re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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I was always confused about the ToJ details as well. He was outraged and disgusted at what Tywin and the Mountain did to Elia and her children. He didn't talk to Robert for quite some time when Robert had told Ned that he supported what Tywin did. That's what I never understood why the Kingsguard wanted to fight Ned to the death; Ned would never harm babies and children, especially his own nephew. Or did the Kingsguard know that they would basically rather die than serve Robert the Usurper??

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Here is how I think of it: we know that Robert felt until his dying day that Lyanna was stolen and raped by Rhaegar. Why are we assuming that Ned did not feel this way forever? It seems to me that if Robert and Ned were buddies and fought all through the war together, Ned possibly thought the same as Robert about what happened to Lyanna. So when he gets to the ToJ, the Kingsguard are opposing him because they want to protect the king's blood, but Ned wants to get his sister who was wrongfully taken and raped. It wasn't until he sees her and she tells him to promise her that he will take her child who was born of love and not rape, and to not tell Robert the truth of his parentage because she knows how Robert will feel about it, that he changed his mind about the situation.