happy birthday @amueliaand@shebsart ^__^ i drew your boys…. just a couple of wolf hunters…. i find it interesting that roose actually succeeded at doing the things theon attempted to do/is blamed for
Theon + Roose at the wall post aDwD, part of the same verse as some of my old Wall AU pieces… They have spotted something unsettling in the distance ❄️
Not necessarily the most likely to be canon scenario but one that is fun to draw/make up stories about
The Lord of the Dreadfort did not have a strong likeness to his bastard son. His face was clean-shaved, smooth-skinned, ordinary, not handsome but not quite plain. Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time. - Reek II, aDwD
“Who is this?” she said. “Where is the boy? Did your bastard refuse to give him up? Is this old man his … oh, gods be good, what is that smell? Has this creature soiled himself?” - “He has been with Ramsay. Lady Barbrey, allow me to present the rightful Lord of the Iron Islands, Theon of House Greyjoy.” - Reek III, aDwD
Theon Month Prompt 26 -ASoIaF Character Parallels (/Foils) | hosted by @theonsource
Was thinking about the inversion that Theon is a young man, but through his torture and suffering became scarred and aged to the point of being mistaken for an old man; while his aCoK story arc is also paralleled with Roose’ arc in aDwD, who in turn is described as unscarred and having aged little…
The sigil on his banner looked like a man dipped in blood. “On your knees for the Lord of the Dreadfort!” shouted his squire, a boy no older than Arya, and Harrenhal knelt.
Vargo Hoat came forward. “My lord, Harrenhal ith yourth.”
- Arya IX, aCoK
Roose Bolton taking Harrenhal, featuring Vargo Hoat and Arya Stark
“Steelshanks led him back to the Great Keep and the solar that had once been Eddard Stark’s. Lord Bolton was not alone. Lady Dustin sat with him, pale-faced and severe; an iron horsehead brooch clasped Roger Ryswell’s cloak; Aenys Frey stood near the fire, pinched cheeks flushed with cold.”
A gift for the lovely @mrsjadecurtiss!!! Hope you like it Jade ❤️❤️❤️
also a bonus portrait:
“Lady Dustin parted her lips in a thin, feral smile. “The north remembers, Frey.“
I fell for the contradiction of “she is the one best suited to be his partner for the same reasons that she can’t be his partner” of this ship. The pining and mutual unrequiredness of it all….
She took a sip of wine, her dark eyes sparkling, and said, “The widow of Barrowton … and yes, if I so choose, I could be an inconvenience. Of course, Roose sees that too, so he takes care to keep me sweet.“ - The Prince of Winterfell, aDwD
Wanted to draw these sinister besties again :) theyre meeting up at some sort of event at someone’s castle…
She took a sip of wine, her dark eyes sparkling, and said, “The widow of Barrowton … and yes, if I so choose, I could be an inconvenience. Of course, Roose sees that too, so he takes care to keep me sweet.“ - The Prince of Winterfell, aDwD
Wanted to draw these sinister besties again :) theyre meeting up at some sort of event at someone’s castle…
Eventually I couldn’t resist and redrew the scene leading up to this, again testing my inking technique and shading choices in order to approach the Theon comic with a clear intention. I took the MOST STUPID selfies to figure out the pose of Brienne scrubbing Jaime’s face, which in my case was a semi deflated gym ball (probably an accurate metaphor for Jaime in this scene tho)
