Satin Flowers! Satin+Jon=True?

[norwaywolf123]

Currently re-reading AsoS, and GRRM goes into a lot of detail describing the Night's Watch's new steward, Satin. Satin helps Jon out in the battle against the wildlings, manages to actually hit a couple, pisses his breeches, supports Jon and generally does a good job.

 

With him later becoming Jon's personal squire it seems like Satin is headed places. My only question is about his past. So he's described as pretty and having been born in a brothel in Oldtown. Was he actually a whore or did her just live there? Did he service male and female clients? The rest of the watch seems to treat him the same way Victarion and his crew treated the perfumed boys. What's Satin's deal?

 

1. “the Oldtown boy wandered restlessly around the parapets, fussing with the clothes on straw men. Maybe he thinks they will fight better if they’re posed just right. Or maybe this waiting is fraying his nerves the way it’s fraying mine.
The boy claimed to be eighteen, older than Jon, but he was green as summer grass for all that. Satin, they called him, even in the wool and mail and boiled leather of the Night’s Watch; the name he’d gotten in the brothel where he’d been born and raised. He was pretty as a girl with his dark eyes, soft skin, and raven’s ringlets. Half a year at Castle Black had toughened up his hands, however, and Noye said he was passable with a crossbow. Whether he had the courage to face what was coming, though …” (p688, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW HIS HANDS FEEL JON? HOW DO YOU KNOW? And how do you know that the rest of his skin is soft? I mean, it’s enough that you think he’s “pretty as a girl” but I really just want to know how you know this.

2. ““It’s cold.” Satin stood with his hands tucked into his armpits under his cloak. His cheeks were bright red.
Jon made himself smile. “The Frostfangs are cold. This is a brisk autumn day.”
“I hope I never see the Frostfangs then. I knew a girl in Oldtown who liked to ice her wine. That’s the best place for ice, I think. In wine.” Satin glanced south, frowned. “You think the scarecrow sentinels scared them off, my lord?”
“We can hope.” It was possible, Jon supposed … but more likely the wildlings had simply paused for a bit of rape and plunder in Mole’s Town” (p691, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

Jon makes himself smile to reassure Satin and he doesn’t disparage his fairly irrelevant comments or crush his optimism. It’s kind of adorable.


3. “Satin was loosing quarrels at the wildlings on the steps, then ducking down behind a merlon to cock the crossbow. He may be pretty, but he’s quick.” (p697, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ADMIRING SATIN’S PRETTY FACE, JON. Also, you are clearly growing to respect the fact that he is more than that face. I approve.


4. “Jon asked Satin to help him down to the yard. His wounded leg hurt so badly that he could hardly walk, even with the crutch … they climbed down past the bodies of the men who’d tried the trapdoor, and Jon wandered through the dark with his crutch under one arm, and the other around the shoulders of a boy who’d been a whore in Oldtown.” (p699, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

What an apt time to remember that the boy you’re clinging to used to be a whore. Except probably not. Except that you’re clearly just trying to make sense of your attraction to him, am I right, Jon? 


5. “When the count was done, Jon found himself surrounded. Some clapped him on the back, whilst others bent the knee to him as if he were a lord in truth. Satin, Owen the Oaf, Halder, Toad, Spare Boot, Giant, Mully, Ulmer of the Kingswood, Sweet Donnel Hill, and half a hundred more pressed around him.” (p1001, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

He’s just been made Lord Commander. Satin, along with everyone else who’s remotely decent, runs to congratulate him, and Satin is the first one Jon Snow notices. What does that tell us, kids?

6. ““It was the priestess we were laughing at,” said Satin, a lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown. “We were only having a jape, my lord.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p140)

For all that Jon disapproves of the jape, he definitely DOES approve of the ‘lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown’ or he wouldn’t keep bringing up his looks.


7. ““Night gathers, and now my watch begins,” they said, as thousands had said before them. Satin’s voice was sweet as song, Horse’s hoarse and halting, Arron’s a nervous squeak. “It shall not end until my death.” … He could smell Horse’s unwashed breeches, the sweet scent Satin combed into his beard, the rank sharp smell of fear, the giant’s overpowering musk. He could hear the beating of his own heart.” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p414)

Sweet as a sonnnng. Especially compared to everyone else who’s there to take their vows. Satin also smells better than them, too, and it makes Jon SUDDENLY AWARE OF HIS HEARTBEAT. (Okay, that may also be because he is warging a little bit but stiiill, he smells Satin’s beard and he approves of its “sweet scent”.)


