denisvileneuve:

We know no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark.

jaimelanistre:

Your mother’s dead, before long I’ll be dead, and you… and your brother and your sister and all of her children. All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground.

kitsn0w:

stark sisters being protective of jon snow

stream:

Game of Thrones | 8x06 “The Iron Throne”

ralts:

Sansa Stark, the Queen in the North. Queen of Winter. Lady of Winterfell. The Red Wolf.

itsletalestrange:

The last Starks.

captainpoe:

Jon Snow and Ghost - 1x01/8x06

  In the asoiaf books, I have a lot of characters I love dearly, but my two major favorite characters are Jon and Arya, and they remain the major favorites in the show, despite GoT being terrible in showing Arya’s complexity and compassionate nature, and despite show!Jon being a very watered down version of the much more clever and interesting book!Jon. They’re individually my favorites, and their loving relationship is my favorite too, and I think one of my biggest fears before s8 aired was that with the reveal of Jon being Rhaegar’s son, that the show would make Jon go full Targ.

  Because yeah, Jon may be biologically Rhaegar’s son, he may be a Targ… in blood. At heart, Jon is all Stark, he’s all Ned Stark’s son, and I was fearing the show would forget it and the Starks siblings would become distant, treat him as a cousin and not their brother. I really, really wouldn’t put it past this show to do something so atrocious, like it was so many times before.

  s8 did many, so many things wrong, did so many characters dirt, but I glad that they got this one thing right. Jon still very much still sees his siblings as his siblings, and it’s the same for them. Sansa still sees him as her brother. Jon is still Arya’s beloved favorite bro. Their sibling dinamics are so important, and I think they do so much to explain what drives Jon’s actions.

  I really liked Jon and Tyrion’s conversation, even if it was clumsy at times, I think it was mostly good and revealing. The Love is the death of duty and Duty is death of love convo is what motivates Jon’s final decision for me, and I think he was guided by Master Aemon’s words in the end.

  Sansa was defiant even before; once she learns what Dany has done, there would be no coming back. She would never follow and obey her. Bran knows about the truth about Jon; his knowledge would always be a threat. Arya was against Dany before, and now that she saw with her own two eyes the destruction? No way she would ever follow her.

  (And Jon had just seen Arya, saw that she was hurt, and was probably just realizing that she was amongs the carnage, was probably just realizing how easily his little sister could be just ashes now and he wouldn’t even know)

  What made up Jon’s decision for me was Tyrion’s final words in the convo for him. What about your sisters?

  I think Jon is very selfless and I can believe that he thinks about the great good in the first place, but what I really think is that Jon’s unconditional love for his family, for his siblings was what drove him to kill his duty, to betray his vow and betray the queen he swore to follow.

  And for a book thought, I think it also ties back to the betrayals’ profecy - one for blood, one for gold, one for love; her final betrayal was motivated by Jon’s love for his family.

maisiewilliams:

I loved that ending for every last one of the Starks, and I thought it fit them perfectly. The show’s version was rather muddled, but when you consider how these characters have been presented to us in ASOIAF, perhaps it couldn’t end any other way

• If we are going to have a monarchy, no one can bring more perspective and empathy to the role than Bran. He represents historical memory and a connection to all of Westeros, including, most importantly, the lives of the common folk
• Sansa was able to achieve all that she ever wanted; independent sovereignty for her people, a crown on her head, and in the future, a growing family of her own. Jon and Arya are still both within plausible reach, and can be a branch back to her past
  
• As much as Arya wanted her family to be safe in Winterfell, she never belonged there. It meant peace to her, but once she no longer needed that comfort, she was able to forge forward with new ideas, and explore places no one else has been. Who better to confront the unknown?
  
• And Jon—Jon, who never found a place for himself, who was always on the outside—is able to return to the only situation where he ever found happiness. As a wildling in the forest, he felt free, separated from honor and duty, and, for perhaps the first time, fully himself
  

The Starks are separated now on individual paths, but it isn’t forever. They each exist in the world where they will best succeed—Jon as a free man, Arya as an explorer, Sansa as a queen, Bran as a leader—but they can still return to each other, and their home

kingslxyers:

Your mother’s dead, before long I’ll be dead, and your brother and your sister and all of her children. All of us dead, all of us rotting in the ground. It’s the family name that lives on, it’s all that lives on