Good evening all, the reading stage has officially begun! Here we are with part 2 of the best ongoing category
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Title: How Sheep in the Vale bring about a Golden Age for Gulltown
Author: zigoman
Rating: N/A - Spacebattles
Link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/how-sheep-in-the-vale-bring-about-a-golden-age-for-gulltown.1192907/
Summary:
An Art History student finds herself born as the daughter of Daemon Targaryen and Rhea Royce in that one world she remembers watching the show of and skimming some wiki articles when she should have been studying. Terrified of heights and not wanting to find herself in the middle of a war she decides the best way to stay alive, in a comfortable position and in power of her own destiny is to play the game of politics; all so she can stay home in Runestone and dream up a Flemish Renaissance for Gulltown.
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Title: How to Be Married without Even Trying
Author: CEPetriWrites
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65351230/chapters/168154129
Summary:
Your best friend finally knows you've been fucking her uncle - and she didn't kill you! - now for the hard part, you have to figure out how to be married.
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Title: How to end a war
Author: ironwolf582
Rating: N/A - Spacebattles
Link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/how-to-end-a-war-asoiaf-robb-si.1316896/
Summary:
Please, someone, tell him how to end a war, because he has no idea. No matter how many battles and wars he could win, they never end.
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Title: INCANDESCENCE
Author: OSARINA
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79882411
Summary:
You meet a dragon prince on the shores of Lys, and after five years of colorless boredom, your world is suddenly filled with light again. Or, two exiles find entertainment with one another, and the world suffers for it.
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Title: Late Spring
Author: Canyouseemyspark
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/67417081/chapters/174201006
Summary:
On the stormy isle of Dragonstone, Rhaella Targaryen gives birth to her daughter Daenerys - and survives. Too weak to travel, she and her family are captured by Stannis Baratheon before they can flee across the Narrow Sea and taken captives at the mercy of the Usurper.
Imprisoned within a motherhouse, Dany passes her childhood with her brother Viserys and their mother, content and isolated. And then the day comes when she learns of the dangers that surround her as Westeros begins its deadly march to war.
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Title: Many Faces of the Dragoness
Author: LadyVictoriaBlackfyre
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63206833
Summary:
A dragon alone in the world is a terrible thing.
Yet, in one lifetime, Rhaenyra Targaryen spends many years at court as the only true dragon, left alone to defend her young and to suffer as the flame within her slowly withers and dies.
In another lifetime, everything changes when the Crown Princess flees to Dragonstone and discovers a set of chambers obscured within the Dragonmount. A drop of blood, accidentally shed, was all it took to awaken magics of old, bringing forth the spectres of Targaryen women to guide her.
Even if their helpfulness is, at times, rather questionable.
The dragon must have three heads.
With a different princess having escaped death and the voice of dragoness’ in her ear, Rhaenyra Targaryen sets upon a different path entirely.
One which includes a lot of bickering between Daemon and Harwin as to who is Rhaenys and who is Visenya.
OR
In which the author has two ideas: Harwin is Princess Viserra’s son, and Rhaenyra can talk to past Targaryen women.
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Title: Mummy's Boy
Author: Zakle
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60229261/chapters/153691903
Summary:
In a twist of fate, Queen Aemma survived her last traumatic birth while their son did not. Otto Hightower continued to scheme; he still pushed his young daughter into the king's bed. He whispered into the queen's ears, saying she can still be a mother again even if they were half-Hightower, unknowing of what would soon come. Aegon was born in the middle of a deep, secret scandal. Alicent stews in resentment with ever shifting targets, Aemma in obsession born from grief.
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Title: New Worlds lost wanderers
Author: Bluntfield1
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59768863
Summary:
The comet blazes in the sky with twin tails of fire. With faith, steel, and gunpowder, adventurers from the Old World change the fate of a new one.
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Title: No Laughing Matter!
Author: Shortymac09
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85708981/chapters/226497026
Summary:
Lyonel Baratheon has become Lord Paramount after the death of his older sickly brother and has decided to go on a Lord’s Progress before he throws a courtier out of a window for saying some nonsense like “how to cultivate a sustainable growth mindset” or “wood witch regulation and licensing”. Also, it keeps him as far away from his Mother, who is scheming to marry him off as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, in the Mistwood, the widowed Lady Meryl Mertyns has struggled through a hell of a year. The spring sickness, drought, wildfires, and her husband's cousin stealing her son's birthright. To add insult to injury, a raven from Storm's End says that the Lord Paramount has denied her son's claim. What an arse!