8. “Septon Cellador spoke up. “This boy Satin. It’s said you mean to make him your steward and squire, in Tollett’s place. My lord, the boy’s a whore … a … dare I say … a painted catamite from the brothels of Old-town.”
And you are a drunk. “What he was in Oldtown is none of our concern. He’s quick to learn and very clever. The other recruits started out despising him, but he won them over and made friends of them all. He’s fearless in a fight and can even read and write after a fashion. He should be capable of fetching me my meals and saddling my horse, don’t you think?”
“Most like,” said Bowen Marsh, stony-faced, “but the men do not like it. Traditionally the lord commander’s squires are lads of good birth being groomed for command. Does my lord believe the men of the Night’s Watch would ever follow a whore into battle?”
Jon’s temper flashed. “They have followed worse. The Old Bear left a few cautionary notes about certain of the men, for his successor. We have a cook at the Shadow Tower who was fond of raping septas. He burned a seven-pointed star into his flesh for every one he claimed. His left arm is stars from wrist to elbow, and stars mark his calves as well. At Eastwatch we have a man who set his father’s house afire and barred the door. His entire family burned to death, all nine. Whatever Satin may have done in Oldtown, he is our brother now, and he will be my squire.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p456)

Dear Septon Cellador, I share your interest in exactly what kind of clientelle Satin serviced but I mislike your tone. As does Jon. Drunk. But, yeah, JON DEFENDS SATIN’S HONOR AND HE WANTS HIM IN HIS SLEEPING QUARTERS AS HIS PERSONAL STEWARD. Also, Satin clearly reminds Jon of himself insofar as no-one in the Night’s Watch liked Jon at first, either. Jon wants to ~groom him for command.


9. ““Satin, show Her Grace to her place,” said Jon.
Ser Malegorn stepped forward. “I will escort Her Grace to the feast. We shall not require your … steward.” The way the man drew out the last word told Jon that he had been considering saying something else. Boy? Pet? Whore?
Jon bowed again. “As you wish. I shall join you shortly.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p567)

WHICH IS HE, JON? WHICH IS HE? I mean, *cough* everyone clearly still thinks there’s something going on with you two and you don’t even deny it.

10. “Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady. Jon judged that wise. He did not like the way some of the queen’s knights were looking at the steward, particularly Ser Patrek of King’s Mountain. That one wants to shed a bit of blood, he thought. He is looking for some provocation.” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p571)

[norwaywolf123]

 

[Daendrew]

2 hours ago, norwaywolf123 said:

3. “Satin was loosing quarrels at the wildlings on the steps, then ducking down behind a merlon to cock the crossbow. He may be pretty, but he’s quick.” (p697, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ADMIRING SATIN’S PRETTY FACE, JON. Also, you are clearly growing to respect the fact that he is more than that face. I approve.

He "cocked" the crossbow 

[WilliamWesterosiWallace]

I'll humour you, sure. Why not? My answers in your quote will be bolded.

1 hour ago, norwaywolf123 said:

Currently re-reading AsoS, and GRRM goes into a lot of detail describing the Night's Watch's new steward, Satin. Satin helps Jon out in the battle against the wildlings, manages to actually hit a couple, pisses his breeches, supports Jon and generally does a good job.

 

With him later becoming Jon's personal squire it seems like Satin is headed places. My only question is about his past. So he's described as pretty and having been born in a brothel in Oldtown. Was he actually a whore or did her just live there? Did he service male and female clients? Do women in this period in time go to brothels? And if so, to bed a man that looks like a woman? The rest of the watch seems to treat him the same way Victarion and his crew treated the perfumed boys. What's Satin's deal?

