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  1. Frosted_King85 on Chapter 3 Wed 22 Oct 2025 01:40AM UTC

    Arisen

    I don't understand the point of the fic so far.

    Just Catelyn being needlessly antagonistic to Jon, and then setting Robb up for failure as a future lord of Winterfell.

    Kicked Jon out the family wing?

    She refused to wed beneath a weirwood now?

    Replaced the servants of Winterfell with Riverlanders?

    It just feels like the author is stacking unrealistic flaws against her here.

    Canon Catelyn was nowhere near this inept, this reads more like Cersei than anything.

    Do you but it jars to read.

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    1. Specter_Scriptus on Chapter 3 Thu 23 Oct 2025 10:24PM UTC

      Catelyn's reasons for everything she's done are very nuanced. She's a very complex character, I don't think she's either good or bad, and I plan to explore that. At this point, all her actions are being filtered through Jon's perspective and he's a very unreliable narrator. This isn't a bashing story. If your interested in sticking around, I do plan to delve into Catelyn's perspective later in the story, but no pressure. Thanks for reading and I'm always open to constructive criticism <3

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      1. hypnos45 on Chapter 3 Fri 24 Oct 2025 04:27PM UTC

        Although I believe it is the author's privilege to adapt and change the facts and characters to fit the story they want to tell, I advise you to be careful with changes you do because can give the wrong perception of what you want to show. I have to agree that Catelyn is overstepping the boundaries that she didn't do in canon where the most terrible thing that is narrated is that she harshly judges Jon and wishes he would leave, getting her wish when he departs to the wall. If you want to add what is told in the TV series that she prayed to her gods to remove the bastard and he ended up getting sick with pox. I do not criticize you or accuse you of bashing, I give you the benefit of the doubt because what you promise for Robb and Jon when they grow up encourages me to read and wait for more chapters.

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