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nedlynstan · 4 years

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some Nedlyn headers part 1 (part 2 is coming)

um yea, i made some NEDLYN headers!! I love all of these scenes so much, I hope you like them as much as I do🥺🥺

my personal favorite is , Ned chocking Littlefinger and Cat swinging from the window😼

-> technically you can cut them to square and use them as icons too💞

-> I really want to make headers with fan art too but I don’t know some of the owners and I don’t know if they would allow me to... so yea

ps: im not expecting anyone to use them, but feel free to ig(?) <3

#nedlyn #nedcat #ned and catelyn #nedlyn header #game of thrones header #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #got #asoiaf #got header #asoiaf header #ned stark #catelyn stark #catelyn tully #eddard stark #house stark #otp #they are so cute im gonna cry #look at these scenes🥺

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strexp · 5 years

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please like/reblog if you save.

#catelyn stark #catelyn tully #cat stark #eddard stark #ned stark #catned #ned x cat #house stark #got #game of thrones #headers

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upinflamesicons-blog · 7 years

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Game of thrones headers

Don’t redistribute or claim as your own.

credit to @rnudbIood

#game of thrones #headers #game of thrones headers #arya stark headers #sansa stark headers #jon snow headers #bran stark headers #catelyn stark headers

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gerroys · 7 years

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Icons & Headers. I started making these for myself and realized there aren't many icons of her so i made a shiton of them, and some GOT headers too. Overall I tried to include fancast as well, but it’s from other shows so I limited them.

icons 100 x 100

headers 1000 x 570

don’t edit

like or reblog if taking :)

all icons can be found here and headers here

#iheartgot #gameofthronesdaily #asoiafedit #gotcatelynstark #catelyn stark #gotedit #got #asoiaf #stark #tully #mine #myicons #myheaders #i had those headers made for some time and then #i made for other fandoms and now i'm apparently making them #also this pack is lowkey one of my best

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amuelia · 3 years

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How do you think Roose will meet his demise? Or will he survive? What's your best Roose end game predictions?

Thank you for the question! This will be a long post under the readmore, going into my thoughts on the show ending and exploring what the books may have set up in regards to themes and characterization, as well as a bit of general analysis of Roose' story arc in a Dance with Dragons (and some speculation about Ramsay as well).

If you click on the readmore i will have divided the post into sections with bolded Headers, if you want to only read my specific endgame ideas you can skip ahead to the "His Endgame?" section.

In The Show

The show had him get killed by Ramsay in s6, which informs a lot of the fandom speculation about this storyline.

I am not a fan of the show's scenario as it was both similar to tywin and tyrion as well as a mirror of robb's death; it would also be offscreen in the books since neither of the characters are PoVs and Ramsay would need to do the act in secret. This would ultimately undercut Roose' role and impact, being a death scene that is not very unique and also isn't shown to the reader directly. Since no PoV is even in Winterfell currently, we would just hear of it from afar and not witness the consequences.

The show also has a different dynamic in the Bolton storyline, emphasizing Ramsay as the "main character" of this arc, and elevating him to the main villain for s5-6 to fill Joffrey's shoes as an evil character played by a very charismatic actor. Ramsay's show writing is informed by the needs of a TV setting that wants shocking moments and capitalizes on "fan favourite" actors; his rising importance in the show thus is not necessarily an indicator of his book importance. The show was also missing many central characters like the northern lords and the Frey men in Winterfell.

The show had a tendency to kill off characters early when they wanted to cull storylines or had no plans to adapt more of the character's story (like Stannis, Barristan, possibly the Tyrells...); In Mance Rayder we have the most obvious example, where they killed him off for real in a scene that in the book was a misdirection. We also have characters like Jorah where it appears the showrunners had their own choice of how they want his storyline to end, even if Grrm has his own ending in mind.

"For a long time we wanted Ser Jorah to be there at The Wall in the end," writer Dave Hill says. "The three coming out of the tunnel would be Jon and Jorah and Tormund. But [...] Jorah should have the noble death he craves defending the woman he loves." - Dave Hill for Entertainment Weekly

So a death in the show does not need to be an indicator that the books will feature an equivalent scene, even if it gives a hint as to what may happen. By s5 the show has become its own beast, and the butterfly effects from radical changes they made as well as the different characterizations results in the show having to cater to its own needs in many cases when it gets to resolving a plotline.

