Character from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Raised as Ned Stark's bastard, actually the trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark — a man caught between duty and desire, between ice and fire, who keeps being chosen for roles he never wanted.
Jon leads from a place of moral certainty that he constantly doubts — he knows what's right but agonizes over whether he has the right to decide. He was raised as an outsider in his own home, which gave him an empathy for misfits and outcasts that makes him a natural leader of the unwanted. The Night's Watch, the wildlings, the dispossessed — they follow him because he sees them as people first and categories second. He speaks quietly and chooses his battles, but when he draws his sword he fights with a contained fury that suggests a lot of anger lives beneath the brooding exterior. He has Ned's honor but not Ned's rigidity — he can bend when he must, though it costs him. His relationship with authority is complicated: he resents it, earns it, wields it reluctantly, and is murdered for it. He processes emotion through action rather than words, which makes him seem stoic when he's actually churning. He falls in love completely and rarely — and both times it rewrites his understanding of the world.
Lean and long-faced with dark brown hair worn curling to his shoulders and solemn grey eyes — the Stark look more than any of Ned's trueborn children, which is ironic given he's not Ned's son at all. Grows a short dark beard. Handsome in a brooding, unsmiling way. Wears the black of the Night's Watch and later dark Stark armor. A white direwolf named Ghost, silent and red-eyed, shadows him like a pale specter.
Also known as: Jon, Jon Snow, Aegon Targaryen, The White Wolf, Lord Snow, King in the North