Player & Character Information
Player: Mi
Contact: derpturk@gmail.com, PM, aokigahara @ Plurk
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Character Information
character name: Jon Snow
Fandom: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Timeline: Post S1.
character's age: 17
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
Jon is an expert swordsman, trained by the master of arms at Winterfell. He sometimes uses hand-to-hand combat in combination. His sword is called Longclaw, made from famous Valyrian steel with a white wolf pommel. It is, ironically enough, a bastard sword.
Speaking of white wolves, Jon will also be arriving with his albino direwolf, Ghost. Direwolves are larger and stronger than normal wolves. In addition, Ghost is quiet and intelligent. He's almost always at Jon's side.
For a non-canon* power, Jon will be able to enter Ghost's mind when they're apart, and see what he sees. This will start in a dream-like way, when Jon is asleep and eventually he'll become aware of and able to do it at will. Should Jon be killed, it's possible for his consciousness to enter Ghost's body, unless his death is Mist-related, at which point he's just...dead.
He will also, gradually, gain the power of cryokinesis - cold and ice manipulation. Winter really is coming.
*In the books, this is the warg bond that Jon and Ghost have. However, he doesn't display it from the point I'm taking him from, so I'm saying that the Mist gave it a little jump-start.
canon history:
"So I'll only ask you once, Lord Snow. Are you a Brother of the Night's Watch? Or a bastard boy who wants to play at war?"
In Winterfell, he was known as the bastard son of Eddard Stark, brought home from war. Like all such children in the north, that gave him the surname "Snow". He grew up alongside his five brothers and sisters, but if he ever forgot his place, the gaze of Catelyn Stark was enough to remind him of who he really was - the bastard.
When a rare dead direwolf was found South of the Wall, Jon spoke up for the orphaned pups, stating that the direwolf was the sigil of the House. There were five pups and five trueborn Stark children. They were meant to have them. Apparently, Jon was meant to have the albino runt, discovered moments later.
When King Robert arrived at Winterfell to ask his father to become the Hand, Catelyn worried that the royal family might be insulted at the sight of the bastard. As such, he was excluded from the feast. At that point, he was more than ready to go to the Wall with his uncle Benjen and join the Night's Watch.
However, he quickly finds himself disillusioned with what he'd believed were a noble, elite group of rangers. What Jon finds instead are rapists, thieves, and other undesirables. To many of them, his life at Winterfell was an enviable position. And his superior fighting skills earned him more resentment than respect.
It was only after Tyrion put the idea of actually helping to train his fellow recruits that he starts to make friends, including Samwell Tarly, an overweight and timid young man. After "taking the black", Jon was surprised and offended to find himself assigned to the stewards instead of the rangers. However he is requested by the Lord Commander as a personal steward, which suggests he's being groomed for command.
His place within the Night's Watch is jeopardized when he attacks Alliser Thorne for taunting him with the news that his father has been branded a traitor in King's Landing. He's confined to quarters, but is later pardoned when he saves the Lord Commander from a wight. The older man also gives Jon his sword of Valyrian steel, passed down to him from his father.
When Jon finds out that his brother Robb is going to war, he starts to question where he should really be - with the Night's Watch or at his brother's side. When he hears that his father has been executed, Jon risks execution himself by deserting in the middle of the night. Samwell and his friends chase him down, reminding Jon of his oath and his new family, ultimately convincing him to return. A very different sort of war was approaching the Wall, and winter is coming.
personality:
Serious and brooding seem to be Jon's default setting. Much of this can be attributed to the fact that he is a bastard, raised alongside his brothers and sisters but never really one of them. Despite that fact, Jon appeared to have a good relationship with his half-brothers and sisters, as well as his father, and had advantages that most bastards aren't fortunate enough to have.
However he will laugh at the punchline of a joke, or take part in horseplay even if he doesn't initiate it. Jon maybe be a little more somber than the average person, but he's not unfriendly. Once it was subtly pointed out that his fellow recruits at Castle Black had probably never held a sword, Jon began training the few that would accept and also shows promise as a leader. He also takes pity on Samwell Tarly and protects him, forging a strong friendship between the two.
Jon struggles with his pride at times. His uncle Benjen had to remind him that his superior fighting skills meant nothing. Everything had to be earned. When he's later assigned to the stewards instead of the rangers, this flares up again. It takes his friends to point out that it's an opportunity rather than a punishment, and also to put him back in his place. There are also moments when his anger can get the best of him, as when he almost took a knife to Thorne for calling him a traitor's bastard.
Even if he's a bastard, Jon has a strong sense of honor. He's no coward, is protective of his Night Watch brothers, and even before taken the required vow of celibacy, Jon had already taken a personal one for fear of another child growing up as he did. Even so, he sometimes struggles with the hard decisions and what exactly counts as "honorable" when things aren't always black and white. (Or in the north, white and whiter.)