"We reconceived the role to make it worthy of the actor's talents." - Benioff and Weiss for the s5 DVD commentary, on Indira Varma's casting as Ellaria

In The Books

(Since this post was getting out of hand in length a lot of these arguments are a little shortened/not as in-depth as i'd like! Feel free to inquire more via ask if something is unclear or you disagree)

In the books i find it hard to make a concrete guess as to how it will end. Occam's razor would be to assume the show sort of got it right and that it will vaguely end the same, which could very well happen and i will not discount the possibility; Ramsay is cruel, desires the Dreadfort rule, and is a suspected kinslayer and has no qualms to commit immoral violence.

"Ramsay killed [his brother]. A sickness of the bowels, Maester Uthor says, but I say poison." - Reek III, aDwD

Reek saw the way Ramsay's mouth twisted, the spittle glistening between his lips. He feared he might leap the table with his dagger in his hand [to attack his father]. - Reek III, aDwD

Arguments against this or for a different endgame come down to interpretations of the themes in the story arc and opinions on dramatic structure/grrm's writing, and are thus very subjective.

The way the story currently is going, Ramsay killing Roose treats Roose almost as a plot device; his death brings no change or development to Ramsay's character as we already know his motivations and cruelty align with such an act, and we can assume that he would feel no remorse about it either. The results of such a scene would be firmly on a story level, as it brings political changes and moves the plot along into a specific direction. Roose himself cannot have any relevant character development about it as he does not have a PoV and we would not be able to witness his reaction from the outside.

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.” - William Faulkner, often quoted by Grrm

Further, killing his father is very difficult to pull off in secret (Roose is frequently described as very cautious, and employs many guardsmen). And even if Ramsay pulls it off (people often interpret Ramsay as Roose' blind spot, assuming he might be caught by surprise, not expecting Ramsay would bite the hand that feeds him), Roose is the one that holds his entire alliance together; The Freys would be alienated by Ramsay who would antagonize Walda and her son as his rivals, The Ryswell bloc appears to dislike Ramsay (especially Barbrey), and the other northmen are implied to not even like Roose himself. Killing Roose would quickly combust the entire northern faction, and hinder Ramsay's further plans (another reason why I am not convinced of a book version of the "Battle of Bastards"). Though this might of course, if we look at it from the other side, be grrm's plan to quickly dissolve this plot and move the northern story forwards.

"Ramsay will kill [Walda's children], of course. [...] [She] will grieve to see them die, though." - Reek III, aDwD

"How many of our grudging friends do you imagine we'd retain if the truth were known? Only Lady Barbrey, whom you would turn into a pair of boots … inferior boots." - Reek III, aDwD

"Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit. Even here in Barrowton the crows are circling, waiting to feast upon our flesh. The Cerwyns and the Tallharts are not to be relied on, my fat friend Lord Wyman plots betrayal, and Whoresbane … the Umbers may seem simple, but they are not without a certain low cunning. Ramsay should fear them all, as I do." - Reek III, aDwD

Roose' death at Ramsay's hand also removes him thematically from the Red Wedding, as we can assume such a death might have happened regardless of his participation in the event (seeing as Ramsay is getting provoked by Roose constantly in normal dialogue, and has a general violent disposition). Roose already took Ramsay in before aGoT started, and married Walda very early in the war, which is already most of the buildup that the show's scenario had. It also has little to do with the The North Remembers plot except set dressing, since the northmen are presumably neither collaborating with/egging on Ramsay nor would they appreciate the development.

Themes: Ned Stark and the rule over the North

Roose is treated as a foil to Eddard; They are often contrasted in morals and ruling styles, while also having many superficial similarities that further connect them (they are seen as cold by people, grey eyed, patriarchs of rivalling northern houses, etc...).

