not a nihilist....

As for Da€nerys as Denethor: I am absolutely convinced that this will happen. Da€nerys will be the person who should be on the side of the good, but who endangers everything by hunting after her own legacy.

Thanks for the ask!

[taurielsilvan]

my lovely friend @sansarya tagged me in this - thank you buddy ♥ also the wonderful @aredhels and @goodqueenalys tagged me in things too so there’s even more under the cut! thank you all for thinking of me i really appreciate you acknowledging my existence and i adore all of you tbh

aaand I will just put this at the beginning - I’m tagging @wondcrwomans, @dracomalfoys, @akrhamknight,  @angelicahamlton, @princemaedhros, @sansarya, @captainaragorn and @scinnlaece (feel free to choose 1 of these or do all three or maybe just ignore this!!)

5 things you’d find in my bag

keys

phone

a book

lip balm

ticket

5 things you’d find in my bedroom

all my stuff tbh

books

Funko Figures

clothes everywhere

a mess on the floor

5 things i’ve always wanted to do

travel to new zealand with my sister to see all the lotr filming locations

catch up with about a trillion tv shows

read every book i own (before buying new ones hahah..)

wear more nice dresses

win the lottery

5 things that make me happy

middle-earth

when people write nice things in the tags of my edits

when my hair smells good

autumn

sleeping

5 things i’m currently into

six of crows!!! 

middle-earth always and forever

got + stark family reunions

reading crime

f.r.i.e.n.d.s

5 things on my to-do list

pff idk i’m just sleeping, working and eating.. nothing more.. let’s see

make more edits??

i really don’t know i guess all the stuff from “5 things i always wanted to do”?.. what a crappy way to end this askgame sorry

okok so here’s the next: @goodqueenalys tagged me - thank you so much, i absolutely adore you and your blog!

Get To Know Me

rules:  answer the 20 questions and tag 20 bloggers you’d like to get to know better!

name: katharina / nicknames: kat on the internet and kathi in real life haha / zodiac sign: leo / height: 1,69m / orientation: hetero / nationality:  basic white bitch (i’m just gonna copy your answer here because i’m just a smol german) /  favorite fruit:  bananas / favorite season: autumn!! / favorite book: the lord of the rings and six of crows /   favorite flower   *shrug emoji* i love all of them?? /   favorite scent:   fresh coffee in the morning /   favorite colour:   red /   favorite animal:   koalas and penguins /   coffee | tea | hot cocoa:   yes to all and in that exact order /   average sleep hours:   hmm 7 /   cat or dog person:   both!!! /   favorite fictional character:   aragorn /   number of blankets you sleep with:   1 or 2 /   dream trip:   hobbiton ♥ /   blog created:   may 2011... oh my god /   number of followers:   a bit over 7000 /   random fact:   one of my best friends married this weekend i i got to be one of the bridesmaids and i had the best time

aaaaand last but not least @aredhels was kind enough to tag me in this thingy here and I’m really flattered because it says ‘Tag some friends’ so let me just say ily friend

Rules: Choose any 3 fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions. Then tag some friends.

I choose: Tolkien Game of Thrones Six of Crows

The first character you loved: Legolas all the Starks tbh Kaz Brekker

The character you never expected to love so much: Frodo Cersei hmm maybe Jesper

The character you relate to most: Pippin and Faramir uhm... maybe some traits of Sansa and Arya?? irdk they all are way cooler than me but.. maybe Wylan 

The character you’d slap: the potato head orc Theon (the moment he betrayed Robb) Jan Van Eck

3 favorite characters (these are in order of preference): Aragorn, Tauriel, Pippin Sansa, Cersei, Jaime Kaz, Inej, Nina

A character you liked at first but not so much anymore: Legolas hahaha he was my childhood crush.. i still like him tho Daenerys none i love my children

A character you did not like at first, but they’ve grown on you: Boromir when I watched the extended movies like wtf i love him so much hmm Margaery i had no feelings for Inej in the beginning and now I love her??

