In honour of the resurgence of my GoT obsession (brought to you by my housemates marathoning Game of Thrones) I felt the urge to do a little character design for every main player in a minor fic idea I had for GoT/asoiaf (as one does).
The premise is nothing groundbreaking: in the years shortly before Robert’s Rebellion, when Ned is off to the Eyrie to be fostered alongside Robert Baratheon, Lord Steffon Baratheon has his spare packaged and posted to Winterfell to be fostered by the Starks.
The eldest daughter of Lord Rickard—one Joanna Stark (named to honour Lord Tywin Lannister and his wife)—is a fast friend to the brooding Stannis (so they can suffer from eldest daughter syndrome together). The smallest of the Stark children, in the absence of their older brothers, designate Stannis the ‘honourary replacement’. (However, this still doesn’t stop Lyanna from cutting holes in the pockets of every set of trousers Stannis owns when he yells at her for trailing snow through his corner of Maester Walys’ turret… Joanna isn’t impressed with her little sister either, not when she’s the one who winds up stitching up every crudely cut pocket by the hearth that night).
When the direwolf corpse is found with a fresh litter of pups still trying to suckle, each of Lord Rickard Stark’s children receive a pup… and whilst Brandon ribs that it doesn’t bode well they’d found the direwolf impaled on the antlers of a mangled stag, the last remaining pup goes to Lord Stark’s ward, a stag of Storm’s End.
Honestly, I’m too lazy to write it, but I want to see how this scenario would affect events as they play out. Give Lyanna an older sister who’s her foil in many ways, give Ned another sister to love, and send the awkward and unloved Stannis Baratheon to Winterfell where its inevitable the Starks will envelop him into their own.
Theon month prompt 6 - Wardrobe | hosted by @theonsource
For this prompt I drew two AUs that are fun to me, both featuring Theon in King’s landing, trying out the new fashion that is found there…
First is an AU where he actually marries Cersei as Tywin suggested (inspired by @shebsart‘s pieces); The second is an AU where he comes to King’s landing earlier (perhaps with Ned’s group) because i think it would be fun to see him hang out with Renly, theyre both fashionable guys who like to make fun of people :)
Modern Gendrya where Renly and Loras adopted angry ten year old Gendry to spite Stannis and Cersei. Renly and Loras encourage Gendry’s “fuck the 1%” attitude and secretly start planning his wedding to Arya half an hour after the two meet.
(Tags by @buckybarnesss) Cersei sweating nervously with her three blonde and green eyed kids while Renly increases his collection of obvious Baratheon children, all fathered by his oldest brother, until the point of even heavily drunk Bobby B is like ‘wait a minute… Three of these things are not like the other 10…’
This sounds like one mess of a fic and I WANT IT. GIVE ME GAY UNCLES LORAS AND RENLY AND THEIR ARMY OF WILD BARATHEONS
“Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He’ll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he’s copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.”