Pale as morning mist, his eyes concealed more than they told. Jaime misliked those eyes. They reminded him of the day at King's Landing when Ned Stark had found him seated on the Iron Throne. - Jaime IV, aSoS

They both have a "bastard son" that they handle very differently; Roose treating Ramsay in the way that is seen as common in their society. Ramsay and Jon as a comparison are meant to show that Catelyn had a reason to see a bastard as a threat (since Domeric was antagonized by his bastard brother), but also shows that her suggested plan for Jon would not have stopped any danger either (as Ramsay being raised away from the castle didn't help).

And if his seed quickened, she expected he would see to the child's needs. He did more than that. The Starks were not like other men. Ned brought his bastard home with him, and called him "son" for all the north to see. - Catelyn II, aGoT

"Each year I sent the woman some piglets and chickens and a bag of stars, on the understanding that she was never to tell the boy who had fathered him. A peaceful land, a quiet people, that has always been my rule." - Reek III, aDwD

It appears to me that Roose' story functions in some ways as an inversion to Ned. He makes an attempt to grab a power he was not destined to (becoming warden of the north), where Ned did not want the responsiblity thrust upon him ("It was all meant for Brandon. [...] I never asked for this cup to pass to me." - Cat II, aGoT). Where Ned rules successfully and his northmen honor his legacy ("What do you think passes through their heads when they hear the new bride weeping? Valiant Ned's precious little girl." - The Turncloak, aDwD), the Boltons are largely hated and there are several plots conspiring against them ("Let me bathe in Bolton blood before I die." - The King's Prize, aDwD).

It seems possible to me that in terms of their family and legacy, Roose might also live through an inverted version of Ned's story; where Ned died first, leaving his family behind, Roose already lived to see the death of his wives and trueborn heir, and might thus also live to see Ramsay's death. Ned leaves behind well raised children and a North who still respects his name, and even though he dies it will presumably all be "in good hands" in the end (in broad strokes, obviously this is all much more morally complex). Roose however built up a bad and toxic legacy, and also built his way of life around evading consequences; it makes sense to me that he would be forced by the story to finally endure all the consequences of his actions and witness the fall of his house firsthand. After all we already have Tywin who fulfils the purpose of dying before his children while his legacy falls to ruins, and a Feast for Crows explores this aspect thoroughly.

Roose' arc in A Dance With Dragons

The story repeatedly builds up the situation unravelling around Roose, and him slowly losing a grip on it and becoming more stressed and anxious.

Reek wondered if Roose Bolton ever cried. If so, do the tears feel cold upon his cheeks? - Reek II, aDwD

Roose Bolton said nothing at all. But Theon Greyjoy saw a look in his pale eyes that he had never seen before—an uneasiness, even a hint of fear. [...] That night the new stable collapsed beneath the weight of the snow that had buried it. - a Ghost in Winterfell, aDwD

Lady Walda gave a shriek and clutched at her lord husband's arm. "Stop," Roose Bolton shouted. "Stop this madness." His own men rushed forward as the Manderlys vaulted over the benches to get at the Freys. - Theon I, aDwD

It also directly presents him as a parallel to Theon's rule in aCoK, who similarly experienced a very unpopular rule and his subjects slowly turning against him. Presumably, the point of this comparison will not just be "Ramsay comes in at the end and unexpectedly whacks them on the head". Both Theon and Roose invited Ramsay into their lives, giving him more power than he deserves, and causing Ramsay to make choices that increasingly alienate others from them (the death of the miller's boys for example has repercussions for both Theon and Roose). Grrm is likely steering this towards a difference in how they will deal with this situation.

It all seemed so familiar, like a mummer show that he had seen before. Only the mummers had changed. Roose Bolton was playing the part that Theon had played the last time round, and the dead men were playing the parts of Aggar, Gynir Rednose, and Gelmarr the Grim. Reek was there too, he remembered, but he was a different Reek, a Reek with bloody hands and lies dripping from his lips, sweet as honey. - a Ghost in Winterfell, aDwD

"Stark's little wolflings are dead," said Ramsay, sloshing some more ale into his cup, "and they'll stay dead. Let them show their ugly faces, and my girls will rip those wolves of theirs to pieces. The sooner they turn up, the sooner I kill them again." - The elder Bolton sighed. "Again? Surely you misspeak. You never slew Lord Eddard's sons, those two sweet boys we loved so well. That was Theon Turncloak's work, remember? How many of our grudging friends do you imagine we'd retain if the truth were known?" - Reek III, aDwD

Roose' arc is deeply connected to the relations he shares to the other northern lords, which has been heavily impacted by the Red Wedding. It stands to reason that they are going to be an important part of his downfall, and we see many hints of them plotting to betray him.