 

1. “the Oldtown boy wandered restlessly around the parapets, fussing with the clothes on straw men. Maybe he thinks they will fight better if they’re posed just right. Or maybe this waiting is fraying his nerves the way it’s fraying mine.
The boy claimed to be eighteen, older than Jon, but he was green as summer grass for all that. Satin, they called him, even in the wool and mail and boiled leather of the Night’s Watch; the name he’d gotten in the brothel where he’d been born and raised. He was pretty as a girl with his dark eyes, soft skin, and raven’s ringlets. Half a year at Castle Black had toughened up his hands, however, and Noye said he was passable with a crossbow. Whether he had the courage to face what was coming, though …” (p688, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW HIS HANDS FEEL JON? HOW DO YOU KNOW? And how do you know that the rest of his skin is soft? I mean, it’s enough that you think he’s “pretty as a girl” but I really just want to know how you know this.  Jon also came to the Wall a green boy, albeit with harder skin, we can imagine, from all the training. Satin was a whore in an Oldtown brothel; do you think he has leather for skin?

2. ““It’s cold.” Satin stood with his hands tucked into his armpits under his cloak. His cheeks were bright red.
Jon made himself smile. “The Frostfangs are cold. This is a brisk autumn day.”
“I hope I never see the Frostfangs then. I knew a girl in Oldtown who liked to ice her wine. That’s the best place for ice, I think. In wine.” Satin glanced south, frowned. “You think the scarecrow sentinels scared them off, my lord?”
“We can hope.” It was possible, Jon supposed … but more likely the wildlings had simply paused for a bit of rape and plunder in Mole’s Town” (p691, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

Jon makes himself smile to reassure Satin and he doesn’t disparage his fairly irrelevant comments or crush his optimism. It’s kind of adorable.
"We'll all probably die in a few hours. Let me wisely spend my last minutes on Earth arguing with the whore from Oldtown that thinks this is cold."

3. “Satin was loosing quarrels at the wildlings on the steps, then ducking down behind a merlon to cock the crossbow. He may be pretty, but he’s quick.” (p697, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ADMIRING SATIN’S PRETTY FACE, JON. Also, you are clearly growing to respect the fact that he is more than that face. I approve.

Jon described him as pretty, the same way he described Dareon as 'handsome' (if I'm not mistaken, it was Jon). Jon also described Sam as fat, and Grenn as shaggy, and Pyp as skinny. Jon is our eyes. If GRRM wants us to know the boy is supposed to be "pretty", Jon is the one who will tell us. 


4. “Jon asked Satin to help him down to the yard. His wounded leg hurt so badly that he could hardly walk, even with the crutch … they climbed down past the bodies of the men who’d tried the trapdoor, and Jon wandered through the dark with his crutch under one arm, and the other around the shoulders of a boy who’d been a whore in Oldtown.” (p699, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

What an apt time to remember that the boy you’re clinging to used to be a whore. Except probably not. Except that you’re clearly just trying to make sense of your attraction to him, am I right, Jon? 

Jon always refers to Sam as his 'fat friend', or his 'fingers fat as sausages'. Does Jon have a crush on Sam too? 
5. “When the count was done, Jon found himself surrounded. Some clapped him on the back, whilst others bent the knee to him as if he were a lord in truth. Satin, Owen the Oaf, Halder, Toad, Spare Boot, Giant, Mully, Ulmer of the Kingswood, Sweet Donnel Hill, and half a hundred more pressed around him.” (p1001, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

He’s just been made Lord Commander. Satin, along with everyone else who’s remotely decent, runs to congratulate him, and Satin is the first one Jon Snow notices. What does that tell us, kids?

It tells us that Jon saw Satin first, probably because Satin was seated close to the people who supported Jon from the beggining. Jon sees Satin, Owen, Halder, Toad, Spare Boot, Giant, Mully, Ulmer, Donnel, all in a glance. Or do you think Jon's world stopped spinning so he could give the first look as Lord Commander to Satin?

6. ““It was the priestess we were laughing at,” said Satin, a lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown. “We were only having a jape, my lord.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p140)

For all that Jon disapproves of the jape, he definitely DOES approve of the ‘lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown’ or he wouldn’t keep bringing up his looks.

The last time we heard about Satin was about 13 years ago, in A Storm of Swords. Half the audience forgot who he is, and the other half forgot why he is there. This is Satin's first appearence in ADWD, or one of the first ones, I'll wager. Seems like it's a writing technique for the audience to remember who the f**k is this Satin kid, and why his name is Satin. 

