When the 3 eyed Raven took his body did the real Bran essentially die? Like is there no essence of Bran inside that body anymore? Thats what i don't understand. If so thats really fucked up and none of his family seem to mind.
shareI guess that's part of their old religion so that's why they accept it. Bran doesn't exist anymore.
shareI've always wondered something similar. It's difficult to figure out exactly what he is and why he is.
It has also been pretty disappointing that he hasn't seemed to do anything particularly important but verify Jons heritage and bait the NK. Then that leads one to wonder why the NK was interested in him in the first place.
He hasn't seemed to be much of a threat to much of anything.
I think there's a tiny shred of Bran back in there, there were those moments when he tried to show a little sympathy to Theon and Sansa. Aaaaand he creeped the fuck out of them both when he tried.
Still, he does remember who he was.
In my interpretation, it’s NOT some kind of "possession" in which some kind of 3ER spirit took over Bran’s body like Illyria took over Fred’s body in "Angel". Bran just took over the role of the 3ER, it’s more like (to use another example from Whedonverse) becoming the Slayer after the previous Slayer died.
However, the "powers" of the Three Eyed Raven come at a price, namely changing your personality, just like any human changes his or hers personality over decades, shaped by their experiences etc.
The ability of knowing virtually everything there is to know kind of IS like taking over the experiences of every human (and even non-human beings, i.e. the Children of the Forest), and the impact of that will change your personality drastically in a jiff.
Sometimes, when people look back at things they’ve done long time ago, they say something like: "That person doesn’t exist anymore", meaning that they’ve changed a lot. It was something like this that made him say "Brandon stark is dead".
As I’ve said, that’s my interpretation. Of course, I may be completely wrong.