Sickly Mockingbird – A Song of Ice and Fire Theory

"The seed is strong." Did Jon Arryn's last words really mean what Ned thought they did? How far back does Littlefinger's manipulation go? Is Sweetrobin really who we think he is?

This video contains spoilers up to and including Season 4 of Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords (Book 3). It also contains hot memes. Don't burn your tongue.

[sadiomayonnaise]

Pycelle misheard Jon Arryn. What he really said is "the WEED is strong". Which of course refers to Jon's blazer 420 lifestyle

[PineappleLiar]

This does make the Alayne story kinda a fun ironic twist of itself! Sweet Robin wants to marry Alayne, but Alayne tells him that it isn’t proper for a noble like him to marry a bastard. If Sweet Robin is Littlefinger’s son, then that statement becomes true, but in the opposite direction. Alayne, who is the actual noble Sansa posing as Littlefinger’s daughter, couldn’t marry the bastard Sweet Robin, who is actually Lysa and Littlefinger’s bastard son.

[Methuslah]

Maybe when Jon Arryn said the seed is Strong, maybe he really really wanted to tell Robert about the Dance of the Dragons, and how Jacaerys, Lucerys, and Joffrey Velaryon were actually the sons of Harwin Strong. It makes sense, since he was studying genealogy and bastards, hmm?

Or what you said. That works too.

[nathanglover]

"Jon could no more give me pleasure, than he could give me children" - Lysa Tully
"So that means that he must have given her NO childeren" - Glidus
"OR it means he gave her precisely ONE PLEASURE" - Me, an intellectual

[HariKrishnan-kxis]

If this is true then Littlefinger is poisoning his own son to take power in the Vale. Poor Sweet Robin is just another rung on the laddah.

[renaigh]

Lysa's obsession with protecting Robin makes more sense if she sees him as a little Petyr.

[budgie]

The first time I read the books I thought this immediately. I have never seen anyone agree with me enough to make a YouTube vid about it though. You the real mvp

[oxtheunlikelycontemplator]

Completely on board with Sweet Robin being Littlefinger's but I don't know if but into Lysa giving herself Tansy Tea or Moon Tea as her miscarriages are heavily implied to be part of what's driven her crazy and indeed her very first one was also heavily applied to be traumatizing for her.

[evilmerv]

The way Petyr’s eyes just darted across the screen was magical

[Emperorofthemoon]

This also explains the weird little controversy over where Robert was to be fostered, with Lannisters or with Stannis on Dragonstone. Just before the trial by combat at the Eyrie in AGOT, a septon or a Maester tells Catelyn that Robert was to be fostered with Stannis on Dragonstone, the very same Stannis who accompanied Jon Arryn on his little genetics field study with Robert’s Bastards. They were likely preparing for a major case against both Lysa and Cersei for having had Bastards/committing adultery and needed Robert “Arryn” safely away from Lysa and Littlefinger

[WorthlessWinner]

6:40 although most traits are carried by a large number of genes of small effect, so resemblance within a family is low.... facial features are controlled by just a few genes of strong effect, so "the seed is strong" for them. It's hypothesized that one purpose of human facial variability is to help us recognize kin, so this genetic architecture may have evolved to allow us to do that. One of the 2018 Fisher memorial lectures, available on youtube, goes into it.

[patricknez]

Yo. I'm 100% sold on Sweet Rob being Littlefinger's twisted, stunted spawn. Makes perfect sense!

[kevinmoore]

Shrewd and hilarious - kind of a crossbreeding of Preston, Alt-Schwift and John Oliver, but with its own style as well. Keep 'em coming!

[kenthehobo]

Came for the season 8 pisstakes, stay for the ASOIAF theory videos! Keep up the good work m8!

[redjirachi]

"Incest helps us deal with our father's neglect"
lol

[Jfieldsend]

Would actually make a lot of sense, also explains why Littlefinger has John poisoned seemingly randomly, he surely wouldn't care that Jon was on to the Lannisters.

[cheangizzz]

Damn I can't believe both king Robert and his hand were cucked

[Ayoayoayoayoayoayoa]

Jon was trying to say Sneed’s seed and feed is going strong. He had been watching the simpsons…

[JoshuaKevinPerry]

"You see, copulation is a ladder."

[Flange]

I wanted the show to end with an after credit scene of Sweet Robin running through the throne room in the Vale and trip and fall through the moon door to his death.