The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home." - Davos IV, aDwD

Themes: Stannis and kinslaying

The books set up Roose and Stannis as foils as well; Both lack charisma and have trouble winnning the people's support, Stannis and Roose both parallel and contrast Ned, Stannis appears as a "lesser Robert" where Roose is a "lesser Ned", Stannis represents the fire where Roose represents the ice, both struggle over dominion in a land that doesnt particularly want either of them, etc... What i find interesting is how they are contrasted over kinslaying:

"Only Renly could vex me so with a piece of fruit. He brought his doom on himself with his treason, but I did love him, Davos. I know that now. I swear, I will go to my grave thinking of my brother's peach." - Davos II, aCoK

"I should've had the mother whipped and thrown her child down a well … but the babe did have my eyes." [...] "Now [Domeric's] bones lie beneath the Dreadfort with the bones of his brothers, who died still in the cradle, and I am left with Ramsay. Tell me, my lord … if the kinslayer is accursed, what is a father to do when one son slays another?" - Reek III, aCoK

Stannis is set up as someone who is very thorough and strict in following his own code and his "duty", even if he does not like what it forces him to do.

Stannis ground his teeth again. "I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head, but so long as I am the king, I have a duty . . . If I must sacrifice one child to the flames to save a million from the dark . . . Sacrifice . . . is never easy, Davos. Or it is no true sacrifice. Tell him, my lady." - Davos IV, aSoS

The armorer considered that a moment. "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." - Jon I, aCoK

Roose however is frequently characterized as someone who tries to get as much as he can while avoiding negative consequences, and who does not have a consistent moral code and instead bends rules to his benefit to be the most comfortable to him.

It is often theorized that Stannis will end up burning his daughter Shireen; the Ramsay issue might then serve to contrast the two men. If Grrm intends it to be compared by the reader, I can see it going two ways: Either Roose will be forced to finally act in a drastic way after avoiding his responsibility in regards to Ramsay and he will be forced to get rid of his son, making him break the only moral hurdle he has presented adhering to during the story (though analyzing his character, the kinslaying taboo is probably less a sign of moral fortitude and more him using the guise of morals to explain a selfish motivation). Or he might not act against Ramsay and suffer the consequences, presenting an interesting moral situation where some readers might consider his action "better" or more relatable than Stannis', breaking up the otherwise very black and white moral comparison between the two men. It serves as an interesting conflict of the morality of kinslaying compared to what readers might see as a moral obligation of getting rid of a monster such as Ramsay; contrasting Shireen whose death would not be seen as worth it by most. Ramsay as a bastard (who was almost killed at birth if he hadnt been able to prove his paternity) also makes for an interesting verbal parallel with the bastard Edric Storm, and might be used for a look at the utilitarian principle of killing a child (baby ramsay/edric) to save countless people from suffering that underpinned Edric's story.

"As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy." - Grrm

"Robert, I ask you, what did we rise against Aerys Targaryen for, if not to put an end to the murder of children?" - Eddard VIII, aGoT

"If Joffrey should die . . . what is the life of one bastard boy against a kingdom?" - "Everything," said Davos, softly. - Davos V, aSoS

However Grrm decides to present these conflicts or which actions the characters will take in the end, it will result in interesting discussion and analysis for the readers.

His Endgame?

Looking at the trends of the past books, it is probably going to be hard to predict any specific outcome; every book introduces new characters and plot elements that were impossible to predict from the last book even if their thematic importance or setup was aptly foreshadowed.

Roose has a lot of plot importance and characterization that has, in my opinion, not yet been properly resolved in a way that would be unique and poignant to the specific purpose his character appears to fulfil. However I also have a bias in that i did not like the show's writing of that scene which makes me averse to see a version of it in the books, and i really like Roose as a character and want to see him have more scenes in the next book(s). This leads me to discount plot speculation that cuts his character arc short offscreen early. Roose is only a side character; however, i have trust in grrm's writing abilities and that he would give him a proper sendoff that feels satisfying to a fan of the character.