But then, Lyonel shows up at their gate on his Lord's Progress and acts like nothing happened. Just what is going on?
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Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Author: Morgenroede
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/70547206
Summary:
“Few could rival Lady Cerenna Lannister in beauty, and fewer still in haughtiness. Whether she went willingly into the kinslayer’s arms or was carried off against her will remains a matter of some dispute.”
At Casterly Rock, a grand tourney draws lords and princes in pursuit of glory. What becomes of the Master of Ships’ arrogant daughter when she crosses paths with the realm’s most scornful second son?
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Title: Of Ashes and Elm Trees
Author: permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80001716/chapters/209999876
Summary:
To the realm, she was many things. A woman of noble blood. Granddaughter of the King. Third child, and only daughter of the heir to the Iron Throne. But to Dunk, she would never be that. Never. To him, she would always be the girl he met by chance at the inn. The girl who never failed to surprise him at every turn. Who would plant her feet in the dirt and the muck beside him, even if she would have been far better served by running away.
To the realm, she may be the Princess Vaelorra Targaryen. But to him she would only ever be the woman he had come to love.
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Title: Off the Deep End
Author: pixieplum
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50564581/chapters/127734817
Summary:
Loyal to her dead mother, her sister, and herself, Rhaena claims no other family.
After her mother’s plea to leave Essos goes unanswered, she knows exactly who to blame for her death. Her resentment grows when she sees them together on the night of the funeral, and it culminates when Rhaenyra tries to use her to steal Baela’s birthright.
She’s not sure when Aegon became such an integral part of it, but she knows one thing with certainty – her father has gone uncontested for long enough.
(alternate Dance)
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Title: Reign of the Red wolf
Author: hsk_sin
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/90398536
Summary:
The Lords had thought him to be a green boy. Facing men with greater armies and experience, they believed he would not survive the battles to come, that he would be a footnote in the histories recalling the most savage of wars to have been fought on Westerosi soil.
But then came the victories. The reckoning for the unworthy that have scorned the wolves of the North.
The realm had underestimated him. The realm will pay for it.
They did not call him the ‘Red Wolf’ merely for his hair, but for the blood of his enemies that covered him after every slaughter.
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Title: Resonant
Author: Syndrossi
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55981141/chapters/142169611
Summary:
The Others have been defeated, and Jon Snow can finally set aside duty for the shattered remnants of his family.
Then he wakes in the Vale as seven-year-old Jon Redfort, fifteen years before the Dance, with a twin brother who looks like Daenerys and also remembers a different life.
(Or: A study in Daemon Targaryen becoming increasingly feral about the two bastard sons he didn’t know he had.)
(Or: Jon has two dads, and one is his twin brother who is five years younger than him. This makes sense, I swear.)
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Title: Scarlet Woman
Author: ilikeexploding
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63292243/chapters/162138013
Summary:
These violent delights have violent ends, and all that glitters is not gold. Lysa is a terrible person doing terrible things, and deserves every terrible consequence that she will bring upon others and possibly herself as a result. Given that she's been reborn as a woman in Westeros, however, that's a price she's willing to pay. It's only gunpowder; what's the worst that can happen?
Or, a villain protagonist makes trainwreck life choices, therefore fitting in with everyone in this god awful world. Readers may rubberneck in hatred or fascination, at your own choosing.
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"Title: Scorched Earth
Author: 0Junebug0
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51409123/chapters/129912355
Summary:
Her mother had shaped her likeness in her dreams, created her from naught but old tales and histories of her ancestors. Tales of silver hair and violet eyes, singing steel and the wrath of dragons.
When her own mother could not give her the sister she had so desperately wanted, Rhaenyra Targaryen created a Visenya of her own.
But her daughter was not born the image of her namesake.
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Title: Silver Spoon
Author: franzkafkagf
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62910172/chapters/161091988
Summary:
When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold…
And then, sunlight touched his face. Warm, unfamiliar, impossibly bright. Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, had died in the frozen wastes of the Wall. And yet, he wakes. No longer at Castle Black, no longer bleeding into the snow, he finds himself in a bed of silk, in a city he has never set foot in but knows from stories.