7. ““Night gathers, and now my watch begins,” they said, as thousands had said before them. Satin’s voice was sweet as song, Horse’s hoarse and halting, Arron’s a nervous squeak. “It shall not end until my death.” … He could smell Horse’s unwashed breeches, the sweet scent Satin combed into his beard, the rank sharp smell of fear, the giant’s overpowering musk. He could hear the beating of his own heart.” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p414)

Sweet as a sonnnng. Especially compared to everyone else who’s there to take their vows. Satin also smells better than them, too, and it makes Jon SUDDENLY AWARE OF HIS HEARTBEAT. (Okay, that may also be because he is warging a little bit but stiiill, he smells Satin’s beard and he approves of its “sweet scent”.)
Maester Aemon wanted to have sweet, sweet sex with Dareon, then, because he calls Dareon's voice "honey poured over thunder". Is that the way of it? BTW, warging is really intense. Like REALLY intense. Jon was smelling people's hairs when they're far away from him. His connection with Ghost made him aware of his heartbeat, of the fact that he's alive, he's connected with his friend.

8. “Septon Cellador spoke up. “This boy Satin. It’s said you mean to make him your steward and squire, in Tollett’s place. My lord, the boy’s a whore … a … dare I say … a painted catamite from the brothels of Old-town.”
And you are a drunk. “What he was in Oldtown is none of our concern. He’s quick to learn and very clever. The other recruits started out despising him, but he won them over and made friends of them all. He’s fearless in a fight and can even read and write after a fashion. He should be capable of fetching me my meals and saddling my horse, don’t you think?”
“Most like,” said Bowen Marsh, stony-faced, “but the men do not like it. Traditionally the lord commander’s squires are lads of good birth being groomed for command. Does my lord believe the men of the Night’s Watch would ever follow a whore into battle?”
Jon’s temper flashed. “They have followed worse. The Old Bear left a few cautionary notes about certain of the men, for his successor. We have a cook at the Shadow Tower who was fond of raping septas. He burned a seven-pointed star into his flesh for every one he claimed. His left arm is stars from wrist to elbow, and stars mark his calves as well. At Eastwatch we have a man who set his father’s house afire and barred the door. His entire family burned to death, all nine. Whatever Satin may have done in Oldtown, he is our brother now, and he will be my squire.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p456)

Dear Septon Cellador, I share your interest in exactly what kind of clientelle Satin serviced but I mislike your tone. As does Jon. Drunk. But, yeah, JON DEFENDS SATIN’S HONOR AND HE WANTS HIM IN HIS SLEEPING QUARTERS AS HIS PERSONAL STEWARD. Also, Satin clearly reminds Jon of himself insofar as no-one in the Night’s Watch liked Jon at first, either. Jon wants to ~groom him for command.

Satin can read and write. For the new Night's Watch, the one without any knights or maester, that's a bloody wonder. But yeah, choosing Satin as his squire was very Cersei-like of Jon. 
9. ““Satin, show Her Grace to her place,” said Jon.
Ser Malegorn stepped forward. “I will escort Her Grace to the feast. We shall not require your … steward.” The way the man drew out the last word told Jon that he had been considering saying something else. Boy? Pet? Whore?
Jon bowed again. “As you wish. I shall join you shortly.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p567)

WHICH IS HE, JON? WHICH IS HE? I mean, *cough* everyone clearly still thinks there’s something going on with you two and you don’t even deny it.
Jon wants all brothers of the Night's Watch to be respected by the Queen's men as brothers of the Night's Watch. But I guess that also means he wants to bed them all. 
10. “Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady. Jon judged that wise. He did not like the way some of the queen’s knights were looking at the steward, particularly Ser Patrek of King’s Mountain. That one wants to shed a bit of blood, he thought. He is looking for some provocation.” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p571)

The boy was a whore! He is condemned to a lifetime of servitude with a lot of rapists! Do you think anyone will trust him around women? I wouldn't. We, as the readers, get Jon's POV on things. Now imagine what the southron knight thinks about the young whore that got arrested for some reason he doesn't know dancing around with the girls. 

