Jon Stark

Jon Stark is the son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, but was raised as the bastard son of Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, to keep him safe. He has five so-called half-siblings (cousins): Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran, and Rickon Stark. Jon is fifteen in the first season of A Song of Ice and Fire. He is one of the central characters of the series, and by the end is made clear to have always been the true protagonist. He is portrayed by Jack Zimmerman in all six seasons. 
== Appearance and Character ==
Jon has the long face of the Starks, although he has a slender face. He has dark brown hair, and deep indigo eyes, the only trait that says otherwise from his Stark traits. He is graceful and quick, with a lean build. Jon deeply resembles his father, only far more handsome, and looks far more like a Stark than any of his half-brothers. Tyrion Lannister notes in the first season that whomever Jon's mother was, only left him her eyes. 
Jon looks solemn and guarded, and is considered sullen and quick to sense a slight. Due to having been raised in a castle and trained by a master-at-arms, Jon is seen by some lower-born members of the Night's Watch as arrogant at first, though this changes when they become more friendly towards one another, as Jon is reminded of his nonetheless privileged background and decides to pass on his knowledge to them. Jon is observant, a trait he developed on account of being a bastard. He is a capable horseback rider and is excellent with a sword, being regarded as their best sword in season four. Jon has resented his bastard status most of the time. He desires to be viewed as honorable, and wants to prove he can be as good and true as his half-brother, Robb. As a child, Jon dreamed he would one day lead men to glory, or even become a conqueror. He feels strongly about not fathering a bastard himself. 
When Jon is resurrected, Jon's hair remains dead, turning pure white, and his eyes a deep blood red, resembling that of his direwolf, Ghost. His skin remains pale, and his blood remains still, his heart never beating. He doesn't need to eat, or shit, or piss, or even sleep, which he remarks as a painful life, believing he should be dead. His body is riddled with scars from his dangerous journeys, but much of the wounds from the mutiny are healed, only remaining as visual scars. 
Following his resurrection, Jon is sterner, being quite humorless and serious, and being both fierce and cold. He makes calculated moves and doesn't hesitate to punish someone. This change in character causes the public opinion on Jon to change, regarding him as more dangerous, even more so than Stannis due to his twisted sense of honor. He is far more wrathful and vengeful, and only ever lets his guard down around those he's truly close with. His revival causes many to view him as either a walking corpse, or a living legend, almost a god. 
While Lord Eddard openly acknowledged Jon as his son and allowed him to live at Winterfell with his half-siblings, Jon felt like an outsider nonetheless. While Jon has good relationships with his siblings, especially Robb, with whom he trained since they were children, and Arya, whom is somewhat of an outsider as well, Eddard's wife Catelyn ensured that Jon was never truly one of them. Catelyn was especially annoyed when Jon bested Robb in martial training or their studies. Jon is not close to Theon Greyjoy, Eddard's ward, regarding him as an ass. Lord Stark refuses to speak of Jon's mother, and the boy grew up unaware of her identity, something which has wounded and haunted him. When Jon dreams of her, he considers her to be beautiful, highborn, and kind. Due to his indigo eyes, many believe it to have been Ashara Dayne. However, it is now known to have been Lyanna Stark, and his lilac eyes actually passed down by his father, Rhaegar Targaryen, as Ashara had deep violet eyes. 
As a descendant of the First Men raised at Winterfell, Jon keeps faith with the old gods, and feels no connection to the Seven. When Stannis Baratheon and Melisandre attempt to convert him to the Faith of R'hllor, he refuses. Even after the Battle for Dawn, he keeps his faith, not converting to R'hllor, where he is now worshipped as a savior. 
Before joining the Watch, Jon wore simple garbs and furs, with no sigils as a bastard. He later wore the black garbs and furs of the Night's Watch, before wearing the animal skins and furs provided by the Wildlings. After returning to the Watch, he returned to his black furs. Following his resurrection and discovery of having been legitimized, he begins wearing the Stark sigil, even adopting his own personal sigil of a white direwolf on a gray field, earning him his nickname of the White Wolf, going along with his altered appearance. 
== History ==
=== Legacy of the Storm: Season 3 ===
Jon was born in 283 AC, the son of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, at the Tower of Joy in Dorne, near the end of Robert's Rebellion, in the episode "The Tower of Joy." Lord Eddard Stark arrived just moments later to find Lyanna on the verge of death. She revealed his name as Prince Daeron Targaryen. After making Ned promises to keep his heritage secret from Robert Baratheon, Lyanna died. Ned took the child with him to Starfall, where he returned Dawn, and settled things out, hiding Ashara Dayne's bastard child with Brandon Stark at High Hermitage as the son of Alester Dayne, the brother to Lord Beric Dayne, naming him Gerold Dayne. After leaving them with Vigilance to return to the Hightowers, heading back north to King's Landing, Ashara jumped from a window, not being able to bare a life away from her son. Ned would name Daeron, Jon, after his foster father, Lord Jon Arryn. The identity of Jon's mother was a mystery, and several suggestions were made by those who know the Starks. Many thought her to be a whore or the daughter of some lowborn, but due to rumors that Ned had danced with Ashara at the Grand Tourney at Harrenhal, word spread quickly of Jon's purple eyes, and so rumors spread that he was her son, and that was the reason for her flinging herself from her window. Eddard brought Jon back to Winterfell, insisting he be raised up with the rest of his family, much to the dismay of Lady Catelyn Tully, who had just bore him his son and heir, Robb Stark. 
