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
With her dragon beside her, the princess slowly began to go out of her shyness; at the age of twelve she took to the skies for the first time, and thereafter, though she remained a quiet girl, no one dared to call her timid. Not long after, Rhaena made her first friend in the person of her cousin Larissa Velaryon. For a time the girls were inseparable. until Larissa was suddenly recalled to Drift mark to be wed to the second son of the Evenstar of Tarth. The young are nothing if not resilient, however, and the princess soon found a new companion in the Hands daughter, Samantha Stokeworth.
Uh okay … that’s was an oddly phrased paragraph about female friendship… I’m probably thinking too much on it. *Flips a couple pages*
All along the route the smallfolk appeared by the hundreds and thousands to hail their new king and queen and cheer the young princes and princess. But whilst Aegon and Viserys relished in the cheers of the crowds and the feasts and frolics put on at every castle to entertain the new monarch and his family, Princess Rhaena reverted to her former shyness. At Storms End, Orys Baratheon’s maester went so far as to write, “ The princess did not seem to want to be there, nor did she approve of anything she saw or heard She scarce seemed to eat, would not hunt or hawk, and when pressed to sing–for she is said to have a lovely voice—she refused rudely and returned to her chambers. The princess had been most loath to be parted from her dragon, Dreamfyre, and her latest favorite, Melony Piper, a red-haired maiden from the riverlands. It was only when her mother, Queen Alyssa, sent for Lady Melony to join them on the progress that Rhaena finally put aside her sullenness to join the celebrations.
For starters, Sansa didn’t have a lot of control on her life and destiny at the beginning of the story not because she was stupid or weak (she definitely wasn’t and still isn’t any of these two things), it’s a result of institutionalized and systematic sexism that puts women in these kinds of roles where they don’t get to have a say in their fate. It’s scary that so many people don’t get that and instead, they blame and hate on this preteen girl for not having any control on her future.
life is not a song 