amuelia: Jon Connington had been Prince Rhaegar’s friend. When Merryweather failed so dismally
amuelia: Jon Connington had been Prince Rhaegar’s friend. When Merryweather failed so dismally to contain Robert’s Rebellion and Prince Rhaegar could not be found, Aerys had turned to the next best thing, and raised Connington to the Handship. But the Mad King was always chopping off his Hands. He had chopped Lord Jon after the Battle of the Bells, stripping him of honors, lands, and wealth, and packing him off across the sea to die in exile, where he soon drank himself to death. - Jaime III, aFfC “There is where you’re wrong,” Myles Toyne had replied. “Lord Tywin would not have bothered with a search. He would have burned that town and every living creature in it. Men and boys, babes at the breast, noble knights and holy septons, pigs and whores, rats and rebels, he would have burned them all.” - The Griffin Reborn, aDwD Seventeen years had come and gone since the Battle of the Bells, yet the sound of bells ringing still tied a knot in his guts. Others might claim that the realm was lost when Prince Rhaegar fell to Robert’s warhammer on the Trident, but the Battle of the Trident would never have been fought if the griffin had only slain the stag there in Stoney Sept. The bells tolled for all of us that day. For Aerys and his queen, for Elia of Dorne and her little daughter, for every true man and honest woman in the Seven Kingdoms. And for my silver prince. - The Lost Lord, aDwDThinking about how Tywin as the competent hand and Aerys’ ex friend must have hung like a shadow over every one of his hands that came after; and how Myles Toyne holds Tywin over Jon’s head as a man he should have emulated… Jon seeing Tywin as something he should have been like, when not being like Tywin is a sign of his good character; and in the end, Tywin betrayed Aerys more than Jon’s failure ever did, at the sack of King’s Landing.Reasoning behind the comic is that Aerys and Rhaegar must have once looked very alike (Aerys and Rhaella are siblings, and Aerys is described as handsome in his youth); So while he is now all twisted and unkempt, in rare moments he must have resembled Rhaegar… Reminding Jon of what he is fighting for, and later adding to the guilt. (It is not known if a conversation like this ever took place, but its meant to represent the concept it in spirit)Happy Birthday @mylestoyne !! ❤️❤️❤️ -- source link
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