3 OTPs: Arwen x Aragorn, Frodo x happiness, Eowyn x Faramir Ned x Catelyn, Cersei x Jaime, Sansa x a true knight in shining armor who adores her for who she is and treats her well Kaz x Inej, Kaz x 30 million kruge, Jesper x Wylan

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Do you think it was necessary for GRRM to kill Catelyn and resurrect her, or could he have done the same storyline with Stoneheart, but with Catelyn never dying at all (probably held captive and somehow escapes)?

Necessary? I suppose it depends on how you define “necessary”. If you cut down the story to the core plot and not much else, then technically very little GRRM has done to any character is “necessary”. If, however, literary devices such as theme and character and foreshadowing are important to you as a writer, as well as comparisons to and commentary on other works of literature, then yes, Catelyn’s death and her resurrection into Stoneheart were very necessary.

Some examples of the above narrative elements re Lady Stoneheart:

“Tell me again what you saved.”“Your life.”Mirri Maz Duur laughed cruelly. “Look to your khal and see what life is worth, when all the rest is gone.”

–AGOT, Daenerys X

“Fire consumes.” Lord Beric stood behind them, and there was something in his voice that silenced Thoros at once. “It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing.”

–ASOS, Arya VIII

The steel was polished to such a high sheen that she could see her reflection in the breastplate, gazing back at her as if from the bottom of a deep green pond. The face of a drowned woman, Catelyn thought. Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

–ACOK, Catelyn II

I am become a sour woman, Catelyn thought. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

–ACOK, Catelyn VII

She clutched tight at his hand. “Nothing will happen to you. Nothing. I could not stand it. They took Ned, and your sweet brothers. Sansa is married, Arya is lost, my father’s dead… if anything befell you, I would go mad, Robb. You are all I have left. You are all the north has left.”

–ASOS, Catelyn IV

Death does change a person. No, I do not think Catelyn is as she was, no more than Lord Beric… And by the way, there will no Catelyn POVs in future volumes, which may tell you something. –GRRM

“Lady Stoneheart does have a role in the books,” Martin said. “Whether it’s sufficient or interesting enough… I think it is, or I wouldn’t have put her in. One of the things I wanted to show with her is that the death she suffered changes you.”

Continues Martin: “I’ve talked about Gandalf [in The Lord of the Rings], and how the impact of his death was enormous. When I was a 12-year-old kid reading The Fellowship of the Ring and ‘Fly, you fools!’ and he goes into the chasm…  it was ‘Holy shit! [J.R.R. Tolkien] killed the wizard! That’s the guy who knew everything. How are they going to destroy the ring without him?’ And now the ‘kids’ have to grow up because their ‘daddy’ is dead. If Gandalf could die, anybody could die. And then just a few chapters later Boromir goes down. Those two deaths created in me the ‘anyone could die’ thing. At that point I was expecting [Tolkien] to pick off the whole Fellowship one by one. And then we also think in The Two Towers that Frodo is dead, since Shelob stung him and wrapped him up. I really bought it because he set me up with those other deaths. But then, of course, he brings Gandalf back. He’s a little strange at first, but then he’s basically the same old Gandalf. I liked the impact we got from him being gone.”

Martin’s explanation initially sounds like an argument against including Lady Stoneheart, but Martin then noted: “Lady Stoneheart is not Catelyn. I’ve tried to set it up beforehand with Beric Dondarrion and his repeated [resurrections]. There’s a brief appearance by Beric in Book One and he rides into the city and he’s this flamboyant Southern knight. That’s not that man we meet later on.”

– interview

See also this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and also especially this.

So, yes, GRRM could have done something with a living Catelyn instead of Stoneheart. However, he had absolutely no intention to, and designed her story to build to the climax of her death… and then the denouement, showing what happens when all that really matters is gone and only a mocking travesty of life is left. Hope that helps you understand.

