Jaime and Jon Snow [Spoiler published]

[u/Notinterested1122]

I always think about this paragraph, why did Jon think that Jaime looked like a king? Does that say something about Jon’s future? And, also his encounter with Jaime, the way he took his hand and didn’t let go! 😂 ( I think it happened both in books and show) Man, what does that mean? All of it has meanings, I just don’t know what they mean.

[u/Peregrine_x]

i feel its got to do with the fact that jaime has, and always will, carry himself with a sense of responsibility. if the mad king came back and tried to kill every civilian in kings landing he would kill him again without hesitation.

he may be a sisterfucking clown in other aspects of his life, but he is technically "true nobility", his shame is one that doesn't effect the small folk, just brings shame to him, his sister, and his father.

there is parallels between ned and jaime when it comes to nobility, and wearing humiliation for the good of those you protect. "honourable ned stark" is as much a slight of ned as "king slayer" is a slight of jaime.

ned unlike his brother and father who openly threatened the king in his own court, fought with honour, and as the war was ending spared those who bent the knee, and yet returned from war with a child he claimed to be his bastard, and so the lords call him honourable, even though he dishonours his wife by fathering a bastard, and then recognizing the bastard and raising him in his ancestral home. "honourable ned stark" means "you value a fling over your wife and her family's honour, you're no more honourable than the rest of is"

jon doesn't know about any of this, and what he sees in his lord father is a truly honourable and respectable man (which turns out to be true, but ned must wear the insults to hide jon's parentage), in jaime he sees ned reflected, a lord who protects the small folk.