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What are the ASOIAF characters' boggarts?


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A boggart is a creature from Harry Potter that turns into whatever a person fears the most.

 

Catelyn : her children's corpses

Tywin : himself being laughed at

Cersei : herself powerless and ridiculed

Sandor : fire

Lysa : LF telling her he only ever loved Catelyn

 

Damn, this made me realise that so many characters' worst fears came true.

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Daenerys : Her dragons dying

Sansa : Joffrey and/or Cersei

Samwell : his father

Tyrion : maybe an angry Tysha blaming him for raping her

Jon : his bastard son or daughter

Joffrey : people ridiculing him

Arya : her family (especially her father/mother) being disappointed in her

Eddard: the image of Lyanna on her deathbed saying "Promise me, Ned."(this really seems to get on his nerves when he thinks about her)

Bran : ...the Others?

Brienne: Bloody Mummers who tried to rape her

 

wow, this is hard

 

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Stannis - Robert giving Renly Storm's End

Sansa - Getting captured by Cersei or Joffrey

Meera - Her brother being eaten by Bran in order to become a better greenseer.....

Ser Barristan - Not serving his Queen faithfully. 

Brienne - Having to choose between Jaime and Pod/Catelyn's life (Catelyn is already dead, but if she was still alive)

Cersei - Being killed or disenpowered by Tyrion. Tyrion having any sort of power over her perhaps as well. 

Theon - Disappointing his family/family stand ins (he lived it, by being a disappointment to both his real family and his adopted one)

Ramsey - Being unable to hurt/kill people. 

Davos - Stannis sacrificing Shireen to the fire. 

Lord Randall Tarly - Samwell somehow bringing shame on him or somehow imheriting Horn Hill. 

Ser Allister Thorne - Jon Snow becoming Lord Commander. 

Ser Gregor - ...... probably something stupid like spiders

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Tywin - House Lannister becoming the sort of laughing stock it (allegedly) was during his father's time.

Ned - Losing his children. (I am pretty sure about this one. None of them were engaged or warded when aGoT started. That sticks out alot in Westeros)

This thread kinda makes me want to do a "What are the aSoIaF characters 「S T A N D S」?" but that'd be a bit too goofy IMHO. Also there aren't enough in-univers songs to properly name all the stands.

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Ser Jorah's worst way to die:

Ser Jorah shrugged. "Truth be told, I've seen worse jousters".

Was that praise? "I fell off the bloody pig and bit my tongue. What could possibly be worse than that?"

"Getting a splinter through your eye and dying".

So we can pretty much guess how the poor old bear will die.

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Jaime:  Not being the greatest swordsman in Westeros; losing Cersei.

Varys:  Dark magic and religious zeal.

Pycelle:  Losing power for disappointing Lannisters.

Osha:  turning into a wight.

King Robert:  the return of the Targaryens.

 

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Walder: losing The Twins

The Harpy:  permanent ban on slavery

Belwas:  onion shortage

Greyworm:  nothing, he fears nothing

Sansa: breaking her nails

Qyburn:  dad's disapproval

Hizdahr:  a world without the fighting pits

Victarion: Euron

Theon:  Ramsay's fillet knife

Stannis:  truth

Mellissandre:  cold and darkness

Bran:  never walking again

Jon:  an oath he has to keep

Cersei:  the valonguar

Sam:  combat

White Walkers:  summer time

Wildlings:  dragons

Dothraki:  the ocean

Great Masters:  slave revolt

Val:  greyscale

Sweet Robin:  losing mother's milk

Skahaz Mo Kandaq:  the Loraqs

Yezzan:  diarrhea

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5 minutes ago, Lucius Lovejoy said:

Jaime:  Not being the greatest swordsman in Westeros; losing Cersei.

Varys:  Dark magic and religious zeal.

Pycelle:  Losing power for disappointing Lannisters.

Osha:  turning into a wight.

King Robert:  the return of the Targaryens.

 

I would think Jaime's would be Rhaegar coming for revenge, as we see in his dream. Or perhaps Aerys with the fire. He doesn't have much reason to doubt his swordsmanship abilities pre-hand-chop, so I don't think it'd be a deep seated fear. 

Also I think a few of us are misunderstanding a Boggart. It has to take a physical form, not an abstract like "failure". And the Boggart needs to instill a deep, paralyzing terror.

My few-

Joffrey; Robert, larger than life and ready to hit him

Jon; Catelyn, again being larger than in reality, looking down in contempt

Cersei; Tyrion with a crossbow

Aegon Dragonbane; Dragons

 

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Catelyn: her husband and her children; all dead.

Lysa: Sweetrobin’s dead body; badly mangled (because she didn’t do enough to keep him safe).

Sansa: her father, telling her the marriage to Joffrey was cancelled. Later: Joffrey.

Arya: Septa Mordane complaining about her needlework. Later: Eddard’s detached head.

Sandor: fire.

Tywin: himself as a beggar; powerless and impoverished.

Cersei: Tywin telling her what a disappointment she was.

Aerys II: an assassin with raised dagger, with the assassin’s face alternating between various people in his vicinity.

Renly: the slain body of Ser Loras.

Loras: Renly’s corpse.

Bran: winter.

Dany: herself, whipping a slave.

Ned: Jaime, with his king’s blood dripping from his sword, but having Eddard’s face (dishonour).

 

 

 

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Sansa - Having her location discovered by Cersei.

Arya - Being helpless and subject to the whims of others.

Daenerys - Slavery

Cersei - Losing her children

Samwell - His father

Jon Snow - Invasion by the Others

 

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Cersei-Sanity

Daenerys-Reality

Littlefinger-Social Stability

Varys-Status Quo

Tywin-Tyrion

Aerys-Shrink

Tyrion-Girls You Can't Pay For

Eddard-Realpolitik

Robert-Sobriety, Monogamy

Victarion, Balon, Euron, Aeron-Normality

Illyrio-Fitness

Gregor, Vargo Hoat, Ser Amory, Ramsay-Geneva Convention

Jaime-Dating Outside Family

Arya-Boyfriends

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Sansa: roughspun clothing

Joffrey: not being King

Renly: Queen Margaery

Robert: impotence

Ned: besmirching his precious honour

Cat: Jon

Cersei: Dany

Tyrion: abstinence 

Brienne: sex

Tywin: disrespect

 

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