Cat and Ned are basically my favorites ever. She is so competent and he is so incompetent and grumpy and they both respect each other so much; they are basically the prototype of my OTP (plus the whole "arranged marriage where love eventually develops" trope is SUCH a button of mine when it's done well, UGHHHH I CAN'T EVEN). My roommate read it and was like "yeah, within a few chapters of them interacting I was not at all shocked that they were your favorites". There's a part where she basically just tells him not to worry his pretty little head b/c she'll do the thinking for both of them *_____*

The kids didn't do much for me at first but once shit started happening and they had plot-related stuff to do I liked them all a lot better. Also oh my fucking God I hate Jon so much. I hated him slightly less when shit got real and he had plot-related stuff to do, but I still hated him.

The thing with Jon is yes, he's totally a dick sometimes, but people call him on it and he actually changes his behaviour, and that's a massive narrative kink of mine.

This is true! I did like that quite a bit. TBF I pretty much never care much about dude characters at all, especially when they're as full of angst as he is. Mostly I just want more of all the ladies, plus Ned being a grumpy and hating his life and trying REALLY REALLY HARD and failing horribly, because when I do care about dudes they generally have arcs involving women I love at least as much if not more, and &NED/CAT;

(My roommate, inlovewithnight, says I need to write her Ned/Cat bookverse PWP, after I started talking about how you know their favorite bedroom game is, like, black brother taken prisoner by sexy wildling queen.)