 

[Dorian Martell]

7 hours ago, norwaywolf123 said:

Currently re-reading AsoS, and GRRM goes into a lot of detail describing the Night's Watch's new steward, Satin. Satin helps Jon out in the battle against the wildlings, manages to actually hit a couple, pisses his breeches, supports Jon and generally does a good job.

 

With him later becoming Jon's personal squire it seems like Satin is headed places. My only question is about his past. So he's described as pretty and having been born in a brothel in Oldtown. Was he actually a whore or did her just live there? Did he service male and female clients? The rest of the watch seems to treat him the same way Victarion and his crew treated the perfumed boys. What's Satin's deal?

 

1. “the Oldtown boy wandered restlessly around the parapets, fussing with the clothes on straw men. Maybe he thinks they will fight better if they’re posed just right. Or maybe this waiting is fraying his nerves the way it’s fraying mine.
The boy claimed to be eighteen, older than Jon, but he was green as summer grass for all that. Satin, they called him, even in the wool and mail and boiled leather of the Night’s Watch; the name he’d gotten in the brothel where he’d been born and raised. He was pretty as a girl with his dark eyes, soft skin, and raven’s ringlets. Half a year at Castle Black had toughened up his hands, however, and Noye said he was passable with a crossbow. Whether he had the courage to face what was coming, though …” (p688, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW HIS HANDS FEEL JON? HOW DO YOU KNOW? And how do you know that the rest of his skin is soft? I mean, it’s enough that you think he’s “pretty as a girl” but I really just want to know how you know this.

2. ““It’s cold.” Satin stood with his hands tucked into his armpits under his cloak. His cheeks were bright red.
Jon made himself smile. “The Frostfangs are cold. This is a brisk autumn day.”
“I hope I never see the Frostfangs then. I knew a girl in Oldtown who liked to ice her wine. That’s the best place for ice, I think. In wine.” Satin glanced south, frowned. “You think the scarecrow sentinels scared them off, my lord?”
“We can hope.” It was possible, Jon supposed … but more likely the wildlings had simply paused for a bit of rape and plunder in Mole’s Town” (p691, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

Jon makes himself smile to reassure Satin and he doesn’t disparage his fairly irrelevant comments or crush his optimism. It’s kind of adorable.


3. “Satin was loosing quarrels at the wildlings on the steps, then ducking down behind a merlon to cock the crossbow. He may be pretty, but he’s quick.” (p697, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ADMIRING SATIN’S PRETTY FACE, JON. Also, you are clearly growing to respect the fact that he is more than that face. I approve.


4. “Jon asked Satin to help him down to the yard. His wounded leg hurt so badly that he could hardly walk, even with the crutch … they climbed down past the bodies of the men who’d tried the trapdoor, and Jon wandered through the dark with his crutch under one arm, and the other around the shoulders of a boy who’d been a whore in Oldtown.” (p699, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

What an apt time to remember that the boy you’re clinging to used to be a whore. Except probably not. Except that you’re clearly just trying to make sense of your attraction to him, am I right, Jon? 


5. “When the count was done, Jon found himself surrounded. Some clapped him on the back, whilst others bent the knee to him as if he were a lord in truth. Satin, Owen the Oaf, Halder, Toad, Spare Boot, Giant, Mully, Ulmer of the Kingswood, Sweet Donnel Hill, and half a hundred more pressed around him.” (p1001, A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin)

He’s just been made Lord Commander. Satin, along with everyone else who’s remotely decent, runs to congratulate him, and Satin is the first one Jon Snow notices. What does that tell us, kids?

6. ““It was the priestess we were laughing at,” said Satin, a lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown. “We were only having a jape, my lord.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p140)

For all that Jon disapproves of the jape, he definitely DOES approve of the ‘lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown’ or he wouldn’t keep bringing up his looks.


7. ““Night gathers, and now my watch begins,” they said, as thousands had said before them. Satin’s voice was sweet as song, Horse’s hoarse and halting, Arron’s a nervous squeak. “It shall not end until my death.” … He could smell Horse’s unwashed breeches, the sweet scent Satin combed into his beard, the rank sharp smell of fear, the giant’s overpowering musk. He could hear the beating of his own heart.” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p414)

Sweet as a sonnnng. Especially compared to everyone else who’s there to take their vows. Satin also smells better than them, too, and it makes Jon SUDDENLY AWARE OF HIS HEARTBEAT. (Okay, that may also be because he is warging a little bit but stiiill, he smells Satin’s beard and he approves of its “sweet scent”.)


