Which Game of Thrones character represents your state?
By Corey Smith
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34. Indiana — Tommen Baratheon
Oh sweet Tommen Baratheon, you never really stood a chance. Pliable and kind hearted, you were everything your older brother Joffrey was not. Ultimately it was Tommen’s kind heart that did him in, as the forces pulling him in a million different directions led the young king to leap out the window of the Red Keep. So that last part doesn’t have anything to do with Indiana, but its motto “The Crossroads of America” could very well apply to Tommen, as he was ultimately the “Crossroads of Westeros.”
From the day Tommen ascended to the Iron Throne, Tommen became the intersection of power in Westeros, the proverbial crossroads. It started with Tywin and Cersei, but quickly expanded to include Margaery and the High Sparrow as well. Likewise, Indiana’s moniker came about initially from being a literal crossroads for the United States as a progression of roads and highways all met in the state. Everything flowed through Indiana, as it did through Tommen before his death.
Furthermore, the largest single religious denomination in Indiana is Roman Catholicism. Catholicism is, of course, the religion upon which George R.R. Martin based the Faith of the Seven, which Tommen would convert most fervently to shortly before leaping to his death. (That part still doesn’t apply to Indiana.)