[yerevasunclair]

FROM MY RIVER TO YOURS // Lord of the Rings & Game of Thrones Crossover // 

FANFIC and edit by: yerevasunclair

(Credits to the true owners of each image, from pinterest and tumblr: @untrustyou)

She endured all throughout the night, sleepless and watchful. Only that she has no father to watch over, a persistent coughing, a nuisance of sorrows to listen to and requests to obey. An additional count of loss stakes at her sharply but did not disable her afresh. The sky had transformed from pitch black to a civil dawn blue, which tempted her to stroll out to the balcony and wait for the sun to slowly peek from the horizon. She could not stand by, as she reflected on a childhood flight, the river.

She sauntered through confidential passageways, guaranteeing noiseless footsteps and had reached outside uncaught. She sheds all her clothes as the dawning clouds briefed her of their colors concealing her and this clandestine activity. The cold wind of dawn whispers and ignites her gooseflesh skin even more. She plunges herself in, marveling at the splendor of a habit that ended decades ago.

She swam to its east side, the river so hazily serene. She spots a direwolf on that direction which attracts her to go farther, to attest she is in no illusion.

There are no direwolves in the South. But then I once told Ned their might be darker things beyond the wall, that day a direwolf was found at the south of it. This one does look familiar… Could it be Nymeria? Arya? Arya, are you here in Riverrun?

She paddles on anxiously, anticipating and about to summon the direwolf to her, to call Arya. Until, her body shuddered into alarm as it started to whirl and change around her. A mighty energy pulls her down deep, the stream starting to swallow her head to propel her further underneath. With all her strength, she resisted the current but she continues to drown in confusion as her prowess in swimming fails her remarkably.

If she was to die here and die in this manner, then let it be.

Ned is waiting. And he’ll no longer wait as I can’t wait for him now.

Later, her muscles relax and she fights no longer, surrendering. But her breathing and heartbeat both pulse in a regular vibrant pace, much to her mystery, as if she was undoubtedly the trout whose viability depends only on water forms. It surprises her that, just when she felt her frame was about to touch the riverbed, she seems to float back above and so her limbs motion once again in rhythm.

She gasps for air as her head leaps up and out of the water, but is shocked of the absence of the castle, a different landscape and species of woods, of the riverbanks molded of rocks instead of grass. This river emerged wider and longer before her, too.

          Where could I be? Am I dead? What is this place? This isn’t Riverrun.

Her head rotates around to every degree, but in the end her vision is fixed on a sight of a man and his horse. The man had dark hair, its length just at the end of his neck. He donned a cape, a navy blue surcoat atop a wine-red coat with glinting gold embroidery and the deepest layer was made of silver long-sleeved mail. He also wore a shield on his back, a sword and horn at the sides of him.

She recognized the face all too well, no matter at what angle or view. Her heart, every blood vessel pounds louder like never before as she struggles to walk and reach the shore through the heavy and opposing flow of water. She forgets all modesty, nude as her name day and innocent as a nymph.

He discerns her presence and it was too late to push her away when she ran and jumped to embrace him, clinging so ardently.

Her heart kept beating after Ned’s death, but its spirit descended along with him, that spirit that left a black hollow in her. Then it lifted wildly all of a sudden, as the clutch of his form hurls a scoured remedy.

“Oh, Ned” she sobs terribly. The empty space where her heart was once, had been brimmed and reborn like a flower and fruit in spring.

Her desolate, eager hold of him spanned a moment to unlock her interwoven arms and grip at the crests of her hips to push her away forcefully from him.

“What, what?..….who, who are you? And who is Ned?” He puts his hands on her shoulders to prevent her from throwing her arms around him and to keep her rooted at arm’s length.

“Ned…. it is me, your lady and love, Catelyn… Ned… don’t you remem-….”

“Forgive me, my lady. But I am not who you think I am. I am not Ned, whoever that man is. I am Boromir, Boromir of Gondor.”

