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.)