Hooded Man: who is the Ghost in Winterfell?

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Its a bunch of children of the forest on top of each other’s shoulders under that hood

Man wouldn’t it be cool if this book was adapted into a show?

everybody asks who's the hooded man, but nobody asks how is the hooded man :(

I can't tell if George deliberately sets up all these different possible answers or if the fans are just really good at speculating.

Maybe the real hooded man was the friends we made along the way.

Alt shift X: explains a theory Me: "yeah sounds logical" Alt shift X: "but there is a problem with this theory" Me: "oh ok" rinse and repeat like 5 more times

I think people are overthinking the "kinslayer" part. He's "kinslayer" because everyone in the North perceives him as a Stark. That identity crisis, Stark vs Greyjoy, has always been central to the character. And who knows, there might be a bit of dramatic prophecy at play. If he were to kill Euron, then he'd be a kinslayer for real.

It takes a minute to recalibrate my thinking to this point in the story. Theon is still Reek, Tyrion is still trying to get to Danny, John is still "dead" and so on.

Crazy how they got 6 identical wildling women to go to Winterfell

Jesus, Howland’s collecting important characters, items, and information like they’re Pokémon.

I always thought the reason Theon sees Bran's face in the weirwood and hears the voices in the godswood is because Bran is watching/talking to him through his magic tree power stuff. We know people can hear him when he tries to communicate from when he sees his father in one of these visions and tries to call out to him

The one thing I haven't seen discussed is the idea that the Ghost in Winterfell is ACTUALLY a ghost - a restless spirit of a dead Stark. And I like the idea of it being Ricard or Brandon, it'd explain why they know who Theon is, why they hate him and the lack of swords to lock them in their graves plus the lack of a living Stark in Winterfell allows them to be the Stark in residence.

There's also the fact that Theon freely shows the hooded man his maimed hands, but he was much more uncomfortable showing them to others. That could support the ghost theory.

Some say the scripts for the good ending of Game of Thrones Season 8 are buried in the crypts of Winterfell...

While he didn't personally kill Bran or Rickon, maybe Theon feels responsible for the (apparent) death of House Stark as a whole. As far as he knows, Bran, a crippled 8 year old, and Rickon, a toddler, are playing survival of the fittest in the North during a violent war, and Sansa and Arya have nowhere safe to run, because he took Winterfell. Robb sought comfort with Jeyne Westerling because he thought Theon killed his brothers, leading to his and Catelyn's deaths at the Red Wedding. If "kin" isn't literal, maybe "slayer" isn't either.

"And this poor flint fucker was probably just kicked by a horse" fucking killed me. The way it was sayed

Dude, like everyone in Westeros has a cloak and dagger.

They should hire Alt Shift X to read the books for an audiobook.

I think TheonGhost calling Reek "Kinslayer" does actually fit (even without the Theon killed his kids theory) with his previously cocky and sarcastic demeanor. I think Theon would call Reek Kinslayer to make just to make fun of him, as a sort of cruel joke.