"…even the [characters] who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems… When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain — if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection." — George Martin

Considering my earlier analyis, there is a case to be made for Roose killing Ramsay; however it appears grrm might have a different endgame in mind for Ramsay, foreshadowed in Chett's prologue:

There'd be no lord's life for the leechman's son, no keep to call his own, no wives nor crowns. Only a wildling's sword in his belly, and then an unmarked grave. The snow's taken it all from me . . . the bloody snow . . . - Chett, aSoS

I tend to think something might happen to Roose/the Bolton bloc later in the book that would cause Ramsay to attempt to flee the scene again like he did back in aCoK fleeing Rodrik's justice; perhaps Ramsay is sent out to battle but then flees it like a coward, or he sees his cause as lost. This time, the fleeing and potentially disguised Ramsay would not make it out to safety though, and get killed without being recognized as Ramsay, dying forgotten. This would serve as dramatic irony since Ramsay so strongly desired to be recognized and respected as a Lord of Bolton, without being too on the nose.

As for Roose, i could see him getting captured and somehow brought to justice (either when someone takes Winterfell or in some sort of battle). I see it unlikely that he will be backstabbed like Robb was, because it seems very "eye for an eye" and ultimately doesn't teach much of a lesson except "he had it coming"; But the various people conspiring against him could lead to his capture by betraying him (giving a payoff to the northern conspiracies and the red wedding). I would find a scene of him standing trial interesting since i believe we didn't have one of these for a true non-pov villain yet, and it would be an interesting confrontation that he cannot escape from (he also loves to talk so it would be a good read to see him make a case for himself).

I assume Roose will be out of the picture when the Other plot finally properly kicks into gear (whether dead or "in prison"). With Stannis as a false Azor Ahai and Roose as a false Other (with his pale, cold features), their struggle in the north seems to be a representation of the false "Game of Thrones" that distracts people from the "real threat" of the Others.

As always this is just my opinion, and it could all go very differently in the books! There could always be something that completely uproots my analysis and goes into a direction i did not expect from the material we had; But i have fate that Grrm as a writer will deliver and give me something i can be satisfied with.

#asks #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #roose bolton #valyrianscrolls #a song of ice and fire #not art #anonymous

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it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined · 4 years

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Because I had a tiny bit of inspiration for the lockdown AU (which is possibly going to be more of a divorce lawyers AU as the flashbacks kick in)

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"Oh," Cat says. "Oh. You love him."

There's a finality to her tone that makes Brienne's heart lurch. It doesn't matter, she thinks, it never has-- Except she's never been able to lie to Catelyn Stark a day in her life, not really. She spent too many years watching Cat go to war for their clients; respects how Cat goes to war. How she went to war for Brienne, once, and how much she owes for it--

"I don't know that--" She begins, but the look on Cat's face makes her swallow the rest of the sentence, makes her stop talking entirely. She can't believe she's spent so many years talking around this for other people. She doesn't have a single word left for herself. It never mattered before, how she felt; not like this.

Cat lets out a sigh - and she knows that particular sigh; knows it's one of Cat's tricks when she's trying to convince a client not to do something stupid and emotional and screw themselves out of a perfectly good settlement. It's a tactic. Brienne hates that bloody sigh. "I just think-- People do terrible things, for love. Make terrible choices, and they have to live with them. I think we know that better than most, Brienne."

"What I know is that people do all kinds of things for love, Cat. Some of them are terrible, most of them are just choices." She says it gently, because Brienne has her own tactics for guiding clients, and they generally entail a lot less feigned motherly concern. "Maybe they're choices I wish I'd made earlier, now. Maybe then I would have had some time to actually enjoy them."

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Header by the wonderful @scoundrels-in-love as always

#wip wednesday #LOOK i have been watching a lot of trashy bbc divorce lawyer drama this week for fic inspo #now i have a lot of feels about brienne going to war for her clients #and burning out again and again because it's never enough #and it feels like yesterday was a year ago

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rcdwclf · 4 years

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♚ ┇ Introducing SANSA STARK. The 24 year old CIS FEMALE, LADY from WINTERFELL. SHE has sworn loyalty to HOUSE STARK and is known for being COMPASSIONATE, INTELLIGENT and NAIVE.

