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navree · 4 months ago

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people doing this whole "look at how rhaenys acted with corlys's bastard son vs how catelyn acted with jon snow" to demonize one or the other is weird because, like, maybe it's just me, but i think that catelyn and rhaenys had different reactions because they're different people in different situations.

#personal #like they're clearly very different people with different personalities #hell even the situations are different #rhaenys kinda stumbles upon corlys's bastard whose name i don't know cuz i'm not watching this season just kinda in passing #she knew he existed but didn't really have to deal with it at all #meanwhile ned comes home with this baby he says is a product of cheating and just goes 'he's living here now'#there's no space for catelyn to separate herself from the betrayal of fidelity the way that there likely was for rhaenys #like i'm not catelyn's biggest fan #not just because of her treatment of jon (altho yeah i'll be honest i'm not a fan) but there's stuff about her personality #and how she views the world and what being in her head is like that can rub me the wrong way #(she's just so constantly judgy and rude about nearly everyone she doesn't know and even some that she does and it can get exhausting)#but she's a different person to rhaenys and also occupies a different role than she does #rhaenys has a lot more going for her in her marriage than just being corlys's wife #she's got the bluer blood as a targaryen princess she's got a dragon she's got power and influence in her own right #meanwhile catelyn doesn't have nearly as much #she's a lord's daughter yeah but in this entirely new kingdom where she is now her power comes from being ned's wife #and mother to his children #in her head jon is a threat to that power due to being not only a reminder of ned's infidelity but also how his placement could supplant #her children and thus herself by extension #along with her just having a different personality to rhaenys that makes her harsher about it #(i mean i still don't LIKE that she takes it out on jon who certainly didn't ask to be born but i at least understand from characterization #and again: they're different people! no shit they'd react differently!#i'm just baffled at this attempt to pit GOT characters against HOTD characters all the time it's so weird #like now there's people arguing who's better between jace and robb stark and i'm just left baffled #do y'all literally not know how to consume content in any other way except petty fandom wars? my god you're annoying

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