             Boromir of Gondor? But how….How could you not be him? You have his grey eyes. Stark eyes. You are as tall and sinewy as him. Your beard grows in an outline similar to his only that yours is now shorter and neater compared to the last time I saw you in King’s Landing. I know the shape of your hands, and they are as robust now as they always were, now that you are holding me. And your rugged face, its skin, it is more younger and free from exhaustion as of present, but still Ned all the same. You have the exact quality of his voice. Why do you say you are not my Ned? Why?

“Why are you here? What dealings have you been doing? Where do you come from? Where are you heading to and who are your kin?”

“I, I don’t know...I don’t know” she sustained crying to the point of being breathless, like a little girl, like her Arya. She did not know what to do. She was oblivious of what answers she should give him. She does not know this Boromir. She could not believe this man in the very flesh of Ned called himself Boromir.

He blinks, keeping his gaze darted at her eyes to ignore her nakedness. He was soaked in her wetness and with no blanket or anything to clothe her, he doffs his shield to drop it on the ground, then his cape to drape it around her.

“I must escort you home to where you belong, my lady.”

“I, I do not remember anything. Believe me, I honestly have no clue where I am. Can you help me? Might I come with you? I do not know where to go, I’ve nothing.” she shakes her head as she entreats agitatedly. Her tears gushed out constantly and his eyes showed pity for her, uncertainty toward her. She heeds his alert pensiveness of what to do with her.

               Don’t leave me Ned. Take me with you. Let me follow you.

“I will bring you to the White Tower of Minas Tirith, then.” He concludes.

“Min, Minas Ti-rith? And – and where is that fortress of yours?” she inquired him, quivering unruly.

“The White Tower is in the city of Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor. You must rest there, be dressed, fed and sheltered properly. You ought to see a healer who can fathom how you happened to be in this condition, ---- of disturbance and forgetfulness. Still, you told me your name was?”

“I’m Catelyn. That’s all. I’m afraid I cannot tell anything else, Lord Boromir. Truly.” She pins her lips to vanquish her state of restlessness.

                It’s Cat, for short. You referred me as Cat.

“Oh, it is not necessary to entitle me as lord, Catelyn. I’m only Boromir. A warrior and steward of Gondor.” he humbly smiles.

               Boromir. Gondor. Ned. Winterfell.

“Be calm, Catelyn. I will aid you, there is naught to worry of.” He lays his hands on her shoulders again, but delicately, and it helped her breathe deeper and subdued.

“I should get you on my horse. If only you grant it, Catelyn. Our destination is a bit far and I hope for you to be at ease on the journey. But before that, I, I—there’s a small rope on my saddlebag. Perhaps, it’s best to gird it around your waist to seal my cape around you like a robe.”

He draws the rope out of his bag as she repositions the folds of the cape to overlap and envelop her wholly. She firmly tightens the cloak around her trunk as he comes forward and let him strap the rope on her waist into a knot. And in a flash, he hoists her up on the back of his horse as she grapples on the bulk of his upper arms to maintain her sitting balance. 

She is massively bewildered as he stares into his bright ashen eyes, his soul. She hastily sensed a blaring valiance in him. It appeared to her that he beheld a roaring faith in him self, which is by far, miles high from the silent determination of her own lord.

             Bravery. Honor. Justice. Kindness. Loyalty. Benevolence. Both men ratify such qualities to a similar magnitude. Yet they solitarily differ in the way they conduct them self. This Boromir is a poised fighter while mine was endearingly timid.

She surveyed her environment, surmising as they depart. Its nature was alight, harmoniously untouched by war. And whether this is an after life or if she is in this other world, she hungered to linger. She did not wish to return to the real other without her Ned. Or, if this was a dream wherein her Ned was not named Ned and is some other soldier in another age, she did not care. She desiderated to be the blithesome woman she used to be when she lived with him, the pages of her entity revolving on the marrow of family, love and commitment.