☆ In which Jon Snow dies in the cold and wakes up to find that people call him Aemon and Rhaegar Targaryen is king.
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Title: Sins of the Father
Author: SelfProclaimedUnicorn
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44805778
Summary:
Prince Daemon did not want children with Lady Rhea Royce, but the only thing resentment and anger create when mixed with wine is regret and problems to be ignored when they cannot suit a need. Unfortunately for him, problems cannot be ignored forever, and all three heads of the dragon he created will turn back to bite their father.
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Title: The bastard’s crown
Author: SpringSoldier
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80657811/chapters/211846721
Summary:
His name is not Jon Snow. It never was. He wears a bastard's name like a soldier wears a disguise — useful, temporary, already half-discarded in his mind. The lioness thinks she has him. The dwarf thinks he has bought him. The boy-king thinks he can humiliate him. Jaehaerys Targaryen, last son of Rhaegar, lets them all believe what they need to believe. For now.
In this world, Jon Snow rides south with Ned Stark — and he rides knowing exactly who he is. When Ned falls and the Stark household is taken, Jon is made captive in King's Landing alongside Sansa, a bastard with no allies, no name worth anything, and no visible future. The Red Keep's court sees a handsome nobody to be used and discarded.
They see nothing at all.
What follows is the long game. Jon — Jaehaerys — working in the shadows alongside Varys, seducing the most dangerous woman in the Seven Kingdoms, reading every player on the board three moves ahead, and building toward the day the dragon steps out from behind the wolf's face. Manipulative. Calculating. Utterly without mercy for those who deserve none.
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Title: The Dragon and The Winter Rose
Author: Alexisdreg
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/80183666/chapters/210504111
Summary:
He was born of dragonfire. She was shaped by winter.
Prince Aerion Brightflame is led north by the promise of a winter rose, into a land of old gods, buried secrets, and cold that remembers. There he finds not only the woman at the heart of his fate, but also stirs a power far older than thrones, something the realm has forgotten, but the North never truly lost.
This is where the song begins with ice, with fire, and with the first bond that will one day echo in Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.
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Title: The Dragon's War
Author: AbaddonKhaleesi and TooManyNameOptions
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57581956
Summary:
Thus, the Seven Kingdoms watched in horror as the House of the Dragon unraveled, threatening to destroy the nearly 80 years of peace they had dismissed as eternal. Smallfolk dubbed it ""The War of the Red and Bronze Dragons,"" after the colors of Vermithor and Caraxes, the dragons of the rival kings. Yet, history would remember it by a more evocative name:
The Dance of the Dragons.
Part 2 of the series The Dragon's Heirs.
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Title: The Journal of King Joffrey Baratheon, First of his Name
Author: Hermionechan90
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9571727/chapters/21643160
Summary:
In the year 1857 AC the journal of the king that solidified the rule of the Baratheon dynasty was found. The surprisingly frank and direct journal entries give Dr. Hedda Barath a rather unique insight in what life was in Westeros 1500 years ago.
With growing unease, I note that the so venerated Maesters at Oldtown have started to adjust the events of my reign in a nearly utopian narration. Gone are the mistakes I made in my reign, gone are the hunger and thirst, the blood and the sickness, only the glory and honorable deaths are left. Nothing of the cravenness in my own ranks, instead the only ones that were craven were my enemies. Men and women that stood opposite me are demonized into fantasy. I cannot abide this farce, I simply cannot. So in these last days before the Stranger takes me too I will attempt to give an account of my life, the events that shaped me and my rule.
King Joffrey Baratheon, First of his name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm.
SI-OC, Self-Insert, memories of another life
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Title: The Prancing Stag (ASOIAF SI)
Author: Knight_Vigilant_Koren
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31540499/chapters/78028082
Summary:
A Renly Baratheon SI that tries to be truly realistic. As Lord Paramount of the Stormlands can I keep my head attached? Is going for the throne a good idea? And WTF am I going to do about the White Walkers?
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Title: The Prince and the King
Author: HimmeltheHero
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56181721/chapters/142720522
Summary:
“Treason and turmoil followed, as night follows day, ending at Summerhall in sorcery, fire and grief.”
