Jon Snow
Mar 29, 2014 14:45:44 GMT
Post by Jon Snow on Mar 29, 2014 14:45:44 GMT
Name: Jon Snow
Alias/es: Ned Stark's Bastard, The Snow of Winterfell, The Bastard of Winterfell
Title/s: None
Age: Late teens
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Single
Allegiance: House Stark
Strengths:
- Gifted swordsman [trained with swords "since he could walk"]; is said to be better than Robb
- A skilled horseman
- Perceptive, observant, brave, resourceful and a quick thinker
- Compassionate toward other 'outcasts' and 'rejects'
- Very honorable
Weaknesses:
- Very solemn demeanor
- Illegitimate birth has caused Jon to become bitter
- Strong need to prove himself, to earn his 'own honor'
- Can be too honorable, and can have difficulty dealing with complex, morally ambiguous decisions
Other: Jon is a warg; as such, he can take control of animals [or humans] whenever he opens his "third eye." Also, he occasionally has dreams that seem to be prophetic.
Jon keeps faith with the Old Gods.
Jon owns a companion albino direwolf, known as Ghost. He is able to control Ghost through his warg ability.
History: Jon Snow's parentage remains a mystery. He is believed to have been born during Robert's Rebellion. Returning from the war, Lord Eddard Stark brought the new born babe to Winterfell, insisting on raising him with the rest of his family. Jon was named by Lord Eddard, and was included into the family as Eddard's bastard son.
Jon has an older half-brother, Robb, two younger half-sisters, Sansa and Arya, and two younger half-brothers, Bran and Rickon. Jon received a noble's education by Maester Luwin alongside his half-siblings. His presence at Winterfell turned out to be a source of friction between Eddard and his wife, Catelyn, who saw Jon as a constant reminder of her husband's infidelity. She treated him coldly making him feel unwelcome. His appearance, resembling Eddard more closely than any of his true born siblings, strained the relationship between himself and his stepmother further.
However, Eddard was always "fiercely protective" of Jon, he treated him the same as his true born children and Jon got on well with his half-siblings, particularly with Robb, whom he viewed as his "best friend, rival and constant companion", and Arya, who "never seemed to fit, no more than he had". Despite this, Jon always had issues with his bastardy and at times felt alienated, contributing to his consideration to join the Night's Watch, where the circumstances of his birth would be of little importance.
Growing up as the two eldest boys, Jon developed a friendly rivalry with Robb, whom he differs from in appearance and personality. Once, they were at a continued game of sword-play in which they would shout out the names of great heroes when Jon called out (as he had countless times before), that he was "Lord of Winterfell", leading Robb to swiftly reply for the first time that he "couldn't ever be Lord of Winterfell" as he was bastard-born. This became a sore memory for Jon, as part of him always wanted to succeed Lord Eddard and resented that it was impossible for him.
When he had been a boy at Winterfell, his hero had been the Young Dragon, the boy king who had conquered Dorne at the age of fourteen. Despite his bastard birth, or perhaps because of it, Jon had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had and bestowing honor on the house he had never really belonged to. He hoped to somewhat fulfill these ambitions if he joined the Watch but became disillusioned and ashamed of such dreams, as years passed under scorn from Catelyn and constant reminders of his birth...
RP Sample: Jon be nimble, Jon be quick, Jon jump over the... wall?
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