8. “Septon Cellador spoke up. “This boy Satin. It’s said you mean to make him your steward and squire, in Tollett’s place. My lord, the boy’s a whore … a … dare I say … a painted catamite from the brothels of Old-town.”
And you are a drunk. “What he was in Oldtown is none of our concern. He’s quick to learn and very clever. The other recruits started out despising him, but he won them over and made friends of them all. He’s fearless in a fight and can even read and write after a fashion. He should be capable of fetching me my meals and saddling my horse, don’t you think?”
“Most like,” said Bowen Marsh, stony-faced, “but the men do not like it. Traditionally the lord commander’s squires are lads of good birth being groomed for command. Does my lord believe the men of the Night’s Watch would ever follow a whore into battle?”
Jon’s temper flashed. “They have followed worse. The Old Bear left a few cautionary notes about certain of the men, for his successor. We have a cook at the Shadow Tower who was fond of raping septas. He burned a seven-pointed star into his flesh for every one he claimed. His left arm is stars from wrist to elbow, and stars mark his calves as well. At Eastwatch we have a man who set his father’s house afire and barred the door. His entire family burned to death, all nine. Whatever Satin may have done in Oldtown, he is our brother now, and he will be my squire.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p456)

Dear Septon Cellador, I share your interest in exactly what kind of clientelle Satin serviced but I mislike your tone. As does Jon. Drunk. But, yeah, JON DEFENDS SATIN’S HONOR AND HE WANTS HIM IN HIS SLEEPING QUARTERS AS HIS PERSONAL STEWARD. Also, Satin clearly reminds Jon of himself insofar as no-one in the Night’s Watch liked Jon at first, either. Jon wants to ~groom him for command.


9. ““Satin, show Her Grace to her place,” said Jon.
Ser Malegorn stepped forward. “I will escort Her Grace to the feast. We shall not require your … steward.” The way the man drew out the last word told Jon that he had been considering saying something else. Boy? Pet? Whore?
Jon bowed again. “As you wish. I shall join you shortly.”” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin, p567)

WHICH IS HE, JON? WHICH IS HE? I mean, *cough* everyone clearly still thinks there’s something going on with you two and you don’t even deny it.

10. “Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady. Jon judged that wise. He did not like the way some of the queen’s knights were looking at the steward, particularly Ser Patrek of King’s Mountain. That one wants to shed a bit of blood, he thought. He is looking for some provocation.” (A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. M
artin, p571)

It seems to Jon that Satin is a thoughtful person. He is wise enough to avoid dancing with highborn folks at castle black, he came from a whorehouse in Oldtown but 6 months of training in the watch and his hands were no longer soft and he could shoot a crossbow well enough to fight. Like you said, Satin was not well liked when he arrived to join the watch. 
The real question is why does this intrigue you this much? 
My guess is that this is something that will never get addressed by the author, like Benjen's whereabouts, who the harpy is, who poisoned Dany or Aegon's parentage and legitimacy, so you can totally go ahead and fantasize about Jon having homoerotic feelings for his steward  

[Yet Another ASOIAF Fan]

Not to be disrespectful, but there does seem to be some conformation bias in your argument.  For #1, Satin has not been doing much manual labor compared to someone on a farm or training for war, of course his hands would be originally soft and then more calloused as Satin engaged in more manual labor/ training for war.  Number 2,8,9 and 10 is just Jon being a decent person to a effeminate person/ male prostitute, which is consistent with his view on accepting anyone for the watch regardless of controversy, ex Wildlings and giants.  For #6 Jon does not say/think "Lithe and pretty youth", it could be argued that the narrator describes Satin that way.  Number 7, you ignore three other smells that could equally be argued to cause this.  For # 4 and 6 it would be logical for GRRM to bring up Satin's history to reinforce it as the vast majority of readers do not use resources like A Wiki of Ice and Fire to remind them who minor characters are.   Satin living close to Jon would be logical, as Satin's job as his personal steward would include keeping the fire going in Jon's room, bringing meals, and emptying chamber pots; as well as giving prestige to the job by being closer to the person in power.