             I wonder in what regards is the magic of this world and the magic of Westeros is discrete and alike. That’s another discovery to be reserved for another day, and I’ll learn that from him.

Boromir scans her from head to feet and the words coming from him earlier to be safeguarded echoed itself in her brain. She is deadpan from the turbulence of revelation, interest, of indebtedness, of the wintry bolting into plush heat. It is a procured blessing in her midst, to tread mystically from a torrent of grief and bitterness, to his buoyancy that is perfused with piquant fortuity of a novel existence.

_END_

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FROM MY RIVER TO YOURS AESTHETIC #4

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Lord of the Rings & Game of Thrones Crossover // 

Boromir x Catelyn Aesthetics //

A year has passed and Catelyn still mourns the death of her Ned. Out of grief, she finds strength in swimming once again in the river beside the castle of Riverrun. Yet, unknown to her, there is a part of the river that is magical. She explores further only to rise out of it in another sphere, to meet her Ned who is named Boromir in that world called Middle Earth. 

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Inspiration.

Ned, Cat and some friends are going to the restaurant. Brandon is invited too but after a lot of wine and whiskey he reminds everyone of his intense love story with Cat no matter how short it was. Cat is silently ashamed and Ned ends up leaving to “have some air”.

Zeus Hypatos // Zeus, the most high

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From My River To Yours  Chapter 2

The route to the fortress that Boromir called Minas Tirith was contoured with an enumerable population of trees with contrasting shades of green, the darker ones looming at its heart to the riversides and the lighter ones bordering the tips of the plain fields that Catelyn could see from afar. The heights differed as well, such that the tops of it appeared like a brush tracing of tides. She found a scarce amount of trees that had yellow blossoms and some cedar trees that had a black bark. 

They strode on a road strip of fertile soil as the sun was wending its way above with its rays seeping evenly through the leaves. It was summer, two groundhogs were digging holes and the squirrels climbed and chirped with their walnuts. Little paunchy birds hovered in a line above her and Catelyn heard a whistling blending with the song of birds. But the whistling was only coming from Boromir, who was luxuriating in the balminess of the weather and whose exquisite lineaments were now being highlighted by the sunlight.

How I missed that face of yours… But you said you are not my Ned. Does it mean I am with someone who resembles my lord husband but is not really he? 

She peers at him, her blue eyes twinkling and thrilled. When he caught her, she still did not tear her gaze off him for she was lost indulging herself in this entangled daydream. She still can’t get over it, how this Boromir does not have similar but actually the exact features of her Ned, yet only dressed differently. He looked at her as if there was something else he wanted to say or ask but had restrained himself instead. He glanced away awkwardly and even a bit terrified. Her eyesight wandered around then, sensing how uncomfortable her gawking is making him.   

They reached the end of the forest and started pacing through the meadows that stretched south, its tall grasses vivid of canary plumes and swaying in the wind. The colossal mountains of white propped endless on the horizon and high enough to kiss the misty clouds. But what caught her attention is the sight of Boromir gleaming with pride on what seemed like a beam of pearl on the hind clamshell of peaks. 

“Is that the castle where you live?” Catelyn asked him, as she tracked on to where his eyes focused. 

“That is not a castle on its own, that is already the city of Minas Tirith.” He replies. 

“A city? It looks like a diamond from afar.”

Minas Tirith did look like an entrenched brilliant gemstone. She had thought it a castle because no smaller towns scattered amidst it. It was not as vast as Winterfell that surrounded a three acre forest. It also wasn’t miles as high as the Eyrie, like white daggers that stabbed the gut of the clouds like Ned once told her. Nor was it like the humongous maze that King’s Landing is made of. It enraptured her to see how he is so overwhelmed with the sight of his beloved home. 

‘I’m a Northman, I belong here with you not down south’. Ned’s voice echoed in her mind. That echo made her identify that Boromir seems to be the same with Ned in that respect. 

