#he’ll be like those overpowered anime protagonists who wear power blockers and something happens to destroy these blockers
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I know that we’re all waiting and excited for Euron Greyjoy to serve the Eldritch apocalypse in TWOW, but frankly I’m more interested in what Jon and Bran will be up to. Bran is probably spending the majority of the book under the tutelage of Bloodraven (and potentially breaking from it). He’s probably going to unlock, or rather expand, new powers and there could be elements of greenseer magic that we probably haven’t seen yet.
Then we have Jon who, post-resurrection, will have magic crashing into him like a dump track: old god magic, R’hllor magic, and all that other weird stuff he can do. All the powers he’s been suppressing in ADWD will come spilling out and I’d imagine part of TWOW will be Jon trying to adjust to this magic as he’s going through all this rage and resentment (brought on by learning the truth of his parentage and dealing with the betrayal at castle black). I expect TWOW to have Jon in a really dark place and there’s the chance that magic will spill out as he (understandably) lashes out; whether he’s using magic knowingly or unknowingly, who knows. There’s even potential for Jon to get a magic mentor in the form of Melisandre; though it’s unclear how long Mel will hang around at the Wall because she needs to get back to Stannis so that the Shireen-bonfire can happen.
And - this is pure speculation on my part - TWOW seems to be the one book where magic is dialed up to 1000; I’m envisioning magic in this book to be a constantly pulsating element that as some point bursts into a huge explosion. With the Others coming and whatever Euron’s doing (and potentially Dany and her dragons), magic should have a heightened presence which makes me think that Jon and Bran are going to be experiencing some upscaling in terms of raw power. As magic becomes more and more prominent, Jon and Bran will do bigger more impressive things. I really cannot wait to see what they pull off in this book.
#jon snow#bran stark#asoiaf#random speculations#part of my thinking with jon is that he has spent so much time ignoring his powers that he - and the reader#has no accurate measure of how powerful he really is#so when the magic comes#crashing in on him it won’t be bit by bit#instead it will be a massive explosion that knocks him completely off his feet and sends him into a new dimension#I’m thinking it will even be much more than he can realistically handle given that he’s spent four book denying his special snowflake status#so the question is how does he even deal with all these internal and external changes#I think for a good chunk of twow he’ll be pissed because it’s not something he particularly cares for#but how he can’t ignore what’s happening anymore#he’ll be like those overpowered anime protagonists who wear power blockers and something happens to destroy these blockers#and so the conflict becomes: how do we stop this guy from bringing on the end of the world?#that’s gonna be Jon in TWOW I think#just an overpowered anime protagonist with grotesque body scars lol#and then bran’s there#being a weird omniscient tree god….
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