The Lord of the Dreadfort did not have a strong likeness to his bastard son. His face was clean-shav
The Lord of the Dreadfort did not have a strong likeness to his bastard son. His face was clean-shaved, smooth-skinned, ordinary, not handsome but not quite plain. Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time. - Reek II, aDwD “Who is this?” she said. “Where is the boy? Did your bastard refuse to give him up? Is this old man his … oh, gods be good, what is that smell? Has this creature soiled himself?” - “He has been with Ramsay. Lady Barbrey, allow me to present the rightful Lord of the Iron Islands, Theon of House Greyjoy.” - Reek III, aDwD Theon Month Prompt 26 - ASoIaF Character Parallels (/Foils) | hosted by @theonsourceWas thinking about the inversion that Theon is a young man, but through his torture and suffering became scarred and aged to the point of being mistaken for an old man; while his aCoK story arc is also paralleled with Roose’ arc in aDwD, who in turn is described as unscarred and having aged little… -- source link
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