#like it could just be that grrm didn’t put a ton of thought into balon and his motivations (the greyjoy timeline is truly fucked; not only
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i still maintain that we would feel a lot different about balon if grrm had decided to have asha’s povs begin before balon died
#like yeah obviously balon sucks hardcore#and he’s horrible to theon#but i think we would have seen a different side to him with asha#not say he’d be a great dad to her but i do think to asha specifically he wasn’t a bad dad#certainly no ned but decidedly not tywin or randyll#also i have to say i really am intrigued by the fact that he’s essentially very conservative (big proponent of the old way) in contrast to#his progressive thinking dad and yet (not to give him points for not doing horrible things but) he made asha his heir when he could have#designated vic and/or tried to get rid of alannys somehow (whether literally got rid of or argued that her mental state meant he could put#her aside) and remarried#or like we unfortunately don’t know much about the greyjoy family tree but presumably there are some further relations like say quellon’s#brother’s children or his father’s siblings’ children etc. and adopted one of them as his heir#or like married asha to vic or said distant greyjoy cousin#but he did none of that#so idk i find that dictomy really interesting#like it could just be that grrm didn’t put a ton of thought into balon and his motivations (the greyjoy timeline is truly fucked; not only#does it really seem like grrm meant balon + alannys to be at least 50s when they are at most early 40s; it’s literally not possible for#quellon’s kids to be born the way that grrm lays out - the oldest can’t live that short a time AND have been around for aeron to have
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