Reivindicações de Petyr Baelish
Você não está errado em lembrar disso, Petyr se gabou de se deitar com as meninas Tully na corte. Tanto Tyrion quanto Jaime jogaram isso diante de Catelyn Stark:
No ACOK, Jaime disse:
Jaime took a swallow, wiped his mouth. “No doubt Ned wished to spare
you. His sweet young bride, if not quite a maiden. Well, you wanted
truth. Ask me. We made a bargain, I can deny you nothing. Ask.”
Ele também disse:
“That name again. I don’t think I’ll f--k you after all, Littlefinger
had you first, didn’t he? I never eat off another man’s trencher.
Besides, you’re not half so lovely as my sister.”
Ao contrário de seu irmão, Tyrion acreditava ser uma mentira:
“Why does a bear shit in the woods?” he demanded. “Because it is his
nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger.
You ought to know that, you of all people.”
She took a step toward him, her face tight. “And what does that mean,
Lannister?”
Tyrion cocked his head. “Why, every man at court has heard him tell
how he took your maidenhead, my lady.”
A prova de autenticidade e falsidade de suas reivindicações
As outras respostas estabeleceram com sucesso que:
Petyr had indeed slept with Lysa and impregnated her. He however did
not sleep with Catelyn.
Uma coisa que não foi discutida é que Petyr Baelish acredita genuinamente ter se deparado com os dois. Então, quando ele fala sobre os dois, ele acredita que seja verdade.
Petyr Baelish foi trazido a Riverrun quando Lord Hoster fez amizade com o pai de Petyr em uma campanha militar. As garotas Tully realmente fizeram coisas na Infância que levaram Petyr. Do Capítulo 71 da AGOT:
How young they all had been-she no older than Sansa, Lysa younger than
Arya, and Petyr younger still, yet eager. The girls had traded him
between them, serious and giggling by turns. It came back to her so
vividly she could almost feel his sweaty fingers on her shoulders and
taste the mint on his breath. There was always mint growing in the
godswood, and Petyr had liked to chew it. He had been such a bold
little boy, always in trouble. “He tried to put his tongue in my
mouth,” Catelyn had confessed to her sister afterward, when they were
alone. “He did with me too,” Lysa had whispered, shy and breathless.
“I liked it.”
Em seguida, no Capítulo 45 do ASOS, Catelyn recorda isto:
She had played at being Jenny that day, had even wound flowers in her
hair. And Petyr had pretended to be her Prince of Dragonflies. Catelyn
could not have been more than twelve, Petyr just a boy.
Príncipe das Libélulas, Duncan "O Pequeno" Targaryen e sua esposa, Jenny de Oldstone, eram a versão Westerosi de um célebre casal de amantes como Romeu e Julieta em nosso mundo. Claro que eles eram crianças naquela época e Catelyn nunca quis dizer nada com esses gestos, mas eles levam Petyr em uma estrada onde ele finalmente se apaixonou por ela (pelo menos naquela época ele fez).
Em seguida, Lysa Tully recorda a noite do noivado de Catelyn com Brandon Stark no capítulo 80 da ASOS:
“Be quiet, I haven’t given you leave to speak. You enticed him, just
as your mother did that night in Riverrun, with her smiles and her
dancing. You think I could forget? That was the night I stole up to
his bed to give him comfort. I bled, but it was the sweetest hurt. He
told me he loved me then, but he called me Cat, just before he fell
back to sleep. Even so, I stayed with him until the sky began to
lighten."
Petyr Baelish estava "de coração partido" se nós assumirmos que ele tinha um coração na época, quando Catelyn riu dele e rejeitou suas tentativas de beijá-la novamente. Ele estava bêbado quando Lysa entrou em seu quarto. Eles dormiram juntos, mas Petyr acreditava que era Catelyn quem veio até ele naquela noite, não Lysa
1 . É por isso que Petyr Baelish acredita que ele dormiu com as duas irmãs Tully e diz a outras pessoas sobre isso com tanta confiança que nem mesmo Tyrion pode ter certeza de quem está mentindo? Petyr ou Catelyn?
No mesmo capítulo, Lysa lembra:
Everyone thought it [Petyr's expulsion from Riverrun] was because of
that stupid duel with Brandon Stark, but that wasn’t so. Father said I
ought to thank the gods that so great a lord as Jon Arryn was
willing to take me soiled, but I knew it was only for the swords. I
had to marry Jon, or my father would have turned me out as he did his
brother, but it was Petyr I was meant for. I am telling you all this
so you will understand how much we love each other, how long we have
suffered and dreamed of one another. We made a baby together, a
precious little baby.
Catelyn, por outro lado, sempre cumpriu seu dever como encarregada por seu lorde pai. Ela nunca gostara de Petyr e estava contente com seu noivado para herdar Winterfell, Brandon Stark. Mais tarde, quando Brandon morreu, ela aceitou que teria que se casar com Eddard Stark. E como o DariM já citou:
And when Brandon was murdered and father told me I must wed his
brother, I did so gladly, though I never saw Ned's face until our
wedding day. I gave my maidenhood to this solemn stranger[Eddard Stark] and sent
him off to his war and his king and the women who bore him his
bastard, because I always did my duty.
Não está claro que Lysa tenha dito a Petyr que foi ela quem veio até ele naquela noite, não Catelyn. Também não está claro se Petyr disse a Lysa que ele acreditava que era Catelyn, apesar de pronunciar seu nome depois de fazer sexo. É possível que Lysa tenha contado a Petyr sobre aquela noite e desde que Petyr sabia que Lysa tinha que abortar a criança com quem ele a deixou, torna-se mais plausível que ela tenha desistido. O que essencialmente significaria que Petyr sabia e estava mentindo deliberadamente. No entanto, uma vez que é minha observação, não canon info, eu dançaria com o que é fornecido nas fontes canônicas