When at long last, they sat foot on the entrance of the White City through its main gate, Catelyn held her head so high, to descry every inch of steepness in awe. Every wall and even the road were made of white stones and the towering bulwark that was shaped like a ship’s keel erected behind the great gate. 

“It’s marvelously well-built, Boromir.” 

“Minas Tirith means the Tower of The Guard. It has seven levels, each level surrounded by white walls and dug unto each hill, each wall with a gate that is set to face a distinct direction before reaching the High Place of the Fountain at the feet of the White Tower of Ecthelion. As we go further upwards, you’ll see the banner of Gondor swaying in the wind, a thousand feet on top of that tower, white and silver sparkling in the sky.” Boromir prattled on as he bowed his head at the soldiers guarding and at some polite folks greeting and coming across. 

The first level had lampposts set up in pairs and a grey inn with a wood board that is labeled ‘Old Guesthouse’. It had two wings, with a green space and a small fountain in the middle.

“The incredible manpower undertaken is, in perfect faithfulness, evident in its design.” Catelyn compliments as they accessed the southeast entry and went under the stone arch of the second tier. Some of the buildings extended beyond a floor and down, engaging half of the hundred-feet wall.

“Yes indeed, for Gondorians are revered for their stonemasonry. This was founded centuries ago by the old kings, laboured with elaborate craft as the base of Gondor’s fortification. But the old kings have passed and ruling stewards have clasped everything into their responsibility.”

“Gondor has no king?” Catelyn asked. 

“The last king of Gondor, Earnur, disappeared after he rode into Minas Morgul with a few knights, pursuing the promised single combat with the dark Witch-king of Angmar. He took no wife and had no children, nor did he appoint another kin to be his heir. Mardil Vonwe, the first steward, vowed to rule and preserve Gondor with the other stewards until the king returns. King Earnur and his escorts never returned and doubtful claims to kingship over the generations were disregarded to avert civil wars.”

A dark Witch-king…sounds like one of Old Nan’s stories. 

“Does this Witch-king still live then?”

“Little is known of him. He could be in hiding, after a steward long before had driven him out of Osgiliath, which the enemies laid in ruins. I was named after that steward, Boromir.” he remarked with a vaunt, “He reclaimed Ithilien after many daring campaigns and was feared by the Witch-king. Boromir, the 11th ruling steward, only ruled 12 years after suffering a Morgul wound from that war.”

She asked no more, for she did not want to hear more details about darkness and undefeated evil, and her eyesight and head kept roving and turning around as it had a while ago in the forest. So it was that they hiked and hiked, meandering the rest of the encircling tiers that is shrinking in diameter. The city whirred with trade, music and laughter of children. But the blares muffled in some parts of the neighbourhood, those with uninhabited houses and catapults. She stared at the people and wish she did not, for they were heavily studying her and whispering quite aloud with each other; who this red-haired lady is and why is she sitting on their captain’s horse. Boromir did not mind any of them but she was very conscious it made her toes wiggle and she tilted her chin down so her hair would cover over face. 

“Are you alright, Catelyn?” Boromir broke the silence with utmost concern.

“Yes, I am.” 

“You appear tensed.” He looked about, discovering the cause of her unease by the people gossiping around with their frowns and reassured her, “Oh, don’t worry about them. They’re not being unfriendly. I believe they’re just very curious of you. It’s your auburn hair, I guess. It’s quite a rare feature, you see, all of us here are either dark or fair-haired. I myself have never seen a lovely woman such as you.” he said with a winsome smile that made her straighten up in confidence. 

He just called me lovely. Ned never grew tired of calling me beautiful.

She prays she’ll be able to find out today the answers that she needs, regarding if this was a dream or another realm of reality. But to find the truth she must also tell the truth. Could she tell him where she came from? How she ended up here? If she told Boromir, he would think her mad and possibly shun her away. After all, she was a stranger and that made her unworthy of trust. Is she the first being to have come from another world? Or were there others before her? What gods do Boromir and the Gondorian people believe in? And which gods made some incantations that induced one river to be joined to the ones from very far away and uncharted places? 

