It's Game of Thrones fan theory time again, lads. Brace yourselves, this one is a humdinger.
Also, as always, if you haven't seen the second episode of Game of Thrones season six, please do not read any further. There are spoilers and I'm not going to apologise for ruining it for anybody in the comments section when inevitably some idiot who hasn't seen it reads this article and gets upset - EVEN THOUGH WE WARNED YOU.
Right, onwards...
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Tyrion Lannister is everybody's favourite Lannister - he's neither a terrible father or an incestuous twin, just a little man with a big brain and an even bigger mouth. And now he's attempting to team up with everybody's favourite Targaryen, Daenarys, to save Westeros once and for all.
In the second episode of the season, called 'Home', Tyrion finally got to fulfill a lifelong dream and meet a dragon. And because he wasn't eaten during the encounter, it's got GoT fans very excited that he is actually a Targaryen. Don't go just yet, it's possible.
In the books, and if you're a keen listener in the TV series, you'll remember that Tyrion's father Tywin was once hand to the last Targaryen to sit on the Iron Throne, the Mad King Aerys. The Mad King is Daenarys' father and was also killed by Jaime Lannister during Robert Baratheon's rebellion.
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One of the reason's the Baratheon rebellion was so successful was because Tywin, despite being hand of the king, didn't like Aerys too much. Aerys was well known to fancy Twyin's wife Joanna and, according to Westeros folklore, 'took liberties' with her on his wedding night.
A conversation between Daenarys and Ser Barristan Selmy in 'A Dance With Dragons' reads:
Daenarys - "Was there some woman [Aerys] loved better than his queen?"
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Ser Barristan - "Not... not loved. Mayhaps wanted is a better word. Prince Aerys, as a youth, he was taken with [Joanna}. When she and Tywin wed, your father drank too much wine at the wedding feast and was heard to say that it was a great pity that the lord's right to the first night had been abolished. A drunk jape, no more, but Tywin Lannister was not a man to forget such words, or the... the liberties your father took during the bedding."
It's safe to assume that Aerys either had an affair or raped Joanna Lannister at some point following Tywin's wedding to Joanna. Going back to year 6 sex education, what happens when two people have sex? It's possible they make babies. What if Tyrion is the baby Aerys and Joanna made?
It makes sense. Tywin hates Tyrion. Like, seriously hates him. His wife died giving birth to him. The last thing Tywin said to Tyrion before he died was, "You're no son of mine." That's hate if I ever saw it.
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And it would make sense that Tywin hates someone who is not only 'responsible' for his wife's death but a constant reminder of what happened to Joanna at the hands of the Mad King Aerys he despised so much. He'd have been forced to look after a 'deformed' child that wasn't his own so his now-deceased wife's son was not murdered by the newly crowned King Robert who was bloodthirsty for any and every Targaryen.
As if that wasn't enough, Tyrion's hair is also described in the books as 'so blond it seemed white' which is more in line with the hair of the Targaryens (silver-blond) than the Lannisters (golden hair). As we know, hair colour is greatly emphasised in Westeros. Remember when Ned Stark realised there was no way Joffrey was the son of Robert and Cersei because every Baratheon boy ever had been born with brown hair? Exactly.
But that's not all folks, this theory has some serious back up. Tyrion has one green eye and one black eye which would indicate his mixed bloodlines. He's also dreamed about dragons ever since he was a young boy, hardly ordinary for someone from a family that hates the Targaryens.
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If you're still not convinced, there's just one more little bit of 'evidence' that should make this theory relatively bulletproof.
So you know that theory about Jon Snow and Daenarys both being Targaryens and eventually they'll get together like the Targaryens of old used to, all incestuous and that?
Well, the Westerosi prophecy about the return of the Targaryens is about the 'three heads of the dragon'. Tyrion is that third head of the dragon.
Theory + theory = fact.
Words by George Pavlou
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