Jon Stark (The Lion and the Dragon)

## Jon Stark

**Jon Stark** is a member of House Stark and the second son of Eddard Stark and Morya Frey. Jon has three brothers; Robb, Bran and Rickon; and two younger sisters; Sansa and Arya.

## Appearance and Character

Unlike his siblings, Jon shared the appearance of his Frey mother rather than his Stark father. His face was thin with a weak chin and a weaselly appearance. He had muddy brown hair and grey eyes, the latter much like his grandsire's, Walder Frey. He was quite short and weak, his cousin Branda was taller than him.

Jon is a timid boy who's own uncle Benjen Stark claimed was "afraid of his own shadow". Despite the best efforts of his father, uncle, and both Winterfell's Maester Luwin and master-at-arms Ser Rodrik Cassel, Jon grew up with few skills. He wasn't particularly bright and didn't like to hold a sword. He often lied but fooled few, and his one skill seemed to be hiding from danger or punishment.

Jon liked few of his Stark relatives, believing the honour his father Ned instilled in his siblings to be a weakness. Instead he mostly spent his time with his mother, a Frey, and once said when he came of age he would quarter his Stark sigil with the Twins of the Frey's. He spent more time with his half-granduncle, Whalen Frey, who was ward to his father than he did most of his own siblings.

Unknown to anyone else in Winterfell, Jon was a homosexual. He had developed a deep crush on the captain of the household guard in Winterfell, Jory Cassel.

## History

### Early life

Jon Stark was born in 285 AC to Eddard Stark and Morya Frey, he was born in Winterfell with Maester Luwin assisting his mother with the birth. Throughout his youth attempts were made to tutor Jon both in swordsmanship and a more general noble education, though he took to neither.

Despite his father showing him and his siblings the same love and affection, Jon came to resent his own Stark family. He grew jealous of the great importance placed on his older brother Robb's shoulders, though he himself wished to bear few responsibilities. He took to spending most of his time with his mother and half-granduncle, Olyvar Frey - the squire of Jon's father. Despite even the encouragement of his Frey relatives Jon took to shirking any noble obligation, often hiding in the ruins of Winterfell to avoid Maester Luwin or Ser Rodrik Cassel.

In 290 AC Jon's mother almost died during the birth of his youngest sibling, Rickon Stark. Though both she and the child lived, Morya was left bed-bound for almost a year and never fully recovered from the traumatic birth, rarely leaving the confines of the Great Keep of Winterfell. Seeing his mother in such a state traumatised Jon and he developed a deep-rooted hatred of his younger brother, blaming Rickon for his mothers condition.

### Beginning of the downfall

In early 299 AC Jon's mother , Morya, had taken a bad turn. Suffering from the chill she died not too long after her condition started to worsen, with her family at her bedside, all except Jon who hid himself away in the ruins of Winterfell. The event traumatised Jon who, having already never felt at home in Winterfell, turned fully against his Stark family afterwards.

Soon after the death of Jon's mother, his aunt Lady Lyanna Stark returned to Winterfell from Storm's End. With her came an entourage including among its number some Stormlander knights and their squires. Jon and one such squire took to one another and were later discovered by Jon's brother Bran Stark having sex in the First Keep. Out of desperation and shock Jon pushed his own brother from the tower, hoping to keep his secret from getting out. After convincing the squire to not tell anyone, he pushed the boy down the steps of the First Keep, causing him to break his neck and die immediately.