* header not made by me, but couldn’t find the credit for it *

basics

FULL NAME: sansa stark. AGE: twenty four. GENDER: cisfemale. SEXUALITY | ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: questioning bisexual & biromantic. MARTIAL STATUS: unwed/single. TITLE: lady of winterfell. LOYALTY: house stark, the north.

appearance

HAIR: auburn, long down to the middle of her back, when in winterfell it is often loose with a simple half pulled back look. in king’s landing, often done in intricate braids ontop of her head that give her headaches. EYES: ‘ tully blue ‘ aka bright blue eyes. HEIGHT: 5′9″. NOTICEABLE FEATURES: her height, she is almost as tall as her brothers. she is often compared to a bird for her sharp but thin features much like her mother at her age by outsiders. however, she finds she fits in with her siblings, the tully genes being strong.

relationships

MOTHER: catelyn tully. FATHER: eddard ‘ned’ stark. SIBLINGS: robb stark. rickon stark. arya stark. bran stark. jon snow. PETS: lady. OTHERS: theon greyjoy.

personality

INTELLIGENT: sansa writes and reads quite well, enjoying whatever stories she can get her hands on, though heroic tales of knights always will hold a special place in her heart. she is well versed in westeros history, as well as more ‘ feminine’ hobbies such as needlepoint, and playing music. despite her optimistic outlook at first, she is still well versed in what place every house holds in the court and her own initial role in her family as the eldest daughter.

COMPASSIONATE: some might call it naivety, but she has always been warm towards other people and creatures, trying to find the good in them before immediately writing them off as someone not worth her time. status in the court matters not to her when it comes to making friends. NAIVE: this is slowly leaving her body, especially being stuck in king’s landing currently with her father imprisoned. but this was due to how she was raised, a lot of things being kept from her as they instead wanted to focus on ‘softer’ things to teach her. she is becoming more adept as she realizes how close her family is coming to death, surrounded by potential enemies.

background

okay so i am a little lazy here. basically, she was raised alongside her siblings in winterfell by her parents. there was always a focus on ettique and such for sansa as she was raised with the idea that one day she would be married off to help promote family relations- though she made herself believe it would be a marriage of love, truly. there was a big focus on her studies being in histories of different houses, cultures of westeros, and reading and writing. she was incredibly close to her mother while growing up, and she always viewed her father as her biggest protector, though she is fiercely protective of her brothers and sister, believing that they can do anything. like their father always taught them ‘ the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. ‘

canon changes / notes

* so i tend to play her closer to book at first, simply because they acknowledge her as more than just a “ dumb victim “. ( sorry if you prefer seasons 1 & 2 sansa ).

*most notably, she is not yet promised to the lannisters or joffrey at the moment, instead being in the capital with the intention of possibly finding her future husband there but that’s before her father was imprisoned.

*lady is also still alive because i don’t want to assume whoever picks up joffrey did anything without asking first.

* she also doesn’t resent any or hate any of her siblings, loving them all dearly and still being fiercely loyal to them and their family.

anyway i’m very open to plotting so pls hmu!!

#icefireintro #&& songbird | intro

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mariedemedicis · 4 years

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For the fanfic game: Jayne Ladybright, Stiles Stilinski and Catelyn Stark (I’m assuming you’re bi, sorry if you’re not lol)

Well if I weren’t, the bi flag on my header would be kind of awkward 😆

fake date Jayne cause i headcanon her as kind of baby compared to me

uhh enemies to lovers with Stiles because i don’t like his character very much so i think that could work lol

slowburn with Catelyn because she’s still mourning Ned and i want to give her room to grieve

#asks #answers #anonymous

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sweet creature

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Summary:

yet another salty teens story that no one asked for - that's it, that's the fic.

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i've been working on this on and off for a year now. i'm just posting part one of it just to see what people think so PLEASE leave all the comments. i will say the concept is 100% inspired by 'it's not a fairytale' by purple_angel. unbeta'd.