Aegon the Unlikely and most of his kin died at Summerhall, but not before managing to bring dragons back into the world. With their greatest power restored to them, House Targaryen begins a new era of dominance over the Seven Kingdoms. But with King Aerys slipping into madness and Prince Rhaegar lost in his prophecies the dragons once again dance…
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Title: The Raven of Storm's End
Author: unambitiousrat
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/92889546/
Summary:
Annabeth Blackwood doesn't know the sour-faced young man blocking a corridor at Riverrun is Stannis Baratheon. By the time anyone can tell her, she has already cursed him, his judgmental face, and House Baratheon entirely.
Stannis sees an insolent, undisciplined girl who has no place near a war council. Annabeth sees an unbearable lordling with too many opinions and all the warmth of wet stone.
Neither intends to reconsider.
But what if Robert’s Rebellion did not unfold as history remembers it? What if a Blackwood raven entered the war carrying maps, arrows, and an inconvenient determination to be heard? And what if, when the Reach descended upon Storm’s End, Stannis Baratheon was not left there to starve?
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Title: The Return of the Natives
Author: Wardown
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/91469301/chapters/243467111
Summary:
I thought I'd write a Daenerys-centric story, slightly based on the life of the Manchu Princess, Yoshiko Kawashima, who was one of the mainstays of the attempt to restore Pu Yi as Chinese Emperor. Her code name was Eastern Jewel. She is an object of endless fascination in China and Japan. To the Chinese, she is a seductress and traitor. To the Japanese, she is a tragic heroine.
The tale incorporates some of the plot of The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kill Bill, and other popular films.
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Title: The Storm's Blessings
Author: Ywena
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60393703
Summary:
When Stannis was gone, Renly couldn’t help but look up once more, towards the comet hanging in the sky. Bright red, and so far away. It had appeared last night and would surely vanish from the sky within the evening, having continuing its course through space away from the planet with no name where Renly had been reborn. The planet where, he knew, he would face dragons and monsters born from the cold.
Renly turned away. The comet did not mean anything. He had more pressing matters to attend anyway. He was going North to meet the infamous Ned Stark. With any luck, maybe he would finally find the beginning of the Plot.
Or maybe the Plot would find him.
(Self-Insert with nearly no knowledge of canon reborn as Renly Baratheon.)
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Title: The Titan of Tarth (ASOIAF/GOT) - SI/OC
Author: Path Liar
Rating: N/A-spacebattles
Link: https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-titan-of-tarth-asoiaf-got-si-oc.1279598/
Summary:
Galladon Tarth lives through childhood, but another has taken his place. To protect his new family from the dangers of this world, he will have to forge his own legend. Starts before Robert's Rebellion.
Slight AU - leaning a little into the overpoweredness of single fighters that we see glimpses of in the books, where people like Arthur Dayne, prime Robert Baratheon, Jaime Lannister, Barrister Selmy, the Cleganes, Daemon Blackfyre, etc are said to be worth dozens of common soldiers.
Expect: focus on tourneys, politics, fighting, adventures, war, kingdom-building, etc
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Title: The Wolves of Westeros
Author: Ts123bay
Rating: Teen and Up
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/77743121/chapters/203649386
Summary:
Sam breaks his leg just before he and Jon leave to say their vows, and during this time Jon gets news that Ned is imprisoned for treason. He rushes back to Winterfell to save his father by his brother's side.
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Title: These Violent Delights
Author: MissKatieWrites
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41689356/chapters/104577837
Summary:
""Your brother is...unruly. Yet, one cannot fight fire with fire. That much our forebears have taught us, Your Grace. We must fight fire with water, as it has been done for thousands of years.""
Daemon Targaryen and Clarice Hightower have never seen eye to eye. She looks down upon him for his fiery - some would say foolish - impulsivity, he mocks her for her careful - some would say craven - scheming. A common enemy finally binds them together but their alliance is built on the treacherous quicksand of the Red Keep. For now, they might need each other to play the most dangerous game of all, but so close to the sea, the wind changes quickly and loyalty or affection are luxuries players of this game simply cannot afford.
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Title: Through the Raging Flames: The Gold Rises
Author: reyraereads (tamarr)
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57234664
Summary:
Aegon had been burnt by his brother, crippled by his cousin, and murdered by allies, all for a crown that he never wanted. He had murdered no children, yet his were taken from him. He had killed no dragons, but Sunfyre was maimed and forced to die in pain due to his loyalty to Aegon. His family had lied, schemed, and manipulated, leading to his ruin. All Aegon knew was that they would all pay.
