Game Of Thrones: 10 Most Outrageous Fan Theories You Won't Believe

10. Nedbert

Every fandom seems to have a couple that it ships, no matter how weird or unlikely it actually is. Think Sherlock Holmes and John Watson (Johnlock), Jack Frost and Elsa (Jelsa), and Drarry, which is Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter.

Game of Thrones is no exception to this, and one theory posits the coupling of two characters very prominent in the first season: Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon. Yes, really.

It starts with the fact that the two grew up together, living in close quarters at a time when most are first exploring their sexuality. They form a strong bond and, well, it becomes something more.

Ned resents Cersei, and is locked into a loveless marriage himself. Robert, meanwhile, has to get drunk to sleep with women, and fathers so many bastards as a way of proving that he isn’t homosexual. Then there’s the fact Ned describes a young Robert as being “muscled like a maiden’s fantasy.” For Ned, though, it wasn’t fantasy, it was real.

Robert wanted Lyanna because she looked like Ned, the closest female equivalent, and he was desperate for him to go to King’s Landing with him. Ned does go to King’s Landing, and conveniently happens to leave his wife behind. When Robert realises that ultimately they cannot be together, he let’s the boar kill him and end his suffering. With Ned’s death they can now be together in the afterlife.

Ned + Robert 4eva!