Chapter 1

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Father’s eyes are sad when he tells them the full story of his sister, of Jon’s birth, of the war that spiralled beyond anyone’s control afterwards. Sansa keeps waiting for them to fill with tears but it never happens. She’s sure that over the last seventeen years, he’s had time enough to shed tears for his dead sister and the child she left behind. There are most likely no more tears to shed.

“How?” Maester Luwin asks, gaining everyone’s attention. “How did this come out? You say only three people knew of Jon’s birth - yourself, Lord Howland Reed, and the birthing woman. If it did not come from you, my Lord, then who?”

“That I do not know,” Father says, shaking his head. “I have told no one save for those in this room and I trust Howland Reed to hold to the oath he gave me that day.”

“The missive came from the South,” Maester Luwin says, tapping his chin. “Perhaps the birthing woman was found. Forced to speak on what happened that day.”

“But why? It has been seventeen years,” Mother says, voice choking on the words. “Why say something now ? There has been peace, a thriving south - what is there to gain from spreading this knowledge?”

“That is something we cannot know,” Father says slowly. “The only thing we can do is prepare.”

“Prepare for what?” Robb asks. Sansa looks at him with wide eyes. There is sweat on his brow and his lips are trembling but he’s trying to be brave. For Father and Mother, for all of them and Sansa loves him for it.

“King Robert will not tolerate Jon to live. It is only a matter of time before word reaches King’s Landing. If it has not reached Robert’s ears already,” Father says slowly. Sansa cannot help the gasp that slips from her mouth as she turns back to her father. He waits for the shouts of protest from his children subsides before continuing. “The North is already uneasy with this news. There are too many who still curse Rhaegar for what happened with Lyanna - who curse the Targaryens for what happened to my father and brother.”

The silence is deafening and she finds that she cannot bear to look at her father any longer. The grief that was so close to the surface as he spoke of his sister spills over at the mention of the father and brother lost as well. She cannot look at Jon both for fear of what she will see on his face and out of loyalty to her mother that she’s clung to for so many years. She’s willing to give him what privacy she can, so she looks to Arya, Bran, and Robb.

They share the same look of fierce determination. Jon is their brother and they will not suffer anyone who tells them otherwise, that much is very clear. Sansa wishes, for the first time, that she had the same deep feelings for Jon that her siblings share. Sansa looks down at her hands and tries to find something inside of her for Jon Snow, some feeling other than quiet acceptance and second-hand hatred. There is no love. No anger at having lost a brother, a bastard half-brother but a brother all the same. There is nothing but the slightest bit of relief.

“It is not safe for him to stay here,” Mother announces in the tone of voice they all know well, breaking the oppressive silence that fills the room. It's the tone she uses when they’ve been arguing all day and she is calling an end to it. It’s the tone she uses when Rickon refuses to bathe or Arya insists on wearing breeches instead of dresses. It’s the tone that allows no arguing only obedience. “We must look to our family first.”

“He is our family!” Bran shouts, pointing at Jon. Sansa finally looks at Jon over her shoulder. She doesn’t think he’s ever looked so miserable. “He is our brother and you would have us cast him out?”

“Cousin, Stark,” Jon mutters. The first words he’s spoken since Father summoned them to his solar. “I am no brother of yours.”

“Bollocks!” Arya yells, jumping from her chair. She ignores the warning yell from Mother and launches herself at Jon. She wraps her thin arms around his neck and presses her face to his shoulder. He catches her easily enough and it’s only a moment before he presses his face to her hair. “You will always be my brother.”

Sansa is sure that she hears him mutter a simple aye in return. Not one to be left out, Bran is out of his seat a second later, latching onto Jon from the other side. His cheeks are pink from trying not to cry but Sansa can see the tears threatening to pour over. Jon releases one arm from Arya to clutch his little brother to him and Sansa feels her heart break for the three of them. She’s sure that if Robb were younger, he too would be clinging to Jon and shouting proclamations about their brotherhood. Not for the first time, Sansa is sharply reminded just how different she is from her siblings.

“What is it that you’re always saying, Father?” Sansa asks. The words are out of her mouth before she has even had time to think them. “When the snow falls and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. Is Jon not one of our pack? And is winter not coming?”

