15 best 'Game of Thrones' moments between newly engaged Kit Harington and Rose Leslie
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Your support makes all the difference."Game of Thrones" costars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie played the fictional couple Jon Snow and Ygritte for three seasons and won the hearts of fans around the world.
While filming the romantic scenes between Jon and his Wildling lover, Harington and Leslie fell in love in real life. Now five years later, they're engaged and living together. While we're basking in the glow of Harington and Leslie's real-life romance, let's look back at all their iconic shared scenes together on "Game of Thrones."
Keep reading to see the 15 best onscreen moments between Jon Snow and Ygritte.
Jon Snow first met Ygritte on season two when he went ranging beyond the Wall
Jon couldn't bring himself to execute Ygritte after seeing she was a young woman.
"Strike hard and true, Jon Snow," Ygritte told him. "Or I'll come back and haunt ya."
But he couldn't behead her, and his hesitation cost him dearly. They were left behind by his fellow Night's Watch brothers and Jon was lost.
The first night they were together (with Ygritte as Jon's prisoner) Jon angrily spooned her "for warmth"
Ygritte was flirty with Jon from the get-go and she jumped at the chance to convince him that sleeping close together was the only way to survive the cold night. As he grumpily spooned her, Ygritte grinded her hips back up against him with a cheeky grin.
And then the next morning when Ygritte teased Jon about getting a little too comfortable
"Did you pull a knife on me in the night?" Ygritte asked. Jon jumped up, clearly embarrassed.
"What's the matter? Can't be the first time you pressed your bone against a woman's a--? "
When she realized it probably was the first time, Ygritte continued her teasing flirtation.
"You're a boy whose never been with a girl?" she asked. "Don't your stones start to hurt if your bone never gets — "
"Don't call them that," Jon interrupted.
"What, stones? Or bone?" she asked.
"Neither," he said, not meeting her eyes. "Both."
Later, Ygritte confronted Jon about his presumptions of entitlement
This was one of the first times Jon began to rethink what it meant to be a man of the Night's Watch. He was confronted by Ygritte over the fact that there wasn't much of a difference between the Wildlings and the Westerosi people.
"They're not your lands," Ygritte said angrily. "We've been here the whole time. You lot came along and just put up a big wall and said it was yours."
"My father was Ned Stark," Jon said. "I have the blood of the First Men. My ancestors lived here same as yours."
"So why're you fighting us?" she asked.
Jon was at a loss for words.
Then there was the first time Ygritte said her iconic catchphrase: "You know nothing, Jon Snow"
Ygritte tried enticing Jon into breaking his vows of celibacy with the Night's Watch.
"You're a pretty lad," she said. "Girls would claw each others eyes out to get naked with you. I could teach you how to do it."
"I know how to do it," Jon said, clearly embarrassed.
"You know nothing, Jon Snow," Ygritte said smiling.
In one of Ygritte's best moments, she teased Jon more about sex and tricked him into letting his guard down so she could capture him instead
"What do you think they'll say when they hear about you and me?" Ygritte asked as they walked.
"Nothing happened between you and me," Jon said. But Ygritte put on a fake high voice and pretended to be confessing.
"I swear it old master king crow ser, we were only close together for warmth," she said teasingly. "And then I felt it, right up against me backside like a club. I can show you the bruise on my tailbone. And before I knew what was where, his ... his... well it was all out in the open, all angry as you like. And I didn't want to want it, but oh! I did! And he spread me legs and ... ruined. The shame of it! Now I can never marry a perfumed lord. What will me poor savage father say? "
"Turn back around," Jon said.
"And I thought we were done but he said, 'Turn back around," Ygritte joked.
After Jon pretended to join Mance Rayder's side, he and Ygritte shared a steamy sex scene in a cave
Once again, Ygritte was the one pressuring Jon into sex, but this time she got her way. After stripping in front of him, Jon began kissing her and slowly made his way south. Ygritte tried to deliver a "you know nothing, Jon Snow," but was promptly distracted.
