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Originally Posted by asdar The wall may well be considered a noble calling but Ned's reluctance to send the boy there mixed with every other single opinion in the book doesn't make it seem appealing to me. |
I'm sure that Ned was merely reluctant to send Jon to the Wall because he had probably dreamed of giving Jon more than that- a wife, a family, and maybe some lands of his own.
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Originally Posted by asdar Jon looks like Ned, and while he could look like a stark following Lyanna, I think it's telling that he and Arya look alike, both sharing Neds looks apparently. Cousins often look alike but not as often as siblings. |
Jon and Arya look alike, yes. But Ned himself said that Arya looks very much like her aunt, Lyanna. So Jon really could look like Lyanna, and Arya as well. It's quite possible for a family resemblance of that sort. My mom always says I look more like her younger sister...
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Originally Posted by asdar There's coroboration that Ned's and Wylla's baby was a milk brother and a few other references that aren't any where near conclussive but point to the given story being true. |
"Milk brother" does not imply that either "brother" is the blood child of the mother. She can simply be the wetnurse for two different children. Of course there is a chance that Wylla was Jon's mother, but then why go through the trouble to hide it? Ned has been careful to make sure that everyone believes that he is the father of the child. I don't think there would be any purpose of hiding who the mother was, if she were a servant.