This actually plays into one of the things I find most fascinating about Theon. He agrees with you, his one moral stopping point is killing Bran and Rickon. He would have abused them, maybe, but never killed them because killing people you grew up with seems wrong to him. Yet, in the same thought he sees nothing wrong with killing peasant children who were completely innocent. It's a really awesome moral dilemma, in my opinion.
I always thought that by the time he'd spent hours tracking them in the forest, he would have killed them if he'd have found them, simply because he was so pissed off with them doing a runner on him, and that he didn't want to look weak in front of his men.
As to him thinking its wrong to kill children he'd grown up with, but okay to kill children who were completely innocent, yes, you're right it is an awesome moral dilemma. However, I also think it goes to show what a nasty piece of work Theon is and how very un-Stark-ish he is despite living as Ned's ward for all of those years.
I should have rephrased my statement about his treatment of Bran and Rickon. In my opinion, the idea that it's never acceptable to kill a child shouldn't just apply to Bran and Rickon (because he grew up with them), he shouldn't kill children AT ALL. There's no honour in killing the innocent. And besides, by justifying the killing of peasant children, that's like Theon saying the lives of the peasant children are less important because (a) they're peasants (b) he didn't grow up with them. Which, in effect, I guess he is saying.
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Re: Tyrell
Date: 2009-11-17 09:18 am (UTC)I always thought that by the time he'd spent hours tracking them in the forest, he would have killed them if he'd have found them, simply because he was so pissed off with them doing a runner on him, and that he didn't want to look weak in front of his men.
As to him thinking its wrong to kill children he'd grown up with, but okay to kill children who were completely innocent, yes, you're right it is an awesome moral dilemma. However, I also think it goes to show what a nasty piece of work Theon is and how very un-Stark-ish he is despite living as Ned's ward for all of those years.
I should have rephrased my statement about his treatment of Bran and Rickon. In my opinion, the idea that it's never acceptable to kill a child shouldn't just apply to Bran and Rickon (because he grew up with them), he shouldn't kill children AT ALL. There's no honour in killing the innocent.
And besides, by justifying the killing of peasant children, that's like Theon saying the lives of the peasant children are less important because (a) they're peasants (b) he didn't grow up with them. Which, in effect, I guess he is saying.