=== Early Life ===
Lord Eddard was fiercely protective of Jon and refused to send him away. Jon was raised at Winterfell with his half-siblings. He was tutored by Maester Luwin, including learning sums and astronomy, and was trained at arms by the master-at-arms, Rodrik Cassel. Jon has trained at swordplay since he was old enough to walk, together with Robb, whom he came to view as his "best friend, rival and constant companion," and later also with Theon Greyjoy, after the latter came to Winterfell following the conclusion of Greyjoy's Rebellion. 
Jon grew close to his half-siblings, especially Robb and Arya. Because they look alike, Arya briefly believed that she was bastard-born as well, but Jon reassured his half-sister this was not the case. As a young child Jon and Robb built a great mountain of snow on top of a gate, hoping to push it on someone passing by. They were discovered by Mance Rayder, a ranger from the Night's Watch who had accompanied Lord Commander Jantos Qorgyle to Winterfell. The ranger promised not to tell anyone, and Jon and Robb succeeded in their ploy, dumping the snow upon Fat Tom, who chased the boys around the yard afterwards, until all three were tired. Since he was young, Jon's hero was King Daeron I Targaryen, the Young Dragon, who had conquered Dorne at the age of fifteen. Jon and Robb would often play a game of sword-play, in which they would pretend to be great heroes (including Florian the Fool, Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, King Daeron the Young Dragon, and Ser Ryam Redwyne). Once, when Jon called out that he was "Lord of Winterfell," Robb informed him that was impossible due to his bastardy, which would become a sore memory for Jon. Another time, Jon covered himself in flour and hid in one of the empty tombs in the crypt of Winterfell, and when Robb brought Sansa, Arya, and Bran down to the crypts, Jon jumped out of the tomb and moaned, pretending to be a ghost. Sansa screamed and ran back upstairs, Bran clung to Robb's leg and cried, and Arya punched Jon for scaring the baby with his prank; but Jon and Robb only laughed until the other two were laughing too.
Lord Eddard had dreamed about raising new lords and settling them in the abandoned holdfasts in the New Gift, and Jon believes that if winter had come and gone more quickly, he might have been chosen to hold one of the settlements in his father's name.
=== A Song of Ice and Fire: Season 1 ===
=== A Song of Ice and Fire: Season 2 ===
=== A Song of Ice and Fire: Season 3 ===
=== A Song of Ice and Fire: Season 4 ===
=== A Song of Ice and Fire: Season 5 ===
Jon's body is preserved in the ice cells until episode eight of the season, "Stone Dragons," when Melisandre, distraught over the believed death of Stannis Baratheon, sacrifices Princess Shireen to wake said "stone dragons." However, the sacrifice wakes another dragon, in the form of Jon. His hair turns a sharp white, not growing or receding. His eyes turn blood red, and his skin remains pale. His blood remains frozen in his veins, and his heart doesn't beat, but yet he's alive. Lord Howland Reed, Lady Maege Mormont, and Master Galbart Glover arrive shortly after his resurrection, bringing Robb's will as well, naming him Jon Stark, and King in the North. Jon accepts, declaring his oath to the Watch fulfilled and has his justice from the mutineers, executing them all. Bran then returns, accompanied by Meera Reed. Before leaving, he announces his intention to still march south and enact vengeance upon Ramsay Bolton. The majority of the Wildlings agree to go, as well as the King's men, and some men of the Watch, making a host of around 42,000, all led by Jon. With him in high war positions came Tormund Giantsbane, Grenn, and Sigorn of Thenn. 
Their host would find Stannis's host smashed in an ambush by Ramsey at the Last River, with Ramsey having already imprisoned Ser Davos Seaworth and Prince Rickon Stark, and about to kill Stannis. Jon would set his forces on them from a high hill, demolishing the smaller Bolton force. In a desperate attempt to save his life, Ramsey would take Rickon hostage, but both Rickon and Jon would warg into their direwolves, tearing Ramsey to pieces and ending the Bolton line. Jon would then swear fealty to Stannis and they would set off for Winterfell, which at this point has fallen under Theon Greyjoy's leadership, submitting to the much larger host from the Vale, led by Lord Petyr Baelish and Lady Sansa Stark, who has been declared rightful Lady of Winterfell by Littlefinger. 
The two parties treat with each other, and Jon reunites with Sansa, although he is very much cold and stern, leaving her disturbed by his change, and that stories of his death and resurrection have now spread. Stannis and Jon successfully convince Sansa, not Littlefinger, to submit for now, to deal with the White Walker threat. Although dismayed, Sansa stands against Littlefinger, outweighing his voice. Jon nearly kills Theon afterwards for his betrayal, but is stopped by both Stannis and Sansa. 
Once back within Winterfell, Jon announces his intent to wed Val after they deal with the coming threat, but this is when she reveals that she is pregnant with his child already. Jon goes to the Crypts, where he finds Howland Reed. He reveals to Jon that he is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, and that his name is Daeron Targaryen. Bran then reveals that Rhaegar wedded Lyanna on the Isle of Faces in the God's Eye, taking her as his second wife, hoping to fulfill the prophecy of Ice and Fire, made by Aegon the Conqueror, making him the true heir to the Iron Throne. Shocked, Jon does nothing for the time being, trying to grasp the idea of his heritage. Stannis then declares that Jon will go south to King's Landing with Davos, Grenn, Tormund, and Asha Greyjoy, but Littlefinger joins as well. As they prepare to leave, a horn is heard all throughout the Realm, and a great shaking. Jon and the Wildlings realize that the Horn of Winter has been blown, and the Wall no longer stands. 
=== A Song of Ice and Fire: Season 6 ===