A part of her wants to feel him again and even kiss him, to prove to him that it is he who has forgotten her and not the other way around. Perhaps, that could be the reason why she is here, here for him.

I have seen your bones and gave Hallis Mollen and the silent sisters the assignment to bring your bones to Winterfell. Everyone in the Seven Kingdoms knows of the cruelty your body suffered in the hands of the Lannisters. Or did they spread that false information as well and sent me the wrong bones? But how did you arrive here and became Boromir of Gondor? 

She tried to widen her imagination, how possible it would be that Boromir and Ned are one. She is unable to draw up the myth in her mind however, and gave up all the solving.

They reached the citadel and the seventh level of Minas Tirith beheld a dead white tree planted on cement, at the midpoint of the round courtyard, with its roots spreading out and simmering on a pond of murky water. To her left, the terrace tapered to a boat’s platform and to her right were seven towers around the tallest White Tower of Ecthelion. Catelyn saw its crystal zenith, with its glistering white banner that shone like a guiding star.Boromir tapped her distracted self and helped Catelyn off the horse. He escorted her through the main door and it opened to a wide hall of marble statues of noble kings with their winged crowns. They went to the rear end of the castle and Boromir tasked the maids at the back pantry to prepare food for a noble guest and bring her to a bathroom where she could wash herself. 

A maid with a tawny brown hair came forward and Boromir introduced the maid to her.

“This is Elwen, Catelyn. She will take care of you while I go spend my waiting time for a few duties. I’ll come back here…Elwen, please assist Lady Catelyn.” he hurriedly left and she felt a bit frightened to have him out of her sight.

“Come with me, my lady.” the maid said timidly.

Elwen guided her left, then turned right and went up the stairs to the bathroom, which had an earthen tub with a wooden tube tap that Elwen opened, pouring out hot water. Catelyn guessed that this water must come from a source of hot spring in the mountains.

“Soothe yourself, my lady. I will go get a towel and dress for you.”

“Thank you, Elwen”

She unwrapped, folded and hung Boromir’s wet cloak on the tub before stepping into it. She laid there for half an hour or slightly beyond, scrubbing softly, not minding the outside world and only caring for herself which she had not given so kindly. She took Boromir’s cloak, smelling if his scent had clung to it. The scent was made up of the morning dew, drops of mint, sweat and dirt. It pacified her that it nearly took hold of her to slip into slumber when a knock came. She dropped Boromir’s cloak on the floor and as Elwen entered, she returned with a towel, small clothes and a light teal blue dress. She dismissed her, after telling her she does not have need of anything else and that she will go down to the pantry by herself.

She rose and dried herself. She started dressing up and adored the long, bell-sleeves and boat neckline of the dress. It conformed to the curves of her body flawlessly, though it made her sagging lower belly more prominent, which quite disappointed her. Nevertheless, the fabric appealed to her skin.

She sauntered down the path to the pantry and one yard away from the door she could smell all the food and distinguish each of them. Ribs, roasted chicken, bread and warm fruity and chocolate cakes!

She was surprised that Boromir entered on time along with a shorter man wearing a leather umber breastplate with a silver tree.  

“Faramir, this is lady Catelyn. Lady Catelyn, this is my little brother, Faramir.”

“My lord…” she greeted him with a shy curtsy and Faramir bowed his head.

The brothers had the same eyes and long noses. Faramir had a dark brown but curly hair. He seemed a gentler pup, his composure reminding Catelyn of Ned’s younger brother Benjen.

“You must be very hungry, then. Come sit, food for you has been prepared.” Boromir said welcomingly.

Boromir ordered the servants to leave for a moment. She sat on the bench, with Faramir and Boromir sitting across her and then she grabbed the food hastily like a hungry kitten who has been starving to scavenge whatever she could find.

And I’ve never had this much appetite before, and I could savour the taste of food now that I have him here with me.

