I wonder how the mother of dragons will take that bit of news. Obviosly she will be stuck between..

1. Yey, I just found one living relative!!
2. Oh sh*t, I was kinda getting romantically fond of him and he is my nephew.
3. Does he have a stronger claim to the iron throne than me?

So do I hate him or love him? What a dilemma!

I really don't think she will be too concerned. She is quite attached to her family tradition. And her family often married relatives. Also, Jon obviously does not desire leadership. It's something that is always thrust upon him and he dutifully accepts. She won't view him as a contender to the throne but maybe someone to marry to further solidify a claim to the throne.

But then again, we can already see power playing a role in corrupting our sweet little mother of dragons, so perhaps she will go off the rails against Jon.

They're definitely going to get married as long as they're both alive. Those googly eyes she was tossing Jon's way were way too apparent.

If they are both alive. I've long thought that Jon will die, probably to save others. Could be that he sacrifices himself for her (and no, not to the Lord of light).

@spreerod1538 said:

They're definitely going to get married as long as they're both alive. Those googly eyes she was tossing Jon's way were way too apparent.

Maybe not. I've read that it's not a popular pairing because of the incestuous nature. So the showrunners may bow to that, and team them both up with someone else.

@Mirabel said:

@spreerod1538 said:

They're definitely going to get married as long as they're both alive. Those googly eyes she was tossing Jon's way were way too apparent.

Maybe not. I've read that it's not a popular pairing because of the incestuous nature. So the showrunners may bow to that, and team them both up with someone else.

I can't imagine that would be the case. The hints are just too obvious. I mean, she was ready to force him to stay just because he'd be putting his life in danger. But a person who she's known for years, who just came back to her, she's willing to let ride off like it's no big deal.

I'm sure there's going to be another person randomly talking about how Targaryens are known to marry each other within the next 2 episodes. Even the Queen now is openly having relations with her brother and is going to name him the father of their child, if it's legit of course.

@spreerod1538 said:

I'm sure there's going to be another person randomly talking about how Targaryens are known to marry each other within the next 2 episodes. Even the Queen now is openly having relations with her brother and is going to name him the father of their child, if it's legit of course.

I wonder how Euron will react to that? Will he turn on Cersei? Cersei promised to marry him after the war was won, but I don't think he counted on a Lannister heir.

@spreerod1538 said:

@Mirabel said:

@spreerod1538 said:

They're definitely going to get married as long as they're both alive. Those googly eyes she was tossing Jon's way were way too apparent.

Maybe not. I've read that it's not a popular pairing because of the incestuous nature. So the showrunners may bow to that, and team them both up with someone else.

I can't imagine that would be the case. The hints are just too obvious. I mean, she was ready to force him to stay just because he'd be putting his life in danger. But a person who she's known for years, who just came back to her, she's willing to let ride off like it's no big deal.

I'm sure there's going to be another person randomly talking about how Targaryens are known to marry each other within the next 2 episodes. Even the Queen now is openly having relations with her brother and is going to name him the father of their child, if it's legit of course.

Back in the days of castles and crowns incest was rampant as having an heir was quite imperative to whatever current royal family resided there. That is at least the way it was in our world, maybe incest was worse in the GoT's universe,lol doubt it though considering the standard that's been set.

It has been common throughout history for ruling families to marry relatives. That way they don't have to share the wealth and power. Most of the European royal families were at least cousins. The Hapsburgs in particular were known to be so seriously inbred that genetic disorders were a problem. Since GOT has been acknowledged to be inspired by this history, its not surprising to see what what we could consider incestuous relationships in the GOT universe. Jon marrying Danny, or even Sansa, would not be considered inappropriate in that universe. Jamie and Cersei, that is another matter altogether. Even that would not be unprecedented. The Egyptian Pharoahs were known to marry their sisters.

Concern about cousin marriage is a very recent thing, that didn't start until modern genetics discovered the danger of combining recessive genes. Even Einstein married a cousin without worrying about it. Lots of Victorian novels talk about cousins marrying -- WUTHERING HEIGHTS ( twice!, HENRY ESMOND, BLEAK HOUSE, FORSYTE SAGA. Of course too much of it in one family might get criticised.

Once it is realized that Jon is Sansa's cousin, not her half-brother, it would probably be considered OK for them to marry. They may even consider it "joint rule", like Ferdinand and Isabella.

@CharlesTheBold said:

Concern about cousin marriage is a very recent thing, that didn't start until modern genetics discovered the danger of combining recessive genes. Even Einstein married a cousin without worrying about it. Lots of Victorian novels talk about cousins marrying -- WUTHERING HEIGHTS ( twice!, HENRY ESMOND, BLEAK HOUSE, FORSYTE SAGA. Of course too much of it in one family might get criticised.

Once it is realized that Jon is Sansa's cousin, not her half-brother, it would probably be considered OK for them to marry. They may even consider it "joint rule", like Ferdinand and Isabella.

At some point in time, or I should say over some period of time, the very relaxed view on incest was flooded with warnings like the baby will be deformed and or retarded(can I still say that?) in order to persuade people from partaking in such things especially marrying and having children. Anyway it was all BS and yes you could go ahead and bang that hot sister of yours, because of course we all grow up wanting to bone our siblings🙄right? I can say one thing that goes for this world and the land of Westeros if you do go ahead and do that, people will definitely talk.