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Pypar, commonly known as Pyp, is a member of the Night's Watch. He is in the same recruit class as Jon Snow.
In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, Pypar is portrayed by Jozef Altin.
Appearance and Character
[edit]- See also: Images of Pypar
Pypar is small and has large ears[3] which he can wiggle.[4][5]
Claiming to be able to identify a person's origin by their accent,[6] Pyp can imitate a hundred different voices and loves to act.[6] He can whistle extremely loudly and shrilly.[7]
Pypar enjoys teasing his friend, Grenn.[8] Samwell Tarly thinks Pyp has stupid japes.[9]
History
[edit]Before coming to the Wall, Pypar had traveled the Seven Kingdoms with a mummers' troupe.[6]
Recent Events
[edit]A Game of Thrones
[edit]Pypar is part of the same group of recuits to join the Night's Watch as Jon Snow. During sword practice, Jon thinks Pyp uses his sword like a dagger.[10] After seeing Jon helping Grenn, Pyp asks Jon for help; Pyp then does not drop his sword as often as he once did.[3]
Ser Alliser Thorne picks on Samwell Tarly when he arrives at the Wall, commanding Halder, Rast, and Albett to fight the inept youth. Grenn, Jon, and Pyp defend Sam, however. Because Rast is still willing to hurt Sam for Alliser, he is visited in the night by Pyp, Grenn, and Jon and threatened by Jon's direwolf, Ghost. Sam joins Pyp, Jon, Grenn and Halder during meals and eventually shares in their jests.[6]
Pyp is derisively nicknamed "Monkey" and "the Mummer's Monkey" by Alliser.[1] Pyp is named to the rangers when Alliser believes him ready to man the Wall.[4]
Pyp informs Jon that King Robert I Baratheon has died. When Alliser calls Jon a traitor's bastard after the arrest of Lord Eddard Stark, Jon's father, Pyp tries to stop Jon from attacking the master-at-arms.[11]
Jon saves the life of Jeor Mormont, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, when he is attacked by a wight. Out of gratitude, the Old Bear gives Jon his family sword, Longclaw, as a gift. Afterwards, Pyp joins others who ask Jon to show them the Valyrian steel blade, as they knew about the present before Jon did.[12]
Pyp is among the group of friends who stop Jon from abandoning the Night's Watch and forswearing himself.[13]
A Clash of Kings
[edit]Although Pyp and Todder want to participate in the great ranging venturing beyond the Wall, they remain at Castle Black. Before Grenn leaves with the ranging, Pyp, Toad, and Halder bring him to Mole's Town.[14]
A Storm of Swords
[edit]
Bowen Marsh leaves Pypar behind for being too small and inexperienced when he departs Castle Black to deal with wildling attacks along the Wall.[15]
Pyp's friend Grenn is among a dozen who reach Castle Black after the mutiny at Craster's Keep. When Jon Snow returns to the Wall, he is informed by Pyp, Grenn, and Maester Aemon about the supposed deaths of his half brothers, Bran and Rickon Stark.[15] Pyp helps villagers from Mole's Town seek shelter atop the Wall prior to the attack on Castle Black by Styr.[16]
Pyp is one of the many fighters atop the Wall when Mance Rayder's army assaults the Watch in the battle beneath the Wall. He lights a dozen jars of lamp oil on fire before they are dropped on the wildlings below, with the Watch then pouring pitch on the attackers. Pyp, Grenn, and Kegs force away mammoths by dropping barrels of burning oil from above. Pyp retches when he sees the bodies of Donal Noye and Mag Mar Tun Doh Weg at the gate through the Wall.[17] Pyp refers to arrows shot by wildlings in the morning as "breakfast arrows", and he names straw scarecrows after members of the Night's Watch. Jon tasks Pyp with commanding the Wall when he descends to Castle Black at one point during the siege.[18]
Pyp greets Sam warmly when he returns to Castle Black, whooping loudly. During the Night's Watch election, Pyp votes for Eddison Tollett, a jape that Sam thinks is stupid. In conversation with Pyp and Grenn, Sam starts to think that one of the leading candidates in the election should withdraw to support the other, and Pyp notes that Sam would be the best one to talk to them.[9] During the election, when Jon Snow's name is put forward as a candidate by Dolorous Edd, Jon initially thinks it must be one of Pyp's japes. When Jon is elected the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Pyp is among those who congratulate him. Pyp also congratulates Sam for managing to get Jon elected, calling him a wizard and a wonder and a marvel.[7]
A Feast for Crows
[edit]Pypar and Grenn practice with longbows. Pyp becomes resentful towards Jon, the new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, because Jon turns distant, avoiding the friends who aided his rise to power.[5] Pyp reports that Stannis Baratheon intends to burn Mance Rayder because of his king's blood.[5]
A Dance with Dragons
[edit]Jon sees Pyp eating with Grenn and his other friends in the cellar below the armory. When Pyp makes jests about the rituals of R'hllor, Jon orders him to stop, grateful none of the queen's men heard the japes. Afterward, Lord Commander Snow reluctantly assigns Pyp and Grenn to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.[19]
Quotes by Pypar
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Pypar: So here are your choices. Kill me, or come back with me.
Jon: Damn you. Damn you all.[13]—Pypar and Jon Snow
—Pypar during the battle beneath the Wall
Jon: You’re all a bunch of mad fools, do you know that?
Pypar: Us? You call us fools? We’re not the ones who got chosen as the nine-hundredth-and-ninety-eighth Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. You best have some wine, Lord Jon. I think you’re going to need a lot of wine.[7]—Jon Snow and Pypar
Pypar: The night is dark and full of turnips. Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
Jon: Making mock of another man's prayer is fool's work, Pyp. And dangerous.
Pypar: If the red god's offended, let him strike me down.[19]
—Pypar and Jon Snow
Quotes about Pypar
[edit]The mummer's boy with the big ears was a born liar with a hundred different voices, and he did not tell his tales so much as live them, playing all the parts as needed, a king one moment and a swineherd the next. When he turned into an alehouse girl or a virgin princess, he used a high falsetto voice that reduced them all to tears of helpless laughter, and his eunuchs were always eerily accurate caricatures of Ser Alliser.[6]
—thoughts of Jon Snow
They will call you men of Night's Watch now, but you are bigger fools than the Mummer's Monkey here if you believe that. You are boys still, green and stinking of summer, and when the winter comes you will die like flies.[1]
—Alliser Thorne to Pyp's fellow recruits
I am the shield that guards the realms of men, he remembered. He wondered what those men would say if they realized their realms were being guarded by the likes of Grenn, Pyp, and Dolorous Edd.[5]
—thoughts of Samwell Tarly
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Pypar.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 21, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 5, Samwell I.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 79, Jon XII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 33, Samwell II.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 52, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 60, Jon VIII.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 70, Jon IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 6, Jon I.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 48, Jon VI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 64, Jon VIII.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 69, Jon IX.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 10, Jon III.