Yeah, well, Theon is obviously morally reprehensible for killing children in the first place. I agree with you that that's never okay. (I think it would obvious that any sane person who agree with that but...you never know. It's the internet.) The truth is that Theon is an incredibly moral swkewed person from the get go. You see that from his first point of view chapter, with the way he treats his "salt-wife", Theon has a tendency to forget other people are actually people.
I admit that I always took it for granted that Theon wouldn't have killed Bran and Rickon because he says in his private thoughts he wouldn't have, which is perhaps really silly of me. Theon is an unreliable narrator and is already proven to be delusional (two traits he shares with some of the Starks, actually), so he might have killed them. But I always thought that moment was meant to show two things. One, that Theon did have his limits and two, the weird class logic of the time. To Theon it isn't wrong to kill the peasants, despite the fact that they were innocent, but killing Bran and Rickon, who had defied him, was wrong somehow and I always thought his familiarity with them was a big part (because people are only people to Theon when you knock him over the head with it) but also the idea that low-born people just don't mean anything to most nobles.
I always found it interesting how unforgivable the fandom (not you specifically, fandom in general) finds Theon for this act, since two fandom darlings have similar pedigrees, Jaime attempting to kill Bran by throwing his out of a window and Sandor actually murdering the poor butcher's boy, Mycah.
Anyyywaaay. I'm going to stop taking up your sorting application with my Theon obsession now.
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Re: Tyrell
Date: 2009-11-17 02:18 pm (UTC)I admit that I always took it for granted that Theon wouldn't have killed Bran and Rickon because he says in his private thoughts he wouldn't have, which is perhaps really silly of me. Theon is an unreliable narrator and is already proven to be delusional (two traits he shares with some of the Starks, actually), so he might have killed them. But I always thought that moment was meant to show two things. One, that Theon did have his limits and two, the weird class logic of the time. To Theon it isn't wrong to kill the peasants, despite the fact that they were innocent, but killing Bran and Rickon, who had defied him, was wrong somehow and I always thought his familiarity with them was a big part (because people are only people to Theon when you knock him over the head with it) but also the idea that low-born people just don't mean anything to most nobles.
I always found it interesting how unforgivable the fandom (not you specifically, fandom in general) finds Theon for this act, since two fandom darlings have similar pedigrees, Jaime attempting to kill Bran by throwing his out of a window and Sandor actually murdering the poor butcher's boy, Mycah.
Anyyywaaay. I'm going to stop taking up your sorting application with my Theon obsession now.