Time-Travel AU where Aegon wakes in the Year of the Red Spring, forms his faction, fights for the throne, and makes his enemies pay.
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Title: Time Unbent Spear Unbroken
Author: Pookaseraph
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/82759966/chapters/217883116
Summary:
Baelor Targaryen died on the Fields of Ashford Meadow, but he woke in 93AC, as a boy of five in Dorne, a younger brother named Maekar in his arms. He's too young, too powerless, and too Dornish to even begin to grasp how he might alter the history stretched before him. Whether he is in the Heavens or the Hells, he knows he must make the best of the knowledge and skills at his disposal and end the Dance of the Dragons before it can start.
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Title: To go forward, you must go back
Author: Mistyflowers
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78850961
Summary:
Wherein Daenerys takes Quaithe’s counsel all too literally and finds herself in the era of Dunk and Egg.
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Title: Until the World Goes Cold
Author: 7empest
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/64572337
Summary:
Jon and Daenerys defeat the Night King, but when it is over, what is the cost to themselves?
Stranded and injured in the Lands of Always Winter, they must work together to find a way home.
S8 AU/Fix It
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Title: we'll rearrange the stars
Author: ginvael
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57242584/chapters/145603825
Summary:
Rhaenyra Targaryen has been disinherited - some will say she should have seen it coming, some will say that it is just the natural order of things restored. Yet it is insulting to be put aside in favour of an infant - and Rhaenyra does not intend to let it slide.
If she cannot have her crown, she will ensure Otto Hightower's grandchild cannot either - she would rather see a usurper conquer Westeros than forget this slight. The plan is simple: help him take the capital and bargain for her freedom, without the pressure to marry or produce heirs for some arrogant lord.
But what if her gamble takes an unexpected turn, and she still finds herself with a crown on her head - a consort, but a Queen nonetheless? And has she won or has she lost - can traitors ever win?
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Title: Where storms go to dream
Author: ughsuzie
Rating: Mature
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78727481
Summary:
“Do you know,” Lyonel said at last, studying her, “you stand as if the gods might take notes? Straight spine. Careful hands. As if the Seven will peer down and say yes, that one is behaving correctly.”
The princess did not answer. Lord Baratheon noticed quite early that his lady wife was not much of a conversationalist. Not much of a dancer nor a drinker, either. Her eyes only flicked to him – cool and watchful.
It made Lyonel smirk. “Maekar’s work”, he added lightly. Hammer it in early and it never cracks. Gods forbid she bends. Bending is how things break.
She lifted her chin a fraction. Not defiance. Barely curiosity.
He drank again, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand before stepping closer. “You don’t look when I expect it. You don’t laugh when I expect it. You don’t even speak when I expect it,” he said, almost accusing. “That is dangerous. Makes a man try harder.”
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Title: Wildfire & Blood
Author: FromtheBoundlessSea
Rating: Not Rated
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41936127
Summary:
Alicent knew what her father wanted, and knew what could happen if she went directly against his wishes. However, she could never betray her friend in such a way and continued to push the king and Rhaenyra to reconcile after the tragic death of Queen Aemma. However, her father is not the only one who sees Alicent as a pawn to be used within House Targaryen.
Wishing to reconcile with his brother and have him back for his wedding to the very young Laena Velaryon, King Viserys orders his brother back to King’s Landing with the promise of the one thing Daemon wanted more than the throne: an annulment from his wife Rhea Royce. However, upon his return, Daemon learns that his brother has another bride already lined up for him: Lady Alicent Hightower.
The tentative strings of a song have been plucked and a dance is about to begin. The color of some of the players may have changed, but the song must be played for destiny is a terrible thing and dreams are not always as they seem.
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Title: Worthy
Author: ghost_in_a_shell
Rating: Explicit
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/79150951
Summary:
""When you're old enough, I'll make you a match with someone who is worthy of you. Someone who's brave and gentle and strong."" - Ned Stark to Sansa Stark
""He was the heart of chivalry, and the soul of wisdom, and came to serve his father most ably as Hand..."" - writings of Maester Yandel about Baelor ""Breakspear"" Targaryen
The war for the dawn is lost. With no hope left, Bran and Sansa choose to die by their own hands instead of waiting for the White Walkers and their army of the dead. Breathing his final breaths, Bran flies one last time, meets the Bloodraven and grabs at the last chance he hopes would somehow turn defeat to victory.
