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Originally Posted by manchambo
Those make sense of course, but neither of them is actually a "corpse." A revived Jon might be.
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The problem with a revived "corpse" Jon is where would he be sailing to? If he gets revived from the dead, then surely it will be for the purpose of fighting the others and he would stay at the wall I would think.
Victarion is a dead man walking. He's on his way to die even if he doesn't know it yet. There are also theories that he died already when the guy was healing his arm. The idea is that the POV chapter (in ADWD) when Victarion is being healed is the only time in all of the books that the POV leaves the character for a short time and goes to a different narrator. In other words, it is a Victarion POV chapter, but for a short time you are not seeing from Victarion's POV and instead are told what is happening elsewhere on the ship. This is highly unusual for GRRM and I have found no other examples of it so far. It is mainly because of this that I think the vision applies to Victarion.
Long book quote:
Spoiler!
They are all the same, these magic men. The mouse warned me of pain as well. "I am ironborn, priest. I laugh at pain. You will have what you require … but if you fail, and my hand is not healed, I will cut your throat myself and give you to the sea."
Moqorro bowed, his dark eyes shining. "So be it."
The iron captain was not seen again that day, but as the hours passed the crew of his Iron Victory reported hearing the sound of wild laughter coming from the captain's cabin, laughter deep and dark and mad, and when Longwater Pyke and Wulfe One-Eye tried the cabin door they found it barred. Later singing was heard, a strange high wailing song in a tongue the maester said was High Valyrian. That was when the monkeys left the ship, screeching as they leapt into the water.
Come sunset, as the sea turned black as ink and the swollen sun tinted the sky a deep and bloody red, Victarion came back on deck. He was naked from the waist up, his left arm blood to the elbow. As his crew gathered, whispering and trading glances, he raised a charred and blackened hand. Wisps of dark smoke rose from his fingers as he pointed at the maester.
"That one. Cut his throat and throw him in the sea, and the winds will favor us all the way to Meereen." Moqorro had seen that in his fires. He had seen the wench wed too, but what of it? She would not be the first woman Victarion Greyjoy had made a widow.
Connington is also a possibility because of his greyscale and that could make him a "corpse" for purposes of Dany's vision, plus the greyscale would match up to the reference to grey sad lips. But I have always felt that Victarion was the best bet for that quote.