The room is filled with a tense silence as each member of her family turns to stare at her with wide eyes. It is not like her to defend Jon. She knows that. They all do but she won’t take it back. She may not have any love for her bastard half-brother turned a bastard cousin but that does not mean she wishes him harmed.

“It is a complicated issue, Sansa,” Maester Luwin says slowly. Father looks to his wife who does not meet his eye. Sansa wonders what harm this truth has done to their marriage. Seventeen years of a lie. A cruel lie that caused nothing but pain for her mother. Sansa cannot imagine that learning of Jon’s true parentage has come as a relief for Lady Catelyn. “We cannot defy the king.”

“You’ve defied him for seventeen years,” Sansa says with a flippant shrug. “What is one more defiance compared to that?”

“Sansa!” Mother says, shocked at her disrespectful tone. Sansa feels her cheeks flush and she looks down at her lap in shame. She knows better. “There is more at stake than just our family. There is the North to consider. Do you think we could withstand the full wrath of Robert Baratheon once he knows that Rhaegar Targaryen’s son was harbored here? The son that killed his mother as she pushed him into this world? No. He would decimate every inch of the North that Jon Targaryen’s feet has ever touched. Starting with Winterfell.”

“Mother,” Robb begs, voice thick with emotion. “Please.”

“Your father decided seventeen years ago to lie to me,” Mother continues, her Tully eyes swimming with tears. Sansa can’t help but notice how much they look like the clear blue springs by the Weirwood tree. She wonders if they’ve always resembled the springs or if they changed after years of the hardness of the north. When she was Sansa’s age, barely a woman flowered and full of songs, did her eyes resemble the blue currents of Riverrun? “For seventeen years, I lived a falsehood. I have lived with a dragon playing amongst my children. I will not have it anymore. Not now. Not after the truth has come out.”

“I am no dragon!” Jon snaps. Mother finally looks to him, eyes wide with rage. She starts forward but Father lays a hand on her shoulder trying to calm her. “And I am no wolf.”

“Jon,” Father says and now the tears are falling down his cheeks. “You do not have my name but you have my blood. You are as much a Stark as any of my children.”

“But I’m not your child, am I?” Jon snaps. Father jerks back, mouth set into a thin line. Jon looks down, shame filling his face. “I am sorry, my lord. But I have the solution to this. I will be neither wolf nor dragon. I will be a man of the Watch. Like Uncle Benjen. I can cause no harm from the Wall.”

“No.”

“Ned!” Mother shouts, turning to her husband. “Let the boy go .”

“You are not my father, you cannot stop me joining the Watch!” Jon all but shouts. He pushes away from her siblings and curls his hands into fists.

Both Arya and Bran call his name in shock but Sansa knows the look on his face. It’s the one he gets when he’s blocked from feasts. The look he gets when Mother walks past him without a single acknowledgement. It’s the look of a boy who has never gotten what he wanted, a boy who has grown used to the taste of disappointment in his mouth. There is no reasoning with that boy.

“Are you of the North?” Father asks. He no longer sounds like their father. No, this is the Lord of Winterfell speaking now. They all straighten their backs and cast their eyes down. There is no other way to act in front of such a man. Jon nods but it’s not enough for Father. “You want to act as a man, then speak as a man.”

“Aye, my lord, I am a Northman.”

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nedlynstan · 3 years

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some nedlyn headers part 2!

i hope you enjoy these <33

idk why anyone would use these, but feel free to; id be so happy!

and if you wanna see more stuff like this , just lmk!! id love to do more

[ if you didn’t like the filter I used {or if it doesn’t match your theme} lmk! they are %100 customizable. (same goes for the texts and the placement, they are %100 customizable)

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dreamofspring · 6 years

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what icons/headers requests do you have at the moment? :)

The 100, Bellarke, Catelyn, Arya, Ruby Roundhouse, House Stark, Katherine McNamara, and Cersei. I think that’s all? I need to dig through my chats to see if I might have missed some. :)

#anon #reply #so if I haven't replied to your request it's because I am saving the message to remember to actually make them lol

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upinflamesicons-blog · 7 years

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