ladyofdragonstone:

turtle-paced:

Simple – I don’t agree that it’s more likely Jon embraces his Targaryen heritage over his Stark heritage, and I don’t agree that this is more heavily thematically foreshadowed. Quite the reverse. I don’t see why Jon’s murder would cause him to reject the Stark family, and I read “kill the boy and let the man be born” as a comment on Jon’s maturity rather than his family identity.

Jon is established right at the beginning of the story as a member of the Stark family, even though he is somewhat set apart from them. He’s subject to the party scattering that the rest of the family is, and so he’ll be drawn back to Winterfell with the rest of his siblings. We see again and again and again through his story just how much he loves his siblings, and so I don’t think he’ll drop them like rocks because he found a shinier heritage. It’s a point of note regarding his bastardy that one of the things he hates about it is how it makes him not truly a part of the Stark family. 

We also know that Jon is proud of being Ned’s son. The reveal that Rhaegar’s his bio-dad, and the realisation of everything that came from Rhaegar’s desire to have Jon is not the sort of thing this character can celebrate. Jon grew up knowing how reluctant Ned was to speak of Jon’s mother; he can work out just how much grief all of Westeros went through for Rhaegar’s prophetic vision. I think it’s far more likely that Jon is horrified and rejects said vision.

If Jon fulfils Rhaegar’s prophecy, I doubt it has anything to do with Rhaegar, and everything to do with what Ned taught him was the right thing to do.

Take it from a Targaryen loyalist, Jon is more Stark than Targaryen, and forever in his heart, infinitely more Snow than either