The scene cuts to them laying in the cave, and we learn that (in Ygritte's world) Jon Snow just invented oral sex. Quite an accomplishment for a young man.
"That thing you did with your mouth ... is that what lords do to their ladies in the south?" she asked.
"I don't know," he replied. "I just wanted to kiss you there is all."
Before climbing the Wall, Ygritte made Jon promise his loyalty
After reflecting a bit more on what a good "lover" Jon is, Ygritte switched gears and told him she knew the truth — he was still a man of the Night's Watch.
"You're loyal, and you're brave," she said. "You didn't stop being a crow the day you walked into Mance Rayder's tent. But I'm your woman now, Jon Snow. You're going to be loyal to your woman. The Night's Watch don't care if you live or die. Mance Rayder doesn't care if I live or die [...] It's you and me that matters to me and you. Don't ever betray me."
"I won't," Jon said.
"Because I'll cut your pretty c--- off and wear it around me neck," she replied.
When they finally made it to the top of the Wall, Jon led Ygritte to the edge and they looked out at the world together
Before climbing the Wall, Ygritte had told Jon she waited her whole life to see the world from up there. Her wish came true, and Jon was by her side to help get her there. The sun broke through the clouds and they looked back at the icy cold lands of the north where they had come from.
Then Jon took her hand and they faced south to see the lush green landscape. Jon and Ygritte kissed, and for a moment it felt like nothing could touch them.
Perhaps their sweetest moment was when Jon taught Ygritte about swooning and said he'd take her to Winterfell one day
When the couple spotted a windmill and Ygritte mistook it for a castle, Jon told her she'd swoon if she ever saw a proper castle like Winterfell. When she was confused about why women would swoon or faint, Jon said, "Not all girls are like you."
Then she pretended to swoon for him ("Save me Jon Snow!") and he joked about wanting to see her in a pretty silk dress.
We swear it's the most Kit Harington has ever smiled in a "Game of Thrones" scene.
But the conversation turned serious as Jon warned Ygritte they couldn't win the war
After their fun and flirty exchange, Jon became somber again as he realized Ygritte was walking into a suicide mission by trying to fight the Night's Watch. She reminded him that he was with them now.
"You're mine, and I'm yours," she said. "And if we die, we die. But first we'll live."
We're going to skip past Jon's betrayal and go straight to his heartbreaking goodbye to Ygritte
After Jon revealed his true colors and killed Orell to escape from the Wildlings, Ygritte tracked him down and aimed her bow and arrow at him.
"I know you won't hurt me," Jon said.
"You know nothing, Jon Snow," Ygritte said. But her voice was trembling and she looked heartbroken.
Jon smiled upon hearing that familiar phrase.
"I do know some things. I know I love you," he said. "I know you love me. But I have to go home now."
When he turned to leave her once again, she loosed her arrow. Ygritte shot Jon three times, but didn't kill him. We know she was more than skilled enough to have finished him then and there, but her love for him won out and she left him wounded instead.
The next time they saw each other was in the midst of the battle at the Wall
Jon couldn't help but smile when he turned around to see Ygritte aiming her bow at him once more. She faltered at his look, and didn't take the shot.
But before either of them could say anything, Ygritte was shot with an arrow by Olly.
Jon rushed to her and they spoke one last time before she died
"Do you remember that cave?" Ygritte said as she lay dying in Jon's arms. "We should have stayed in that cave."
"We'll go back there," he promised.
"You know nothing, Jon Snow," Ygritte said.
Then she took one last breath and died. Jon held onto her body as the battle raged around them.
Then Jon brought Ygritte's body north of the Wall to burn her
After the battle was won, Jon personally took Ygritte beyond the Wall and built her a funeral pyre. As she burned, Jon turned and walked away as he cried. Ygritte was kissed by fire in life, and kissed by fire in her death.
Though Jon and Ygritte's love ended in tragedy, "Game of Thrones" fans take comfort in knowing Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are living happily ever after.
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