She would take bites and close her eyes, convincing herself how real this is and if her senses had truly come back to life. The ribs were very saucy, the bread was hot and crusty and the chicken bursted of garlic, pepper, rosemary and lemon. She ignored the brothers, who were already speaking to each other softly and glaring at her with curiosity and suspicion while she licked the sauce from her fingertips.

She consumed one fourth of the chicken, all of the ribs and 2 pieces of bread. To her embarrassment, she had not realised that she ate in an unladylike manner. She took the fork and knife, got a slice of each of the the apple raisin, chocolate walnut and lemon cakes. They have lemon cakes! How did they serve all her favourites at once!

When she finished eating and drank water from a glass, she covered her mouth to burp. The brothers had their hands clasped, forearms on the table and they eyed on her as if in thorough inspection. The interrogation was about to begin.

“Such big appetite for a slender figure like you.” Faramir commented in amazement.

“Lady Catelyn.” Boromir called her formally and steadily, “we would like to help you. If it is not too much for you to bear, we would help you recall what truly happened to you. If you want to consult with a healer right away or prefer only to tell Faramir and I, it is up to you, whichever puts you more at ease. We vouch that you can trust either choices, that it will remain a secret between us three, or four.”

Is this the time that I tell him? Or should I fabricate some convincing lie? Should i repeat to him that i remember nothing or best say nothing at all?

“I, I will try, my lords.”

“How is it that you ended up on the Anduin, along its course in the capital?” Boromir began.

Anduin. That must be the name of the river where I sprung out from.

“I am not sure. All I remember is that i was swimming. Perhaps…. I drowned and hit my head so hard on a rock.”

“Was there something that frightened you, or chased you down? Was it the Orcs?” Faramir interjected.

“Orcs?”

What are Orcs?

“You do not know what Orcs are?” Boromir asked.

She shook her head at that.

“They have dark skin, with pointy ears, yellow snake-like eyes, crooked sharp teeth. They’re ugly monsters who talk hoarsely.” Boromir described them.

“I do not recall having seen an Orc.” she said honestly.

How am I supposed to lie? When I have no knowledge of Gondor that I can use..

“You say you do not remember where you’re from and yet you mentioned a man named Ned. You mistook me for him and said you are his lady and love. Is this Ned your lord and husband?”

They are gathering whatever clues they could find.

“Yes, I believe he is.”

She can’t deny that part anymore. Boromir knew too much, therefore it is too late to construct a story.

“This Ned, is he lost to you? And he is a lord of where?” Faramir questioned.

Eddard Stark of Winterfell. Do any of you know of Winterfell?

She kept quiet for a long period, meditating. It is not her doing to be thrown into the unknown. She did not need a healer because nothing is wrong with her. She also does not wish to trust or confide in anyone else in this world except for Boromir, her Ned in Gondor.

“I am sorry my lords, but it is a forlorn attempt. I do not understand why I am in such state myself. I would want this to be dealt with some other time, if it is all right. I’ve tried hard enough.” she uttered confusion and panic, hoping that it would work for them to stop probing her. The brothers stopped pushing her on, as mercy filled their eyes.

“She may be trying to shut out bitter memories from resurfacing.” Faramir concluded in a soft tone.

“She must have suffered such great despair and loss.” Boromir added, agreeing with Faramir.

Despair and loss. Those two I have confronted with reluctance.

“If that is your decision, Catelyn. We respect it. You shall be sheltered under our protection until you are able to recover. If it pleases you, our aunt, Lady Terenis is searching for a new lady-in-waiting. You can be of service to her and her high spirits can give you solace as well.”

They believe comfort is the only thing that can cure me. Of that I am grateful for. At least I did not have to tell more lies that might harm me soon.

Boromir’s suggestion gladdened her. He intends to protect her, to keep her close. She is given a new role and she must play it best as of the present, until everything will eventually come to light.

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jealous Ned 😭

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